The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-10-03
LEAGUE CERTAIN /
WILSON DECLARES
PRESIDENT m rHE OPENING
spEEcHEs or HIS ToUa
VOICES HIoH NOPE.
WORLD WAITS FOR US
Future Free From War " Amsriea
Carries Out Her Pledges,
says Executive.
lBy ML clemsas Nsrs Bursau.l

(By Mt ClemsRs News Burssu)
ABOARD PRESIDENTS SPECIAL
TRAIN. ST. Louis. = Displaying Z
high confidence that his fellow eitI
zens In the great majority agree with
him In HIS desire 10 end war forever
and that thex win see to Il that the
peace treaty with its league Of nations
inclusion Ia ratified by the senate,
President Wilson Is making a success.
fui way across the country on the
long journey he has undertaken for
the purpose Of laying before the plain
people q report OF his work In Paris
and explaining TO them just what the
league means. Thus far In his travels.
he has everywhere met with warm
greetings.
People Want No More War.
He feels, and does not hesitate 10
say so when chatting with his travel
ing companions. 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 keynote when he said In his first
address, in Columbus. Ohio:
This treaty was not intended mere
~ 10 end this single war. II is meant
as a notice to every government who
in the future VIII attempt this thing
(what Germany attemptedl. that man
kind win unite TO inflict the same
punishment 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 30 depressed.
30 forIorn. 20 sad in every memory II
had Of the five tragical years that
have gone by. Let rs never forget
those years. my fellow eountrymen;
let US never forget the purpose. high
and disinterested, with which America
lent its strength. not for its own glory
but for the defense Of mankind.
Treaty intended TO Prevent War
'As said, this treaty was not in
tended merely to end this war. II
was intended to prevent any similar
war. | wonder II some Of the oppon-
ents Of the league Of nations have
forgotten the promises we made our
people before we went TO that peace
table. We had taken by processes OF
law the flower OF our youth from
every countryside, from every house
hold, and we told those mothers and
fathers and sisters and wives and
that we were taking those
men to fight war which would end
business OF that sort, and II we do
not end 1t. IL we do not do the best
that human concert Of action can do
to end 4, We are Of all men the most
most unfaithful to
those households bowed In grief and
yet lifted with the feeling that the lad
laid down his life for great thing,
md, among other things, in order that
,ther lads might never have to do the
same thing.
THAT is what the league OF nations
s for--to end this war Justly and then
lot merely to serve notice on govern
nents which would contemplate the
,ame things Germany contemplated
hat they will do so at their peril. but
.lso concerning the combination Of
,ower which will prove to them that
- - IL
only Way to Prevent Reeurrsnee.
"The league Of nations Is the only
hing that can prevent the recurrence
4 this dreadful catastrophe and re.
Ieem our promises"
A league of nations would have pre-
ented the late conflict the president
explaining:
II did not meet q single public man
rho did not admit these things: That
Germany would not have gone into
his war II she thought Great Britain
gas going into 1t, and that she most
would never have gone into
had she dreamed America was 60
az into II. And they all admit that .
office beforehand that the greatest
overs OF the world would combine to
revent this sort Of thing would pre-
ent 1t absolutely"
Redemption for Weak Nations.
He pointed out other important feat
res OF the peace treaty, how 1t was
he redemption Of weak nations. civ
AZ them freedom which otherwise
hey never could have won; how IL
ays, Those people have . right to
We their own lives under govern
tents which they themselves choose"
nd how "That is the American prin-
lple and / was glad to fight Tor H."
hat was the very heart Of the treaty,
Q said.