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TEXT OF WILSON'S SPEECH ADVOCATING PEACE TREATY (Continued from last issue.) Some gentlemen have feared with Tegard to the league of nations, that we will be obliged to do things we want tn Ha Tf t.hp t.vpjlfcv werp wrong, that might be so; but if the treaty is right, we will wish to preserve right. I think I know the heart of this great people whom I, for the tiir.o be.'.ng, h&ve the higli honor lc represent, better than some other men that I hear talk. I have been bred and am proud J-- i i?? i i J IlCkVt: ucuu uicu in ciic uiu icrviutionary stock which set this government up, when America was set up as a friend of mankind, and I know ?if they do not?that America has never lost that vision or that purpose. But I haven't the slightest fear that arms will be necessary if the. purpose is there. If I know that my adversary is armed and I am not, I do not press the controversy, and if any nation entertains selfish purposes set against the principles established in this treaty, and is told by the rest of the world that it must withdraw its claims, it will not press them. Rectifies Wrong of Long Standing. "The heart of this treaty, then, my fellow citizens, is not even that it punishes Germany?thJit is a temporary thing?it is that it rectifies - the age-long wrong which characterized the history of Europe. ''There were some of us who wish\ -sd that the scope of the treaty would reach some othef age-long wrong. It 'nwas a big job, and I don't say that 1 we wished that it were bigger, but there were, other wrongs elsewhere than in Europe, and of the same kind ] rwhich no doubt to be .righted, and * f . some day will be righted, but which 3 we could not draw into the treaty, 1 because we could deal only wnn ine 1 'cjOOTmtries whom the war had engulf- 5 ed and affected. 3ut so far as the 1 scope of our treaty went, tfe recti- < fied the wrongs which have been the I fertile source of war in Europe. Have you ever reflected, my fel- 1 low countrymen, on the real source i of revolution? Men don't start revolutions in a sudden passion. Do you 1 Temember what Thomas Carlyle said about the French revolution? He nvas speaking of the so-called Hundred Days' terror which reigned, not ' - l j_ xi 1 i T7*_ oniy m jrans, out inrouguuuc r raucc, in the days of the French revolution; and he reminded his readers that ftack of that hundred days of terror lay several hundred years of agony ^nd of a wrong. The French people 3iad been deeply and consistenly rwronged by their government; robbed; their human rights disregarded, J -and the slow agony of those hundreds ?of years had after a while gathered into a hot agony-that could not be suppressed. Revolutions don't spring 3ip over night; revolutions gather through the ages; revolutions come from the long-suppression of the human spirit; revolutions come because men know that they have rights and that they are disregarded. And ^vhen we think' of the future of the -world in connection with this treaty, *we must remember that one of the chief efforts of those who made this treaty was to remove that anger from the hearts of great peoples, great peoples v*io had always been . suppressed and always been used, , who had always been the tools in the \ hands of governments?generally of j alien governments?not their own. , And the makers of the treaty knew j that if the&e wrongs were not removed, there could be no peace in the r world, because, after all, my fellow t citizens, war comes from the seed ( of wrong, and not from the seed of . . . right. This treaty is an attempt to s - rwrht the hist.nrv of Enrone. and in I . *ny liumble judgment, it is a mea- 1 swrajsde, success. I say 'measureiT^y fallow citizens, because ^ vyauy-will realize the difficulty of this. ( :Here .are two neighboring peoples. t>ne "have not stopped at a sharp line and the settlement of the other j people, or their migrations, begun at that sharp line; they have inter- ^ mingled. There are regions where you can't 'draw a national line and ~..s*y ft re Slgys on this side and . Italians on that; there is this people 1 there and that people there. It can't be done. You have to come to it, as near to it as you can, and then trust to the process of history to re-distribute, it may be, the people who are on the wrong side of the line. And -Jthere are many such lines drawn in fftris treaty, and to be drawn in the Jtastrian treaty, and where perhaps there are more lines of that sort than ;in the German treaty. / Mr.' R. C. King Tells a Wonderful Story About Rats. Read it. "For months my place was alive T-ats Losing chickens, eggs, >?lbu ^ feed. Friend told iae to try RAT- [ .SNAP. I did. Somewhat disappoint-) ed at first, not seeing many dead rats, but in a few days didn't see a live one. What were not killed are not around my place. RAT-SNAP sure does the trick." Three sizes, 25c, 50c, $1.00. Sold and guaranteed by Gilder and Keek3 Co. Plebiscite Oecided on Upper Silesia "When we came to draw the line between the Polish people and the German people, not the line between Germany and Poland?there was not any Poland, strictly speaking?the line between the German people and the Polish people. There were districts likp the uDDer Dart of Silesia, or rather the easter part of Silesia, which is called "Upper Silesia," because it is mountainous, and