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TEXT OF WILSON'S SPEECH ADVOCATING PEACE TREATY Columbus, Ohio, September 4.? Following is the text of President Wilson's address here today: Mr. Chairman, Governor Campbell and My Fellow Citizens: (Applause). It is with very pronounced pleas ure that I find myself face to fac with you. I have for a long time chafed at the confinement of Wash ington. I have for a long time wish ed to fulfill the purpose with whic! my heart was full when I returnee to our beloved country, namely, tc go out and report to my fellow coun trymen concerning those affairs oi the world which now need to be set The only people I owe any reporl to are you and the other citizens oi the United States and it has become that I should report to you. Aftei all the various angles at which you have heard the treaty held up, perhaps you would like to know what is in the treaty. I find it very difficult in reading some of the speeches that I have read to form any conception of that great document. < It is a document unique in the his tory ot the world for many reasons, and I think I can not do a better service or the peace of the world a better service than by pointing out to you just what this treaty contains . and what it seeks to do. Seeks to Punish Great Wrong. In the first place, my fallow citizens, it seeks to punish one of the greatest wrongs which Germany sought to do the world and to civili ra'Hrty% anH there mierht to be no weak purpose with regavd to the application of the punishment. She attempted an* intolerable thing, and she v must be made to pay for the attempt. > The terms of the treaty are severe, Jt>ut they are not unjust. I can testify that the men associated with me at the peace conference in Paris had it in their hearts to do justice and not wrong, but they knew peri.. haps with a more vivid sense of what had happened than we could possibly know on this side of the water, the many solemn covenants which Germany had disregarded, the lortg prep . aration she had made to overwhelm her neighbors, the utter disregard which she had shown for human rights, for the rights of women and children and those who were helpless. They had seen their lands devasted by an enemy that devoted itself, not only to thfe effort of victory, but to the effort of terror, seeking to terrify the people whom they fought, and I wish to testify that they exercised restraint in the terms ^ of this treaty. They did not wish to overwhelm any great nation and they ? ? _ had no purpose in overwneimmg tne German people, but they did think that it ought to be burned into the consciousness of men forever that no people ought to permit its government to do what the German goverment. did. "In the last analysis, my fellow countrymen, as we in America would be the first to claim a people { are responsible for the acts of their government, if their government purposes things that are wrong, they ought to take measures and see to it that that purpose is not executed. Germany was self-governed. Hei rulers had not concealed the pur XT l > ^ J u,,+ poses mm Ultsy uau ill nunu, uuu mcj V had deceived their people as to the character of the methods they were going to use and I believe from what I can learn that there is a nawakened consciousness in Germany itself of the deep iniquity of the thing that was attempted. War Great Crime Austrian* Admit When the Austrian delegates came before the peace conference, they, in so many words, spoke of the origination of the, war as a crime and admitr i / ted in our oresence that it was a thing intolerable to contemplate. They knew in their hearts that it had done them the deepest conceivable wrong; that it had put their people and the people of Germany at the judgment seat of mankind and throughout this treaty every tern: that was applied to Germany was meant not to humiliate Germany but to rectify the wrong that she had done. And if you will look even into the severe terms of reparation, for there was no indemnity?no indemnity of any sort was claimed? merely reparation, merely paying foi the destruction done, merely making good the losses, so far as the losses could be made good which she had unjustly inflicted, not upon the gov ^av +V>o ronaratiAri i<5 nni rniiiiciito xvi i v^wvxw*vaV44 ?v. to eo to the governments?but upor the people whose rights she had trodLuke Rielly Says, "The Rat Died Bej for Reaching the River." "Since moving near the river twc years ago. we've always used RATSNAP. Watched a vicious water rat. nibbling at RAT-SNAP outside th house. About 15 minutes later hs off for the water, lo cool h.:s ud ning stomzch, out iie died fceiort -each,. :r it." Three s:zes. 25c, 50c. $1.00. Sold and guaranteed bv Gilder and "Weeks Co. i den upon with absolutely no sense o anything that even resembled pity There is no indemnity in this treaty but there is reparation and even ii ; the terms of reparation a method i devised by .which the reparation sha] 1 be adjusted to Germany's ability t pay it. i T iffnn i t ?nmp nf tVi I X CLLXl