Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-12
WILSON DEALS
WITH RADICAL
BENT OF WEST
Reveals More of Plans to
Bring Benefits to All
Workers.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE,


{ Spokane, Wash. Sept 11D-Tears
of unforgOtten sorrow. not the Joy
of holiday applause-wiII ever ba
remembered by President Wilson
and members of his party as the
pathetic Outburst of bereaved moth
ers and fathers in Montana as they
listened to touching words of con-
ISOLATION from the man who said
their sons had died in a cause even
greater than the preservation OF the
union, namely saving OF ciyiliza-
ton.
The president comedies that his
was the possibility: his the
orders which sent hundreds of
thousands of American boys TO
their death in France, and that his
is the duty of assuring parents and
relatives whose lads made the sac
riice but it is not forgotten, that
it is not now to be denied that
America went TO war TO save
democracy and to prevent further
war. And as he portrayed the noble
ness of spirit and patriotism that
lay behind the willingness to give
life itself for the American ideal,
the eyes of the people seem TO re
veal an approaching response.
Audience Shows Emotion.
J In Billings. Mont, the audience
gave way TO its emotion, haDdker-
chiefs went to the eyes of young
and old. Tie mere mention of what
satisfaction those beTeaved parents
had today in the memory of the
heroic dead, was sufficient To draw
the crowd TO its distinguished
speaker.
America lost relatively few in
the war but here and there groups
of parents sit in the big auditor
iums which welcome the president
and they st as if they had come
TO hear again from the president
what the war was for, what their
boys fought to attain. Mr.. Wilson
! did not omit at Billings TO reach
to the hearts of such a crowd. Evil
( IDENTIFY he saw many and his audi
ence who were weeping. SO he ut
tered words of consolation and
said that tears Of sorrow" were
also tears of hope and ne prayed
that the sacrifices would prove not
TO have been in vain.
Gives BOlSheYiSm AntidOte.
/ These are curious meetings in the
northwest. Here great waves of
radicalism have surged from the
( Pacific coast eastward and Mr.. Will
. son felt incumbent upon himself to
say that the war was fought not
merely for political democracy
: f that, he said. would be useless
without industrial democracy" but
TO better the living conditions of
( human beings everywhere. 1t was
! here in the radical northwest that
7 the president unfOIded for the first
time the philosophy which he thinks
| will checkmate boIshevism in the
! United States and will do a great
deal towards squeIching it on the
tremulOus continent of Europe.
/ Here are his suggestions:
| First-Remove the food on
I which bOlshevism feeds, name
/ ly, wrongs suffered by the aver
I age man and woman, and i'm
posed by class friction and
misunderstanding.
Second-To end class war
fare. the president proposes
conference, discussion, expos
ure. conciliatory disposition
and willingness on the part of
each class at least to listen 10
the other point of view.
Third-So long as wrong ex-
lists, there is no legitimate ex-
cuse to suppress agitation.
Agitation itself doesn't do so
much harm, he thinks, as indif-
ference to it creates bad feel
ing and industrial stagnatiOn.
Fourth-Agitation that has /
for its real purpose the attain /
ment of objects through ways /
other than the political means /
OF the orderly processes of /
government should be crushed /
and presumably the whole /
power OF the federal govern
ment will be invoked to drive
the poison of such propaganda (
out of the veins of American
communities.
F'ifth-Destroy every mo-
uopoIy no matter by whom
held the president adds. that
mo minority. no class. no spe-
cial interests. no matter how
respectable. how rich. how
poor, should get control of the
affairs of the United States"
Remedy for Unrest.
The president dweIIs on indus
trial unrest. because he believes
delay in signing the treaty and es-
tablishing a concert of nations is
stimulating unrest everywhere and
postponing the settlement of do
mestic problems in all countries. /.
large and small. Yet, the people.
after the meetings. do not seem TO
understand why Alr Wilson Is op- h
posed to reservations to the peace !.
treaty. They applaud him as he
denounCes the suggestion of two
years withdrawal from the league.
but so effective has been the cam
paign in this section of RepubIi-
can newspapers which favor the