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| PURPOSE OF PACT GW BY WILSON (Continued from Page One) ties of a settlement. Germany did not dare permit a day’s discussion. You know..what happened. So soon as the World realized that an outlaw Was at large, the nations began,one By one to draw together against her. ' “We know for a certainty if Ger- many had thought for a: moment Great Britain would go in with France and.with Russia she never would have undertuken the enter- prises and the league of nations is meant asa notice to all outlaw. lations that not only Great Bri- 4 tain, but the United States and the rest of the world will go in, to stop enterprises of that sort. And so the league of nations is nothing more or less than the covenant that the world will alw main tain the standards which it has now vindicated by some of the most ‘precious blood ever spilled. \ EUROPE SICK AT HEART “The liberated peoples of the Aus- tro-Hungariah empire and of the Turk: ish empire call out to us for this thing. It has not arisen in tlie council of statesmen. Europe is a bit sick at heart at this very\moment, because it is seen that,statesmen have had no vision an@ that the only vision has tl been the vision of the people. Those who suffer see. ‘Those agaist, whom wrong is wrought know how desirable is the tight and the righteous. 4 “The nations that have long been under the heel of the Austrian, that have long cowered before the. German, that have long suffered the indescrib- able agonies of being governed by the Turk, have called out to the’ world, generation after generation, for jus- tice, for liberation, for suceor; and no cabinet in tg world has heard them, “Private organizations, hearts, ' philanthropic nnd women have pouréd out their tre in or- der to relieve these sufferings; but no natiop has-Said to the nations re- sponsible, ‘vou must. stop; this thing tolerable,“and we will not permit, And the vision has. been with the pitybng friend: reflect upon’ this proposition. vision as to what is nec y for great reforms has seldom come from the top in the jiations of the— world, It has come from the need and the aspiration and the self- assertion of\great bodies of men who meant to be free. And I can explain some of the criticisms which have been leveled against this great enterprise only by the ' supposition that ‘the men who ut- ter the criticisms have never felt the great pulse of the heart of the world. % AMAZED AT IGNORANCE “And I am amazed—not alarmed, but amazed—that there should be in some quarters ‘such @. comprehensive ignorance of the «tac af the world. These gentlemen do nof know wha the mind of men is, just sow. ery- body else does, I donot know where they have’been closeted; I do not know by what influence they have been blind- ed; but I. do know they have been separnted from the;general cyxeents of thought of ‘mankind. UTTERS A ‘WARNING “And I want te utter this sol- ema warning, not in the way of a threat; the forces of the world do not give. notice that they are going to rise and ‘run; they rise in their majesty and overwhelming might, and those who stand in the “ way are overwhelmed. Now the sheart of the world is awake, and the heart of the world, must be satisfied. \ 0 not let yourselyes suppose for a moment that the uneasiness in the populations of Europe ts due entirely to economic causes or eco- nomic motives; something very much decper underlies it ajl than that. > “They see that their governments have never been able to de against intrigue or a; that there is no force of foresight or of prudence in any modern cabinet to stop-war. And therefore, they say ‘there must be some fuydamental cause for this,’ and the fyndamental cause they are beginning to perceive to be that nations have stood .single. or in little jealous groups against each other, fostering prejudice, increasing the dan- ger of war, rather than concocting measures to prevent it; and that if there is right in the world. ff there is justice in the world, there -is av. reason why nations should’ be divided in the support of justice. “They are therefore® saying if you really believe that there is a rigit, if you really believe that wars ought tu be stopped, stop thinking alout the rival interests of nations, and. think about~men and women and children throughout the world. . “Nations are not ‘uade to afford distinction to their rulers by way of success in’ the maneuv of polities ; nations‘are meant, if they are meant for anything fo wake _ the men and women aud chiid in them sewure anid happy ani prosperous and no. natic ts tie right to set up special ‘interests against the interests and benelit of~ mankind, least ‘of. all. this sreat qwtation which we love. , TQ BENEFIT MANKIND “It