ctOVVIllCUV'U V* W MVAMV -W ? %r*? | statements I see made about thi -' treaty and the truth is that they ar * | made by persons who have not rea - [ the treaty or who, if they have rea -1 it, have not comprehended its mean 1 ing. 1 There is a method of adiustmen ) in the treaty by which the reparatio * shall not be pressed to the utmos ^ point that she can pay, which is jus1 " j which is righteous. It would be in I tolerable if there had been anythin, ; [ else, for my fellow citizens. Thi [ treaty is not meant merely to en ! this singular war, it is meant as ; notice to every government who, ii I ' J-l- _ *?j *11 _ 2.A i. xLZ _ ' j me iuiure, win attempt lxiis uiing ' i that mankind will unite to inflict th ' same punishment. Treaty to Prevent Similar War. There is no national triump] sought to be recorded in this treaty There is no glory sought for any par ticular nation. The thought of th< | statements collected around that ta ble was of their people, of the suffer ings that they had gone through, o| I the losses they had incurred, tha" I great throbbing heart which was s< depressed, so forlorn, so sad in even memory that it had had of the fiv< tragical years, my fellow country men. Let us never forget the pur pose, the high purpose, the disinter ested purpose, with which Americs j lent its strength, not for its owr (glory, but the advance of mankind. | And, as I said, this treaty was no1 merely to end this war; it was in tended to prevent any similar war. I wonder if some of the opponents of the league of nations have forgotten the promises we made' our people before we went to that peace ta I ble? We had taken by processes oi j law the flower of our youth froir ! every countryside, from every house; hold, and we told those mothers anci jfkthers and sisters and wives anci [sweethearts that we were taking j those men to fight a war which woulc 1 ? j i : ^ I ena uusuiess ux uiai aun, <auu u wc ; do not end it, if we do not do the best that human concert of actior can do to end it, we are, of all men I the most unfaithful to the loving hearts who suffered in this war; th< I most unfaithful to those households I bowed in grief, yet lifted with th< i feeling that the lad laid down hii life for a great thing, among othei ; things in order that other lads migh not have to do the same thing. { That is what the league of nation: is for, to end this war justly, and i I is not merely to serve notice on gov ' ernments which would contemplate jthe same things which Germany con itemplated, that they will do it a : their peril, but also concerting th< - - - 1*1 *1 combination of power 01 wnicn wii | prove to them that they will do it a j their peril. It is itjle to say the worh i will combine against you because i | may not, but it is persuasive to sa: the world is combined against yoi jand will remain combined agains ; any who attempt the same thing ;that you attempted. The league of nations is the onl; ! thing that can prevent the recurrenci ' - ' X 1_ - ? J ?ATI/} ; UI CI11?> lueauiui cawiaiiujiiic auu 1.1 ! deem our promises. And the charac ! ter of the league is based upon tfr f j experience of this very war. 11 "I did not meet a single publi ' I man who did not admit these things j that Germany would not have gon ! into this war if she had though ' J Great Britian was goin<* into it an< jthat she most certainly T.-ould neve i have gone into this war if she ha< :' dreamed America was going into it : 1 and they have all admitted that i i .1 i J i _ i j_ 1 notice Deiorenana mat me greaies ' i powers of the world would combim ' to prevent this* sort of things i would have prevented it absolutely Passions of World Are Not Dead. ' i When gentlemen tell you, there ' i fore, that the league of nations i 1 j intended for some other purpose thai ^ | this, merely reply to them, "If we d< L! not do this thing we have neglectei ' i the central covenant that we mad I ': to our people, "and there will be m ' | statesman of any country who cai ' j thereafter promise his people an; '' alleviation from the perils of war. The passions of this world are no dead: thte rivalries of this world hav |not cooled; they have been renderei hotter than ever. The harness tha I is to unite nations is more necessar; ' now than it ever was before, and un " j less there is this sureness of combin '! ed action before wrong is attempted II wrong will be attempted as soon a the most ambitious nations can re . cover from the financial stress o this war. ? 'Xo"-' look, v-h'it is in the trea ' ty. a his lie.uy is unique in th "Tiic'cwv i;f mm n!n<4 list* 'f'np < *'?"> . ter of it is the redentption of wea' > nations. There n>v ?r wuk .. _r- c of rations that e -> - .J *.h* ' ; ; ; A ' -iC. : V fovcc ihi'\r rights. rl a .