Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-27
President Declares "Busi-
ness of Neutrality Is
Over" in World War.
CINCINNATI VISIT
ROUND OF OVATONS
Wilson Pleads for Righ's Of Humane
ty. and Ridicules Republican Claims
That We Have An, thing to Pear
from Europeans in Trade Contest.

Cincinnati Oct. 26.-iraking advan.
tage Of a strenuous visis 20 f.incin.
natl to discuss the relations of the
United States 10 The European war
President Wilson today declared that
"his is the last war that involves
the world that the United States can
keep out Of lie declared AS his
reason for this belief that THE bus
ness of neutrality is over" and that
war now has such :. scale that the
position of neutrdls sooner or later
becomes intolerable.' He added that
the nations of the wcr!l mus. get
together and say nobody can here
after be neutral as respects the dis
luption of world peace for an OBJ
ject which the worlds opinion can
not sanction"
Ridicules G. o. p. Claims.
After denying the Republican claim
that the business prosperity of the
United States during the last two
years has been due to trade created
by the war, the president ridiculed
predictions that after the war Europe
will overwhelm this nation by it's eco
nomic strength, and dump" in the
United States goods now being stor-
ed up for that purpose. He asserted
that exports of everything that goes
to supply armies is only one per cent
of the total of American commerce
I'VE ought not to turn to these peo-
Pile in fear. but in sympathy" said
the president, adding:
We have means of defense and We
have means of aggression. Our
means of defense are that we have
taken pains to have all the instru-
mentalities to find out exactly what
is going on, and tc be ready to act
Immediately if we find it is necessary
10 defend ourselves"
Ready to War for Mankind.
In his speech tonight, President
Wilson said he is ready to engage in
war for the rights of mankind. He
declared money accumulated in the
United States should be used after the
war only for righteous purposes, and
called upon people who wished to be
considered Americans to act as
Americans.
He spoke in the Music hall, packed
to the doors. Outside the street was
crowded. When the president APP
peared on the stage beside former
Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio, the
people stood and cheered, waving
American flags.
America is not made up out of
single stock" said the president.
Here we have a great melting pot.
A singular thing about America is
that it has not the ambition that leads
nations to seek aggression. The in
tluences that govern international af-
lars on the other side of the ocean
are secret purposes. America will
not be governed in secret. 1t is in
conceivable that America should wish
70 take anything from other nations.
we are the clearing house for the
sympathles Of mankind. We are
debtors to mankind to square our
policies with human liberty every
where. The problem we are engaged
IN now is to see that our sympathies
unite instead of dividing us. We
could crush some nations if we
choose, for we are powerful, but we
want to help the small nations"
mentioning the federal reserve
banking system, the president said it
PAGES credit before anyone who has
security. There was a time" he
sald, when you had to be known in
influential quarters to get credit.
mat is no longer the situation. We
freed ourselves from guardianship tv
other people,"
Huge Crowds Cheer Continuously.
me president was busy from the
time he arrived here shortly before
noon until he left for Shadow Lawn
al III o'clock tonight. He delivered
lour speeches, participated in an Off
cal reception took ride thru the
streets and parks at the head of a
snort automobile parade. The crowds
s winch packed the sereets for blocks,
MED the windows of buildings and
crowded the halls in which he spoke
oneered the president almost contin-
uousiy. During his ride about the
city ne remained standing in the auto
waving his hat to the crowd. Bombs
bursting in the air high above the
clty' added to the din of the cheering
ana the whistling of locomotives.