was set up for the benctit of mankind; it was set up to illustrate the highest ideals and to »chieve the highest. aspiration of men who wanted to be free; and the world—the world of today believes that und counts on us and would be thrown back Into the blackness of despair if we deserted it. “1 have tried once and again, my fel low. citizens, to say to little cireles of friends or/to larger bodies, what seems tovbe the real hope of the »eyple of Europe, and I tell you. frankly 1 have not ‘been able to do'so beeause when the thought fies to crowd itself into speech, the profound~emotion: of the thing is too much; ‘speech will not carry. I have felt the, tragedy ,of the hope of those suffering peoples. “It is tragedy because it is a hope which cannot) be realized -in- its per- fection and yet I have felt besides its tragedy, its compulsion, its compulsion upon every living man to exercise ev- ery influence that he has to,the utmost to see that as little as possible-of that hope .is disappointed, because if men cannot now, after this-agony of bloody sweat..come to their self-posséssion and see how to regulate the affairs of the world, we will sink -back into 2 perted. of struggle I wish you would The 4a which. there will be -wo{Aold, as-L.bave. "\ over t hope and therefore no mercy. There can be no mercy where there is no hope, for why should: you-spare an- other if you yourself expect to perish? Why should you be pitiful if you can if upon every hand you are put upon? “BOYS IN KHAKI “There is another thing which I think the critics of this covenant have not observed, They not only have not per of: those splendid boys in khaki had the proud conscious! of the re- flected glory of those bo; constitution, made me their command- some lessons.~ When we went into the declarations, which it was my privilege to utter, because J believed them to be an jnterpretation of the purpose and thod&ht of the people of the Enited Stat “And those boys went over there with the feeling that they were sacred- ly bound to the real ion of those fideals; that they were not only goin: » to beat Germany ; they wer not going over there merely with 1 sentment in their hearts against a pa ticular outlaw nation; but. that they were cre ng these three thousand niles of-sea in orde?® to show. Europe that the ited States,/when it be- came, ni would go anywhere where the rights of mankind were eatened, y would not sit stilt in the trenches, They would not be 1 ‘ained by the prudence of experienced con-, tinental commanders. ‘They thought they had come over there to do a par- ticular thing and they were going to do it and do it at once. And just as. soon as that rush of as well as rush of body came in contact with the lines of the enemy, they began to break and they continued to break until the end. They continued to break, my fellow citizens, not merely because of the physical force of thos lusty youngsters, but because of ii Y ble spiritual force of the arm of the United States. It was that.they felt. It was that that awed them. It was that that made them feel,-if these youngsters ever got a foothold they could ne’ be dislodged and therefore eo foot of ground that they won was permanently’ won for the liberty of mankind. SOLDIERS SACREDLY BOUND Ame s soldiers, he id, went overse: feeling the were sacredly bound to the realization of those ideals which their president bad enun- ciated when the ‘United States went into the war. “And do you suppo: president. “that havin; sading spirit of these youngste! went over there not to glor ca, but to s > their Teowmen, Lam going to permit myself for one mo- ment to slacken in my effort to be worthy of them and of their cause? WILL NOT QUIT “And do you suppose that. having felt that crusading spirit of these youngsters, who went over there not to ¢lorify America but to serve.their fellow men, I am going to permit my- scif for one nioment to slacken im my effort to be worthy of them and their ea What 4 said at the opening I said with a deeper meaning than per- haps you have caught; I do mean not to come back until its over, over there, and it vontinued the felt that cru- . who meri; permanency of peace. “Gentlemen on this side of the water would be very much profited by get- ting into ¢ommunication with. some. gentlemen on the other side of the wa- ter. We sometimes think, my fellow citizens, that the experiénced. states- men of the European nations are an unusually hard headed set ofnen, by which we generally mean, although we do not admit it, tl are a bit cynical ; ‘that the ) sis ay practical world,’ by which you alw mean that it is not an ideal world; that they do not believe that thi can be settled Wpon an ideal bas Well, I never came into intimate con- tuet