The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-01
Speaking. Tour P,nises to Be
Greatest Thinlof Its Char
acter Ever Uaertaken By a
President.
FUTURE PFCE OF
VOID IN BALANCE
High Costof Living and Wages
of Wovers as Well as Treaty
and Iague of Nations to Be
DiscSsed.
: GEORGE II. MANNING.

wilmington, Aug. 31.-The speech
fnapg tour of the country which
Prudent Wilson will start next Wed
A.nfday win be the greatest thing of
kind ever undertaken by a presi-
apt OF the United States.
the thirty days or so that Presi-
N8t Wilson will be gone from Wash
ington in making the 25 odd speeches
he will not cover nearly so much
: ground as President Mckinley did on
a cross-country tour in 1901, or Pres
ldent Roosevelt in 1908, or President
Taft in 1911
But the immense Importance of the
questions which hang in the balance.
depending upon the acceptance or re-
lection OF the appeals President Wilson
will make TO the people in his speeches
dealing with the peace treaty and
League of nations. the high cost OF
living and the general strike situa-
tion-have no equal in history.
Upon the series of speeches Presi-
dent Wilson will make from coast to
coast may depend the future peace
OF the whole world and the future do
mestic welfare of the people of the en-
tire United States as directly affected
by our international relations. and
cost or living and earnings.
While the primary purpose of the
presidents tour will be to obtain the
support OF the people for the peace
treaty and league of nations as a
means or whipping the senate into line.
II is certain hc will touch very literally
upon the other two burning subjects
before the American people today
the high cost OF living and the wages
Of workers.
The president is expected to force
home some solid arguments against
profiteering In foodstuffs that win have
a noticeable effect in stemming the
rise i'm food prices. and to place the
national economic situation before the
people In such a way as to halt tenn
porarily at least the clamor on all sides
for increased wages or strikes.
The speech making tours made by
Presidents Mckinley, Roosevelt and
Taft had nothing more important for
their object than the reelection of
those gentlemen.
The announced purpose of Presi-
dent Wilson's trip is to force the rat
ification by the senate of the peace
treaty and League of nations. That he
will also try to beat down the high
cost or living and check the unrest
among the laboring classes is fore
gone conclusion. IL may also turn out
that his re-elections as president may
bo "a consequence of this coast-to- coast
trip.
President Monroe was the first
American president to make an extend
ed Journey. In the summer of 1917,
he left Washington and visited all the
states and the principal Qualifications
He was rowed up the Delaware river
from Wilmington to the Philadelphia
navy yard in a barge OF the figate
Franklin. The barge was lined and
trimmed with crimson velvet, and was
rowed by sixteen oarsmen. dressed in
scarlet vesas. with white sleeves and
trousers. His route led him through
New York. New Haven, Hartford,
r&prfngfield and Boston. From Boston
he visited New Hampshire and Ver-
|mont and stopped at Piattsburg, N. Y.
krrom there he went to Ogdenburg, Sac
kett's Harbor and Detroit He left
Washington in June and returned late
rin September.
BENJAMIN Harrison was the first
president TO so as far west as the
pacific coast He took the southern
route to Los Angeles. stopping at the
nrfncipal cities en- route. and visited
san Francisco. Portland and Seattle.
ua then took the northern route home
since Harrison the people of the far
vest have expected to get at least one
look at each president during his ad-
ministration.
T,he longest tour ever taken by an
American president was that of Theo-
sore Roosevelt in 1908 when he travel
oa $4,000 miles. Beginning on April
1908. he took the northern route
-,-ost and the southern route home,
,,ade forty stops and returned TO the
waite House on June 5th.
president Roosevelt was the first
,.,,,ertcan president TO really leave the
.,~-ders or the United States when he
Int to the Panama Canal zone TO
,,,,lse IN inspection of the canal. Pres
s.toot Cleveland and others only sailed
mort distance beyond the three-mile
,,,,,it from the coast.
yvuliam Mckinley was the first
.stdent to ms ke anything like TO-
'noo ,nile tour On April 20, 1901, ac-
's,,,panied by a distinguished party he
w, washington. visiting Memphis.
s.s,,, orleans. San Antonio, San Fran |
.tsco. seattle. Butte. Salt Lake City.
,,s,,,er. Kansas City. Chicago, Buffalo /