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Show MAKES A PLEA i Asks Acceptance of Treaty Without Change. I WASHINGTON, June 28. President Wilson and his party will leave Paris at 9:30 tonight for Brest, to saH for home, Secretary Tumulty was notif'ed today. The cable from President Wilson Wil-son said "all well." President Wilson has consented to an unofficial reception for him on his arrival in New York. A committee of citizens through Secretary Tumulty had asked they be allowed to prepare an unofficial greeting. This is the first intimation of where the president would land. W ASHINGTON, June 2S President Wilson in an address to the American people on the occasion of the signing Of 'he peace treat made a plea for the acceptance of the treaty and the coenant of the league of nations without with-out change or reservation. His message, mes-sage, given out here by Secretary Tumulty, Tu-multy, said: My fellow countrymen: The treaty of peace has been signed. If it is ratified rat-ified and acted upon in full and sincere sin-cere execution of Its terms, it will furnish the charter for a new order of affairs in the world. It is a severe treat - In the duties and penalties it imposes upon Germany, but it is severe se-vere only because great wrongs done by Germany are to be righted and repaired; re-paired; it Imposes nothing that Germany Ger-many cannot do; and she can regain her rightful standing in the world by the prompt and honorable fulfillment of its terms. nd it Is much nmre than a treaty of peace with Germany. It liberates g.eat peoples who have never before been able to find the way to liberty. It ends, once for all, an old and Intolerable In-tolerable order under which small groups of selfish men could use the peoples of great empires to serve their ambition fur pu . r and domination. It associates the free governments of the world in a permanent league in which i bey are pledged to use their united power to maintain peace by maintaining maintain-ing right and justice. It mkes international inter-national law a reality supported by imperative sanctions. It does away with the right of conquest and rejects the policy of annexation and substitutes substi-tutes a new order under which backward back-ward nations populations which have not yet come to political consciousness and peoples who are ready for Independence, Inde-pendence, but not yet quite prepared to dispense with protection and guld ance shall not more be subjected to the domination and exploitation of a stronger nation, but shall be put under un-der the friendly direction and afforded the helpful assistance of governments which undertake to be responsible to the opinion of mankind in the execution execu-tion ot their task by accepting the direction di-rection of the league of nations. It recognizes the inalienable rights of nationality; na-tionality; the rights of minorities and the sanctity of religious belief and practice. It lays the basis fur ronven-1 ronven-1 tions which shall free the commercial intercourse of the world from unjust and vexatious restrictions and for every ev-ery sort of international cooperation that will serve to cleanse the life of the world and facilitate its common action In beneficent service of every kind. It furnishes guarantees such as were never given or even contemplated contemplat-ed for the fair treatment of all who labor la-bor at the dally tasks of the world. "It Is tor this reason that I have spoken of it as a great charter for a new order of affairs. There is ground here for deep satisfaction, universal reassurance and confident hope (Signed) "Woodrow Wilson." Wilson Says Goodbye. PARIS, June 28. President Wilson today on the eve of his departure from France made the icllowing statement "As I look over the eventful months I have spent In France my memory is not of conferences and hard work alone, but also of innumerable acts of generosity and friendship which have made me feel bow geuuine the sentiments senti-ments of France are towards the people peo-ple of America and how fortunate I have been to bo the representative of our people in the midst of a nation which knows how to show us kindness with so much charm and so much open manifestation of what is In its heart. "Deeply happy as I am at the prospects pros-pects of joining my own countrymen again, I leave France with genuine re-: re-: ret my deep sympathy for her people and belief in her future confirmed; my thought enlarged by the privilege of association with her public men, conscious of more than one affcctlon-ate affcctlon-ate niendshlp formed, and profoundly j grateful for unstinted hospitality :jnd for countless kindnesses which have made me feel welcome and at home. "I take the liberty of bidding France Godspeed as well as good-bye and of expressing once more my abiding inter-1 inter-1 and entire confidence in her future fu-ture (Signed) "WOODROW WILSON." |