The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-27
President Makes Statement
Today to Delegation Of Pro-
League RepubG-
cans.
CONCERT OF PEACE
Says Republican Americanization Ia
Spurious and Has Been Invent
ed for Party Purposes
Only.

L United tfTeSS Leased wire SERVICE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-The tex
of President Wilson'S league Of ma
tions statement, read to delegation
ct proleagueS republicans at the
white house today, follows:
my Fellow Countrymen:
1T is to be feared that the su
preme issue presented for your con
sideration in the present campaign
is growing more obscure rather than
clearer by reason of the many arbi
trary turns the discussion ct it has
taken. The editors and publishers
of the country would render greai
service II they would publish the
full text of the covenant of the
league Of nations, because, having
read that text, you would be able 70
judge for yourselves great many
things in which you are now in dan.
ger of being misled. / hope sincerely
that it will be very widely and gen
orally published entire. 1t is with a
desire to clarity the issue and to as.
sist your judgment that I take the
liberty Of stating again the case sub
mitted to you in as simple terms as
possible.
Three years ago it was my duty
to summon you to the concert OF
war. to join the free nations of the
world in meeting and ending the
most sinister peril that had ever
been developed in the irresponsible
politics of the old world Your re-
Spouse to that call really settled the
fortunes OF war. You will remember
that the merale of the German peo-
pie broke down long before the
strength of the German 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 professions of
right were discredited and they were
unable to pretend that their continu-
alton of the war was not the support
Of a government that had violated
every principle Of right and every
Of humanity.
Concert Of Peace.
"It is my privilege to summon you
low to the concert Of peace and the
completion Of the great moral achieve
nent on your part which the war
represented and in the presence of
which the world found reinsurance
md a recovery Of force which it
Gould have experienced in no other
way We entered the war, as you
remember, not merely to beat Ger
many, but to end the possibility of
he renewal of such Ubiquitous
schemes as Germany entertained.
rhe war will have been fought in
rain and our immense sacrifices
brown away unless we complete the
work. we then began, and ask you
o consider that there is only one
vay to assure the world of peace:
That is, by making it so dangerous
o break the peace that no other ma
ion will have the audacity to attempt
t. We should not be deceived into
that imperialistic schemes
,nded with the defeat Of Germany,
II that Germany is the only nation
hat entertained such schemes or was
moved by sinister ambitions and
ong standing jealousies to attack the
cry structure of civilization There
re other nations which are likely ito
% powerfully moved or are already
moved by commercial jealousy, by
he desire to dominate and to have
heir own way in politics and in en-
erprise, and it is necessary to check
hem and to appraise them that the
7orld will be united against them as
/ was against Germany if they at
empt any similar thing.
The mothers and sisters and
rives of the country know the sacri-
ice of war. They will feel that we
ave misled them and compelled
hem to make an entirely unneces-