The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-10-27
SAYS ARTICLE ten OF
PACT GIVES ASSURANCE
OF JUSTICE AND Peace
Supreme Issue Of Cam
paign Real Not Spu-
rious Americanism.

Washington. Oct. 27.-Unlt.
ed Press.)-Declaring that the
AmericaniEatlOn which senator
Harding and the Republicans
have been preaching In the
Republican campaign Is "spurl.
ous and invented for party par.
poses only" President Wilson
today delivered . brief state.
ment TO the delegation Of pro.
league Republicans who called
on him ut the White houses
The president said he regretted
that the League OF Nations issue
was intermingled with partisan is
sues. g7;.s
1T is to be feared" the president
said that the supreme issue pre-
sented for your consideration In the
present campaign is growing more
obscure rather than clearer by rea-
son of the many arbitrary turns
that the discussion has taken. 1t
is with a desire to reclarify the is
sue and TO assist your Judgment
that l take the liberty OF staoing
again the case submitted to you In
as simple terms as possible"
The statement, which the presi-
dent read. was one he had prepared
to issue as his final campaign dor
ument and was addressed to my
Fellow Countrymen.'
The president said that the war
have been won. "it is my privilege
to summon you now to the concert
of peace and the completion of tho
great moral achievements which
the war represented"
Text Of Address.
The text Of President Wilson'S
League Of Nations statement read
to a delegation Of pro-league Re-
publicans at the White house today
follows:
my Fellow Coantrymen: II Is to
be feared that the supreme issue
presented for your consideration in
! the present campaign is growing
more obscure rather than clearer
! by reason of the many arbitrary
turns the discussion of it has taken.
F., The editors and publishers OF the
country would render great ser
vice if 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 yourself a great many
things in which you are now in dan.
ger of being misled. l hope sin
cerely that it will be very widely
and generally published entirely. 1t
is with d desire to clarity the issue
and to assist your judgment that l
take the liberty of stating again
the case submitted to you in as ssn,-
pie terms as possible. -
To Meet Sinister Peril.
Three Years ago it was my duty
to summon you to the concert OF
war. to join the free nations Of the
1 WOItu III IHCttlhS anu ChhihA tHc
, most sinister peril that had ever
been developed in the irresponsible
politics of the cid world. Your re-
sponse to that call really settled
the fortunes OF war. You will re-
member that the morale OF the Ger
man people broke down long befor'
the strength of the German armies
/ was broken. That was obviously
( because they felt that great mora
force which they could not lock il
the face had come into the cOntes
and that thenceforth all their pro
/. fessions of right were discredite'
and they were unable to preten,
that their continuation Of the va
was not the support of govern
ment that had violated every prin
d ciple of right and every considera
i tiOn of humanity.
:, Concert OF Peace.
ut is my privilege to summon
you now to the concert of peac
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