The Penn's Grove record., 1920-05-14
WILSON'S BUGLE CALL
National Duty To Lead The World In
Freedom and Ordered Peace

Last Sunday President Woodrow
Wilson sent a message to Hon. u. +.
Hamaker, chairman county Democratic
Committee, Portland, Oregon, %announc-
ing duty and opportunity of the Dem
ocratic party.
White House
Washington, May 9, 1920.
| think it imperative that the party
should at once proclaim itself the un-
compromising champion of the nations
honor and the advocate of everything
that the United States al do in the
service of humanity; that it should
therefore indorse and support the Yer
sailles treaty and condemn the Lodge
reservations as utterly inconsistent
with the nations honor and destruc-
tive of the world leadership which it
had established and which all the free
peoples of the world, including the
great powers themselves, had shown
themselves ready to welcome. 1t Is
time that the party should proudly
avow that it means to try, without
finching or turning at any time away
from the path for reasons of exped-
iency, to apply moral and Christian
principles to the problems of the
world.
1t is trying to accomplish social, po-
litical and international reforms and 1t
is not daunted by any of the difficult
ties it has to contend with. Let us
prove to our late associates in the war
that at any rate the 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 well as in
war.
Entitled to Our Support
They rave their treasure, their best
blood and everything that they valued
in order, not merely to beat Germany,
but to effect a settlement and bring
about arrangements of peace which
they have now tried to formulate in
the treaty of Versailles. They are en-
titled to our support in this settlement
and in the arrangements for which
they have striven.
The 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-
peace to establish a general as
ISOLATION of nations under specific COW
enants for the purpose of affording
mutual guarantees of political indie
pendence and territorial integrity to
great and small states alike, and the
covenant of the League of Nations is
the deliberate embodiment of that pur-
pose in the treaty of peace.
The chief motives which led us to
the war will be defeated unless
that covenant is ratified and acted
upon with vigor. We cannot in honor
publican leaders of the Senate have
proposed to do. 1t we are to exercise
the kind of leadership to which the
founders of the Republic looked for
ward and which they depended upon
heir successors to establish, we must
10 this thing with courage and unal-
cradle determination.
Expect United States to Lead
They expect the United States to
'e always the leader in the defense of
and ordered peace turnout the
world, and we are unworthy to call
ourselves their successors unless we
ulfl the great purpose they enter
aimed and proclaimed.
The true Americanism, the only true
.Americanism, is that which puts
America at the front of free nations
nd redeems the great promises which
We made the world when we entered
he war which was fought, not for the
.dvantage of any single nation or
,roup of nations, but for the salvation |
f all. 1t is in this way we shall re-
leem the sacred blood that was shed,
nd make America the force she should
re in the counsels of mankind. She
annot afford to sink into the place
hat nations have usually occupied and !
ecome merely n of those who I
cramble and look about for selfish adj
'antage. The Democratic party has
low a great opportunity to which it
must measure up. The honor of the
alton is in it's hands.
Woodrow Wilson.