The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-04
PLEADS FOR
AMERICANISM
seWorld Awaits Verdict as 1t
Would Await Intimation of
What Future is to Be"
CANDIDATES NOT NAMED
Men Who Have Grossly Misled
Public With Regard to Treaty
Arraigned by Executive.
tsy Associated Press.)

washington, Oct. 3.-President VII
son, in his first campaign appeal to-
night made directly 10 the people,
urgeo the endorsement OF the league
OF .ations issue at the election anA
declared ''the whole worio vii. wait
for your verdict in Novembc. as 1T
wouIc wait for an intimari3a Of what
Its fu.ure is to be-"
The president characterized as "ab-
solutely false" assertion that article
ten OF the league covenant would make
il possible for other nations to lead
tie United states into war. There
was nothing IN the covenant, he said,
which IN the least interferes with or
impairs the right OF congress to d.
clare war or not declare war accord
ing to its own Independent judgment,
as our constitution provides.
My fellow countrymen,' was tho
presidents method of addressing his
communication 10 the people. IT con-
tained no mention of presidential can
didates by name, but was confined TO a
brief defense OF Article X, and an ar
traiEnment of those who he declared
had grossly nisied' the public with
regard to the treaty.
The preident said that those who had
spent their lives, as he had. 'in famiI-
iarizing themselves with the history
and traditions and policies of the na--
ton must stand amazed at the gross
ignorance ana impudent audacity
which has led them to attempt to in
vent an .Americanism. which has no
foundation whatever in any of the au-H
thentic traditions of the government"
The text of the appeal follows:
MY Fellow Countrymen:
The issues of the present campaign
are of such tremendous Importance
and of such far-reaching significance
FOR the influence of the country and
the development of its future relations,
and I have necessarily had so much
10 do with their development, that L
am sure you viii think it natural and
proper tnat / should address to you
a few words concerning them. Every
one who sincerely believes in govern
ment by the people, must rejoice at the
turn affairs have taken in regard to
this campaign. This election is to be
a genuine national referendum. the
determination of a great policy upon
which the influence and authority of
the United States in the world must
depend is not to be left to groups of
ioliticians OF either party, but is to
be referred TO the people themselves
fcr sovereign mandate to their rep
rEsentatives. They are to instruct
their own government what they wish
done.
THE chief question that is put to
gou is, Of course, this:
DO you want your ccuntry's honor
vindacated and the treaty of Yer
saillss ratified? DO you in particular
approve of the league of nations as or |
ganiSed and empowered in that treaty?
and do you wish to see the United !
STAIRS play its responsible part. in it !? |
You have been grossly misled with re- |
gard to the treaty and particularly
with regard to the proposed character |
of the league of nations by those who |
have assumed the serious responsible |
ity of opposing it. They have gone so |
far that those who have spent their |
lives. as have spent my life. in famil- |
iarizing themselves with the history |
and traditions and policies of the ma
tion, must stand amazed at the gross |
which has led them to attempt to in |
vent an Amercanism' of their own, |
which has no foundation whatever in
any OF the authentic traditions of the
government. Americanism as they
conceive 1t reverses the whole process
ot the last few tragical years. It |
would substitute America for Prussia |
In the policy OF isolation and defiant |
segregation. Their conception OF the
dignity OF the nation and its interest |
- that we should stand apart and
watch for opportunities to advance our
own interests, involve ourselves in |
no responsibility for the maintenance
or the right in the world or for the
oeInnued vindication Of any of the
tAlRgs for which we entered the war to
fight. The conception of the great |
creators of the government was alb |
solntely opposite to this They thought
3f America as the light of the world /
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