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Show .THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAH JlOUNTAIN PEACE CONFERENCE APPROVES LEAGUE OF NATIONS Utah, Idaho legates From of nd Wyoming Back Peace. Plan for World -- Other present Taft and Fame International cakera cf of addrese Mountain Congress Peace. League to Enforce Mountain The to Enforce 'STheld in this city February 2 1 73. brought together probably the the peo-t galaxy of celebrities section have intcrmoiintnln the In of entertaining jiica'oiro n 0 of tlit? League L ;,e dcwle. re J- City. 1 "L , from every Intenuountain country to Salt Lake to take i.Jrtesentame citizens - L ; cr of the Journeyed h T ;o (1 i- - of tho proposed league of nations as espoused by President Wilson. Demands for reparation on the part of Germany wer expressed by Dr. Van Dyke, who also expressed sentiments against further warfare on the part of the nations. Dr. Van Dyke not only strenuously voiced approbation of resident Wilson's participation In tlio I urls peace conference and his labors n belinif f the. league of nations, but he referred In a eoinplinieniarv manner to tho pnrt former President Taft l Maying In efforts to promote tho proposed league. He was most emphatic In his deela-ratio- n that the league as does not Interfere with this proposed or any other countrys domestic affairs. I hop,. no silly ass keeps us out of the league of nations," declared Dr. Van Dyke In concluding Ills references to the opposing congressmen and others. Professor Grafton Wilson took occasion to berate the senators who nre opposing the proposed league of nations, though none were mentioned by nnme. Professor Wilson, during the course of u most able address, presented arguments aiming to show con-c- l u lively that the Monroe doctrine was no, endangered by the proposed league, add that the objections brought forward by the opponents of the plan were untenable, John C. Cutler, chairman of the Mountain congress for a league of nations, made n strong for permanent pencq and declared the league ns fostered by President Wilson was the means to such an end. State Senator J. Will Knight, representing the associated Industries of the lntermountnin country, pledged the support of that organization to the proposed league. President John A. Widstoe of the University of Utah appealed for tin league on behalf of the farmers Jl Utah and the other mountain states. Fortner President Taft was the guest of honor at a dinner given at the Hotel Utah Saturday, over 500 prominent citizens being present. Following the hamiaet, former Governor Cutler made a short address, being followed by Governor Bamberger, who Introdueed Mr. Taft. The former president In opening his dinner speeeh referred laughingly to Ids peculiar pleasure" in being In Utah and of the support given him in 1912 by the state. He then told of his mission in Salt Lake and of the efforts he and the other speakers in the Interest of the proposed ap-pe- WILLIAM II. TAFT the conference, rt In treses by and to listen to speakers of international oe. have been held In of the larger cities of the jit other mtry, whi.li have been addressed by Similar meeting Howard citizens the United States, hut none of the etings sere more enthusiastic than ise held at Salt I.uke. e Ur. Taft formed the league to peace In 1!UI, and Is president 'the league. He sees no good rea- 0 why a question of such supreme portative to the whole world should d made the foot hall of partisan he does not believe that those ho do not agree with President WIl-- n are Justified In advocating the de-a- t of the covenant which holds out William mer Piesident ft and o' her distinguished -- en-rc- on-to- poll-s,an- f hope of peace. e Taft was. of course, the prinel- speaker lit the conference, some ' the .peakers of national fume who dressed the congress being A. Imw-ac- e Ur. Lowell, president of Harvard Ive'rslty; George Grafton Wilson, ofeasor of International law at liar-rd- ; Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former ulster to The Mrs. Netherlands; President of the Women; Henry '(gentium, former anilmssador to irkey; Dr. Charles It. Brown, Tale iversity ; Edward A. Fllene, director aniher of vonimerce, U. S. A.; Cap-"- n illip North Moore, iflonul Council of Tieatre ch 4th j Thomas Chamberlain. Frank P, WaKh, former Joint chair ia f the war labor hoard, was defied In S.m Francisco and was there-r- e unahle to address the Fortner Governor John C. congress. William Spry, Tresi-'n- t head of the Ileher j. Grant, 'Wh of Jesus Christ nt; Rev. G,.rKC of Latter-da- y E. Davies, pastor h First Presbyterian church ; Dr. A Vldtsne, president of the Unlver-- I of Utah; It. li. Roberts, former Plan of the until field artillery; "ill Knight, member of the state 118 ' Ptt'fwsor Levi Edgar Young of University of Utah, and A. E. nar 7, aecretury of thq Utah State Fed-tlo- n of Labor. the Mi opening session of the con- at the tabernacle, Friday eve- r' fhnr.v Van Dyke, former to Tll LL'S J yr erythin J at -- and Hughes f SprlngviH th Mr. and D mb Netherlands, author, lately chnplaiij and In the United voiced vigorous npnmvnl a,ul limr . Wilson Declares That Americans Who Would Have Their Country Fall The World Are Lacking In Broad Vision. sv'fSt, f" if- ' , v 4 .. - DR. IIENUV VAN DYKE President Taft at the Tabernacle Saturday