Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1920-10-29
PAIGN GROWING OBSCURE
ARBITRARY DISCUSSION
READ COMPLETE COVENANT
President ExhOrts Editors Publish
Full Text That People May Pass
Judgment Clarifying Issue

Earnestly appealing that America
hold not aloof from the League Of
Nations, President Wilson read q
message to group of pro-league re-
publicans and independents, headed
by Hamilton Holt of New York,
editor of the Independent. He re-
ceivcd the delegation in a small study
room near the entrance to the White
House. The president was deeply
moved, according to members of the
group. as he read the portions Of his
address dealing with the sacrifice OF
soldiers lives.
Text of Address.
President Wilson, in his address to
the delegation said:
my Fellow Countrymen: 1t Is to
be feared that the supreme issue pre-
sented for your consideration in the
present campaign is growing more
obscure rather than clearer by reason
of the many arbitrary turns the die
cussion Of It. has taken. The editors
and publishers of the country would
render q great service IL they would
publish the full text of the Covenant
of the League Of Nations. because.
having read that text. you would be
able to Judge for yourselves . great
many things in which you are now in
danger Of being mioled. hope sin
cerely that it will be very widely and
generally published entirely. It Is
with a desire to reclarify the issue
and to assist your Judgment that 1
take the liberty of stating again the
case submitted to you, in as simpls
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 wurfn
in meeting and ending the most sim
lister peril that had ever been devel-
oped in the irresponsible politics OF
the old world. Your response to the
call really settled the fortunes of war.
You will remember that the morale
of the German people broke down
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 professions of right we're dts
credited and they were unable to pre-
tend that their continuation of ths
war was the support of government
that had violated every principle OF
right and every consideration OF hui
manity.
'It is my privilege now to summon
you to the concert of peace and the
completion of the great moral
achievement on your part which the
war represented and in the presence
of which the world found reas-
surance and a recovery of force which
it could have experienced in no other
way. We entered the war, as you re-
member, not merely to beat Ger
many, but to end the possibility Of
the renewal of such iniquitOus
schemes as Germany entertained.
The war will have been fought in
vain and our immense sacrifices
thrown away unless we complete the
work we then began, and ask you
to consider that there is only one
way to assure the world of peace:
that is by making 1t so dangerous to
break the peace that no other nation
will have the audacity to attempt it.
We should not be deceived into sup
posing that imperialistic 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 long
standing jealousies to attack the very
structure Of civilization. There are
other nations which are likely to be
powerfully moved or are already
moved by commercial jealousy, ty
the desire to dominate and to have
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