The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-09-08
W|L SON MOVING RAPIDLY
 ON HIS SPEAKING TOUR

I COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept 4-(49-An Columbus is in gala day attire this morning do honor President Wilson whose special reported be nearing this city The President opens his speaking campaign here at today and is scheduled speak Indianapolis tonight and St. Lous tomorrow.
 SPEAKS EXTEMPORANEOUSI,Y | ABOARD PRESIDENTS SPECIAL, Sept 4.-(H9-l President Wilson has announced the newspaper pondens who accompanying him on hls speaking tor' that he intends speak exemporaneous during hs entire rp It understood however, that the secretaries are bs lily engaged in preparing notes with regard to statistics o Hall kinds under the direction of Secretary Fuy and these the President will he fit He expects to sound the keynote of all his addresses when he speaks at Columbus to- |day.
 Columbus is the farthest of tfrtysx cities on the speaking route of the President Only four speeches are to be deevered of the Mississippi river All railroads are giving the Presidential special train clear track
 The President, it is stated, intends to rest but little until he reaches Seattle Washington the turning point o his trp where he will spend Sunday September H. Until that time all the he will get will be he travels for he does intend to stop at any place except long enough to deVer an address
 WILSON AT COLUMBUS I COLUMBUS Ohio Sept. 4.--(F)-Four thousand peo- pe heard the address delivered by President Wilson here today The speech have taken we'll with everyone of applause
 | The President was introduced by Former Governor Campbell of this state The in his preliminary re- marks said that it his purpose to introduce to the peo
 
 In opening his speech President Wilson said that It was hs purpose report his fellow countrymen of the dogs of himself and his colleagues at the peace conference III Paris He then told of the objects of the treaty. said that it undertook punish Germany for her crimes asanst the welfare of all nations but not overwhelmingly so as the crime of crushing great people could then be laid at the doors of the makers of the treaty and that the rearaon demanded of Germany is greater than she pay.
 Speaking of the league of nations the President sad that the league formed in ulfment of the promise that the United States made itself and its people in fighting the war, which end forever This meant. he further stated, that, establish the league would be to be m faithful those who died the bateiiel that democracy knight live forever.
 The President had but little to say against those who have aligned themselves against the ratification of the league in this country He stated however, that he IS astonsed some that have been made regarding the treaty by purporting to know what they were talking about but who showed clearly in most of their remarks that they had read the treaty before making them
 In other remarks in defense of the peace treaty the President said that it is shot thru with the American pri- ciple of choice of government giving the people o all the nations involved their choice regards the form oi government they desire to have He also predicted that the treaty will be accepted by all nations this ground no other In this connection the President urged his hearers not to let the treaty be msrepresented to them
 The President also expressed the opinion that the treaty will have the effect of binding the peoples of the world to- geher with their good impulses The international labor or ganzation which the treaty creates he said in this tion will hold its first meeting in Washington in October Whether the treaty ratified by congress by that time not
 CHINAMAN ASKS QUESTION
 COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 4.-(P)-As President Will son left the speakers stand today after delivering his ad dress Chnaman in the gallery shouted "How about Shan Itung?" The President however, evidently did not hear the in the existing turmoil he continued his way out of the building unnotcing the fact that he had been address, tied.
 2 WHAT DID HE MEAN? s| ABOARD PRESIDENTS SPECIAL, Sept. 4-(49- President Wilson came the of the platform of his o servation this afternoon the train passed thru towns where crowds had gathered in order that the people might see him. At Denison, Oho the train stopped for few moments and is believed that the President would have spoken had the cheering which greeted him subsed in time The noise great however, to drowned the is shout of in the crowd who said that Denson had voted against the President at the last election but that it would be for him time. To this statement the Pres dent replied "Oh No! laughing and shruggng his hou