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iy.-rpm$jm!Jf' Pf"'W I K. i 14 The Common President Wilson's New York Speech (Continue from pago 9.) world; and tho Inspiring influonco of ovory mooting was tho concurronco of purpose on tho part of all thoao mon to corao to an agroomont and. an offoctivo working agreement with regard to this leaguo of tho civilized world. PLEDGED TO FORM LEAGUE "Thoro was a conviction in tho wholo impulse; thoro was conviction of moro than ono sort; thero was tho conviction that this thing ought to bo dono, and there also tho con viction that not a man thoro would venture to go homo and say ho had not tried to do it. "Mr. Taft has sot tho picture for you of what a failuro of this groat purposo would moan. Wo have boon hoaring for all thoso woary months that this agony of war has lasted bo causo of tho slnlstor purposes of tho central omplros, and wo havo made maps of tho courso that thoy meant their conquests to take. Where did tho linos of that map lie, of that central lino that wo used to call from Bromon to Bagdad? "Thoy lay through thoso very re gions to which Mr. Taft has called your attention but they lay then through united empire, the Austro Hungarian empire, whoso integ rity Gormany was bound to respect ns sho really lay in tho path of that lino of conquost; tho Turkish empire which interests sho professed to mako her own lay in tho direct path tlVat sho intondod to tread. PEACE OF WORLD AT STAKE "It' is ono of tho agreomonts of this covonant that it is tho friendly ft1 PnKCnQM8trrontnb!oohtok Ul ur iluB-UO cns.duoks.Rccscnniltur kcyo. Oholco, pure-bred, northern rnl.scd. Fowls, CKE3, Incubntorn nt low prices. Am erica's ereatest fiouUrvfarm. 2flthyenr. VftN naltonowll2 pnuo bonk and cntnloR trco. R.F.NEUOERTCo.,DaxB7V,Msnkato,Min9 gSuxXl e: evb a AIno onlloil Tetter, Salt Rlicuni, PrurltiiM, Milk CniMt, W ntcr Poison, Weeping Skin, etc. I licllcvc ecrenm can lie cured to Htay. I mean Just what I say C-U-R-1D-D and NOT merely patched up to return asraln. Romcmbor, I make this statomont after handling nearly a half million cases of eczema and devoting 12 years of mv llfn to Its treatment. I don't care what allft you navo usou nor now -many doctors liavo told you that you could not ho curort, all I ask Is just a chance tq prove my claims. If you wrlto mo TODAY, I will sond you a FiiQia TMAIj of mild, sobthlnPT, guaranteed treatment that will surely convlnco You as It has mo. If you aro disgusted and discouraged, I daro you to glvo mo a chanco to provo my claims. By writing mo today I bollevo you will enjoy moro real comfort than you really thought tU!s world held fpr you. .Tust try It, and I fool suro you wllf agroo with mo. Dlt. J. TC. OANNAD.VY. lfini) Court Illk., Seilnllti, Mo. References: Third National Bank, So dalla, Mo, Send this notlco tc-sbmo eczoma syfforcr. RHEUMATISM RECIPE I will gladly sond any Rheumatism suf ferer a Slmplo Herb Recipe Absolutely Freo that Completely Cured me of a' ter rible attack of muscular and Inflamm atory Rheumatism of loner standing after everything olso I tried had failed mo--I havo given It to many sufforors wim i Moved their cases hopeless, yet thoy found ', . ? rollof from their suffering by taking lbo World. theso simpio norus. it also rellovos Sci atica promptly as woll as Neuralgia, ahd la a wonderful blood purifier. You are most wclcomo to this Herb Ilcclne If vou will sond for It at once. I bollovo you will eohsldor It a God-Send after you have nut it to the test. Thoro Is nothing injurious contained in it, and you can seo for your . self exactly what you are taking. I win gladly sond this Recipe absolutely freo to any- sufforer who vjll send name and address, plainly written, w. p. stl'jrrov 2050 BXnuraolln Ave., Loa Anselcs, CiUlf' right of every nation a member of tho league to call attention to any thing that it thinks 'will disturb tho poa6o of the world, no matter where that thing is occurring. "Thoro is no subject jhat may touch tho poaco of tho world which is exempt from inquiry and discus sion, and I think everybody hero present will agree with me that Ger many would never have gone to war if sho had permitted tho world to discuss tho aggression upon Serbia for a single week. "The British foreign office sug gested, it pleaded that thore might bo a day or two delay so that tho representatives of the