The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-10-27
Only Way to Keep Out Of War
In Future Is to Make War
Impossible
OLD WORLD NEEDS
OUR KINDLY INTEREST
Ruined by War 1t Is Not Bus
mess Rival to Be Feared Eut
Sufferer to Be Helped.
War Not Cause of Prosperity

Cincinnati. O, Oct. 2s.-President
Wilson, In four speeches. mere today;
declared for society OF nations
that will fight anything contrary to
the interests Of humanity. He assert
ed that unless America leads In such
movement she will not be able 10
keen out of the next war.
"A great many men are complain
ing that we are not fighting FOR some
thing" he said They declare We
haven't the spirit OF other countries
In getting behind investors.
Just SO certain "a you do that. you
join the chaos OF com petins and hos
tile ambitions.
Given Hospitable Weicoma
The President and Mrs. Wilson were
accorded a most hospitahle welcome
by the people of Cincinnati. but at no
time was there a marked demonstra-
ton Of political enthusiasm, During
a ride about the city the procession
passed through one OF the sections in
habited entirely by Germans. There
was a great outpourtng OF the popuia =
ton, bat no cheering,
The nearest Mr. Wilson got to a
discussion .of-hyphenssrn was when h.
called for unity of American spirit To
do the things thai ARE Americans go" "
told TIE audiences that he was not 81
stranger In these parts as several
years of his boyhood had been spent
FIJI Ohio when his father was pastor
OF a Presbyterian congregation at
Steubenvillc.
The ONCE of chief executive re-
strains even a Scotch-lrishman," said
Mr.. Wilson IN addressing the Cham
her Of Commerce, but this visit re-
minds me SO much OF other days I
am afraid you will penetrate my dis
gutse
No Place For Her.
I feel very much like the lady who
visited the side-show of circus and
heard a performer declare he could
see through q two-inch plank, She
hurried away. saying This is no place
for me with these thin things on -
Mayor puchta welcomed Mr ard
Mrs, Wilson In N address In which
I've emphasized that the citizens of Gin
ctnnau wore is loyal TO America ana
the spirit of the nation as those OF
any other ancestry.
Presidents speech.
The main parts OF President Will
sons speech follow:
IT Is predicted that after this war
j. over, Europe will IN some way over
whelrn the United states by her
economic power and her economic
sntagonsrns TO tie United States. /
wonder that any thinking man can
entertain an opinion OF that sort. 1t
Is obviously based upon singular and
profound lcnorance.-s--
What is this war doing to Europe
Does war increase the economic eff
cheney of a nation? There are some
twenty-five million men under arms.
or who have been under arms in this
titanic struggle. From forty to sixty
per cent of the skilled mechanics of
Europe have been called into the war.
not mechanics merely. but men OF skill
of every sort The whole physical
energy. the whole dexterity, the whole
thought of great nations. have been
concentrated upon this business of de-
.struction-- The business OF destrue-
ton has been so successful that the
materials OF economic life have been
destroyed upon an enormous scale.
THE debts that these nations are
piling up are so great that the interest
on them will equal the whole budgets
of these nations before the war came
on.
And these gentlemen tell us that
these nations that have spent their
best blood and energy for this thins
are in the meantime doing what
Creating great bodies>of goods which
they are going to ship to US and dump
on US when tho war 10 over. Have
hey ever seen q war;
''HAve they any imaginations
Have they any conception Of what
this war means? Do they not know
that the population that 10 not In the
field is bent In all its concentrated
energy upon one thing, namely, sus-
tanning those who are in the field. And
are they now creating dyestuffs to
ruin our markets? Are they now
manufacturing silks to overcome our
American silk factories? Are they
producing the things that they have
ordinarily sent to America in such an
abundance while they are in their
death grapple that they are thinking
of overwhelming America?
Not In Fear But In Sympathy.
why, my friends. we ought not to
turn to these peoples in fear, but in
sympathy. We ought to realize that
after this exhaustion they will need
U.S. and that we need not fear them.
BESIDES the men killed in the field
besides the men hopelessly manned,
there are the men whose nerves will
never be Mt again for the exercise OF
skill or initiative or enterprise.
mo man with heart under his
Jacket can regard with satisfaction
and say Il will be Americas opportun-
!