Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07
Whole World Waiting I'm.
easily While Poison Which
Wrecked Russia Is Spread
ing, President Says.
QUICK RATIFICATION
OF TREATY IS URGED
Shantung Provision Defended :
in Address Made at Des
Moines Saturday Night Be-
fore $500 in Coliseum.
Hourly tennperntures

Des Moines, Ia, Sept. 6.--(By The
Associated Press.)-A possibility
that bolshevism may spread in
threatening proportions to the
United States unless the peace
treaty is ratified promptly, was sug-
gested by President Wilson in all
address here tonight
The whole world was waiting un-
easily, he said, while the poison
which had wrecked Russia was
spreading among peoples who did
not yet know what guarantees theTsN
were to be for liberty in the new
world order. Labor and caAfal in
the United States, he asserted. could
not proceed intelligently with their
settlements, nor could great prob
lens like the railroad situation be
solved while the suspense contin-
ued.
Mr.. Wilson defended the Shan
tung provision of the treaty, and said
the league covenant section refer.
ring to the Monroe doctrine had
been inserted to give the Monroe
doctrine right of way in the western
hemisphere He declared his con-
viction that it would do so.
Making his second address of the
day, the president spoke in the Des
Moines Coliseum. said to seat $500
Every chair was taken and many
were standing. Earlier in the day
he had spoken at Kansas City, Mo,
more than 80 miles away.
An escort of aeroplanes dropped
flowers on the presidents special
train as it approached the city, and
he was cheered during an automo-
bile ride through crowds that packed
the downtown streets far out be-
yond the curb. When he entered the
Coliseum he was cheered again.
Invocation Opens Meeting
The meeting was opened with an
invocation, and Mr.. Wilson was in
troduced by ]. B. Weaver, president
of the Des Moines Chamber of Com
merce, who spoke on the "outstand-
ing figure in the life of the world to-
day.
Mrs. Wilson was not Of the plat
form.
Describing the world as desper-
! ately in need of the settled condi-
ton of peace, the president said the
United States, the last nation which
the world expected to have to wait
upon, was delaying the coming of
that peace.
The treaty, he said. not only would
70 1tct, h,,t Il
ever the rule Of few men over the
destinies of the many
The president said he had not
been able to work out the solution
of railway problems until he knew
when a peace basis came. The con-
ference of labor and capital in
Washington next month, he con-
tinued, also would have its delibera-
tions affected by the answer to their
question. Labor "all over the world
is waiting" he asserted, ito see
whether the United States accepted
the treaty's provision for all inter-
national labor organization" +.
The United States, said the presi-
dent. could not participate in the
world labor conference to be held
in Washington soon under the
treaty unless the treaty was ac-
cepted by this country. Such a
condition would be Uncomfortable"
he added, and would lead to the
greatest modification
THE world is waiting" said the
president, ito see not whether we
will take part. but whether we will
take the lead"
Mr.. Wilson said he had been IAN
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