The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, July 15, 1919, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
TUESDAY, JU
PEACE a
CLAUSE,
The President (
Crowded Sen
A
'i- :
I
GREATER PART
Succinctness Ra
of the Addres
of the M<
Washington.?Pre?
the peacetreaty witl
the senate without i
its specific terms. 1
required 40 minutes
devoted almost whc
of nations.
American isolatio
aid. ended 20 yean
of tho war with Spr
can motives now al
1
^declared.
''There can be n<
ceasing to be a w
"Mr. Wilson. "The
whether we can refu
ership that is offere
shall accept or rejt
? fthe world."
The war and the
In his opinion, the |
already answered tl
nothing but our mi
Iter it."
After the end ol
the president said. '
Judgment demanded
cost of independent
rnment that took
people, or for Just I
freedom, should Ion
purpqse and utterlj
order of internatlon
Text of
President Wilson,
peace treaty and <
tlons to the senate,
Gentlemen of the f
The treaty of pei
was signed at Vers
of June. I avail mys
opportunity to lay
you for rat ideation
with regard to the v
eneo by which that
lated.
The treaty consti
than a world settl<
not he possible for
m arize or to cous
provisions in an ad
of necessity ho sor
a treat:so. My sor
Information I posses
disposal and at the
committee on foreig
time, either inform?
as you may prefer;
you will not hesital
them. I shall at t
your own study of
te mpt only a generi
of its scope and p
In one sense, no
need that I should r
was attempted and
You hnve been (
what was going on 1
lems with which th*
had to deal and o
laying down straigl
ruent anywhere on
the old lines of Int?
ship, and the new
Intricate a pattern
most part, cut so i
circumstances whic
tion where it woul
to ignore or reverse
currents of politlct
must have been e1
would be presuming
to explain the ques
or ine many airnran
tered into them,
something lens am
and more clearly
dnty to report to
part It teemed nec<
leagues and me to
entAtiveR of the g
TTnked State*.
That part wit* dl<
JLmerlca had playe?
by tha exportation*
created In the mln
with irhom we ha
alrea la that urea
} The United Stat*
upon a different 1c
other nation except
thlR Ride of the ae
not because our i
were dlreotly threai
any special treaty ol
we were parties h
but only because w<
acy. and even the
everywhere put In
government likely
hnpertlk'd by the I
slon of a power
neither right nor of1
ery system Of gove
rights of the citiie
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LY 15, 1919.
OVENANT WITH LEAGUE
IS LAID BEFORE SENATE
Jives an Account of His Stewardship Before
ate; Received With Tumultuous Applause,
nd Heard Wtih Rapt Attention.
OF ADDRESS DEVOTED TO LEAGUE OF NATIONS
ther Than Verbosity Marked the Composition
s Which Will Go Down Into History r.s One
>st Remarkable Documents of Any Age.
ildent Wilson laid autocratic authority of its governors,
i Germany before An"' the settlement of the peace
, . we have sought no special reparation
ittempt to explain B v ...
for ourselves, but only the restoration
lis address, which rjKht an(j ^0 assurance of liberty
for delivery, was everywhere that the effects of th?
>lly to the league settlement were to be felt. We en
tered the war as disinterested cham
Pions ?' ri^ht and we Interested our
n, i e pres en HejV0H jn terms yf the peace ir.
i ago at the close no Gth?r capacity.
iln. Fear of Arner- hopes of the nations allied
[so had ended, he against the central powers were at a
very low ebb when our soldiers began
o question of our to P?ur arroRS ,he RPa
orld power." said There waK everywhere amongsl
them, except in their stoutest spirits
only ques on s ^ aombre foreboding of disaster. Thr
ise the moral lead- war ended In November, eight month?
