The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-02
Ten Thousand Turned Away From Coliseum Unable
 to Get In
MUST BE ABLE TO DO
 MORE THAN PROTEST
Notes Will Not Be Heeded Unless There Is Something Behind Them. Presidents Train Backs Into
 Crowd, But No One in Injured

Des Moines, la, February 1.-President Wilson, in addressing the largest audi ence of his present trip, in which he is advocating preparedness here tonight, asked this question: Do you want the situation to be such that all the Presi- dent can do is to write messages and ut ter words of protest?"
 s'Why, to ask that question is to an swer it'' he said.
 "Whenever international law is violated by one or the other belgerents," the President said, America was called upon to register voice of protest, of insist ence.
 Do you want the situation to be such that all the President can, do is to write messages and utter words of protest? If these breaches of international law, which are in daily danger of occurring, should touch the very honor of the United States, do you wish to do nothing about it? Do you wish to have all the world say that the flag of the United States can be stained with impunity? Why to ask the question is to answer it.
 PEACE ONLY WITH HONOR
 q know there is not man or woman within the hearing of my voice who would wish peace at the expense of the honor of the United States"
 The Presidents address was punctuated with thunderous applause. He spoke slowly and gravely, with emphatic ges- lures to enforce his words His declara- ton that the United States wanted peace drew quick response and his assertion that the self-respect of the nation must be preserved elicited another great dem onstration.
 throng that filled every seat in the Coliseum cheered him to the echo.
 The President declared he was trying to weigh carefully every word he said. He reiterated that he had been daily charged, to keep the country out of war and also to uphold its honor.
 And many night when it has seemed impossible for me to sleep, he said be cause of the apparently inextricahle diff faculties into which our international re- lations were drifting, I have said to my self I wonder if the people of the United States fully know what that mandate meant to me- And then sleep has come; because I knew that there was not com munity in America that would not stand behind me in maintaining the honor of the United States.
 HAD HEART IN IT
 '"rhe difficulty of keeping America at peace during this titanic struggle across the sea cannot be disclosed now; perhaps it never can be disclosed. How anxious and how difficult this task has been But my heart has been in it. I have not grudged a single burden that has been placed upon me with that end in view. For I know that not only my own heart but the heart of all America was in the cause of peace.'
 There are actually men in America who are preaching war, the President declared, men who want the United States to have entanging alliances abroad He said he did not think they spoke the voice of America, which he declared to be for peace.
 He added that others go further than he in advocating peace. They preach the doctrine of peace at any price, he added. while men in the audience called Never! Never? He said these men did not know the circumstances of the world. .
 America cannot be an ostrich with his head in the sand,' he said
 The President declared he hoped if this war had no other result it would create an international tribunal to settle ques- tons which cause war. His declaration that he had found the people of the mid
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