Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-16
Woodrow Wilson
AS | KNOW HIM
AS | KNOW HIM
BY JOSEPH P. TUMULTY.

were crusaders. They were 60
ing forth to prove the might of
justice and right, and all the
world accepted them as crusad-
ers, and their transcendent
achievement has made all the
world believe in America as it
believes in no other nation or
ganized in the modern world.
There seems to me to stand be-
tween us and the rejection or
qualification of this treaty the
serried ranks of those boys in
khaki, not only those boys who
come home, but those dear
ghosts that still deploy upon the
fields of France.
My friends, on last Decoration
day I went to a beautiful hill
side near Paris, where was locat-
ed the cemetery of Suresnes, a
cemetery given over to the
burial of the American dead. Be-
hind me on the slopes was rank
upon rank Of living American
soldiers, and lying before me on
the levels of the plain was rank
upon rank of departed Ameri-
can soldiers. Right by the side
of the stand where I spoke
there was little group of
French women who had adopt
ed those graves, had made them
selves mothers of those dear
ghosts by putting flowers every
day upon those graves, taking
them as their own sons, their
own beloved, because they had
died in the same cause-F'rance
was free and the world was free
because America had come! I
wish some men in public life
who are now opposing the settle
ment for which these men died
could visit such a spot as that.
I wish that the thought that
comes out of those graves could
penetrate their consciousness. I
wish that they could feel the
moral obligation that rests upon
us not to go back on those boys,
but to see the thing through, to
see it through to the end and
make good their redemption of
the world. For nothing less de-
ponds upon this decision, nothing
less than the liberation and sal
walton of the world.
Now that the mists of this
great question have cleared
away, I believe that men will
see the trust, eye to eye and
face to face. There is one thing
that the American people always
rise to and extend their hand
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tice and of liberty and of peace.
We have accepted that truth and
we are going to be led by it, and
it is going to lead us, and
through us the world, out into
pastures of quietness and peace
such as the world never dreamed
of before.
(Mr. Tumulty here quotes from
Ir. Wilson's other western speeches
which were reported in telegraph
dispatches at the time.)
CHAPTER XIII
Reservations
~ N June 25, 1910, + received
| from President Wilson
the following cable mes.
sage:
My clear conviction is that the
adoption of the treaty by the
senate with reservations will put
the United states as clearly out
of the concert of nations as a
rejection, We ought either to go
in or stay out. To stay out would
be fatal to the influence and
even to the commercial pros
poets of the United States, and
to go in would give her a lead
ing place in the affairs of the
world. Reservations would Ell
Their mean nothing or postpone
the conclusion of peace, so far as
America is concerned, until ev-
cry other principal nation con-
cerned in the treaty had found
out by negotiation what the
reservations practically meant
and whether they could associ-
ate themselves with the United
States on the terms of the reser-
vations or not.
WOODROW WILSON.
The president consistently held t
he principle involved in this state
nent. To his mind the reservation
'ffered by Senator Lodge constitute
! virtual notification on the par
If the United States of a treat
which was a contract and Whicl
hould be amended through fire
discussion among all the cor
racting parties. He did not argu
n assume that the covenant wa
perfected document, but he believ
d that, like our American constitu
ion, it should be adopted and sub
equently submitted to necessar.
through the constitution
i processes of debate. He was I'm
.lterably opposed to having the Unit
d States put in the position of seek