The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-09-12
PRESIDENT WILSON
MAKES MANY TALKS
AT DIES MONIES, IOWA, AND KAN
SAS CITY, HE WAS GREETED
BY GREAT THRONGS.
TELLSPEOPLE PEACE TREATY
Says It Is Purely Observation-Disclosures
Democracy over Whole World
Arbitration Main Theme-Mrs.
Wilson Keeps Near Pres.

Des Moines, Iowa.-The treaty with
it's league of nations covenant was
explained here Saturday night by
President Wilson as a purely Ameri
can document extending democracy
over the world and shifting foreign
relations from a basis of force and
war to one of arbitration and peace.
Making his second address of the
day, the president spoke in the Des
Moines coliseum, said to seat 1900.
Every chair was taken and many
were standing. Earlier in the day he
had spoken at Kansas City, Mo-,
more than 300 miles away.
An escort of airplanes dropped
flowers on the presidents special
train as it approached the city and
he was cheered during an automo-
bile ride through crowds that packed
the downtown streets far out beyond
the curb. When he entered the coli
scum he was cheered again.
The meeting was opened with an
invocation and Mr.. Wilson was intro
duced by J. B. Weaver, president of
the Des Moines chamber of commerce
who spoke on 1.-The outstanding fig
ure in the life of the world today
Mrs. Wilson sat on the platform.
He speaks at Spokane Sept. IL and
also Occur d'Alene city the same day
At Kansas City.
Kansas City, Mo-President Will
son appealed to Kansas City crowds
Saturday afternoon to support the
peace treaty or charter for a new
order of world affairs.
Making his third speech for the
| treaty in Missouri to a capacity audi
ence, President Wilson spoke in con-
vention hall, said to accommodate
! $4,000.
| When the president, accompanied
by Mrs. Wilson, appeared on the plat
form of the vast auditorium the
crowd, each of whom had a small
American flag, arose and cheered for
more than two minutes.
This Week in Northwest.
Des Moines, Iowa-After a days
rest in Des Moines last Sunday, Pres
ident Wilson left for the northwest
for week of speechmaking in the
interest of the peace treaty.
His schedule for the six days will
take him through every state that
borders Canada west of the lakes and
will end at the Pacific coast, where
on Saturday afternoon he will re-
view the Pacific fleet. He will not
reach the extreme northern tier of
states until. Tuesday, however, Mon
day being occupied with addresses at
Omaha and Sioux Falls
At Omaha.
Omaha, Misunderstanding for the
first time during his speaking tour
proposed reservations to the league
of nations, President Wilson replied
in an address here Monday to argu-
ments advanced by those who favor
reservations.
At Sioux Falls.
Sioux Falls, S. D.-Declaring that
pro-Germanism had again lifted it's
head in this country, President Will
son declared in an address here Mon
day night that every element of
chaos was hoping there would be
mo steadying hand placed on the
worlds affairs.
The president opened his address
by relating how lady who shook
hands with him at a way stop had
burst into tears when she tried to
tell him of her son killed in France
This incident, said Mr.. Wilson,
brought home to him that the country
had sacrificed greatly, not for tempo.
rary advantage, but for a permanent
betterment of the world. In the eyes
of the American boys who went over
the seas, he continued, the people OF
Europe had seen a determination not
only to defeat Germany, but to see
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