night, nine thousand delegates from I lab, Idaho and Wyoming voted to adopt u resolution expressing their conviction that the League of Nations was the means of guaranteeing tliut peace, liberty and Justice will be established and maintained on an enduil.vs foundation. We need to apply the principles of personal and domestic municipal uad national morality more widely, declared Dean Charles It. Jtrown of Yale University at tin Saturday morning session in the Assembly hall. Other speakers at the morning session were Mrs. Plillip North Moore, president of lie National Council of Women of the United States, Professor Levi Edgar Young of the University of Utah and Brigham II. Roberts, chaplain of the 115th Utah field artillery. At tho Satu-da- y afternoon session at the Tabernacle, I)r. A. Lawrence of the Harvard uniLowell, pre? versity, presided. The other speakers were Captain Thomas G. Chnmbcrluin, Henry Morgeuthnu, Jormer United States ambassador to Turkey, nnd Edward A. Ptlene, director of the United Slates chamber of commerce. The soldier fought to make the world safe for democracy, and he is going to fight to keep it safe, said Captain Chamberlain. Former Ambassador Morgenthnu made a strong appeal for tho support of the American people to he placed squarely behind the league of tuitions plan. Answering critics of the league of nations plan, Dr. Lowell declared that no longer was it possible for us to wrap ourselves In a eloak of glorious isolation. We cannot avoid our responsibility as a great nation. Business men, Mr. Fllene said, realized the great need of a league of a&tioiis, and did not look upon it n an utopian thing. In their practical vision, he said, they strongly favored the formation of such a league to maintalu world security. Mrs. i hJlip North Moore, president of the National Council of Women, who was one of the speakers at the Mountain Congress, was the guest of honor at n luncheon Saturday, attended U,i-liby representative women of Utah, Preceding me nnd Wyoming. luncheon, lr. Charles R. Brown, dean of the School of Religion at Yule uniMrs. versity made a short address. uddress nn in following tin Moore, luncheon, told of the aims of the of league and extolled the war work the women of the nation. Mrs. Moore said It was her privilege to present the team work of the women of the country during the period of the war uad that she knew they were ready to hear a larger share of responof sibility in the new readjustment mid the which league for life principles of nations stood. The celebration of Washington's will birthday anniversary In Salt Lake of of Liberty Spirit live In the annals American chapter, Daughters of the Revolution. The members of the chapthe ter nnd their guests were accorded Van Dr. Henry privilege of hearing to the NetherDyke, former minister lunchlands. In nn address following a eon at the Hotel Utah. o Cutler pre-at the opening session of the ngresa at the taliemncle, which was eked to the doors. Among the prompt Utahns mi the program were uner Governor down-trodde- Indicates in His Boston Ad-- ; dress Eagerness to Battle . for League of Nations, t v'v A. E. HARVEY league of nations were making to cate the people regarding the nants of the union. educove- Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former minister to the Netherlands, followed Mr. Taft with an uddress in which he declared victory la the war must he made .practical by a league of nations. session of the congress The two-day-s culnilnnted In a mass meeting nt the Tabernacle, Saturday night, presided over by President Holier J. Grant, nnd attended by over 10,000 people, nt which former President Taft was the declared principal speaker. Mr. Taft of tho of league In favor unequivocally denunhis In was strong nations, nnd ofciation of tho senators who have the to league. fered opposition The former chief executive confined his address largely to nn explanation of the various tenets of the proposall us drafted In Paris and to an expres-sloiof of the sesiilts of the entrain or tin. member a as the United States union of nations, of lie declared that the formation diplomacy meant open the league relawith everything In International cards face the with and tions open up upon tho table. with n Mr. Tuft closed Ids address sup-poto women the stirring appeal to nations. of the league A. L. 1I,ir'5 Preceding Mr. inft, entile State Utah of the secretary debit address able of Labor, In an that there ought to be a ofv,lut"r nations union of nntbnis, n league and difficulties and to adjust disputes In progress world's to facilitate the principles. highest the with accord foiimr Following the address by rT;r ' V $ v i, t ; K4 t - I rc-.- i ' x v l - Boston. President Woodrow Wilson, Just Imek from Europe, delivered an address In Mechanics' hall Monday afternoon, February 21, In which he throA' down the gauntlet to those who distrust tho proposes! concert of governments, hast'd, he declared, on the American Ideals vvhleh have won the war for Justice and humanity. The complete text of the president's address follows; , I wonder If you art; half as glud to see me us I am to see you? It warms tny heart to see a great body of my fellow citizens again, because In some respect during the recent months I have been very lonely Indeed without your comradeship and counsel, and 1 tried nt every step of tho work which fell to me to recall what I was sure would bu your counsel with regard to the great matters which were under consideration. I do not wnnt you to think that I have not been appreciative of tho extraordinarily generous reception which was given to me on the other side, In saying that It makes me very happy to get homo again. 