The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-09-18
AMERICAS PLEDGE
: SACRED WILSON
PRESIDENT SAYS OUR PROMISE
TO TRY TO PREVENT FUTURE
WARS SHOULD BE KEPT.
ONLY HOPE IS IN WORLD LEAGUE
says Germany Would Not Have Dared
20 Strike If Nations Had Been
Banded Against Aggression.
CBy Mt. Clemens News Bureau. }

81 misunderstanding a high con
uoence that his fellow citizens in the
great majority agree with him in his
oes1re to end war forever, and that
Tue peace treaty with it's League of
Natlons nclusion is ratified by the
senate, President Wilson is making a
successful way across the country on
lie long Journey he has undertaken
Ior the purpose Of laying before the
| pam people report Of his work in
Far1s and explaining to them just
what the League means.
mus far in his travels he has every
"nere met with warm greetings, both
IN the great halls where he has
spoken formally and in the little cross
road hamlets where his train has
matted at times and he has exchanged
words with the villagers who pressed
forward to greet him. He feels, and
ooes not hesitate to say so when
chatting with his travelling compan-
ions, that the American people want
no more of war and want to become
part OF the League SO that there may
be no more war. He struck his key
note when he said in his first address,
in Columbus, Ohio:
This treaty was not intended mere
ly to end this single war. 1t is meant
as notice to every government who
in the future will attempt this thing
(What Germany attempted) that man
kind will unite to inf1ict the same pun
ishment There is no national
triumph to be recorded in this treaty.
There is no glory sought for any par
ticular nation. The thought of the
statesmen COLLECTED around that table
was OF their people, of the sufferings
they had gone through, of the losses
they had incurred, of that great throb-
bing heart which was so depressed,
so forlorn, so sad in every memory it
had of the five tragical years that
have. gone by. Let us never forget
those years, my fellow countrymen;
let us never forget the purpose, high
and disinterested, with which America
lent it's strength, not for it's own glory
but for the defense Of mankind.
LAS I said, this treaty was not
meant merely to end this war. 1t is
intended to prevent any similar war.
I wonder if some of the opponents Of
the League of Nations have forgotten
the promises we made our people be-
fore we went to that peace table? We
had taken by process of law the
flower of our youth from every coun-
tryside, from every household, and we
told those mothers and fathers and
sisters and wives and sweethearts
that we were taking those men to,
fight war which would end business
of that sort, and if we do not end it,
if we do not do the best that human
concert of action can do 20 end 1t, we
are of all men the most unfa1thful-
the most unfaithful to the loving
hearts who suffered in this war, the
most unfaithful to those households
bowed 1n grief and yet lifted with the
feeling that the lad laid down his life
for a great thing, and, among other
things, in order that other lads might
never have to do the same thing.
"That is what the League OF Ma
lions is for-to end this war justly
and then not merely to serve notice
on governments which could conten-
plate that they will do so at their peril,
but also concerning the combination
of power which will prove to them
that they will do it at their peril 1t is
idle to say the worlds will combine
against you; but it is persuasive to
saw the world is combined against
Won. The League of Nations
is the only thing that can prevent the
recurrence of this dreadful catastrophe
and redeem our promises.
A League of Nations would have
nrevented the late conflict, the presl-
dent asserted, explaining:
Il did not meet single pubic man
who did not admit these things; tnat
germany would not have gone into
this war if she thought Great Britain
was Going into it, and she most GER
+oin1v would never have gone into it
had she dreamed America was going
ITO if And they all admit that a
-c+ica beforehand THAI the greatest
nou,ors Of the world would combine to
nrevent this sort of thing would pre-
vent it absolutely
oh declaration of the presi-
dan+ that wars might be avoid
eS in the future by operations
of the League. He pointed out other
imnortant features of the Peace
treaty. how it was the redemption OF
weak nations, giving them freedom
which otherwise they never could
have won; how it says These people
have a right to live their own HVes
undar governments which they them
selves Choose, and how chat is the
American Principle and I was glad to
fpht for it,. and that was the very
heart of the Treaty, he said.
He drew attention to the section OF
the Treaty which is a Magma Charta
If labor" which shall dispose of the
hours, conditions and remunerations
of labor.
"It forecasts the day., he said
(Which ought to have come long ago,
when statesmen will realize that no
nation is fortunate which is not hap
nv. whose people are not contented.
contented in their lives and fortunate
in the circumstances Of their lives
In CONCLUSION the president said he
felt certain the Treaty will be accept,
ed and was only impatient Of the de.
Law. He added: "Do you realize, my
fellow citizens, that the wkole world
is waiting on America? The only
country in the world that is trusted
SI- 41nn I1nitad Ctofnn nnd III.