Show TEXT OF WILSONS WILSON'S STLOUIS ST ST. LOUIS ADDRESS By Associated Press COLISEUM St. St S1 Louis Sept 6 Pesi G-Pesi- dent Wilson Wison in his address last nI night ht said My fellow ellow countrymen we have met mci upon an occasion which is much too solemn to care how we look We ought to care how we think h and I have come here tonight rg to O ask permission i to rad discuss s se with i you some o of the very curious i o of thinking that have taken place in this i country o of late I have sought sought-I I think I have sought without prejudice prejudice to to understand the point of oi view o of the men who have been opposing the treaty and the covenant of the league leage o of nations Many o of them are 1 men whose judgment of a patriotic feeling feeling feel eel eeling ing I have been accustomed to admire and respect And yet I must admit to you ou my fellow countrymen that It Is very ver hard for or me to believe beleve that they have followed followed fol 01 fol- fol lowed their line o of thinking to Its logical logical log log- ical and necessary conclusion because when you ou reflect upon their position It i Is 15 either that we ought to reject this treaty altogether or that we ought to change Itin it ii in such a way as will wi make It necessary to reopen with Germany and andI I reconsider the settlement o of the peace Inmany in Sri inmany I many essen essential ta particulars CANT CAN'T STAND ALONE I We cannot do the latter alone and other nations will not Join us In doing it I The only alternative Is to reject the peace I and to do what some of ot our fellow elow countrymen coun coun- i de have been n advising us to do stand alone aIon I In the w world I want to point out to you that only those who are Ignorant o of the world can car L believe beleve that any nation even so great a nation naton as the United States can stand standalone standalone I alone and play a single part in the history his his- tory of ot mankind I suppose that most o of you ou realize that thai L it i is going to be very difficult for or the theother theother I Iother other nations that were engaged in this thir 3 war to get financially on their feet agai again I dare say you read the other day the tiu I statement o of Herbert Hoovers Hoover's opinion an opinion which I always greatly respect that It will wi be necessary greaty for the United i States Immediately to advance four Our o or r five billion bilon dollars for or the rehabilitation S o of credit credi and Industry on the other side SS S o of the water and I must say to you that tha I I learne learned nothing In Paris Parts which would I leave me to doubt that conclusion conclusion An And AndI I think the statement o of the sum Is S a t reasonable and conservative statement MUST SAVE CREDIT If I the world is going bankrupt If i credit I Is going to be destroyed If I the industry of the races of ot the world Is going to b be interrupted our market Is confined t to tp the United t States and trade will alit lb b bia- I eo possible except c within our own borrs I If I we are are- areto to save our own markets and I rehabilitate our own Industries we must musi I save the financial situation o of the world i and the markets o of the world Germany cant can't pay for this war unless C her industries are revived and the treat treaty o of peace sets set up a great commission I known as the reparation commission in ir I which It was Intended that there should I be a member from rom the United States as aswell S Swell well wel as from other countries and the S business o of this commission will wl be m tn I part to see that the industries o of Germany German are revived in order that Germany ma mapay may I pay this great debt which she owes to tt I civilization That reparation commission can determine determine deter deter- mine the currents o of trade the conditions I of credit credit of International credit it can Car I determine how much Germany Is s going I to buy where It Is going to bu buy and ho how r it is going to pay for fot It and if we must to save ourselves contribute to the fi financial fi f- f rehabilitation of the world then User 1 without being members o of this partnership partnership partner partner- ship we must put our r o money in the hands C Cof of ot those who want to get the markets S that belong to us That Is what these gentlemen cat call i playing a lone hand It is Indeed playing play play- cal ing a lone hand It i is playing a hand that Is frozen rozen out We We- We must contribute S the money which other nations are to use In order to rehabilitate their Industry and credit and we must make them our Ous antagonists and rivals and not our part part- ners I put that proposition to an any business business busi busi- ness man young or old oid in itt the United States and ask him how he likes it It and whether he considers that a useful way way for or the United States to stand alone