>d us, whether we ago. hut you have only to recall what
?ct the confidence was feared In midsummer last foui
short months before the armistice, tr
realize what it was that our timely
peace conference a,^ accomplished alike for thoii
>resldent said, had | morale and their physical safety. Tlif
lat question, "and I first, never-to-be-forgotten action al
siuKcn anion can ' n?i'-iiu i im-rry, nan aireaoy inner
plam. Our redoubtable soldiers am
marines had already closed the gaj
. the great war. ,j(0 onemy had sueeeeded in opening
'every enlightened fnr their advance ttpon Paris- had al
that, at whatever ready turned the tide of battle bad
action every gov- townr^* the frontiers of France am
begun the rout that was to save, Fu
t our t or it* rr)pP an(j world. Thereafter th?
ce or for ordered Germans were to he always forms
d itself to a new back, were never to thrust success
r destroy the old forward again And yet. then
al politics " was no confident hope. Anxious met
Address women- loading spirits of France
attended the celebration of the Fourtl
in presenting the ^ July last year in Paris out of gen
the league of na- erous courtesy?with no heart fo
spoke as follows: festivity, little zest for hope. Put the;
Senate* came away with something new a
. . ? their hearts; thev have theniselvei
*ce with Germany tf>M us so Thp moro of ?0
ailles on the 2Sth mon ? 0f their vigor, of the confident
lelf of the earliest showed itself In every movemen
the treaty before i their stalwart figures and every tun
and to inform you their swinging mareh, In thel
vork of tlie confer- steady comprehending eyes and ens;
treaty was fonnu discipline, in the Indomitable air tha
added spirit to everything they did ?
tutes nothing less ' made every one who saw them thai
?ment. It would | remarkable day realize that somethin)
me either to sum- | had happened that was mueh nion
true its manifold than a mere Incident in the fighting
dress waich must something very different from tht
nething less than mere arrival of fresii troops. A grea
vices j nd all the moral force had flung itself into th<
*s will be at your struggle. The flue physical force o
disjw-sal of your these spirited men spoke of some
n relations at any ' thing more than bodily vigor. The;
illy or in session. | carried the great ideals of a free peo
an1 I hope that ! pie at their hearts and with tha
!e to make use of vision were uno nquerable. Thel
KI. 1 ...
i.i.i nmr, ,?i?r i.. ( Verv presence nrniiRtu reassurance
the document at-1 tboir fighting made victory certain,
ill characterization i They were recognized as crusaderi
urpose. an(y as their thousands swelled t<
doubt, there is no i millions their strength was seen t<
eport to you wliat mean salvation. And they were fit met
done at Paris. | to carry such a hope and make gocx
lafly cognizant of the assurance It forecast,
there of the prob- j Finer men never went into battle
peace conference and their officers were worthy o
f the difficulty of them This is not the occasion upot
ht lines of settle- which to utter an eulogy of the armiei
a field on which i America sent to France, hut perhaps
rnational relation- 1 s|nce y am speaking of their mission
alike followed so | Inav gpoak nlso of the pride I sharer
and were, for the every American who saw o
deep by historical dealt with them there. Tliey were th?
h dominated ac aor( ()y tn<.n America would wish t<
d have been best rja)m as follow countrymen and com
i them. The cross ra^oS |n a great cause They \ver<
r and of interest terrible In battle, and gentle and help
vident to you. It yuj ol,y f)y jy remembering the mother!
in me to.attempt an(j sisters, the wives and the lit
tlons which arose children at home. They were fre.
i elements that en- mpn under arms, not forgetting thel
I shall attempt i,jonjp (^y duty in the midst of taskf
hit ion s than that ()f violence. I am prottd to have har
suggestisl by my tj|<? privilege of heing associated wltl
the Congreaa the m,,n an(j nf calling myaelf thei:
*sary for my col (1<ia(1<,r
play as the repre- put y gp^y now of what they
overnment of the meant to the men by whose sides they
| fought and to the people W|tn wnon
rtated by the fole'they mingled with sorb utter simpllr
i In the war and ity, as friends who asked only to tw
i that has been ] of service. They- were for all th?
da of the peoples i risible embodiment of America Whn
d associated eur-they did made America and all tha
t struggle. | she stood for a living reality in th<
s entered the war | thoughts not only of the people o
rating from every rranre. but also of tens of mllliohi
our aaaoctatea on cf men and women throughout all th?