the other part is not. High Silesia in chiefly Polish, and when we came to draw a line to represent Poland it was necessary to include high Silesia, if we were really going to play fair and make Poland up of the Polish peoples wherever we found them in sufficiently close neighborhood to one another. "But it wasn't perfectly clear that Upper?that high Silesia wanted to be part of Poland . At any ra^e th^re were Germans in high Silesia who said that it did not, and, therefore, we did there what we did in many other places; we said 'Very well, then, we will let the people that live there decide.' We will have a referendum within a certain length of time after the war, under the supervision of an international commission, which will have a sufficient armed force behind it to preserve order and see that nobody interferes with the elections. We will have an absolutely free vote and high Silesia shall go either to Germany or to Poland, as the people in high Silesia prefer. * % "And that illustrates many other cases where we provided for a referendum, or a plebiscite as they choose to call it; and are going to leave it to the people themselves, as we should have done, what govern- j merit they shall live under. "It is none of my prerogatives to j allot peoples to this government and ! the othey. It is nobody's right to do I that alloting, except the people them- j selves, arid I want to testify that this | treaty^s throughout with the American principle of the choice the governed. "Of course at times it w t irt her j than we could make a pra< r jo\- \ icy of, because various people, were! keen upon getting back portions of I their populations which were sepa J 1 ^ ? 4-1*ktT milaa I raieu IIUIII UlClll ujr maujr au*aw?? j territory, and we couldn't spot over; with little pieces of separated states. "I even had to remind my Italian colleagues that if they were going to claim every place where there was a large Italian population we would have to cede New York to them, because there are more Italians in New i York than any Italian city. Magna Charta of Labor "But I believe?I hope?that the Italians in New York city are as glad to stay there as we are to have them. I would not have you suppose that I ?witr Tfolion r>nl_ am tliai UIJ Avaiiuii VVA leagues entered any claim for New York city. We, ,of all peoples in the world, my fellow citizens, ought to be able to understand the questions of this treaty and without anybody explaining them to us; for we are made up out of all the peoples of the world. I dare say that in this audience there are representatives of practically all the peoples dealt with in this treaty. You don't have to have me explain national.ambitions to you; national; aspirations. You have been brought j up on them; you have learned of j them since you were children, and it i s those national aspirations which are sought to realize, to give an outet to, in this great treaty. But we do much more than that. I This treaty contains, among other :hings, a magna charta of labor?a ;hing unheard of until this interestng ysar of grace. There is a whole section of the treaty devoted to arrangements, by which the interests j )f those who labor with their hands ill over the world?whether they be nen or women or children?are all >f them to be safeguarded. And ic tr? meet. the first ICAt UlUllVli - issembly under this section of the ! eague?and let me tell you it will j neet whether the treaty is ratified! by that time or not. "There is to meet an assembly which represents the interests of laboring men throughout the world, not their political interests. There is nothing politcal about it. It interests the men concerning the conditions of their labor, concerning the character of labor which women shall 11 engage in, the character 01 laDor which children shall be permitted to engage in; the hours of labor, and, incidentally, of course, the remuneration of labor. The labor shall be remuneration in proportion, of course, to the maintenance of the standard of living which is proper, for the man who is expected to give his whole brain and intelligence and energy to a particular task. "I hear very little said about this M,w*"a PV?oT?fo rvf lnhor which is iua^ua , embodied in this. It forecasts the day which ought to have come long ago, when statesmen will realize that no nation is fortunate which is not h-iffy? and that ro nation can be happy whose people are not contented, contented in their lives and fortunate in the circumstances of their lives. j "If I were to state what seems to me to be the central idea of this treaty, it would be this: It is almost a discovery in international conven tions?'that nations do not consist 01 their government, but consist of their people.' | "That is a rudimentary idea: it , seems to us to go without saying to us in America, but, my fellow citizens, it was never the leading idea in any other international congress that I ever heard of; that is to say, | any international congress made up . of the representatives of government. \ They were always thinking of national policy, of national advantages, of the rivalries of trade, of the advantages of territorial conquest." | There is nothing of that in this treaty. j You will notice that even the territories which are taken away from Germany, like her colonies, are not given to anybody. There isn't a single act of annexation in this treaty. But territories inhabited by people | not yet able to govern themselves, : either because of econmic or other , circumstances, or the stage of their 1 development, are put under the care ! of powers, who are to accept as trustees, trustees responsibile in the ! forum of the world, at' the bar of the | league of nations, and the terms upj on which they are to exercise their jtruseeship are outlined. They are jnot to use those people by way of | profit and to fight their wars for jthem; they are not to permit any jform of slavery among them, or of ! enforced labor, they are to see to it I that there are humane conditions of I labor with regard not only to the woI men 'and children, but the men too. [They are to establish no fortificar?