Address at the Coliseum in Des Moines, Iowa
09/05/1919
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The council advises, and it cannot advise without the vote of the United States.
Reject this treaty, impair it, and this is the consequence to the laboring men of the world.
Every man regards his own advice as best, and I dare say every man mixes his own advice with some thought of his own interest.
We are not dealing with the kind of document which this is represented by some gentlemen to be.