1 do not mean to say that I vvus not very deeply touched by the cries that came from the great crowds on the other Ride. But I wnnt to say to you In all honesty that I felt them to be a call of greeting to you rather than to me. I did not feel that the greeting was personal. I had In tny heart the overcrowding pride of being your representative and of receiving the plaudits of men everywhere who felt tiiut your hearts heat with theirs In the cause of liberty. There was no mistaking the tone In the voices of those great crowds. It was not a tone of mere greeting. It was not a tone of mere generous welcome; It was the calling of comrade to comrade, the cries that come from men who say : We have waited for this day when the friends of liberty should come across the sea and shake hands with us, to see that a new world was constructed upon a new basis and foundation of justice nnd right. I can't toll you the Inspiration thpt came from the sentiments that came out of those simple voices of the 'rowcL And the proudest thing I have to report to you Is that this great oantry of ours Is trusted throughout ihe world. I have not come to report the or the results of the procced-'ng- s of tho peace conference; that would be premature, I can say that I have received very happy Impressions from this conference; the Impression that while there ire many differences of Judgment, v title there are some divergences of object, there Is, nevertheless, a common spirit nnd ft common realization of the necessity of setting up new standards of right In the world. Not Masters, but Servants. Beeauso the men who nre In conference In I'aris realize as keenly ns any American can realize that they are not the masters of their people; that they are the servants of their people, nnd that the spirit of their people has awakened to a new purpose and a new conception of their power to realize that purpose, nnd that no man dare go home from that conference and report anything less noble than was expected of It. The conference seems to you to go lowly; from day to day In Baris If eeins to go slowly; but I wonder If von realize the complexity of the tnsk vhlch It has undertaken? lit seems ns f the settlements of the war affect, and affect directly, every grent, and I sometimes think every small, nation In the world, nnd no one decision can prudently be made which Is not prop-of erly linked In with the great series other decisions which must accompany it. And It must he reckoned In with the final result If tho real quality and character of that result is to be properly Judged. Whut we are doing Is to henr the whole case; hear it from the mouths of tho men most Interested; hear it from those who are officially commissioned to state It; hear the rival claims; hear the claims that affect new areas of the world, that uffect new commercial and economic connections that have been established by tho great world war through which we have gone. Claims of Nations Moderate. I have been struck by the moderateness of those who have represented national claims. I can testify that I have nowhere seen the gleam of passion. I have seen earnestness, I have seen tears come to thq eyes of men who pleaded for down trodden people whom they were privileged to speak for ; but they were not the tears of anguish, they were the tears of ardent pro-oedin- --- hope. ' ' And I don't see how any man enn fall to have been subdued by these pleas, subdued to this feeling, that ho was not there to assert nn Individual Judgment of his own. but to try to- assist the cause of humnnlty. In the midst of It all, every Interest seeks out first of all when It reaches Baris the representatives of the UnitBecause, and I ed States. Why? think I am stutlng the most wonderful fact In history- - because there Is no nation In Europe thnt suspects the motive of the United States. Hard to Forget Difference. It Is Impossible for men to believe that nil ambitious have all of a sudden been foregone. They remember territory that was coveted; they re - i rt V ' i, '.'o', I8, ' . ' S ! ' .r . 4 .f s ' -f li M MRS. PHILIP NORTH I j '- MOORE. k nnd sailles, upon which Vergenne Benjamin Fruuklln wrote their names, nothing but a modern scrap of paper, no nut Ions united to defend it, no great forces combined to make It good, no assurance. given to Ihe and fearful people of the world, that l they shall he safe. Any man who thinks that America will take part In giving Ihe world any such rebuff snd disappointment as thnt does not know America. Invited to Test Sentiment. I Invite Mm to test the sentiments of the nation. We wot this up to make men free und we dbl imt confine our conception and purpose to Amerle, nnd now we will moke men free. If we did not do that ihe fame of Amerl-c- u would he gone, and all her power would he dissipated. She then would have to keep her power for those narrow, selfish, provincial purposes which seem so dear to some minds tlmt have no sweep beyond the nearest horizon. I should welcome no sweeter challenge than that. 1 