MUST CARRY BURDEN We have got Sot to carry crry this burden o of oi reconstruction c st whether ei r ve we will l or r rot not S SOr d or be ruined i a and the question i is is s snail shall h hwe I we carry it I and be ruined anyhow For Fox that is what these gentlemen propose propose- that at every point we shall be embarrassed embarrassed em em- by the whole financial affairs of the world being in the hands of ot other nations The men who propose these things do not understand the selfish Interests In in- in of the United States because here her C i Is the rest o of the picture Hot rivalries I 1 J burning suspicions Jealousies arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments made everywhere If 1 possible to shut us out out because because If II i we wont won't comein come comeIn comein I In as equals we ought to be shut out As it stands now every nation naton trusts us They look to us They long that we e shall undertake anything for or their assistance rather than that any other nation naton should undertake it I. I And i if we say we are in this world to live lve by ourselves ourselves our our- selves and get what we can out o of it by any selfish process then the reaction lion tion ton will wl change the whole heart and of the world towards this great free ree Justice loving people and after you have changed the attitude o of the world what have you produced produced peace peace Why my fellow citizens is there any man here or woman woman let let me say is there any child here who here who does loes oes not know kow that the seed o of war in the modern world Is industrial and commercial rivalry Ladles Ladies and gentlemen I dont don't say It I because I am aria m an American Amerian and my heart is full ull o of the same pride that fills fis yours ours with wih regard to the power and the spirit j I lof of this great nation naton but merely because it is a fact act which I 1 think everybody would admit outside o of America Americ as well wel as inside o of America that the organizatIon organization contemplated by the league leage of nations without the United States would merely be an alliance alance and not a league of nations It would be an al al- al liance lance in which the partnership would I be anbe between the more powerful rf European European Euro Euro- nations s and d Japan and the e other party to the world arrangement the anisi antagonists antagonists an an- isi the hes s party t the party to b be standing off We Wea a and to be watched by the alliance would be the I United States o of America I here can be no league of nations in inthe inthe inthe the true tre sense without the partnership o of this great people This war was a commercial and in industrial in- in war It I was not a political war war Very well wel then If i we must do something something something some some- thing else we must be physicallY ready for or an anything thing to come We Ve must have havea a great standing army S DUTY OF AMERICANS We Ye must see to it that every man in America America is ts trained to arms We must I see to it that there are munitions and guns enough for or an army That means j a nation naton They are not only laid in store but up they are kept up upI to date so that they are ready to use tomorrow And what does that mean I Reduction o of taxes No Not only the I continuation o of the present taxes but the increase o of the present taxes It I means something very much more serious than that We can stand that so far faras faras faras as the expense is concerned i If we care to keep up the high cost o of living and enjoy the other ther luxuries that we have recently enjoyed But what Is more serious serious se serious se- se rious wo have got to have the sort of organization that can handle armies aries sor of ot that sort We may say what we please o of the German government that has been destroyed my fellow elow citizens but lit I it was the only sort o of government that I could handle an armed nation naton You cant can't handle an armed nation naton by vote you have got to have concentrated militaristic organization or organization or- or of government to run a naton nation na na- na- na lion tion ton o of that sort And you cant can't watch other nations I with wih your you unassisted eye You have got to watch them by secret agencies planted everywhere And let me testify to this my fellow elow citizens I not only did not j know it until we got Into this war but I did not believe it It when I l was told that It I was true Germany was not the only countr country that maintained a secret sErice service Every country In Europe maintained main main- tamed It i because they had to be ready for Germanys Germany's spring upon them and the only difference between the German secret service and the other secret service service ser ser- ser ser- vice was that the German sere service ser ser- ser ser- vice e found out more than the others