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and he repeated it in his Boston speech, Saying "as one of our AMERICAN HUMORISTS says," Up to then I had only been an ordinary Rope thrower,
Pretty tough when the Pres cops your act,
Pres had pretty good luck on that 1st trip they saw his 14 points and raised him -------- ---- more
Says in there, "There is to be no more wars" and then there was a Paragraph a little further down told you where to get your AMMUNITION in case there was one,
Now he come's back to Washington to explain the LEAGUE OF NATIONS to Congress You know those guys cant read anything and understand it,
But after eating out of 15 million dollar Gold Plates and hobnobbing with Kings and Dukes can you imagine how Congress looked to him when he come back,
Had All the Senators up to dinner at White House Took Ham Lewis three days to dress for it,
Not much news from the Dinner Burleson copped the Phones,
On last day went up to Capitol to sign all the bills Congress had passed Well after he had signed the bill,
Then he went before Congress and balled out the WILFUL 37, he was busier than Mcadoo with a new train,
HE and Taft both spoke on same stage first time Pres and x-pres ever agreed,
I still wanted to go along but he said: "wait Will till some other trip and I will take you,"
You know 13 is his lucky number if they dont sign this up on this trip he knows they will on his 13th trip,
You see Congress got sore cause he did not call them in extra session, You know the next Con, is Republican, Be a good joke on them if he dident call them at all wouldent it,
Back to Paris to meet Col House the only man the Pres ever listened too,
MR DANIELS went over. First time they have ever taken Josephus anywhere, He will be allright in a crowd,
Made Mr Hoover food DICTATOR for all the Allies That means that BELG FRANCE and ENG, are not going to get any more to eat than we do,
Conference at 1st gave America Japan Italy France 5 deligates each and England including her Colonies fourteen, Thats all right to allow England for each one of her Foreign Relations, But they did not allow us a single one for Wisconsin,
How would you like to have been on a committee of Englishman to inform Ireland they dident get any Deligates, OH BOY,
Finally got it down to the big TEN now theres only FOUR, speaking to each other,
America dident know till they got over there that those European Nations have had a disease for years called the Gimmes.
England and Japan had a secret Treaty where England was to get everything south of the equator and Japan everything North, Guess they were going to leave the equator for Ireland,
Japan wanted it put in the contract that she was as good as anybody else If she admitted it why put it in, If a man is a Gentleman he don't have a sign on him telling it,
Tell Japan we will recognize them as soon as they recognize China,
=Peace Table is turning out like all Banquets the speeches are too long,=
Everybody at the Table wants a second helping, And Germany the cook hasent got enough to go around,
They agreed on one of the 14 points that was that America went in for nothing and expects nothing they are all UNANIMOUS WE GET IT,
Wanted to put the LEAGUE of nations in with Peace Treaty, thats like a fellow going into a store and the Merchant wont sell him a Suit unless he uses a Gillette Razor,
Its been a great thing for these Senators if it had not been for this to knock they would not have gotten all these Lecture Dates,
The way a lot Of Senators talk you would think Pres W was going to trade America off for a couple of Golf Clubs,
They seem to think the Pres took the =Monroe Doctrine= in his pocket and is liable to lose it over there,
Pres Wilson threatened he would start the war over again, Be terrible if they found out this war was fixed and they had to fight it over again,
They cant let the Russians in this league or they would make a Bush League out of it,
Best time to have formed this League of Nations was during the war when all these Nations needed each other,
Everybody is for something to prevent war, but they are afraid it is like Prohibition it dont prohibit,
League of Nations just as clear as the Income Tax blanks,
One thing we got to be thankful for our Soldiers can win wars faster than our Diplomats can talk us into them,
Pres Wilson finally got discouraged at the stalling and told them