?. We entered It, tolling nations of a world atar.dlnj
naterlal Interests everywhere In peril of Its freedom ant
tened or because 0f the loss of everything It held dear
ligations to which in deadly fear that Its bonds won
ad been violated, never to he loosed. Its hopes torevei
i saw the suprem- to be mocked and disappointed.
validity of right 1 And the compulsion of what then
Jeopardy and free stood for was upon us who represent
to be everywhere ed America at the peace table. I1
ntolerable aggres- was our duty to seo to It that even
which respected decision we took part In contributed
'igatlon and whosp , 10 far as we were able to Influenci
rnment flouted the it, to quiet the fears and realize th<
us as against tha j hopes of the peoples who had been
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living in that shadow, the nations tha* their will to the conglo
had come by our assistance to their Hungarian monarchy o
freedom. It was our duty to do sovereignties, and it u
everything that it whs within our task of peace to make .
power to do to make the triumph of as well as a new Slavi
freedom. | ing about Servia.
Old entanglements of every kind And no natural frc
stood in the way?promises which found to these new ft
governments had made to one anoth- ment and redemption,
er In the days when might and right sary to look constnntl
were confused and the power of the other related tasks. T
victor was without restraint. Rntan-1 onies were to be disp
glements which contemplated any had not been governed
positions of territory, any extensions exploited merely with
'of sovereignty that might seem to b? the interest or even tl
a _ 41 f _ a a a a, . .. il-:- :~i
I iu m?- interest 01 inose wno naa me man ri^nts tn 1,11
power to insist upon them, had been Tiu? Turkish empire,
! entered into without thought of what fallen apart, as the Ail
I the peoples concerned might wiHh or had. It never hail anj
profit by; and th?*so could not always bcen held togethe
be honorably brushi'd aside, ft was loss. inhuman force. 1
! not easy to graft tho now order of al?u^ f?r release, for j
ideas on the old, and some of the speakahle disttess, foi
| fruits of the grafting may. 1 fear, for new ,la>' ,,f hoP? see
a time he bitter. Hut. with very few *>rin? w,thin ** ,dfcNvn
exceptions, the men who sat with us erto in utter darkness
at the peace table desired as sincerely. into the same ig
as we did to get away from the bad ^nst a lu'P*ld ian
influences, the illegitimate purposes. r(a' >' or rfM c
the demoralizing ambitions, the inter- y.ct. ready to assume
UAtlonil counsels und expedients out sibilities of state oo<
of which the sinster dosigns of Oer- un a<l?fluilt?' guaranty
mnay had sprung as a natural growth, protection, guu ante hi
It had been our privilege to formu- And out of the e*e
late the principles which were accept- enterprises o
1 ed as the basis of the peace, but they, opportur.cies to at.cm
had been accepted, not because we mpn had never oi.n
had come to hasten and assure the do> an ?PPor ^ni_y
victory and insisted upon them, but Pftiards about the righ
i because they were readily acceded to tional and religious
' as the orincinles to which hnnnr.ihi^ solemn international c
and enlightened minds everywhere had opportunity to limit ar
heen bred. They spoke the conscience tary establishments w
i of the world, as well as the conscience roost likely to be misc
I of America, and I am happy to pay Portunity to effect a cc
my tribute of respect and gratitude to tematic intrenationali;
the able, forward-looking men with WHVS a,l<' railways wi
whom it was my privilege to co-oper- sary the free ecoaoi
ate for their unfailing spirit of co-op- than one option and
> oration, their constant effort to accom- ?j, * '' norronl channc
I modnte the Intorerts they represented ? ,u.^a'r obstructions
i to the principles wo wore all agreed Privi!eee; and the \c
I upon. The difficulties, which were P0,'tunily to secure fo
many, lay in the circumstances, not oorhd protection of <
, often in the men Almost without ex- tional pledges of prir
caption the men who led had caught ti?e.
; the true and full vision of the proh- ^ hose were not tas
I loin of peace as an indivisahle whole, conference looked aboi
a problem not of merely adjustments wpr>t out of its wa
. of interests, but of Justice and right They were inseparabl
i action. tlements of peace. T!
rr.. . . . . i upon it by circumstan
The atmosphere in which the con- . , . , ,
, , , , . , . not be overlooked. T
ference worked seemed created, not . , ., , ,
, ... * . ated them. 1 hey hud
i by the ambitions of strong govern- , , J
, . . .. . j by applying some ui
ments, hut by the hopes and aspira- . ' ...