with them before, but if they used to be that way, they are not that way now. They have been subdued, if that was. once’ their temper, by the awful icance of recent events and the awful importance’ of what is to ensue: and there is hot one of they with whom I have come in contact, who does not feel thy he cannot in ¢o science return to fjxjeople from Par unless he has dofe his utmost to do something more than attach his name a treaty of peace. f Mery man in that conference kuows tat the treaty of reace in. itself, will be inoperative, as Mr. Taft-has said, without this constant support and>er- eigy of a great organization such is supplied by the league of nations. LEAGUE INVALUABLE “And men who, when I first went ver there, were skeptical of thepos- sibility of forming a league of nations. admitted that if We could but form it, it would be an invaluable instrumen- tality through which to secure-the-op- eration of the various parts of the treaty; and when that tre romes: back gentlenten on this side will find the covenant not only in it, but so many threads of the treaty tied to the covenant that you cannot dissect the covenabt from the treaty without destro; the whole vital structure. The structure of peace will not be vital without the league of nationsand no. man is going fo bring back-a cadaver with him. NO COnsrRucti VE CRITICISM “IT must say that I have been puzzled by some of the criticisms, not by the criticisms themsel I can understand them perfectly. even when there was no_founda- tion for them; but by the fact of the criticism. I cannot imagine how these gentlemen can live and not live in the atmosphere of. the world. a Va “I cannot imagine how they can live and ‘net be in’ contact with the events of the times, and I particularly cannot imagine how they ‘can be Americans and set-up a doctrine of careful. selfishness. throughout to the last detail. I have heard no counsek.of gener- osity in their criticism. .I_have heard no constructive suggestion. T have ‘heard nothing except ‘will it not be.dangerous to us to help le world?” It would be fatal to us not to help it. “From being ‘what I will venture to call the most, famous and the most powerful nation in the world we would of u sudden have become the most con- temptible. So-I did not need to be been told, that-the poo- get no pity? Why should you, be just observed the temper of the world, but they have not even observed the tem- that they sent across the seas, I have because the, er-in-chief apd they have taught me War, We Went into it on the basis of ust not be over until the naq tions of the world are assured of the Scénd from “Mother,” the sweetest story ever told.on the screen featur- ing Elizabeth -Risden, the beautiful, at the Orpheum’ tonight only. ple of the United States would sup- port this covenant. © am an Anieri- re can and T knew they: would. “LAUGHED AT WS ONCE” “What a sweet revenge at is upon the world. _@hey laughed at us oncey they thought we did not mean our pro fessions of principles, ‘They ‘thought so until April of 1917.7 It was Mardly eredible to them that we would do more than send a few men over and go through the forms of helping and when they saw multitudes hastening across the and w what these multitudes were ea to do, when they Zot ¢o the other side, they stood I,~and said, ‘the thing real, nation is the friend of mankiud as it suid it war.’ The esthusiasm, the hope, ;the trust, the coyfidence in the future bred by that chahge of view is indescribable. “Take an individual American seul you may often find him selfish, and confined to his pecial inter but take the American in the m ant he is willing to die. for an ideal, The sewet revenfié, therefore, is this, that we believed in righteousness, and now we are ready to make the supreme s rifice for it, the supreme sacrifice of, throwing in our fortune with the for- " Mr. Tatt he will permit me to say exactly the right inte rpretat what Washit Lid-the interpreta- tion that able if you read what he said, as most of these gentle- men do not and the thing he longed s just what we are now about an arrangement which will le all the alliances in the disentar world. “Nothing entdngles, nothing — en- man except a selfish combin- ation with somebody els othing en- tangles a nation, hampe binds it, except to enter into a combination with some other nation against thevother nations of the world, PROGRESS IN “What dre we to s the future 1 think, 1m: that we can look fe great confidence. IT have heard cheer- ing news since I came to t side of the water about the progress that is being made in is toward the d cussion and clarification of a_ ¢g1 Many difficult matters; and I believe that settlements will begin to be made Father rapidly.frem