Show LEAGUE CERTAIN WILSON DECLARE PRESIDENT IN OPENING SPEECH ES ea OF TOUR VOICES HIGH HOPE WORLD WAITS FOR US future free from war if america carries out her pledges Pled gei say executive by mount demons clemons news new lau bureau reau aboard presidents special train st L louis sept Display lvir it high confidence that his fellow citizens lu in tile the great majority agree with him I 1 in 11 ills his desire to end war forever an and d that they will see to it the peace treaty with its league of nations inclusion Is ratified by the senate cenate president altson to Is snaking a successful way across the pie country on oa the long ions jourvey lie he has undertaken for the purpose of laying before the plain people ft a re port of his work in parla and explaining to them just what the league weans thus thug far in ills him travels he be has everywhere w here met with worm warm greetings both in ili the great hulls halls where he has spoken shoken formally and in ili the little cross crosa road ha hamlets inlets where his bis train has halted fit at times and lie has exchanged words with the villagers who pressed forward to greet him lie feels and does not hesitate to any aay so 0 o when chatting with him traveling companions that the american people wont want no more of war and went want to become part of the league so BO that there may be no more war iio u truck the keynote when ho sald said in ills first address in ili columbus ohio tills this treaty wits was not intended merely to end tills this single war it la is meant am a notice to every government who in the future will attempt this thing what germany attempted that eliat mankind kind will unite to inflict tile the same P pun un 18 lit nent there Is no national triumph 0 0 be recorded in this treaty there to IB no g glory ory sought for ony particular nation the thought of the statesmen collected around that table was of their people of the lie sufferings Buffe rings they had gone through of the losses they had Incur incurred reo of that groat great throbbing heart which was waa so depressed vo po forlorn so ao years that have I 1 XA gone cy 1 w ut ua never forget thosa years yeam ray my fellow countrymen let us never forget the purpose high and disinterested with which america lent its lt strength streng the not tor for its own glory but for the defense of mankind As I 1 said this treaty was riot 11 intended merely fo end this war it wa was intended to prevent any similar war I 1 wonder it if some of the opponents of the league of 0 nations have forgotten the promises we ninde made our people be fore we went to chrit peace table we hd had taken by processes of law tile the flower of oc our youth from froin every countryside try side alde from every household and wo we told those mothers oud aud fathers and sis sin and wives and sweethearts that thal we were taking those nien men to fight a war which would end business of that sort and if wo we do not end it if we do not do the best beat that human concert of action can do to end it we are of all wen men the most lost unfaithful unfaith fut the most unfaithful to the loving hearts who suffered in ili tins this war the alic most unfaithful to those households bowed in grief wid and yet et lifted with the feeling that the lad laid down its his life for a great tiling thing ibid ond among other ti lings things in order that other ladi might inight never have to do the saine tiling thing that Is what the league of nations to la for to end this his war justly a and nd then not merely to verve serve notice on oil a 9 government av erni nent which would contemplate tile alie balno things germany ferniany contemplated that they will do so at their peril but hiso also concerning the combination of power which will prove to bliem that they will do it at their peril it Is idle to say the world will combine against you but it Is persuasive to say pay tile the world la is combined against you the league of nations la is the only tiling thing that can prevent the recurrence of tills this dreadful catastrophe and re redeem leeni our promises A league of nations would have prevented the late conflict the president asserted explaining 1 I did not meet a single public man who did not admit these things that germany would not have gone into this war it if site she thou thought glit great britain was going into it and that she most certainly would never have gone into it had bad slie she drea dreamed vied america wits was going into it and they nil all admit that a notice beforehand that the gren greatest test powers of the world would conil combine itne to prevent this sort of thing would prevent it absolutely lie he pointed out other important features of the pence treaty liow how it was wait bhe rd redemption emption of weak rint ions giving gavini I 1 them e ii freedom freedo nj which otherwise they never could havo have won how it sayo jay those people have a right to I 1 live their own lives under governments which they themselves choose and how that la Is the american principle and I 1 was glad to fight for it that was the very heart of the lie treaty ho laid ile he drew attention to the section ot of the treaty which it magna charta ot of labor it forecasts the day lie he said hours conditions and ana remunerations of labor it fore forecasts cases the day hi he ald which to haio chao logg agg W a MY S 12 1 Z 4 vey nn 11 it reli ronse liza aasc M matlou 78 s fotunato Is n not 0 t ciup py choso whoso people are not co contented n t en e tp contented ri their lives anti and fortunate in III tho ich ini stances of their lives in conclusion lie president said lie le felt cartain cpr tain the treaty will be accepted and ads only ot or the delay do you reallie realize my fellow citizens that I 1 the whole world li is walt wait ang ngon ol A the only country in the world mr fit to a trusted trun teil today Is 1 the united states and the world Is waiting to aeilt see if KB its trust ts is justified 11 sir Wll song indianapolis speech was waa like the one at columbus pol on an ex plana tiong alou qt the league nn an appeal for or ito ita ratification and a prediction that it was eure cure to come into bellit being f |