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

L United Press Leased wire Service.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-The text
OF President Wilson'S league Of ma
tions statement, read to delegation
OF proleague< republicans at the
white house today, follows:
my Fellow Countrymen:
1T is to be feared that the SUI
preme issue presented for your con.
sideration in the present campaign
is growing more obscure rather than
clearer by reason Of the many arbf
trary turns the discussion IF it has
taken. The editors and publisfcri
Of the country would render a great
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 to
Judge for yourselves a 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 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
sponse to that call really settled the
fortunes of war. You will remember
that the morale of the German peo
ple 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 thai
thenceforth all their professions O
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
consideration Of humanity.
Concert Of Peace.
'It is my privilege to summon yot
now to the concert Of peace and the
completion of the great moral achieve
ment on your part which the wal
represented and in the presence Of
which the world found reinsurance
and recovery of force which il
could have experienced in no othel
way. We entered the war, as yor
remember, not merely to beat Ger
many, but to end the possibility o.
the renewal Of such iniquitou:
schemes as Germany entertained
The war will have been fought IL
S,Drifsnos
thrown away unless we complete the
work we then began, and / ask yor
to consider that there is only one
way to assure the world Of peace:
That is, by making it so dangerou'
to break the peace that no other ma
ton will have the audacity to attemp
it. We should not be deceived init
supposing that imperialistic schemes
ended with the defeat of Germany
or that Germany is the only natfor
that entertained such schemes or wa.
moved by sinister ambitions ant
long standing jealousies to attack th'
very structure of civilization. Their,
are other nations which are likely t,
be powerfully moved or are alread,
moved by commercial jealousy. b.
the desire to dominate and to hav,
their own way in politics and in en-
terprise, and it is necessary to checl
them and to appraise them that tn
world will be united against them a
it was against Germany if they at
tempt any similar thing.
"The mothers and sisters AM
wives of the country know the sacri
flee of war. They will feel that w
have misled them and compelle,
them to make an entirely unneces