The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-05
PRESIDENT MAKES SECOND ADDRESS
 OF GREAT TOUR
 AT INDIANAPOLIS
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 The President said he wanted to for get and wanted the people to forget that they were republicans or demo- crats.@
 q am an American" he declared, and a champion of the right which America believes in."
 At this the crowd cheered and there was another outburst of cheering when he declared he had mot the slightest doubt what the verdict of the people would be.
 Some delegations, the President said, came to the Paris conference with causes which were not considered pro- perly within the scope of the peace con- ference. In that connection he pointed odt that under article eleven threat of war could be investigated by the league"
 At present" said he we have to mind our own business but under the covenant and the league we can mind other peoples business
 Calling on opponents of the league of nations to present a better pro- gramme," for peace the President de- clared it is a case of either put up or shut up."
 There was not an oppressed people anywhere he said that could not get attention for it's case under the league. He did not mention any oppressed peo- pie by name, but many of his heareri remarked that they thought he spoke of the case of Ireland.
 Referring to the Shantung settle ment. the President pointed out that Japan repeatedly had promised to re- tore the peninsula to China. He did not go into the subeJct at length, how ever, but mentioned it in emphasizing that the ovenant would refuse to rec ognize the validity of secret treaty.
 HAS KEPT PROMISE
 The President said he could look the mothers of the country in the face proudly because he had kept his promise to do all he could to prevent any more war
 'DThis league" he said, ~is the only conceivable arrangement which will prevent our sending our men abroad again very soon"
 Referring to the economic sections, MT. Wilson said that If he did wrong he would rather be shot than be stood up for the judgment of mankind.
 Explaining how the treaty freed many small peoples, the President said Poland, for example, had been given
  an independence she cannot maintain" without aid from the great powers
 TEXT OF SPEECH
 The text of President Wilson's speech follows in part;
 My fellow citizens:
 'So great a company as this tempts me to make a speech Daughter and applause) and yet I want to say to you in all seriousness and soberness that l have not come here to make speech, in the ordinary sense of that term
 "I have come upon very sober errand indeed. I have come to report to you upon the work which the rep resentatives of the United States at tempted to do at the conference of peace on the other side of the sea. because I realize, my fellow citizens, that my colleagues and I, in the task we accomplished there, we were your servants We went there with dis tinct errand. which it was our duty to perform in the spirit which you have displayed in the prosecution of the war and in conceiving the pur- poses and objects of that war.
 'I was in the city of Columbus this afternoon. where I was endeavorins to explain to body of our fellcw citizens there just what 1t was that
  must frankly admit that in most of the speeches that 1 have heard in de- bate upon the treaty of peace 1t would be impossible to form a definite com ception of what that instrument means.
 "I want to recall to you for the pur- poses of this evensng the circum- stances of the war and purposes fo- which our men spent their lives on the other side of the sea.
 You will remember that prince of the hohse of Austria was slain in one of the cities of Serbia. Serbia was one of the small kingdoms of Europe. She had no strength which any of the great powers needed to fear. As we see the war now, Germany and those who conspired with her made pre- text of that accusation in order to make unconscionable demands for the weak and helpless kingdom of Serbia not with a view of bringing about an acquiesence in those demands, but with a view to bringing about a conflict in which their purposes, quite separate from the purposes connected with those demands. could be achieved
 CONFERENCE URGED
 Just so soon as these demands were made other nations of Europe seat telegraphic messages to their repre- sentatives at Vienna and Berlin, urg- ing them to ask the governments of Vienna and Berlin to enter into d.s- cussion of these matters.
 T was recalling, my fellow citizens, the circumstances which began the terrible conflict that has just been concluded
 50 soon as4the unconscionable de- mands of Austria were made on Serbia the other governments of Europe sent telegraphic messages to Berlin and Vienna. asking that the matter be brought into a conference. And the