The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-05-14
VIII SON TELLS PARTY
TO STAND ON TREAlI 7
"Honor Of Nation" in Hands Of
Democrats, He Writes-Must Meas
ure up to Opportunity.


Washington, May 9.-Cal to the
Democratic party to go into the cam
paign standing toursquare IN 1aVof
of the treaty of Versailles and against
the senate's reservations was issued
tonight by President Wilson in tele-
gram to Oregon Democratic leaders,
made public at the white house:
peclaring that the party had the
honor of the nation" in it's hands, the
president said that the Lodge reso-
l:,tions were utterly inconsistent
with that honor as we'll as destructive
of the role of world leadership which
The United States must assume
The only true Americanlsm, tne
president said, was 'that when pues
America at the front of free natlons
and redeems the great promises Wnlch
we made to the world" 1t would De
a violation of such promises, he SAID,
To attach reservations to the treaty
which "whittle it down or weaken II
.as the Republican leaders OF the SEN
ate have proposed to, do.
The telegram was in response to
The following message from q: +.
Hamaker, of Portland, Ore.' chalr-
man of the Multonomah' county
Democratic central committee:
primary election May 21: Please
wire whether you consider it. inapor-
fant to nominate candidates pledged
to ratify Versailles treaty without
Lodge reservations. -,
Mr.. Wilson's Reply.
The reply of the president follows:
81 think it imperative that the par
ty should at once proclaim itself the
,iacompromising champion Of the ma: nj
tion's honor and the advocate OF
everything that the United States can
do in the service of humanity, that 1t
should therefore indorse and support
the Versailles treaty and condemn
the Lodge reservations as utterly 5Ir.
consistent with the nations honor a1ie
destructive of the world leadership
which it had established and which al
the free peoples of thetWorld,. ;lnciua,
ing the great powers themselves, had
shown themselves ready to welcome.
cit is, time that: the party shoald
proudly avow that it means to try,
without finching OF turning at any
time away from the path for reasons
of expediency, to apply moral and
Christian principles to the problems
of the world. 1t is trying to accom-
plish social, political and information
al reforms and is not daunted'by any
of the difficulties it has TO- contend
with. Let US prove to our late asso-
eiates in the war that at any rate the
great majority party Of the nation
the party which expresses the true
hopes and purposes of the people OF
the country-intends to keep faith
with them in peace as we'll as in war.
They gave their treasures, their best
blood and everything that they
valued in order, not merely to peat
Germany, but to effect settlement
and bring about arrangements OF
peace which they have now tired to
Formulate in the treaty of Versailles.
They are entitled to our support IN
this settlement and in the arrange
nents for which they have strlven.
Hope of World.
ssThe league of nations is the hope
of the world. As a basis for the
armistice, was authorized by all the
great fighting nations to say to the
enemy that it was our object In pro,
nosing peace to establish a general
assoclation of nations under speclhc
covenants for the purpose OF AFFORD
ine mutual guarantees of political IN
dependence and territorial integrity
IN oreat and small states alike, and
the covenant is ratified and acted up
on with vigor. We can not IN nonor
whittle it down or weaken 1t as the
: Republican leaders of the senate
have proposed to do. 1t we are 20
exercise the kind of leadership 10
, which the founders of the repuoile
looked forward and which they oe-
nended upon their successors to es-
fablish, we must do this thing with
courage and unalterable determlna-
ton. They expected the United
states to be always the leader IN the
defense of liberty and ordered peace
throughout the world, and we are un-
worthy to call ourselves their success
sors unless we fulfill the great pur-
pose they entertained and proclaimed.
"The true iAmericanism, the onty
true Americanisnl, is that which puts
America at the front Of free nations
and redee,ns the great promises wnlcn
we made the world when we entered
the war which was fought, not for the
advantage of any single nation or
group Of nations, but for the saiva-
ton of ALL. It, is in this way We
shall redeem the sacred blood that
was shed and make America the 1orce
she should be in the counsels OF man
kind. She can not afford to SINK IN
to the place that nations have usuaily
occupied and become merely one Oh
those who scramble and look ABOUT
for selfish advantage.
s'The Democratic party has no"
great opportunity to which 1t must
measure up. The honor OF the ma