nations of Europe could get togethar and dis cuss tho possibilities of a settlement. Germany did not daro permit a day's discussion. You know what hap pened. So soon as tho world realized that an outlaw was at large, tho nations began one by one to draw tocother againit her. "We know for a certainty that if Gormany had thought that Groat Britain would go in with Franco and with Russia she never would have undertaken tho enterprise and tho leaguo of nations is meant as a notice to all outlaw nations that not only Great Britain, but the United States and the rest of the world will go in to stop enterprises of that sort. And so tho league of nations is nothing moro or less than the covonant that the world will always maintain in tho standa'rds which it has now vindicated by some of the most precious blood ever spilt. LIBFr.ATED PEOPLES WANT IT "The liberated peonies of tho Austro-Hungarian empire and of the Turkish empire call out to us for this thing. It has. not arisen in the council of statesmen. Europe is a bit sick at heart at this very moment, because it is seen that statesmen have had no vision, and that the only vision has beeh the vision of uio poopio. thoso who suuer seo. Thoso against whom wrong is wrought know how desirable is the right and tho righteous. "The nations that havo long been under tho heel of tho Austrian; that have long cowered before the Ger man; that have long suffered the in describable agonies of . being gov erned by tho Turk, have called out to the world, generation after cene- ration, for Justice, for liberation, for succor and no cabinet in the world has heard -them. "Private organizations, pitying hearts, philanthropic men and women have poured out their treasure in order to relievo these sufferings, but no nation has said to tho nations responsible, 'You must stop: this thing is intolerable, and we will not permit it.' And the vision has been with tho people. "My friends, I wish you would re flect upon this proposition. The vis ion as to what is nocossary for great reforms had seldom come from the top in tho nations of tle world. It has come from the need and the aspiration and the self-assertion of great bodies of men who meant to bo freo. And-1 can' explain some of the criticisms which havo been lev eled against this great enterprise only by the supposition that tho men Who utter the criticism have never iuit mo greai- puise or- tho heart of AMAZED AT HOME IGNORANCE "And 1 am amazed not. alarmed but amazed that thero should be in some quarters such a comprehen sive ignorance of tho slate of the world. These gentlemen do not know what tho mind of men is, Just now. Everybody else does. I do not know where thoy have been closeted, I do not know by what', influences1 they havo been blinded, but I do know that thoy have been separated from tho general currents of the thought of mankind. ' "And I want to utter this0 solemn warning, not in the -way. of a threat; the forces of tho world, do Sot threaten, thoy operate. The great tides of tho world do not give notice, that they aro going to rise and run:' they rise in their majesty and 'Over whelming might, and those who stand in the way are overwhelmed. Now the heart. of tho world is awalco. and tho heart of tho world must.be satisfied. "Do not let yourselves suppose for a. moment that tho uneasiness in the populations of Europe is due entire ly to economic causes or economic, motives; something very much deeper underlies it all than that. "I have tried once and again, my fellow citizens, to say to little circles of friends or to larger bodies, what seems to be the real hope of the peoples of Europe and tell you frankly I have not been able to do so because when the thought tries to crowd itself into speech, the pro found 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 canrfbt be realized in its per fection, and yet. I have felt besides its tragedy, its compulsion, its com pulsion upon every living man to exercise every 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-possession and see how to regulate the affairs of the world, we will sink back into a period of strug. gle in which there will be no hope, and therefore no mercy. NO MERCY WITHOUT HOPE "There can be no mercy where thore is no hope, for why should you spare another if you yourself expect to perish. Why-should you ,be pitiful if you can get no pity? Why should you bo just if, upon every hand, you are put upon? "There is another thing which I think the critics of this covonant have not observed. They not only have not observed the temper of uiuso spiencna ooys in khaki that thev sent np.rrK tim oooo t i.