Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-09-19
PRESIDENT AND MRS.
WILSON MOTOR IA
MILES IN COLD RAIN
Executives Wife Wrapped in
Rugs; Ranch Houses Are
Decorated.
MAKES SPEECHES IN
IDAHO AND WASHINGTON
Gathering So Great at Spokane the
atty Authorities Were Compelled to
Hold a Lottery--Lucky Ones Heard
the President Talk.

the President Talk.
Spokane, Wash, Sept. ia cordial
welcome was given the president here.
where the authorities, because of the
demand for seats were compelled to
hold lottery. The holders of the
lucky tickets heard the president, and
the remainder of the people of this
city of the finland Empire" gathered
on the sidewalks, streets, window
ledges and fire escapes of buildings
along the line of march.
The president spent only two hours
here but Spokane made the most OF
every minute of his stay. The Spo-
kane crowds constituted one of the
extremes of this busy day.
In opening his address, President
Wilson said there was an element of
personal bitterness in the fight
against the treaty and the league
covenant.
Did Not Originate Covenant.
II did not originate it," he said. "It
is not my handiwork. 1t originated
out of the thought of men who have
loved justice and peace for ages
The president said he had in fact
obtained his idea of league chiefly
from the utterances of Republican
public men. He mentioned the name
of former Senator Burton of Ohio as
one of these, and declared he could
mention others, tut that he "did not
want to mention other gentlemen by
name for he would record them
against themselves"
LODGE" shouted man from the
| audience. The meat of the presidents
address was an antagonistic analysis
of the program of reservations as
adopted by the senate foreign relations
| committee. He went to some pains in
attempting to explain how Great Brit
ain, through her dominions, had six
votes to the one Of the United States.
The one vote of the United States, he
declared, could always be used as a
veto.
Because of this veto power" he de-
clared, II look with perfect philoso-
ply upon the difference in number"
II hope" declared the president,
''my fellow citizens, that you will not
think of 1920 when you think of re-
deeming the world" :
In his Idaho meeting at Occur
d'Alene the president did not mention
Senator Borah by name, but he spoke
of those who are against any world
league as those who would have the
United States desert the world in
great crisis. He did not refer to the I.
w. w. activities in the state. He rec
ognized, however, that he was in the
midst of a people who are progressive
in all senses of the word, and he said:
IF America does not enter with her
whole soul into this world arrange
ment, the progressives might as well
go out of business"
How can we carry out programs Of
reform In this country, he asked, if the
spirit of bolshevism, now rampant in
Russia, is to prevail? There can be
no reform in the world for a genera
tioT, he said, if conditions are not now
brought to settled order-and this cam
not be done without the cooperation
of America
Everybody who hopes for reform
he said, must support the unqualified
Endorsement of the treaty." He sent
that challenge to the world.
Long Drive in Cold.
1t was a cold, rainy day and the
president and his party motored IA
miles from Rathdrum to Occur
d'Alene. Mrs Wilson went along, all
wrapped in rugs. The ranch houses
along the way were decorated with
flags. In the towns the children and
bands were out to witness the presi-
dent
Gov. d. w. Davis came up from
Boise to meet the president. He pre-
sented him to the Occur d'Alene audi
ence. He said that, for the day, the
people would bury all differences and
remember they were americans. He
did not refer to the peace treaty. The
president likes the far West, it's vast
distances and its peace. He speaks of
its remoteness from the turmoil and
passion of the old world, how far ii is
from the infinite suffering, the strain
and terror of the thing through which
the world is passing.
At Rathdrum the president said his
visit to various parts of the country
had convinced rim that the people
thought the treaty ought TO be ratified
and that he hoped that consciousness
would penetrate where it was most
needed.
INDIAN Summer"