Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-11
Former Premier Praises
President For Advocacy
of League of Nations.
NOW MOST URGENT OF
ALL PEACE PROBLEMS
Herbert n. Asquith Pays Tribute to
President Wilson and American Re-
public at "HospitaIity DinneT' Given
to American Officers in London -
United States Again Has Real Lead
er at Time Of National Crisis.

London. July IL Sincere praise OF
President Wilson's leadership in tho
war and his advocacy Of league OF
nations after the war was given by
Herbert H. Asquith the former pre-
mier, in an address last night at tho
National Liberal Club. The occasion
was a hospitality dinner to Amer
lean officers, at which 500 prominent
Englishmen were hosts. The dinner
resolved itself into a meeting OF ova-
ton for the president
Vice Admiral Sims, commander OF
the American naval forces in the war
zone, paid tribute to the cooperation
of the British and American navies
and declared:
THE submarine menace now is at
an end and we are destroying then,
faster than the Germans can make
them"
Major General Biddle, commander Of
American forces in England. evoked
long cheers when he announced Amer
| lean troops were stationed at from
seventy to eighty different points in
Scotland and England.
Importance Of international League.
Former Premier Asquith urged the
Importance Of President Wilson's idea
Of a permanent league of nations as
the most urgent of all peace prob
lens" He said:
"The United States as a nation has
had the very good fortune that in the
supreme crisis of her national history
that the man whom she most needed
for guidance has always appeared.
Thus came Washington and Lincoln.
Washington and Lincoln are illustr-
Gus names which have passed into
history. We must not attempt to an
ticipate history's impression Of living
men. but. would note that President
Wilson has been at the head Of the
nation at its most trying hour.
president Wilson has laid before
the reasons which compelled it and
the spirit in which it was adopted. He
has done this in state papers, worthy
to live side by side with the most in
spring utterances of his most famous
predecessors"
Guiding Hand Of Wilson.
""It Is one thing to embrace a good
cause. 1t Is another to push 1t to
victorious issue. II nation Is to hold
it's own on the battlefield these days
it must be equipped on the sea and
land with the strongest battalions. the
best and fastest ships, adequate or
ganization of transport and supply and
even with superiority in all the mani
fold devices for offensive and defense
which the hellish ingenuity Of modern
war fare has devised.
America has had her difficulties
They have not stifled but have stifYened
her energy and tonight we acknowledge
our unbounded admiration for the con-
tribution America has made, is making
and will continue to make in ever in
creasng measures. Here again we
trace the guiding hand Of the presi-
dent.
Perhaps the world owes It's greatest
debt to President Wilson for helping
men whose vision had been blurred and
blinded by smoke Of the battleaelds to
lift up their eyes and to look thru and
beyond it. 1t Is very difficult in time
Of war to keep steady head and
clean tongue. President Wilson does
both.
Pioneer Advocate Of League.
I'VE can not ask ourselves too often
what we are fighting for. President
Wilson has done more than any other
statesman to concentrate the minds OF
his own people, Of his allies and even