this time on at those conferences. f sBut what -I believe--what IT know as well as believe—is this: that the men engaged in those conferenyes are gathering heart as they go; hot, lo ing it; that they are finding ¢ munity of purpose and community’ of ideal to an exteit that they did not expect and that amidst all the inter- y of influence—because it is infinite complicated—thare forward movement which is running towards the right. Men have at last perceived PARIS world is the right. and that a wr séttlement is Dound/to bea tempor settlement yund to be a tempor ; settlement i the very. best reason of all, that it ought to be a tempor settlement and the spirits of men will rebel against it. and the spirits of men are now in the saddle. BUT ONE COMBINATION “Nations promise not to bave .alli- ance Nations promise not to make combinations against each other, na- [tious agree that there shall be but one combination and that is the combina- tion’ of (all, against the wrong-doer, And so Tam going back to my task on the other side with renewed vigar. I-had_ not. forgotten w the spirit of the Ame people but I have been in Iv hed by coming in contact with it tin. I did not DEFENDS RUSSIA | , IN J. S, SENATE B * > v LOLIWGE BRYANT This is Louise Bryant, New York newspaper woman and a leader in radical polities. She spent several months in Russia ifi the days of the early. revolution “gnd_ has lately testi- fied before the senate committee in- vestigating Bolshevism in the United States. ~Miss*-Bryant is. Mrs., Joan Reed. wife of the radical writer ap- pointed, anrbassador to- the. United States by the Russian /gepublic. For professional reasons Mts. Reed“ uses N that the only permanent thing in the 2 sda ‘eral strike will spread to this city. Two of the city councellors of Urturt a know how good home felt until I got there. c “The only place a man can feel-at home is where nothing has to be ex- plained to him, Nothing has -to be explained to me jn*America, least of all the sentiment, of, the American peo- ple. I’ mean about. great fundamental things Ike this. ‘here are many dif- ferences-of judgment as to policy—and perfectly legitimate, Sometimes pro- found differences bf judgment, but those are not differences of sentiment, those are not -differetices of purposes, those are not difference of ideals, And the “advantage of not having to have anything explained to you_is that you recognize a wrong explanatign when you hear it. “In certain rather abandoned parts of the frontier at one time, it wa: id they found a man wlio told the truth; he was not found ‘telling it but he could tell it when he heard it and I think 1 am in/that situ gard to some of the criticis heard, They do not any im- pression on me, because T know there is no medium that/will transmit them, that the, sentiment. of the country is proof against such) narrowness “end such selfishngss as. that. I commend these gentlemen to communion with their fgllow citizens. RY FOR THE LEAGUE ‘A have ridden along the str capitals and heard eri , cries for the league of na- tions from the lips ef people, who, I venture to say, had no particular no- tion of how if was to be done, he were not ready to propose a plan for a league of nations, but whose fh suid that something by way of a com- Hination of ‘all men everywhere must come out of this. bs t inconceivable that we should ppoint them, and we shall not. will come when men in Amet and rising pride that th should ha been privileged to mak i the sacrifi o make in order to combine their might and their moral power with the cause of justice for men of every kind everywhere. “God give7us strength and vision to do it wisely. God give us the priyl- coounting the st, and | were true Americans, lov and of doing right, PRICES HIGH? LOOK AT THESE! reuse We s of liberty | i Working Man’ vial to The NL B.A. Sp Constantinople.—As you prices ¥ Turkey, usual, carries the thing to a fantastic extreme. Li Coustanti- nople bread is 80 cents a pound: ex: 380 cents each (when they can be ¢ Tribune xo” east, | tained) ; milk, 90 cents a pint (when it ean be had); butter, $4.40 a porn sugar, $2.10 a pound, and a pound. As to clothing, a pa qualit® shoes cost $28: a poo made laboring man’s suit ¢ ao shirt and a suit of ‘under come to § and a ‘pair of. socl $1.75—Dbringing the cost of an outfit for a. workingman to $140.80. HUN CABINET IS. DEFIANT. - (Continued from Page One) in Spartacan hands week, It was one of the first ¢! in Germany tobe affected by t Spartacan movement. WEIMAR APPREHENSIVE y. March 4.—Wei- mar is becoming fearful that the gen- edéd in reaching Weimar today. They declared they had not eaten for two days. They declared the major- ity of the population of Urfurt starv ing because the Spartacans have seiz. ed all food suppli The town is Without light and water. Dead bodies lie unburied in the street. STREET FIGHTING CONTINUES. Eerlin,s Tuesday, March 4.