The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1919-01-03
WILSON'SADDRESS|
DELIVERED IN HISTORIC GUILD
HALL IN LONDON.
That AlIies Are United to Stop
Wars and Maintain Peace.

London.-The text of President Viii
sons speech at the Guild hall Satur'
day afternoon, Dec. rs. is as follows:
Mr.. Lord Mayor: We have come
upon times when ceremonies like this
have new Significance which most
impresses me as | stand here. l feel
that a distinguished honor has been
conferred upon me by this reception,
and beg to assure you. sir, and your
associates of my very profound appre,
citation. but l know that l am only
part of what may call great body
OF circumstances.
II do not believe that it was fancy
on my part that | heard in the voice
OF welcome uttered in the streets of
this great city and in the streets of
Paris, something more than personal
welcome. II seemed to me that |
heard the voice OF one people speak
ing to another people and it was a
voice in which one could distinguish
a singular combination of emotions.
| There was surely there the deep
gratefulness that the fighting was
over. There was the pride that the
! fighting had had such a elimination.
| There was that sort Of gratitude that
the nations engaged had produced
such men as the soldiers of Great
OF France and OF ltaly-men whose
| prowess and achievements they had
witnessed with rising admiration as
they moved from elimination to cul-
mination.
Matters Yet Unfinished.
But there was something more in
1t. the consciousness that the business
10 not yet done, the consciousness that
It now rests upon others to see that
those lives were not lost in vain.
| Il have not yet been to the actual
battlefield, but | have been with many
OF the men who have fought the bat
ties. and the other day had the
OF the French Academy when they ad.
mitted Marshal Joffre to their mem.
bership. That sturdy. serene soldier
| stood and uttered, not the words of
| triumph, but the simple words OF at.
| lection for his soldiers and of convic.
ton with which he summoned up in a
| sentence, which ! will not try to
accurately quote, but reproduce in its
spirit 1t was that France must al.
ways remember that the small and the
weak could never live free in the
world unless the strong and the great
always put their power and their
strength in the service of right.
Must See That Right Endures.
That is the afterthought-thc
thought that something must be done
now, not only to make the just settle
ments-that of course-but to see that
the settlements remained and were
observed and that honor and justice
prevail in the world And as | have
conversed with the soldiers | have
been more and more aware that they
fought for something that not all OF
them had defined, but which all oil
them recognized the moment you
stated it to them.
They fought to do away with an
old order and to establish a new one
and the center and characteristic OF
the old order was that unstable thing
which We used to call the balance Of
power a thing in which the balance
was determined by the sword which
was thrown in on the one side or the
| other. a balance which was determined
by the unstable equilibrium of com
petitive interests, a balance which was
maintained by jealous watchfulness
and an antagonism of interests which
though it was generally latent, was
always deep seated,
League to Preserve Peace.
The men who have fought in this
war have been the men from the free
nations who are determined that tha
sort of thing should end now and for
ever. 1t is very interesting to me t.
observe how from every quarter, from
every sort OF mind, from every con
cert of counsel there comes the sug
gestion that there must now be not ;
balance of power, not one powerful
group of nations set up against an
other, but single overwhelming, pow
erful group Of nations who shall bt
the trustees of the peace of the world
1T has been delightful in my con
ferences with the leaders of your gov
eminent to find how our minds moved
along exactly the same line and how
our thought was always that the Ike.
to the peace was the guarantee o
peace, not the items of it; that thu
items would be worthless unless there
stood back of them permanent con
cert of power for their maintenance
That is the most reassuring thint
that has ever happened in the world.
League Only Theory at First.
When this war began the though
of a league of nations was indulgentl!
considered as the thought of closetet
students. 1t was thought of as on
of those things that 1t was right Il