, .. , , i of justice or enlightc
i tions of small nations and of peoples ? . , , ,
.... i . . . And they could not I
hitherto under bondage to the power ,
... . . . . . .. . . , merclv prescribing in
. that victory had shattered and de- , , , , , v.
. i nv ? i j should lie done. New
t stroyed. Two great empires had , . ... , .
' , . . . ..... i he set up which could
t been forced into political bankruptcy, throuph their f,rst
? and we were the receivers. Our task ?lihout ussun?,,
r was tpot only to make peace with the ^ lhat had pon
? central empires and remedy ttic ??????????
t wrongs their armies had done. The ^ ^ ^ <
, central empires had lived in open vio
r lation of many of the rights for which
p the war hud been fought, dominating ^
< alien peoples over whom they had no ^
natural right to rule, enforcing, not
obedience, but veritable bondage, exploiting
these who were weak for the
benefit of those who were masters and
overlords only by force of arms. ^
There could he no peace untd the %
whole order of central Kurope was set % Ik g
X \Alli
That meant that new nations were II | |
l'i id, ('/.echo Slo L Hf M
vakia, Hungary its. If. No part of ancient
Poland had ever in any true ^
sense become a part of Germany, or of {
Austria, or of Russia. Bohemia was
alien in every thought and hope to ??
the monarchy of which she had so
long been an artificial purt; and the ? 1.
uneasy partnership between Austria ^
and Hungary had been one rather of
interest than of kmihip or sympathy.
The Slavs whom Austria had chosen Asheville X
to force into her empire on the south J
were kept to their obedience by noth- Waynesville, !
ing hut fear. Their hearts were with
their kinsmen in the Balkans. These Fake JlinalllN
were all arrangements of power, not T Flat Rock, N,
arrangements of natural union or association.
It was the imperative task Rl'GV'Urd, N. (
of those who would muke peace and Ualsani X ('
make it intelligently to establish a J
new order which would rest upon the Ricl^OCTOst, X
fret* choice of peoples, rather than
upon the arbitrary authority of Haps- JJL
burgs or Hohenzollerns. i
More than that, great populations
bound by sympathy and nctual kin to
Rumania also were linked against
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r to other alien pendente. Ill-Governed colonies could j wjH find that
ras pori ot tne nut be put in the hands of govern- i nianifold p
a new Rumania ments which were to act as trustees have felt oblig
c state cluster- for their people and not as their mas- Gf nations as i
tera if there was to be no common j mentality for
inties could be authority among the nations to which new order it 1
elds of adjust- they were to be responsible for the ?et up in tl
It was naces- execution of their trust. Future in- | cjvilized men.
y forward to temntional conventions with regard . That there
he German col- to the control of waterways, with re- |
osed of. They gard to illicit traffic of many kinds, j nat'?ns to
; they had been in arms or in deadly drugs, or with ( maintain the \
out thought of regard to the adjustment of many of the world,
ic ordinary hu- I varying internnitonal administrative , alone, but the
labitants. I arrangements could not be assured if international 1
, moreover, had the treaty were to provide no per ma- national rule c
stro-Hungarian nent common international agency, if governments r
r real unity. It i?s excevtion in such matters was to one of the agr
r only hy piti- be left to the slow nnd uncertain the first as tl
ts peoples cried processes of co-operation by ordinary . the central p<
succor from un- methods of negotiation. If the peace of all the bell
all that the conference itself was to be the end of agreed that su
nied at last to \ co-operative authority and common created to sust
Peoples hith- j counsel among the governments to were to be et
were to be led j which the world was looking to en- . thirk there wa
it and given at force justice and give pledges of an of them that,
Undeveloped enduring settlement, regions like the tempted, the
gnition but not ; Sanr basin could not bo put under a league was po
:he full respon- temporary administrative regime fection which
were to bo giv- which did not involve a transfer of perienced in t
?s of friendly political sovereignty and which con-j riust agree t
rid assistance. templated a final determination of its with many mi
cution of these political connections by popular vote the ditficul
liberty sprang to be taken at a distant dnte; no free | all but univei
pt what states- city like Danzig could be created world's affairs
htf \FftV hpfo m orkiicK utnu nmior olukovotrt ?*?> * ' onn
',v " "?? T* " ? ?? I vmi/ui UVV. Iltwci MO- ?""" v?i?to
throw safo- tional guarantees, to accept excep- another that
tsof racial na- tional obligations with regard to the , them that wl
minorities' by 1150 'ts port atld exceptional rela- would be littb
ovenant; an op- tions with a state of which it was not written upon ]
id regulate mili- to 'orm n P?rt; properly safeguarded and applied b
'here they were plebescites could not be provided for chances of pol
hevious; an op- where populations were at some fu- able if they d
implete and svs- ture Hate to make choice what sover- of common c
'ation of water- s'tfnty they would live under; no cer- obliged to arc
lich were neces- Uin nnd unifor method of arbitra- ^~whose dec
mic life of more t,on rouH b(> ^cured for the settle- njzc(, decis
to clear many f mpnt,of anticipated difficulties of final 3pe0t
Is of commerce decision with repard to many matters . ',
of law or of dealt with in the treaty itself; the , d 1
rv welcome on- 'onf*' continued sunervision of the- task Y^1 am<?
