Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-07
PRESIDENT ASKS THRONG
TO APPROVE OF TREATY
Wilson Calls on $4,000 in Kansas City to Support
Pact Charter for New Order
, of Affairs.
Of Affairs.


OF military class. Again and again.
my feilow-citizenS, the conference ut
Paris was face to face with this stu
a ,,cia l NAH IN Ssa,inS with par
that they would not dare 10 promise
what their general STAFF was not Will
ing that they should promise; and
tary machine which they had created.
nominaliy for their own defense. but.
rcally-whcthcr they wilied IL or not
as long as you have a military class.
IL does not make any difference what
your form OF government Is. II you
are determined 20 be armed to the
directions OF the only men who can
control the great machinery OF war.
1t is not merely the cost Of it tarma
ing, but II is the spirit OF It, and
America has never had. and | hope
in tho providence Of God never will
have. that spirit. Great applause)
Only Way b. Common Agreement.
pense with great armaments, except
by the common agreement of the
hghtinE nations of the world. And
here is the agreement. They prom
upon plan. But there was some
thing else VIC wanted that is accom-
plished BY this treaty. We wanted to
destroy autocratic authority every
where in the world. We wanted TO
see to it that there was no place in
the world where small group OF men
pa~ns in a game; that there was no
place in the world where small
group of men, without consulting their
fellow citizens, could send their fell
10 dca in accomplishing something
dynastic, some political plan that had
been conceived in private. some OBJ
jet that had been prepared for by
universal, world wide intrigue. That
is what we wanted 10 accomplish. Tho
most startling thing that developed
patton in this war was not the mili-
tary preparation OF Germany--we
were familiar with that. though we
had been dreaming that She would
ration: to find that every community
in the Civilized worlu was penetrated
by her ntrisue. The German people
in Wilhelmstrassc. where the central
Offices of the German government
this war. my fellow-citizens, has
we'll as the rest OF the world
We don't want to sec anything like
that democracy will only have TO dcs-
, troy that form form Of Sovernment: and if
S Wf o be aone IT n9S the JOB II
all the great lighting peoples OF the
world TO see to it that the aggressive
be realized. You make il no longer
worth while for little groups OF men
70 con;rive the downfall Of civiliza-
ton in private conference.
Rule of Mnjorities.
MY fellow citizens, it does not
make any difference what kind OF a
minority governs you. IL 1t is min
to is that no minority anywhere mas
ters the majority. That is at the heart. |
my fellow citizens. of the tragical
sr.ai country Which, h'p @e Ionr 10 SeIs
70 help-i mean the great realm of
The men who are now measureably
IN eontrol no of the s Affairs Of Russia
have again and agar, been challenged
They have again and again been chai-
kind OF a mandate even from a single |
class of their fellow citizens. And !
they da1ed not attempt II: they have
only thrtyfour Of them, am told. |
IN he Pe,r is sioSe5 monopo'y Of power
Is ntolerable is not that the Russian |
people arc having their way. but that |
the "f IS % eonsrS shles 's the
oprG.t: A 'a1' ni Esa pSs sssfe,.
that ! am against the control OF any |
minority anywhere. Search your own |
economic history and what you have |
been uneasy about Now and again /.
YOU have said there were small groups |
Of capitalists who wire controlling |
the industry. and therefore that devel.
ooment or the United States. Serious !
~. my fellow citizens, If that is so |
land ! sometimes have feared that 1t |
was), we must break up that monopoly. |
am not now saying that there is any
group of our fellow citizens who are |
consciously doing anything Of the kind. |
and am saying that these Allegations !
must be proved. But IL It is proved !
that any class. any group anywhere is !
without the suffrage Of their fellow |
citizens in control OF our affairs, then
! am with you TO destroy the power OF
that group.
I'VE have got to be frank with our
selves, however. II we do not want
minority government in Germany. we
must see to il that we do not have
1t in the United States. If you do no:
want little groups of selfish men to
plo, the future OF Europe. We must
not allow little groups OF selfish men
10 plot the future OF America. Any
man that speaks for a class must prove
that he also speaks for ALL his fellow
citizens and for mankind; and then
we VIII listen to him."