The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-19
PRESIDENT TO
SPEAK AT SAN
DIEGO TODAY
Voice Will be Communicated
by Amplifiers-Talks Be-
fore Business Men Club.
(By Associated Press)

SAN DIEGO. Calf. Sept 19.-Ar-
rangements whereby it was hoped the
sound of President Wilson's voice
would reach crowd far greater than
any that has heard him speak on his
present trip were in effect here today.
Electrical apparatus for transmit
ting the presidents words to all parts
of the stadium here, which has space
for fifty thousand people, was install
ed several days ago and after a fina!
test today was pronounced in perfect
working order.
San Diego hoped her welcome to
the president would be the noisiest
he has received. 1t included prolong-
ed blasts from the whistles of all in
dustrial plants and from ships in the
harbor.
Since yesterday morning residents
of "the back country" have been arriv-
| ing here to see and hear the president.
Some of them making automobile
trips of several hundred miles.
Will Inspect Farm.
The presidents train was scheduled
to arrive at 100 p. m, having started
south from Oakland soon after he had
AAioICd 0pCdhluS tLClC loot hiShN'
The address at the stadium here
| was the only one on his program for
today but it was expected at Santa
Barbara, that he would make brief
stop there, inspecting a ranch prop
erty he owns in that neighborhood and
| making a brief talk from the platform
of the car.
Late today the president is to re-
turn to Los Angeles, through which
city he passed this morning on his
| way here. Tomorrow and the follow
| ing day will be spent there.
Acceptance of the peace treaty as
good business proposition was urged
| by President Wilson in an address to
San Francisco business men.
He asserted that to refuse member
ship in the league of nations would be
to isolate the United States and to
build up distrust abroad which
would be detrimental alike to the ma
tion's political and commercial in
| terests.
Making his third and last speech in
San Francisco for the peace treaty,
| Mr.. Wilson spoke at a luncheon given
by the city's commercial organizations
and attended by more than 1900 men
who cheered the president and Mrs.
Wilson when they entered, and many
times interrupted the address to
| applaud.
What the world demanded, the pres
ident said was not only peace, but "a
settled peace" which would give the
opportunity for the industrial rehabili-
tation of the eastern hemisphere.
! Should the United States stand apart
| and decline to give aid in guarantee
| ing such a peace, he asserted, there
would be a reaction directly detrimen-
| tai to American influence and inter
ests. To take part in the world set
tlement, he declared. was the only
practical decision if the United States
was to play her proper role in the
| future.
No Good to Country.
"The men who do not look forward
now" he added, "are of no further
service to the country"
Mr.. Wilson also dismissed at length
the arbitration and boycott provision
of the league covenant, declaring that
had there been anything approa ching
| such an arrangement in 1914, Germany
never would have begun the war. The
boycott, he asserted, was an "exclu
sion from civilized society" which nc
European nation could endure for six
lIo1IIS. IlS ell pldSlLeu lIidI luo DOy
colt was an automatic step short OF
war and that under the. covenant all
actual questions of war or peace would
be reserved for decision by congress-
The president declared that while
the United States formally was looked
upon abroad as selfish nation, that
opinion had been "absolutely revers
ed" 1t now was Americas privilege
he said to lead the world "unless the
cynical counsels OF some of our &C
quaintances prevailed"
Detailing the cost of the war ir
money and in battle deaths, Mr.. Will
son said all of this sacrifice was made
because the world never had had the
: courage to set up such a system Of
arbitration and discussion as the
league covenant proposed