Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-30
c. D. P DELEGATION
HEARS WILSON ON
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
President Speaks FeeIingIy
of Covenants Importance
to Future Peace of the
World

Following is the complete text OF
he first speech delivered by Presi-
ent Wilson in sthe present presiden-
ial campaign. The address was
made by the president at the White
House to a distinguished delegation
# Republicans who favor the League
# Nations. On another page Of The
'ri-Weekly Journal, Theodore Tiller
correspondent of this
,aper, comments on the circum.
tances surrounding the occasion.
My fellow countrymen:
1t is to be feared that the SUI
preme issue presented for your
consideration in the present cam
paign is growing more obscure
rather than clearer by reason of
the many arbitrary turns the
discussion Of 1t has taken. The
editors and publishers of the
country would render a great
service If they would publish the
full text Of the covenant of the
League of Nations, because. hav-
ing read that text, you would be
able to judge for yourselves a
great many things in which you
are now in danger of being mis-
led. I hope sincerely that it
will be very widely and general
ly published entire. 1t Is with a
desire to clarity the issue and to
assist your judgment that 1 take
the liberty of stating again the
case submitted to you, in as SIM
pie terms as possible.
Refers to War
Three years ago it was my
duty to summon you to the con-
cert of war, to join the free ma
lions of the world in meeting
and ending the most sinister per-
il that had ever been developed
in the irresponsible politics of
the Old World. Your response
to that call really settled the
fortunes of war. Yo will re-
member that the mo of the
German people broke .sown long
before the strength of the Ger
man armies was broken. That
was obviously because they felt
that great moral force which
they could not> look in the face
had come into the contest, and
that thenceforth all their profess
sions of right were, discredited
and they were unable to pre-
tend that their continuation OF
the war was not the support Of a
government that had violated ev-
cry principle of right and every
consideration of humanity.
1t is my privilege to summon
you now to the concert Of peace
and the completion of the great
moral achievement on your part
which he war represented and in
the presence Of which the world
found a reinsurance and a recov-
cry of force which it could have
experienced in no other way. We
entered the war, as you remem-
pSl1 AOI ely " pCoI NNCl-
many, hut to end the possibility
of the renewal Of such Ubiquitous
schemes as Germany entertain
ed. The war will have been
fought in vain and our immense
sacrifices thrown away unless we
complete the work we then be-
gan, and I ask you to consider
that there is only one way to as
sure the world of peace: That is
by making it SO dangerous to
break The peace that no other
nation will have the audacity to
attempt it. We should not be de-
ceived into suppos1ng that i'm
per!alistic schemes ended with '
the defeat of Germany, Or that
Germany is the only nation that
entertained such schemes or was
moved by sinister ambitions and
iongstanding jealousies to attack
the very structure Of civilization.
There are other nations which
are likely to be powerfully moved
or are already moved by COM
mercial Jealousy, by the desire
to dominate and to have their
own way in politics and in enter
prise, and it is necessary to
check them and to apprise them
that the world will be united
against them as it was against
Germany if they attempt any
similar thing.
Must Consider Mothers
The mothers and sisters and
wives of the country know the
sacrifice of war. They will feel
that we have misled them and
compelled them to make an en-
tirely unnecessary sacrifice OF
their beloved ones if we do not
make it as certain as it can be
made that no similar sacrifice
will be demanded of mothers and
sisters and wives in the future.
This duty is so plain that it
seems to me to constitute prl-
mary demand upon the conscience
of every one of us. 1t is neon
C61VaDle TO most OIL us LHdI any
men should have been so false or
so heartless as to declare that
the women of the country would
again have to suffer the intoler-
able burden and privation of war
if the League of Nations were
adopted. The League of Nations
is the well-considered effort OF
the whole group of nations who
were opposed to Germany to Sc
cure themselves and the rest OF
mankind against repetition OF
the war. It will have back OF 1T
the watchfulness and material
force of all these nations, and
is such a guarante of a peace.
full future as no well-lnformed
man can question who does not
doubt the whole spirit with which
the war was conducted against
Germany.
The great moral influence OF
the United States will be abso-
1utely thrown away if he do not
complete the task which our sol
diers and sailors so herolcaIIy
undertook to execute.
One thing ought to be said.
and said very clearly, about Ar
ticle X of the covenant of the
League of Nations. 1t is the spe-
cific pledge of the members of
the league that thew will unite