South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-21
By Associated Press


Los ANGELES. Calf. Sept 90
Pres't Wilson completed his week Of
speech-making on the Pacific coast
Saturday night with a monster mass
meeting here at which thousands
shrieked approval of his plea for
early ratification of the peace treaty.
Welcomed 10 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 miles parade he rode in a din OF
applause and later ar a public din
ner cheers greeted his declara tions
that the treaty should and would be
accepted
When he entered the auditorium
for his night speech he was cheered
for more than two minutes by a
crowd estimated by the police at six
thousand The hall was CANNED and
outside were thousands who could
not get in. Some had been waiting
since early morning for the doors 20
open.
Introduced by COwles.
At the auditorium meeting Mr..
Wilson was introduced by Mrs.
Josiah Evans Cowles. national presi-
dent Of the General Federation of
Women's clubs who told the crowd
that the League must and will be
come the bulwark Of a war-weary
world for all time The political
partisan" she asserted, had no place
in a discussion of the peace treaty.
The meeting had been advertised
as one Of strictly non-partisan char
acter and many Of the states prOmi-
nent republicans sat on the plat
form Among them were Henry ".
Wright. speaker of the California
assembly. and Marshall Stimson,
who was campaign manager in
southern California for Sen. Hiram
w. Johnson in 1910
Refers to Mckinley.
The president alluded to an ad-
dress made by Pres't Mckinley on
the day before his assassination and
asserted that the martyred presi-
dents words about arbitration seem
ed to show he had a prophetic vi
sion on the eve Of his death.
Referring to objections that the
League would involve the United
States in entangling alliances, Mr..
Wilson said the League was in fact
a proposal for disentanglement
What Washington had in mind
was exactly what these gentlemen
want to lead us back to- he said.
THE day of alliances is behind us"
When Mr.. Wilson declared it was
matter Of amazement that some
men were now opposing the League.
some one in the crowd shouted
shame on them" and many others
took up the cry. There were more
cheers a 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 peo-
pies treaty, he said, not states
mans treaty.
The peoples Of the world, said the
president, were tired of the old sys-
tenn of autocracy domination and
they would overthrow lit on way or
another" Under the League he add
ed, autocratic governments would
be excluded from decent society be-
cause only self governing peoples
could hold membership.
Describing a friend who he said
never let the facts get him if 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
Make Meal.
MY prediction is that the facts
are going to see them" he added,
while the crowd cheered again, land
make a very comfortable meal of
them"
Turning to the objection that
Great Britain would have a prepon-
derance of voting power in the
league assembly. Mr.. Wilson said it
was nonsense" 10 have any such
fear. because the assembly was
largely a debating body. while the
council made the great decision.
Naming Canada, Australia and India
he asked:
Would you want to deprive these
millions of a voice in the debate ''