did FINANCIAL LEADERSHIP OURS Under the league plan the financial leadership will wi be ours the ind Industrial supremacy su supremacy su- su will wi be ours tue commercial advantage wilt will wi be ours and the other countries of ot the world will look to us and shall I say are looking wi to us for or leadership and direction Very well wel then if it I am ans to compete with the critics o of this league and o of this I treaty as a selfish American I say I want to get in and get In as quickly quick as I can I want to be inside and know how the thing Is run and help to run It i so that you ou have the alternative Armed isolation or peaceful partnership Can Cars any sane man hesitate as to the choice and can any sane man ask a question queston ques ques- tion ton which is the way o of peace I have heard some mEn mem say with an wih amazing Ignorance that the covenant o of the league leage of nations was an arrangement arrange arrange- ment meat for war Very Vel well wel The other arI ar- ar I what would It be AnY I for or peace for kindness Ara I cooperation Would everybody e bee bek bekus beck beckus I us to their markets j I cannot bring my credulity up t toft fh point I have reached years ear o of And I have met some very young m I who know a great deal more than SOl sc sor very old men 4 I And Ad what is the meaning Is the he government o of the league o of nati natie naties natie's I is s a covenant o of arbitration and disco disc sion slon i iHas Has Hs anybody ever told you that helen helenI I dare say that everybody you have h hea a about out this discusses article artIce X X tj TWENTY FIVE OTHER ONES 1 I Well VeI there are twenty five other a t tides ides in it and all aU o of them are ara jat bo bo something else I They discuss how soon and how qi quit we can get t out o of it t. t Well I am nc not I quitter It 1 for o one We ca can get t out just i I soon as we want to but we dont don't wan want get out Just as soon as we get In j I And then the they talk about the Mont Mor Monr doctrine when it expressly says 1 Ut th nothing in that Instrument shall be co as affecting in any way the va vali ity Iy o of the Monroe doctrine It says s so soso soso so many words And all al the other th thin they talk about draw your our attention f Inthe r the essential matter il The essential matter mater is this All AU m mer bers ber of ot that league league and and it will wi include the fighting nations of ot the world promise that they will wl n ngo ne go to war without first submitting t questions at Issue to arbitration and anda abiding by the decision of oft arbitrators Or i if they are not willing submit it U to arbitration submit it I to by the capital council counci of t league that they will alit wi give the council counci I the league six months in which to to i isider co coi sider it and that h if they do no not Uke like i opinion o of the h council i eYth they wilt will three months after the opinion is re dered before going to war j I PLATFORM OF PARTIES This afternoon a book bok I had forgo all about one of the the- campaign I books book O the al last political f iC campaign was a pu pod my hands and I found In that that book platform o of the two parties partes and In b those o platforms they advocated d just i ian doi tr St an arrangement r ti as the league of nati When I was on the other side o of the thew ter I did not know that I was taki orders taking obeying orders from rom both partes parties B BuNow But was j Now I want you ou to understand fellow citizens that I did not leave W Was Was' ington and come out on this trip bee beca I doubted what was going to happer For one thing I wanted to to 3 M I the pleasure o of leaving Washington a ar for another I wanted to have the e much greater plea plea- r o of feeling the their I geater that I ouid get from yo Things get wet very ery lonely In some time time The rea real voice o of the e gr ge people of America some time sounds I fai air and distant In that strange city y yo hear politics until you wish that bot i parties partes were smothered In their own ow g gAN g gAN AN END TO WARS J 5 This nation naton went into the war to to- toS se seit it through to the end and the end has a athe no come yet This is the beginning not noi not c the war but o of the processes which going to render war like this imp There are no other processes than ti U es that are proposed in this great treatY treaty I is a great eat treaty It I is a treaty o of jus tho the presence therefore We are re in the most solemn choice that this pei was ever er called upon to make Th i choice Is nothing less than this S SAmerica America redeem her pledges to the w wo r g America is made up of the tire peoples 0 or of world and she has said to mankind at to redeem birth We Ve have come world by giving it liberty and just justi i the called upon before Now we are caled i that bun bunal l o of mankind to redeem mortal pledge |