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Show THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH GIVEN AT SEATTLE .1 t SEATTLU. Sept. 13. Tho greater ; pait ot the President's address was f a repltltlon of points he had covered f Vin pryloua speeches during Ills west- n rii tour. His address In part fol- lows: I was led to an unpleasant consciousness con-sciousness today of tho way In which tho debate that Is going on In Am- erica has attracted tho attention of tho world. I read In today's papers tho comments com-ments of ono of tho lnon who was recently connected with tho Imperial Government 0f Germany, saying that somo aspects of this debato seems to him like the red that precedes a gray dawn. Jr Ho saw In It tho riso of a certain "" renowed sympathy with Germany. i Ho saw In It an opportunity to sop arate America from the governments '( and peoples with whom she had been , associated In tho war against Gorman aggression. X And all over tho country, my fel- ' low citizens, It Is becoming more and j more evident that those who were tho partisans of Germany are the ones who are principally pleased by some i of tho aspects ot the debate that is j now going on. & Th world decided that America 1 Is asking herself the question 'Is Am- . erica going to stand by us now or is 1 It at this moment of final crisis go-i go-i ing to draw apart and desert us." ' ,? I can answer that question here and now. It Is not going to. draw ijj, apart and It is not going to desert f the nations of tho world. America ,i responds to nothing so ulckly or un-i un-i ( anlmously as a great moral challenge. chal-lenge. fi It Is today more ready to carry f through new lines before It than It X . was even to carry through what It i had before It when we took up arms In behalf of tho freedom of tho world. America ls'unaccUstomedto r military tasks, but America Is nccus- tomed to filling Its pledges and fol-L fol-L lowing Its visions. BF3V Tho "ly thing that causes uncasl- .fljesB, n,y fellow countrymen, is not mS go ultimate outcome, but tho tm-VM tm-VM presslona that may bo created In tho mvf nicantlmo by tho perplexed delay. W I . The rest of tho world believes nb-Jv' nb-Jv' solutely in America and are ready (o follow It anywhere, and it Is now a Uttlo chilled. It now asks "Is Amor-1 Amor-1 1 lea roady to lead? Wo nro ready to ; , glvo ourselves to her leadership hero. Will sho not accept tho gift?" J Somebody seems to have conceived 1 tho notion that I originated the Idea of a longuo of nations. I wish I had. would bo a Terr proud man If I if had. But I did not. ; I was expressing tho avowed asplr L atlons of tho American pcoplo, av- owed by nobody so loudly, so lntellt- 1(Lt gently or so constantly as tho great f ' leaders of tho Itopubllcan party, ' When tho Hepubllcans take that I ' T!5 I take off my hat and follow; I i, don't caro whether I lead or not. I '. fifc jrant tho great result which I know Hr kjr Tr 8 at tho heart of tho people that I imF urn trying to servo. ( The red that this Gorman councilor -of slato saw behind tho horizon was , not the red of any dawn that will re- assuro tho peoplo who checked tho wrong that Germany did. It was tho first red glare of tho tiro that Is go ing to consume- tho wrong in tho i wo i 111, and as that moral flro comes creeping on It is going to purity ov- -v Hold ot blood upon which men ' sacrificed their Urea. i Thero is n pocullar Impression on tlie part of some persons- in this I country that tho United States is ' , inoro jealous ot Ita sovereignty than a other countries. I All thu other nations wore Just as keen for their veto power (In decl-rlons decl-rlons of tho council of the league of nations) as wo were keen for ours. So thero Is not tho slightest danger dan-ger that thoy will misunderstand that article of tho covenant. Thero is only dangor that somo of us who are o credulous will bo led to mlsun-dorstnnd mlsun-dorstnnd It. Thq world Is Just now more profoundly pro-foundly disturbed by social and economic eco-nomic conditions than It over was before, and the world demands that we shall coino to somo sort of settle- utent which will let us get down to business and purify and rectify out 1 affairs. I Nothing haa struck mo so much in recent months as the unaccus- i tomed anxiety on tho faces ot the people, I am awaro that men do n6t know what is going to happen and that thoy knew that it Is Just as Important to them what happens In the world almost as what happens In America. No man Is fatuous enough to know that it tho rest of tho world Is disturbed dis-turbed and disordered tho disturbance disturb-ance and disorder aro not going to extend to the United States. My follow cltlzenB I am going to dovoto every influenco I havo and nil tho authority I havo from this tlmo en to see to It that no minority commands the United States. |