Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-09-26
TREATY HELPS WEAK
SAYS PRES. WILSON
WORLD is TIRED OF OLD SYSTEM
OF AUTocRArIc RULINGS
AMERICA NO GUTTER.
CHINA HAS A new FORUM
That's the Boy Admirers Yell Dur
ing Los Angeles Speech-With U.
S. Out Of League, Germany
Would Gain.

| Los Angeles. President Wilson
completed his week of speech-making
on the Pacific coast Saturday night
with monster massmeeting here at
which thousands shrieked approval of
the peace treaty.
| Welcomed to the city by a crowd
which densely packed the downtown
section, the president was cheered
tumultously everywhere he appeared
during the day. Along the line Of a
10-mile parade he rode in a din Of
applause and later at public dinner
cheers greeted his declaration that
the treaty should and would be ac-
| copied
Gets Cheers.
When he entered the auditorium for
his night speech he was cheered for
more than two minutes.
When Mr.. Wilson declared it was
men We're now opposing the league
some one in the crowd shouted
shame on Them" and many others
took up the cry. There were more
cheers moment later when he de-
clared the treaty was founded on
the rights of the weak rather than
the power of the strong 1t was a
peoples treaty, he said not a states
mans treaty. The peoples of the
world, he said, were tired of the old
system of autocratic domination and
they would overthrow it zone way or
another" Under the league, he added
autocratic governments would be ex-
cluded from decent society because
only self-governing peoples could hold
membership.
Quoting from friend, who, he
he saw them coming first" the presi-
dent asserted that some men could
not now see the facts in the treaty
discussion marching upon them.
MY prediction is that the facts
are going to see them" he added,
while the crowd cheered again, land
make very comparable meal of
them
Reviews Shantung History.
Mr. Wilson reviewed to length the
history of the German rights in
Shantung provinces, declaring when
these rights were acquired the state
of International law was such that
President Mckinley and Secretary
Hay did not even protest, but only
asked that American trade rights
should not be affected The Hay
open-door policy, he said, meant mot
the open door to the rights of China,
but an open door for the goods of
America"
Later, said the president, Russia,
France and Great Britain obtained
similar rights, without any protest
from the United States The peace
OF Portsmouth, he declared, by which
Japan acquired Port Arthur at the
end of the Russo-Japanese war, was
exactly similar" to the Shantung
provision of the present treaty. Each
he said, gave Japan rights in China
which had belonged to her defeated
enemy
Great Britain and France "can not
in honor" now violate their secret
treaties with Japan, the president de-
clared, and the only way in which the
case of Shantung could be bettered
was to go to war against France.
Great Britain and Japan. He asked
whether those opposing the Shantung
provision of the treaty were willing
to start such war and added: "Their
interest in China Is not the interest
OF assisting China, but of defeating
the treaty"
That's it, and that's the boy"
yelled the crowd, and then there were
more cheers.
Treaty Gives China a Forum.
Under the league, for the first time,
he said, China would have a forum
before which she could bring her
case. lie said he had felt that all
the nations had gone too far in their
acquisition of rights in China.