. . , 1 c . i i/' . and more to tl
r labor the con ?> reparation which (.ermany was to . ,
lefinite interna-I undertake to complete within the ' "V m,u^ 1 w
. i ? . i. -ii' was to l>e seeu
iciple and prac- npxt generation might entirely break wlli (
down; the reconsideration and revis . . ! ' ,
e i . . .it would t>e il
?ks which the lnn of administrative arrangements
Lit it to find and ! and restrictions which the treaty pre- q ]
v to nerfftrHi ' scribed hut which it was recognized
> io perioral. . . upon which tl
e from if.. v?t might not prove of lasting advantage '
< irom me set- ' . the maintenar
hev were thnui t or entirely fair if too long enforced ,
ru > wtr. tnrust *. ~ that the covei
ces which could wou,d h? ""Practicable. The prom- h first substj
ho war had ere- j 1SPS governments were making to one b(. . ,
in i., r)iri,? another about the wav in which labor ... ,, ,
io oc s< i rigni while all else
liform principle , to b'- dealt Wlth' b>' la* not onl>' to makl. the f
ned exneiben. u bu* ln as well, would remain a .
new i.xpiu.eni j easier. 1 he ci
ie mliiKt.xl i,v mere humane thesis if there was to - - , ,
>c adjusted i>> | . not to be eplu
? i ... be no common tribunal of opinion
a maty what , \ . nations was t<
stnt.-s w. r.. to an*i judgment to which liberal statessiaits
w- rc to . n11** covenant
not hope to live mpn could resort for tbc influences , .
iod of weakness wb'cb alone might secure their re>rt
by the great demption. A league of free nations
sen ted to their bad become a practical necessity.. Kx- 1 (Contim
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aty of peace and you
everywhere throughout
revisions its framers
ed to turn to the league
in indispensable instruthe
maintenance of the
has been their purpose
he world?the world ef
should he a league of
*ady the counsels and
>eaceful understandings
to make, not treaties
accepted principles of
aw as well, the inter>f
conduct among the
>f the world, had been
cements accepted from
ie basis of peace with
iwers. The statesmen
ligerent countries v.ere
ch a league must he
a in the settlements that
Tected. But at first I
s a feeling among some
while it must be ntformation
of such a
rhaps a counsel of perpraetical
men, long exhe
world of affairs,
o very cautiously and
isgivings. It was only
t work nf urrn m/irttr 4n
sal adjustment of the
advanced from day to
stage of conference to
it became evident to
lat they were seeking
i more than something
paper, to be interpreted
y such methods as the
itics might make availid
not provide a means
ounsel which all wera
ept, a common authorising
would be rorogions
which all must reinost
practical, the most
nig them turned more
w It ague as the authorlich
international action
red, the authority withtliey
had come to see it,
itFicult to give assured
o this treaty or to any
ational understanding
icy were to depend for
ice of pence. The fact
innt of the league was
intive part of the treaty
out and agreed upon,
was in solution, helped
ormulations of the rest
inference was, after all,
L'meral. The concert of
> continue, under a detiwhich
had been agreed
ich all were, convinced
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