-,a had tllO nrnilfl nnnrlrmorinca nf 41, reflected glory of those boys, because cue cuiiHuuiuon made me their uuiiuimuuer-m-cnier, and they have taught me soma lr-irmrmci Who wrt went into tho war we went into It on tno oasis of declarations, which it was my privilege to utter, because I believed them to be an interpreta tion of tho purposo and thought of the people of the United States. "And those boys went over there with tho feeling that they were sacredly bound to the realization of those ideals; that they wero not only going over there to beat Germany, they wero not going over there merely with resentment in their hearts against a particular outlaw nation; but that they' wore' crossing those throe thousand miles of sea in order to show to Europe that the United StateB, when it became 'neces sary, would go any where' where the nmus oi mankind were threatened VOMUoj "Thev would nf ott n i - trenches. They would not be reV I V ., iatmce of experi enced continental commanders. They. thOUght thev had nr,mn i "1" to do a particular thing and they Worn frnlno- ,i j T ' , .. t ---- o.-",o ny aim toHao it at onco. And just as. soon, as thaVrushJ . walnut wim tue:i lines of 3 the enemy, they baTT iLioy continued f i. rujaKu end. wu urea, until EFFECT OF UNITED STATP ENTRY TEj "They continued to bronv low citizens, not merely1' the physical force of th?"? of tUe United StntT. ,,"' ""4i they elt. It was that th f ""' lodeed and thomiw ..." "e 4 frrmmrl fW .:.:. T uyery foot Of effirTK: f fnAfnw yU f.UOT0Be UM bavin, felt that crusading spirit k youngsters, who went over there to glorify aeainsf. W.f '..B? fellowmen. I am ioW Z l, mn tt 1'CIUUlmT. self for one moment to slacken ia 1UUUil LO e woruiy of them and their cause. What I said at th opening I said with a deeper mean. ing than perhaps you have caught I do mean not to come back until it's over, ovei thfiro. nH tt ,i be over until the nations of thj world are assured of the permanencj UJ. JJUUUU. "And men win, when I first vent over there were skeptical of the pos Sibility of forming a league of u tiona admitted that if we could but form itt- it would be an invaluable instrumentality through which to secure the operation of the various parts of the treaty; and when that treaty comes back gentlemen on this side will find the covenant not only , in it, but so many threads of the treaty tied to the covenant that yon cannot dissect the covenant from the treaty without destroying the whole vital structure. Tho structure o! peace will not bo vital without the league of nations, and no man is go ing to bring back a cadaver with , him.- PUZZLED BY THE CRITICISM "I must say that I have been pur-' zled by some of tho criticisms not by the criticisms themselves; I cm understand them perfectly even whea 'there was no foundation for them, but by the fact of the criticism. I cannot imagine how these gentlemen can live and not livo in the atmos- j phere of the world. ; "I cannot imagine how they can live and not be in contact with the , events of the times, and I particularly- cannot imagine how they can pe Americans and sot up a doctrine j ; careful selfishness, throughout to tt last detail. I have heard no counsel of generosity in their criticism, i ; have heard no constructive sugges tion. I have heard nothing except will it not be dangerous to us w, help the world?' It would be faw to us not to help it. "From being what I will venture , to call tho most famous and the mos powerful nation in the world would of a sudden have bfcome; most contemptible. So, I aw need to be told, as I havo been iW that the people of the United m would support this covenant, i an American and I knew they m "What a sweet revenge it JP the world. They laughed at us u they, thought we did not mean profession of principles. Thoy w ' , so until April of 1917. It was K creditable to them that wo wou more than send a, few wf11.0.;' aDi go through the forms of elpwg when they saw multitude? iw across tho. -:sea and saw w vbB multitudes were eager to u to0j they got to tho other side, tiw amazed and said, 'The thing is tt-,'.-.' 'hm . ia&o&J'.eA....