have fighting blood tn me and It Is sometime a delight to let it have scope, but If it is a challenge on this occasion it will be an indulgence. Think of the picture; think of the utter blackness tlmt would fall on the world! America has failed I America made a little essay at generAmerica osity nnd then withdrew We are your friends, but It said: wus only for today, not for tomorrow, Here Is our power to America said: vindlcutu right, and then the next duy said : Ix--t right take care of itself and we will take care of ourselves. America wild: We set up a light to leud men along the paths of liberty, but we have lowered It. It Is Intended We set only to light our own path. up a greut Ideal of liberty and then we suld : Liberty Is a tiling that you must win for yourself. Do not call upon us, nnd think of the world that we would leave I New Nation Must Be Shielded. Do you realize how many new nations ore going to be set up In ttie presence of old and powerful nations In Europe anil left there, If left by us, Do without a disinterested friend? you believe In the Bollsh cause as I do? Are you going to set up Boland, imnmture, Inexjierlenced, ns yet unorganized, and leave her with a circle of armies around her? Do you believe member rights that It was attempted to extort; they remember political ambitious, which It was attempted In realize and, while they believe that men have- - come Into u different temper, they cannot forget these things, mi l so they do not resort to one uiiother for u dispassionate view of Ihe matters In controversy. They rcorr to that: nul Ion which has won tho eo viable distinction of being regarded as of lunnkli'd. Whenever It was desired to send a Hiuull force of soldiers to occupy a piece of territory where It Is though', nobody else will be welcome, they usk for American soldier. And wltero other soldiers would be looked upon with suspicion and perhaps meet with resistance, the Amcrlcun soldier Is welcomed with acclaim. I lutvo so many grounds for pride on the other side of the water that I ant very thauk-fu- l that they are nut grounds for personal pride. Aud it bus been an Infinite pleasure to mu to see those gallant soldiers of ours, of whom the constitution of tho United States made me the proud commander. You may be proud of the Twenty-sixtdlvlsloli, but I command the Twenty-sixtdivision, nnd see whut they did under my direction I And everybody praises the American soldier with tho feeling that In praising him he Is subtracting from the credit of no one cleg. America Acted Her Ideal. I have been searching for the fundamental fact that converted Europe to believe In us.- Before the wur Europe did not believe In us os she does now. She did not believe In us throughout the first three years of the wur. She scents really to have believed that we were holding off because we thought we could muke more by staying out than by going In. And, all of a sudden, in a short eighteen months, the whole verdict Is reverses. There can be but one explanation for It. They saw what we did that without making a single claim, we put oil our men und nil our means at the disposal of those who were fighting tor their homes, in the first Instance, but for a cause, the cause of human rights and Justice, and tliut we went In, not to support their national clulm, but to support the great cause which they Iiuld in common. And when they saw thnt America not only held ideals, but acted Idenls, they were converted to America nnd became firm partisans of those Ideals. Fighting for Lives and Country. Men were fighting with tense muscle and lowered head until they came to realize those tilings, feeling they were fighting for their lives nnd their country, and when these accents of what it wus all about reached them from America they lifted their heads, they raised their eyes to heaven, when they saw men In khaki coming across the sea In the spirit of crusaders, and they found that these were strange men, reckless of danger not only, but reckless because they seemed to see something that made that danger worth while. Men have testified to me In Europe that our men were possessed by something that they could only call a religious fervor. They were not like any of the other soldiers. They bud a islnn. they hnd a dream, nnd they were lighting In the dream, and, fighting in the dream, they turned the whole tide of battle and it never came buck. And now do you realize thnt this we confidence have established throughout the world Imposes a burden upon us If you choose to call It a burden? It Is one of those burdens which any nation ought to be proud to carry. Any man who resists ttie present tides that run In the world will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that It will seem as If he had been separated from his human kind forever. Europe Continent of Hope. The Europe tlmt I left the other duy was full of something that It had never felt fill Its heart so full before. It was full of hope. The Europe of the second year of the war, tho Europe of the third year of tho wnr was sinking to a sort of stubborn desperation. They did not see any grent thing to tie achieved even when the wur should be won. They hoped there would he some salvage; they hoped thnt they could dear their territories of Invading armies; they hoped they could set up their homes nnd start their Industries afresh. But