Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-13
Idaho Senator Declares Presi-
dent Wilson Could Settle
Question of Reservations by
Cable in Four Days.
AUDITORS MAKE IT CLEAR
THEY "MEANT BUSINESS"
Ovation Given to Orator and
Enthusiasm Excited by His
Arguments Show Nebraska
Is Against League Of Nations.
BY WILLIAM TANQUERY.

Nebraska is undoubtedly three
quarters, and probably more, solidly
against the league of nations, with
or without reservations or amend
ments, or any other excuses or pal
liatives, and with or without the
sugar coating of world huma anitar-
ianism or a gustatory emollient.
This conclusion is drawn from the
Borah meeting at the Auditorium
last night and is as logical, sound
and incontrovertible as the one found
in the old saw which relates the
loss of the horse because of the loss
of the shoe, etc. There were above
1000 people jammed into the place
to hear the speaker from the senate,
estimating that the ordinary capac-
ity is that number. Every seat on
.he main floor and the gallery was
taken, and people were packed along
the walls downstairs, and stood back
of the last seats in the gallery in
rows so deep that those in the rear
could scarcely see. In addition, in
the gallery men stood and sat on
the steps of the aisles.
E.r,.--. Fire Questions at Senator. IS
And they were all solid, substantial
looking business people, people of
intelligence and standing, whether
clearly and apparently in business or
in the trades or the professions.
There was but one youth visible in
the house. Not an urchin, or
clacque, or coterie of curiosity seek
ers such as are commonly used to
pack the vacant spaces of a meet
ing. was visible anywhere.
Plenty of laboring men there
were and they made themselves
manifest by the volley of questions
they fired at the senator. 1t was
these questions, with the close atten-
ton given by the remainder of the
audience, both to questions and an
swers, which sounded the keynote
or gave the cue as to their charac-
ter, their state of mind and their
opinions. }
Women were in the minority, con-
stituting about IS per cent of the to-
tai only, but, like the men, they had
come, not to enjoy an evenings en-
tertainment and hear a famed fig
ure of the United States and lead
ing member of the senate make an
address in person, but to do busi--
ness.
Came for Business.
Men were recognized in the audi
ence who had come from the diff
ferent points about Omaha distant
40, so and 100 miles in all four di-f
rections. They had come for busi-
ness; they looked business; they
wanted business land incidentally
, they got it from the senator), and
they cheered like they meant busi-
ness.
In fact, if the enthusiastic and fe-
verish remarks heard throughout the
crowd could be quoted, they cheered
like something else.
And quarters of them were
! against the league.
They showed this by the trernen-
>dous enthusiasm and roar that went
up when the senator made one of
his innumerable telling points
against it, and if representative
crowd of Nebraskans express them
selves so forcibly in opposition to
the league and all its intents and
, purpose as did the 1000 people at
the Auditorium last night, It is an
unacceptable conclusion that the re-
n1ainder of the state would and will
| line up the same way
Nebraska Against League.
Nebraska wants none of the
league. There is no other conclu-
sion to be drawn.
The whole tenor of the reception
given the senator was extraordi-
nary and unprecedented, both in
enthusiasm and incidents by which
this was made manifest. By COM
mon agreement, heard in remarks
all through the crowds as they filed
out after the address, the enthusiasm
far exceeded that at the Wilson
meeting, as far as volume and spon-
taneity was concerned, while in
earnestness and sincerity there was
no comparison.
The iyells of approval that greeted
Borah's telling points came right
from the bottom of the heart, in
spired by solid. sincere and un-
changeable conviction. There was
no camouflage or political red fire
or mob hysteria about it.
Crowd Sings America"
The entrance OF the senator gave
occasion for a significant incident
For 20 minutes the Auditorium had
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