The Carlisle independent., 1919-09-18
COAST TO COAST
 U. s. FOR LEAGUE
MILLIONS ACCLAIM WILSON AS HE SPEEDS ACROSS
 THE LAND.
FEW ASK FOR CHANGES
Majority Feel That Presidents GaId ance Should Be HeId-He Regards
 Pact As Sure to Come Soon.
(By Mt. Clemens News Bureau)

| (6y Mt. clemens NeWS bureau) l Aboard President Wilson's Speciat
 Train-From the Capital at Washing
 ton to the far Pacific coast the Presi l dent of the United States has jour
 neyed on the most unusual expedition
 ever undertaken by a chief executive
 of the nation.
 | To discuss national questions, many | presidents have toured the land; but | Mir Wilson Is laying before America
 question which affects the whole
 world-the question of whether or no,
 we are to join in the League of Ma t tions; whether we are to forget oui | former isolation and share with the | other peoples of the earth the respon abilities of maintaining civilization
 and preventing, as he says we can do | future warfare.
 Between the capital and the coast the president made fifteen speeches
 and half a dozen brief talks. All oi 100000 fellow citizens listened to him | Several millions had the chance to see him, and apparently everyone wanted to see him, from those who thronged l the streets of the cities and tcwns
 where he stopped, to those who came
 to the railside or stood at little flag
 stations in remote places, knowing
 their only reward could be a ieetins glimpse and wave of the hand. He has met and talked to all types
 of citizens-to men big in the bust ness, financial and professional worlds to farmers and mechanical workers. to Indians and cowboys and foreign
 born herders and rangers, to soldiers and to mothers who lost soldier-sons
 in the late war.
 What do they all tell him? unani
 mously they say they want peace definitely settled, they want no more
 wars, they want the League. of Ma tions, and most of the American peo
 pie, it may be fairly said, tell the President they want the League just
 as it is, without the resevatioDs oi
 amendments which certain senators have insisted upon. The majority o citizens say to those who interview
 them on this tour
 Woodrow Wilson guided us rightly
 before and during the war with Ger many. We entered that war, every
 one agrees, to end all wara. He says the league can do that We want to do that, so let us keep on trusting him
 and get the league into operation as soon as possible. Forget politics."
 Most Americans encountered on the
 tour have forgotten politics. Repub
 lican Governors and Mayors have in troduced the President to his audi ence; the Major part of the local com mittees which have met him have
 been Republicans. They have all said:
 We are nothing but Americans, Mir President"
 Mir. Wilson's arguments for the league, briefly summarized, are those: There can be no peace, either now or in the future, without it. There
 can only be regrouping of nations and new Balance of Power,' which is certain to lead to war. There can
 be no war in the future, with the league in existence, because no single nation would defy the united rest oi mankind and if it did it could be brought to terms by an economic boycott, and without the use Of arms.
 There can be no reduction in the
 cost of living until the league is es' tablished, for nations will not gG
 ahead with peace time production uIl
 til they know that peace is definitely
 assured and that production of wal
 material is no longer necessary.
 There can be wonderful prosperity. with the league in existence, for rel
 ations of labor and capital all over the world will be made closer and more friendly, and the worker will re
 ceive fairer share of what he pro duces.
 These declaration of the president logically and eloquently put. have left
 his hearers thinking and thinking deeply. And then MT. Wilson has pointed out, the people themselves, as differentiated from senators and politi- clans, seem to want just what the president wants, which is America for leadership.
 Quite as unusual as the purpose of the cross country tour is the manner In which it is being carried out and the completeness of the arrange. ments on the nine car train which is bearing the party.
 At the rear is the private car May flower, occupied by the President and Mrs. Wilson. Next is compartment car for the secretary Tumulty, Ad. miral Grayson, Mir. Wilson's Physi.
 clan, four stenographers, the chief | executive clerk and seven secret ser. | vice men. Byond are three compart' ment cars which house twenty-one
 correspondents, five movie men, and telegraphic and railroad expert