they thought It would simply be the resumption of the old life that Europe had led led In fear, led In anxiety, led In constant suspr-clou- s watchfulness. They never dreamed that It would be a Europe of settled peace and of Justified hope. And now these Ideuls have wrought this new magic, thnt all the peoples or Europe are buoyed up and confident In the spirit of hope, because they believe that we ore at the eve of a new age In the world, ravlien nations will understand one another, when nntlons will support one another In every Just cause, when nntlons will unite every moral and every physical strength to see that the right shall prevail. We Must Not Fall the World. If America were at this Juncture td fail the world, what would come of it? I do not mean any disrespect to any other grent people when I sny thnt America Is the hope of the world ; and if she does not justify that hope the results are unthinkable. Men will be thrown hackupon the bitterness or disappointment not only, but the bitterness of despair. All nations will bo hostile camps again; tho set up-nmen nt the peace conference will go home with their heads upon their hrensts, knowing thnt they have failed for they were bidden not to come home from there until they did something moro than sign a treaty of pence. Suppose we sign the treaty of peace nnd that It Is the most satisfactory treuty of peace thnt tho confusing elements of tho modern world will afford, and go home und think about our Inborn; we will know thnt we have left written upon tho historic table at Ver the-frlc- h h - s in n 4 s the aspirations of the ns I do? Do and the Czecho-Sto-vuk- Jugo-Sluv- s you know how nmny powers would tie quick to pounce upon them If there were not tho guarantees of the world behind their liberty? The arrangements of the present peace cannot stand a generation unless they are guaranteed by the unlteit forces of the civilized world. And If we do not guarantee them, can you not see the picture? Your hearts have you where the burden of this wnr fell. It did not fall upon the treasuries; It did not full upon the Instruments of administration; It did not fall upon the resources of the nations. It . fell upon the victims' homes everywhere, where women were telling In hope that their men would nn-tion- ul come Imek, Has No Doubt of Verdict When I think of the homes upon which dull despair would settle were this great hope disappointed, I should wish for my part never to have had America piny any part whatever In this attempt to emancipate ttie world. But I talk as If there were any question. I have no more doubt of the verdict of America In Gils mntter than I have doubt of the blood that Is In me. And o, my fellow citizens, I have come back to report progress, and I do not believe that the progress Is going to stop short of the goal. The nations of the world have set therr heads now to do a great thing, and they are not going to slucken their pur-msAnd when I speak of tue natlous of the world I do not speak of the governments of the world. I speak of the peoples who constitute the nations of the world. They are In the saddle and they nre going to Roe to it that If their present governments do not do their will, some ' other governments shall. And the secret Is out and Hie present governments know It. Harmony Out of Common Knowledge. There Is a great deal of harmony to he got out of common knowledge. There Is a grent deal of nympathy to he got out of living In the same atmosphere nnd, except for the differences of languages, which puzzled my American cur very sadly, I could have bollevea I was at home in France or In Italy or In England when I was on the streets, when I was In the presence of the crowds, when I was In great halls where men were gathered together Irrespective of clnss. I did not feel quite ns much at homo there as I do here, but I felt tlmt now, at any rate, after this storm of war hnd cleared the air, men were Reelng eye to eye everywhere and that these were tho kind of folks who would understand what the kind of folks at home would understand and that they wore thinking the same things. Trying to Interpret America. It Is a great comfort, for one thing, to realize that you all undertsand the language I am speaking. A friend of mine said that to talk through an Interpreter was like witnessing the compound fracture of an Idea. Bnt the beauty of It Is that, whatever the !m pediments, the channel of communication, the Idea Is the same; tlmt It gets registered, and It gets registered In responsive hearts and receptive purposes, I have come back for a strenuous attempt to transact business for a little while In America, but I have really come back to say to you, In all soberness nnd honesty, that I have been trying my best to apeak your thoughts. When I sample myself, I think I find that I am a typical American, and If I snmple deep enough and gel down to whut Is probably the true stuff of a man, then I have hope that It Is part of the stuff that Is like the other fellow's at home. And. therefore, probing deep In my heart and trying to see tho things tlmt are right, without regard to the things thnt may he debated as expedient, I feel tlmt I am Interpreting tho purpose and the thought of America; and tn loving America 1 find I have Joined the great majority of my fellow tven tho world. i throughout e. ' , , . s |