*r;> li-vc; v-a f a congress of nations before that did | " not seek to affect some balance of r I ' power brought about by moans of serving the strength and interest of [] the strongest powers concerned, 0 whereas this treaty builds up nations that never could have won their free e dom in any other way. It builds 3 them up by gift, by largeness, not by obligation; builds them up because ^ of the conviction of the men who ^ .wrote the treaty that the rights of people transcend the rights of governments, because of the conviction of the men who wrote that treaty that the fertile source of war is XI ^ wrong; that the Austro-Hungarian _ empire, for example, was held to' gether by military force, and consisl" ted of peoples who did not want to ^ live together; who did not have the S ? < J.: l-j j 1 _ 1, ^ : spirit 01 nationality as lowarus eacn | other; who were chafing under the ! hands that held them. Hungaryl, " | though a willing partner of Austria, " i was willing to be her partner because | she could share Austria's strength ifor accomplishing her own ambitions and her own ambitions were to hold k ! under the Jugo-Slavic peoples that r i j lie to the south of her. Stresses Right* of Small Nation*. a Bohemia, an unhappy partner? a partner by duress, flowing in all . her veins the strongest national imJ ; pulse that was to be found anywhere 'in Europe and north of that pitiful ft orront na+.irvn dividpd vm [ among the great powers of Europe, '; torn, assunder?kinship disregarded, | natural- ties treated with contempt iand an obligatory division among ^ j sovereigns imposed upon her, a part ^ i of her given to Russia, a part of her given to Germany, and great bodies k! of Polish people never permitted to have the norm&l intercourse with j their kinsmen for fear that that fine ,. instinct of the heart should assert itself which binds families together. i Poland could never have won . j her independence. Bohemia nev . er could have broken away " from the Austro-Hungarian comI bination. The Slavic peoples to the South, running down into I the great Balkan peninsula, had a.' gain as often tried to assert their | nationality and their independence, t and had as often been crushed, not by the immediate power they were j I fighting, but by the combined power ! of Europe. The old alliances, the old \ balances of power, were meant to see [ I to it that no little nation asserted its , ! rights to the disturbance of the peace i of Europe, and every time an asserI tion of rights was attempted they i were suppressed by combined infiu11 ence and force, and this treaty tears j away all that >and says these people 31 have a right to give their own lives k j under the governments which they _ j themselves choose to set up. That is a! the American principle, and I was _ j glad to fight for it and when strategic k | considerations were urged, I said? ; j not I alone?but it was a matter of j! common council that strategic cont j siderations were not in our thoughtj j that we are not arranging for future 11 wars, but were giving people what ^ belonged to them. 1 Claims bf Italy on Adriatic t My fellow citizens, I do not think s there is any man alive who has a more tender sympathy for the great y | people of Italy than I have, and a e very stern duty was presented to us - | when we had to consider some of the - claims of Italy on the Adriatic bee j cause strategically from the point of iview of future wars Italy needed a c ' military foot-hold on the other side of the Adriatic, but her people did e not live there except in little spots, t. It was a Slavic people, and I had to & say to my Italian friends but everyr [ where else in this treaty we have i 1 given territory to the people who : lived on it, and I do not think that it a ! is for the advantage of Italy, and I * i* i x .. * t i am sure it is not lor ine auvantage e i of the world to give Italy territory 11 where other people live. I felt the I force of the argument for what they i wanted, and it was the old argument . | that had always prevailed, namely, s ' that they needed it from a military [i point of view, and I have no doubt 0 j that if there is no league of nations, 1 | they will need it from a military e ; point of view, but if there is a league o U thjy will not need it from n j a military point of view. If there y ! is no league of nations, the military j point of view will prevail in every int i stance, and peace will be brought e into contempt, but if there is a ^ league of nations, Italy need not fear t the fact that the shores on the other y side of the Adriatic tower above her _ lower sandy shores on the side of the _ sea because there will be no threat[t ening guns there, .and the nations of s the world will have considered not _; merely to see that the Slavic peoples - V>m-.-q thaiv -rio-lifc Vint triwi flip ItJiliftn 'people have their rights as well. I would rather have everybody on my l- :side than be armed to the teeth, and . every settlement that -s right, every > settlement thai *3 based upon the s for nciples i have hided to is szf6 - ' J '' ; ; 0 f j mo be co;i. :nued.) i I All St? COR I i j Absolutely Ral A Scier THESE GAI V CHEAPER TH STO.P FEED OF YOUR COI YOUR STOCK INATED BY R SIZES FROM C vvm.o. * i? > I I I \ i r Conde: i I I ' ' ! 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