—Official advices concerning «he strike situa- may be-sumarized as follows: Every- thing was quiet in the coal ‘regions ‘ofthe Rhineland and Westphalia; Spardacan agitation is in progress for a general strike at Hanover; the general strikes of the laboring class and bourgeoise at Leipzig was contin- uing; street fighting occurred yester- plundering’ continued at Carney Coal Phone 94 'O. E. Anderson Lbr. C. - o RECESS “APPOINTMENT New York, March 5.—The recess ap- paintmént of A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania.to .beattorney general was signed soon after midnight by President Wilson on the George’ Wash- ington. | TO-HAVE STATIONS Wabek and Cuba, both.small points on the line, are to have railway stations ’and agents, as a result of pe- titions filed with the state: railway board. The laws of North Dakota re- quire that a station and agent be in- stalled at any point where the revenue is $12,000 per annum or-more. At last year were $14,000 and $18,000, respectively, and the rail, board’ has called the attention of the Soo system > BURLESON |TOO BUSY * Because Postmaster General Burle- sun is very generously employed in de- fending similar actions in other states, he will be unable to appear before the siipreme court of North Dakota on March 10 to respond to an order de- manding that he show ge why he should not be enjoined tolls under a much higher schedule o: long distatice telephone rates recently’ established. The action, therefore, has been continued until Mi 20. Carney Coal Phone 94 A A lege of knowing that we did it without} A Turkey Is No Place For! TOWARD ALLIES most of last tion through Germany up tolast night} these\points the receipts: during the} i: z = z ES = ie) pt “Tal wn That Property Is:Good Value, There’s a ae ceememnt ie nasi oem tees Ps mel te ea meer vas eee Rca hte = Market for It--In ‘thei Advertising Columns Events present and prospective, are causing the big men-of this nation to recognize, that there is more to the business of bring- ing about NATIONAL SOLIDARITY, and placing a quietus on Bol- shevist agitation, than plugging along every man for himself. \ Those of us who have prospered under our free American in- stitutions must henceforth do more to teach and encourage others to prosper under these same institutions. . « Leadership must not be allowed to pass by default to men like Lenine and Trotzky.. The education of the foreigner within our’ gates must be seen to, and his well-being looked after, along broad and unselfish lines. This is one of the things we are learning from the war. Labor must be dealt: with justly, intelligently, and construc- tively. One of the things that will tend to allay unrest, and give underpinning to industry, will be the encouragement of workers to ANCHOR in one spot, and acquire HOMES! The National Associe*ion of Real Estate Boards at Washing- ton is now planning a NATION-WIDE “OWN ‘YOUR, HOME” campaign. Wage earners-from Maine to California will be ap- pealed: to by POSTERS, LECTURES, LETTERS, MOVIES, and ADVERTISEMNTS in the NEWSPAPERS, to BUY LOTS, STAY ON THE JOB, and BUILD HOMES! The fellows who wish the world divided, are the fellows who haven’t a dollar, and are too lazy and unskilled to WORK for it. The human race i$ Headed UPWARD! Wild-eyed, Czarism-incu- bated skunks from the back alleys of Europe, are not going to take over the U.S. A.! ( q It isn’t the square, up-and-up MAN among men, who joins fhe ranks of the’. W. W. The LEAST skilled, LEAST provident, LEAST industrious, LEAST moral, are the boys who bring up there. \| Hi Men who WANT to work, WANT to earn decent wages by means, WANT to deal with their fellow men as they would have their fellows deal with THEM, must receive CLEANER RECOG- NITION than they ever received before! They must have their chance to become clean prosperous citizens. Employers must FA- VOR, must MANIFEST a PREFERENCE for EVERY WORKER who takes enough interest in himself, in his wife and children, in godd citizenship and American institutions, to have MADE A START toward HOME OWNERSHIP! The People Have Money ps : Many people are earning more money than ever before. As soon as this happens in the life of a family man he begins to think about that home he has always wanted to own. _. He is thinking about it now, and so ishis wife—and the young folks of the family are talking about it. : They are all beginning to take a special interest in the real: estate advertisements. x : Are you telling them all about that real estate offering of yours? ‘ . ee TLL LU LLL Ln e : ~ ' NS 3 ee ~