The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-09-25
PEOPLE MISLED
SAYS PRESIDENT
SMALL AND TECHNICAL OBJEC-
TIONs NOT TIMELY.
Crowd in Oakland
Seating Capacity of Thirteen Thous'
and i'm Auditorium Not Suf-
ficient for Audience.

n
ficient for Audience.
Oakland, CAL, Sept. 1S.-Presi-
dent Wilson told an audience here
that the people had been "singularly
and, sometimes fear, deliberately
misled" as to the contents of the
peace treaty.
In an address interrupted many
times by cheers he said that any man
who discussed the treaty on the basis
of small and technical objections
would in the end be overwhelmed"
by public opinion.
Mr.. Wilson spoke before a crowd
which. damned the auditorium here
with it's seating capacity of $4,000.
Many others stood in the aisles and
in the rear of the galleries.
For the first time during his trip
the president was introduced by a
woman, DR.. Aurelia H. Reinhardt'
president of Mills College of Oakland,
presenting him as one to whom the
international affairs of the country
might be safely entrusted. When he
rose to speak some one shouted, Are
we with him ?" and many shouted in
chorus, eyes"
For the second time during his trip
Wilson, whose purpose was not to
serve governments but ''to serve peo-
ples,'' all the peoples of the world,
he declared, at last had seen a vision
of liberty and had drawn up treaty
for the peoples "and the fortunes OF
children everywhere" 1t was for the
benefit of those Sf future generations,
he asserted, that the document had
been formulated.
"The characteristic" of the treaty.
asserted Mr.. Wilson, was that 1T
gives liberty to peoples who never
could have won it for themselves. ~
Had the world not already been rent
by the great war, he said, the world
would have been amazed that such a
thing was possible. He declared it
meant the end of the dreams of every
imperialistic government in the world.
For one thing, continued the pres
ident, the treaty attempted to inter-
nationalize all of the great water
ways of Europe. He said that in ef-
feet it proposes to ''rut OUT every in
fluence of national privilege.
!. Discussing the labor section OF the
treaty, he declared there would be set
up a new standard of labor for the
whole world under which laborers
would be regarded as human"
In that connection he mentioned
the seaman's act passed by congress
few years ago.
The international labor conference
to be held in Washington next month
was recalled by the president and he
was cheered when he added:
eve are waiting to learn from the
senate of the United States whether
we can attend it or not"
In short, said the president, the
treaty provided an Organization o1
liberty and mercy for the world.
Referring to Germany's temporary
exclusion from the league of nations
the president said if the autocratie
German government were revived
with a Hohenzollern on the throne
Germany forever would be excluded
from the league and from respect
able society.
"The Hapsburgs and the Hohenzol
lerns are permanently out of busl
ness" added Mr.. Wilson, while the
crowd cheered again.
There were more cheers when hi
referred to the withdrawal feature O.
the league covenant and said tina
should the United States go into th'
league with a seat near the door,
it would be invited to take a from
seat Immediately.
Turning to the arbitration and dis
cussion features of the covenant, tn
president said it invited all the ma
tions to lay any grievance before tn
jury of humanity before going to war
eff you think you have frient
who is fool" he added, tencourag
him to hire hall"
Some one in the gallery shouted
ooh you Hiram Johnson" and tn
crowd laughed and cheered.
America foremost of all nations
said the president. declared it as on
of the principles on which she enter
ed the war that there should be n
more wars.