Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-14
SEVERE JAR GIVEN
WILSON PARTY IN
SEATTLE HARBOR
Craft Heels Over Until
Port Rail Is Nearly
Under Water.
PACIFIC FLEET REVIEWED
FROM DECK OF OREGON
Chief Executive Watches Great
Lines of Sea Warriors
Assemble.
MA KEs TWO EssEs
Tells Western People Issue Is Too
Broad TO Admit OF Partisan
Discussion.

iBy Associated r-esyl
St.ATTl.: WASH. sept iS-l'rcs;-
dent Wilson's launch MAS in "a collision
With another boat n the harbor here
this afternoon. He was uuintur.d.
In the launch IN addition 10 the
President were Mrs Wilson. Secretary
and Mrs. Daniels. secret servlc. mon.
secretaries and newspaper men.
As the launch showed on from the
dock. il heelcd over tili the port rail
Was nearly under water. Starting
.nead then. the craft ran bow-on m
TO another launch. giving the party a
.cvcrc jar The President sat serene
IN the al, and smiled.
\fier the accident. i'rys dent Wilson
boarded the history famed uattlcship
Oregon. IN Eniott Bay, ana, standing
with Secretary of ,ne Nayy Daniels
and Admiral Hugh Rodman. conniani-
~ Of the raCinc fleet, reviewed the
Sreat lines OF sc. warriors assembled
lHa- the i'residont " The united states
s-rrsru-nt neNirws ricct.
In the niat uuy 90 hts say OF NOR,
than d wees on the iuciac Coast. .,ir-
Wilson spoke during Inv moFnns at
Tacoma, ana then came 10 o.atp., al
r iine % review the i'acl!ir rIrcJ III
the afternoon, ana address mass
meeting At thu arena IN t4c evening.
In botn cities he w.s chrcrea ny crowns
tina, tnrcnEcd every point o. vantage
~ get s.lnDse OF han. he WIZ resi-
tomorrow al Scattt. IIOtcI
Seattics dVwn-tvwn section was
crowded 10 i's capacity wnvn Mr- NIL
sons train arrived duu aIons IN. llu.
tnc city there Was II roar OF cnr-.I..=.
lne police had strUns ropes 10 49,
t.ie crowds broke through ana followed
Ia. rrysidents car
President virtually TOOK charge Of tu..
Or, gon. supcrscd!ng Secretary Daniels
lhr ION. me OF Gcs rogers had CIR
vIud the oregon when secretary DdnIt.s
INSURED OF captain IVAN g. A,ctlvnsc.,
commands! o! tne orcsom.
40 We set undo. ,... nos. cap
tain"
Just as soon as The dcsiroycrs have
All passed, Inc captain rvnn,d
'"fne destroycrs are hove TO-" rresi-
dent wilson put IN.
Captain Me,iensel took a !ooh
faced about and touchin. ms cap SAID
lhe Oregon got under way for the
return 10 tne ancnorasc later tny
book Of the oregon, upon whose pasc-
are recorded iat nai"es OF many OF
inc world ) most prominent mon.
League for Free Peoples.
President Wilson, speaking At Ia
coma TO-DAY, declared that ~! the Tree
peoples OF the wor!u must unurrwr!tc
riyiIization, and tree peoples can oniy
'rhc league is not only a union OF
free peoples 10 suarantee c!yiiIzati9n,
cilred the President. 1T is a league
- nations to advance civilization by
substituting something that VIII make
sible'
The text of President, Wilson's ad-
dress in part was AS follows:
II feel. as | am sure you feel that
we have reached one o: the most cr.tI-
cal periods IN the history OF the Cnited
states.
The shadow of The war is not lifted
from us. and We have just come OUT
Of the depths Of the valley OF death.
II thought IL might be useful if
forget. 1t is SO easy with the strong
tides of our life to be swept away
from one situation to another; 10 for
get the real depths Of meaning which
lie underneath the things that we are
merely touching the surface OF.
wherefore. i thought il would not
be impairment on my part II asked
permission to read. you the concluding
passage of the address in which re,
states TO accept Germany's challenge
of war.
Fights for Democracy.
We shall tight ! said. for the
est our hearts; for democracy: tor
the right of those who submit to au-
ihority to have voice in their own
ties of small nations: for universal
dominion OF right of such concert
oil Tree peoples as VIII brlnE peace
and safety to all nations and make
tic world itself at last free. To such
a pass We can dedicate our lives and
our fortunes, everything that we are.
anything that we have. with the pride
Of those who know that the time has
come when America is privileged to
spend her blood and her might for tho
principles that gave her birth, of hap
pincsS and Of peace which she has en-
joycd. God helping her. she can do
no other.
THAT is the program we started
out on. That is the program which
NIL America adopted; and shall we now
faitcr at the very critical moment
when we are finally to write our name
Ia the standing pledge which VIC then
took?
IL want to remind YOU many other
nations were put under n deeper temp
taton than we. Belgium knew that
resistance was useless. Belgium knew
that she could get any terms OF adj
vantage from Germany that she pleased
il she would only submit And at tho
cost OF everything that she had Bel
GUM did nothing else than undcrwritc
civilization. ] do not anywhere in his
tory know OF a more inspiring fca,
than that, Belgium lies PROSTATE be-
Continued on Second Pagc.)