Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-09-24
WILSON CALLS TO.
PIONEERS BLOOD
Nevada Applauds Appeal For
League-Urges Sons 70 Go
Forward As Fathers Did


nous by the pioneers of Western
America President Wilson passed on
the beginning Of his hOmeward journey
from the Pacific Coast.
And to the descendants Of these piO-
neers he pointed out in his addresses
that in the same way as the forward
moving men and women of 40 has
blazed the trail which opened up our
land so the forward looking men and
women Of 1919 must blaze the way
which shall lead all the world to peace
and justice, just as those brave souls
of 40 had gone ahead, never fearing
what was in the next canyon ahead of
them. We must go ahead now, the
President pointed out, confident that
in our leadership of the world through
the League of Nations, we will find
rhe right way that will bring them all
to the promised land.
From Los Angeles 10 Sacramento
and then through the territory which
Bret Harre immortalized in his short
stories, the presidential train moved
until it reached Reno, the first sched-
uled stop On the eastward route. PO-
Ker Flats Dutch Flats and the other
old mining camps which Harte so
Wilson on his journey and he related
to his companionS what he remem-
bered Of the stories concerning them.
Thousands Cheer Wilson.
The President delivered brief talk
at Sacramento from the train plat
form, but at Reno he was met ami
cheered by many thousands and the
inhabitants proudly asserted that the
town held more people than 1t had
ever known since the johnson
prize fight of ancient history. and here
he gave his formal talk of the day.
He said he was cXhilirated to find
himself in one of The last remaining
frontier communities Of the nation, be-
cause the people were still forward
looking. The critics of the League of
Nations have their eyes over. their
shoulders. They are looking backward
and therefore they are stumbling
They are always striking their feet
against obstacles which others see and
which do not lie in the path or prog
ress Of civilization.
The President contrasted the pres
ent peace conference with the last
great so-called peace conference that
which was held in Vienna in 1915.
The ancient conference, he said, was
one where small cOterie of autOcrats
were able to determine the fortunes of
their people without consulting them,
whereas the conference of 1919 was
devoted to establishing the rights Of
z all peoples to their own type of gov
ernment.
Just before the conference OF 1915,
the President said, there had been
signs of the breaking up of the old or
der of things though there were but
100000 people subject to the crown
Of Great Britain.
Autocracy overthrown.
In America they had thrown off al
leglance to that crown and had defied
the British Government on the ground
that nobody at a distance had right
! to govern them and that nobody had
right to govern them whom they did
not choose to be their government.
That was the beginning of the condi-
tiOns which have eliminated in to-
days situation. The President point
ed out that in every automatically
governed nation in the world up unit,
1914 there had been revolutions. That
Is, In every autocratic nation save
Germany, and one Of Germany's prime
Ideas In starting the war was to re-
establish the idea Of absolute autoc-
racy, but the rest Of the world would
not stand for that, he asserted, and
therefore America came In to rid the |
world forever Of the autocratic idea.
And having pledged herself so to do,
he said, she would see the job through. |
l consider this to be the greatest |
charter and it is the greatest char
ter of human liberty ever adopt |
ed 1t was not written essentially ut
Paris. 1t was written at Chateau
Thiery and in Belleau Wood and in |
the Argonne.
Our men did not fight over there
with the purpose Of coming back and |
letting the same thing happen again.
They did not come back with any fear
In their hearts that their public men
would go back on them and not see the
thing through they went over expect
ing that the business should be fin.
,shed and Vi shall he finished
Do you realize that the rest Of the
world deems America indispensable to
the guarantee of future peace and Of
restoration of normal life upon
which future peace depends? The
world does. That they know our pow
er, they know our wealth, they know
our ndomitable spirit, land when we
put our name TO the bond then Europe
will begin to be quiet, men will seek
the peaceful solution of normal indus
try and normal life. Men will take
hope again and cease to think Of the
revolutionary things they can do and
begin to think Of the constructive
things they can do and this will be the
case In America as well as In EuroDe.
The President explained away the oft
repeated objections to the League, the
Shantung matter, Article X, and the
question Of whether Great Britain has
more votes thar we have, which he
declared untrue
He said what was needed was to
clear the deck Of these criticisms
which had nothing to them and look
forward to fulfillment of the dcs-
tiny Of America The whole world, he
Baid, had finally come to the vision Of
the little body Of three millions of
Americans strung along the Atlantic
Coast in 1T16, but the fire, they started
has consumed every autocratic govern
nent In the world.
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