-w/\ +a KA/yiilof a linn at* wicj; aic iu itguiairc mjuvi and the opium traffic; they are to see to it, in other words, that the lives of the people whose care they i assume?not sovereignty over whom I they assume, but whose care they assume?are kept clean and safe and l holy. j Treaty a Paem of Noble Impulses. ' There again the principle of the treaty comes out, that the object of the arrangement is the welfare of the people who live there, and not the advantages of the government. It goes beyond that and it seeks to gather under the common supervision of the league of nations, the various instrumentalities by which the world has been trying to check the evils that were in some places debasing men, like the opium traffic, lilro +V10 ?for it. was traffic? in men, women and children; like the traffic in olher dangerous drugs; like ths traffic in arms .mong uncivilized people, who a -, .d use arms only for their detriment; for sanitation; for the work of the Red Cross. ;Why those clauses, my fellow citiI zns, draw the hearts of the world inito league; draw the noble -impulses {of the world together and.make a poem of them. I I used to be told that this was an age in which mind was monarch; and my comment was that if that were true, then mind was one of those I mnHprn mftnarrhs that reisms 'and does not govern; but as a ! matter of fact, we were governed [ by a great representative assembly,. made up of the human passions, and 1 that the best we could manage was, that the high and fine passions should be in a majority, so that they could control the face of passion, so that, they could check the things that were ; wrong, and this treaty seeks something like that. * In drawing the humane endeavors; together, it makes a mirror of the i fine passions of the world, of its I philanthropic passions, and of its passion of pity, of this passion of human sympathy, of this passion of humane j friendliness and helpfulness, for j there is such a passion. i Read the Treaty Wilson Urges. j I beg, my fellow citizens, that you and the rest of these Americans with j whom we are happy to be associated I all over this broad land, will read the j treaty themselves?or if they won't take time to do that?for it is a techj nical document that is hard to read !?that they will accept the interpre J tation of those who made it and knew what the intentions were in the mak| ing of it. I hear a great deal, my fellow citizens, about the selfishness and the selfish ambitions of other governments, but I would not be doing justice to the men who I was associated with on the other side of the water, if I didn't testify that the 'purposes that I have outlined, were their purposes We differed as to the method, very often; we had discussions as to the details, but we never had any serious ' discussion as to the principle. And . while we all acknowledged that the principles might perhaps in detail hiive beer. be.:cr, really we are all ; back of those principles. ; There is a concert of mind and of ! purpose and of policy in the world that was never in ex's^nce before I am not saying that by way of credit-to myself or to those colleagues to whom I alluded, because what happened to us was that we got messages from our people; we were there under instructions, whether they WCIC WUUl UUWIl UI IlUt, dD VVC U1UI1 t dare come home without fulfilling those instructions. If I could not have brought back the kind of treaty I brought back, I would never have come back, because I would have been an unfaithful servant and you would have had the right to condemn me in any way that you chose to use, so that I testify that this is an American vtreaty not only, but it is a treaty that expresses the heart of the people?of the great peoples who were associated together in the war against Germany. I said at the opening of this informal address, my fellow citizens, ithat I had 'come to make a report to x'An T Wfinf f r\ q A r] f a fliof o Tiffin J V/W? 4. Vf Uilb WV auu i/V/ tilU L< U AICVIVs bit. I have not come to debate the treaty. It speaks for itself if you will let it. The arguments directed against it are directed against it with a radical misunderstanding of the instrument itself. Therefore, I am not going anywhere to debate the treaty. I am going to expound it and I am going, right here now today to urge you in every vocal method that you can use, to assert the spirit of the American people in support: of it. Don't let men pull it clown, don't let them misrepresent it;'don't; let them lead this nation away from | the high purposes with which this war was inaucgur&ted and fought. As I came through that line of! youngsters in khaki a few minutes! ago I felt that I could salute it because I had done the job in the way I promised them I would do it, and J when this treaty is accepted men in khaki will not have to cross the seas again. That is the reason I believe in it. I say 'when it is accepted,' for it will be accepted. I have never entertained a moment's doubt of that and the only , thing I have been impatient of has been the delay. It is not a dangerous delay except for the temper of the peoples scattered throughout the world who are waitiing. Do you realize, my fellow citizens, 'that the whole world is waiting on America? The only country in the world that is trusted at this moment is the United States, and they are wanting to feee whether the trust is justified or not.' j That has. been the ground of my: impatience. I knew their trust was j justified, but I begrude the time that! certain gentlemen, oblige us to take! in telling them so. We shall tcV. the::*.1 in a voice as authentic as any voice in history and in the years to come ' men will be glad to remember that ;they had some part in the great strugi i-i i 1 j. ; gie wmcn orougnt uus uicumparauit: consummation of the hopes of mankind. i , GOV. CCOPER MAKES \ ADDRESS BAPTIST DRIVE Greenville, Sept. 7.?A large mass j meeting of hundreds of Baptists of j the Greenville Association, held here j today in the interest of the Baptist j 75 million campaign, was addressed ! by Gov. R. A. Cooper and other j prominent leaders of the denomina-j tion. Keen interest in the campaign j was manifested^ and State officials j of the campaign expressde the belief j fnllriwino* the meeting* that this as- i "? ? ? I sociation will largely oversubscribe its quota in the drive, which will be | held Nov. 30 to Dec. 7. South Carolina's share in the soulh's quota is five and :i half millions. Citation Letters of Administration, j STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, | County of Newberry. By W. F. Ewart, Probate Judge: Whereas, Queenie Tucker made suit to me to grant her Letter of Ad- j ministration of the estate and effects j I of J. G. Tucker. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the Ki:idired and Creditors of the said J. G. | Tucker, deceased, that they be and ; appear before me, in the Court of j Probate, to be held at Newberry, S. C., on Saturday, September 13th, next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'click in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said j administration should not be grantjed. I nnripr mv hand this 26th day of August, Anno Domini 1919. W. F. Ewart, P. J. N. C. 1 r : NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT j I will make a final settlement of 'the estate of Horace Gruber in the I Probate .Court for Newberry County, S. C., on Monday, the 29th day of September, 1919, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and will immediately I thereafter ask for my discharge as guardian, of said estate. M. L. Gruber, Guardian. Newberry,, Aug. 20, 1919. i SI Lallev high I'1 The Et Lalley Light not only saves yo It is an economy itself An < than it costs. For instance, George Reudi wri "1 think they ought to hav Economy, as it has not cos; 4^1 Lalley Light is a complete unit and generator?with 16 cell stoi Itery It supplies ample electt lights, watet pump washing n sweeper jcream separator, farm iron, exc. etc On that he lights his elevenhouse. hog-pen and hen-coop. These are only two instances, and retold to you by every I to them alL You actually owe it to yours a Lalley plant on the place. [ v LALLEY LIGHT * DETROIT- MIC] Jhfleq light saves time.i SOUTHERN STATES SUPPLY i COUNTS & SHEALY, L i 1 t The next time 0 you buy calomel ask for | falotabs ! V > f I . ' . The purified and refined | calomel tablets that are | nausealess, safe and sure. j Medicinal virtues retained and improved. Sold only in sealed packages. Price 35c. Citation Letters of Administration STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. By W. F. Ewart, Probate Judge. Whereas, Mary J. Miller made suit to me to grant her letters of administration of the estate and effects of Frances E. Lake. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said ? -r , _ j j 4. Jt1 ranees Hj. lskc, Q^ccci&cu, mat mtj be and appear before me, in the court of probate, to be held at Newberry, S. C., on Tuesday, the 23rd day of September, next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause,' if any they i have, why the said administration | should not be granted. Given under my hand this 4th day I of Sept., Anno Domini 19.19. | W. F. Ewart, P. J. N. C. Citation Letters of Administration STATE OF-SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. By W. F. Ewart, Probate Judge. Whereas, J. B. Richards made suit to me to grant him letter of administration of the estate and effects of Richard Thacker. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Richard Thacker, deceased, that they be and appear before me in the court , of probate, to be held at Newberry, r> ? S#?ntemher the O. Ull iUUHUMj y ~-r | 22nd, next, after publication hereof at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show C cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be grant' ed. 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