Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-05

the American delegate on the coun-
Gil would not act without Instructions
from his government.
Referring to the economic pressure
that would be brought to bear on
covenant breakers, the president SAID
economic pressure would preclude the
need of force.
10000 HEAR HIM.
President Wilson's address here
was made before crowd OF l60oO
people at the Fair Grounds Coliseum.
The president was escorted to the
hall by committee which included
Governor James P Goodrich, May
or. Charles T. Jewett, of Indiana
polls Thomas Taggart, former gov
orner: Samuel l.. Raulston, and
Franklin McCary, president of the
Indiana Branch of the League to
Enforce Peace. Thousands of per-
sons, including many visitors, to the
state fair, crowded the streets and
cheered Justify as the president
passed.
Goodrich, in a. brief address well
coming the president said everyone
wanted a zbetter understanding
among the nations, but that every
true American citizen also favored
strong nationalism. He pleaded
for all parties to lay aside parts
anship in deciding the isues OF the
peace treaty.
When the governor mentioned that
the meeting was to hear the presi-
dent. the crowd cheered for several
minutes and the governor could only
stop them by presenting Mr.. Wilson.
It was ten minutes before the
crowd was puieted and the president
proceeded. He traced the incidents
from which the reat war started,
saying the significant circumstance
that Austria and Germany "did not
dare to discuss the demands made on
Serbia. 1t generally was admitted
| abroad. he asserted. that if there had
been discussion there would have
been no war.
This fact. he said, recalled that
the part of the League of Nations
covenant" the agreement not to go
to war for nine months after a con-
troversy became acute. had not been
considered at all by those who citi-
cize the league.
eff there had been nine days" said
the president, Germany Would not
have gone to war"
Keep Men at Home.
The presidents speech was inter
rupted several times by noise in the
rear Of the great elliptical enclosure
Mr.. Wilson's voice did not carry
against the Din and many persons or
the outskirts, unable to hear, LEFT
the hall.
After the president had proceeded
for few mir,+es, he was forced tt
suspend while. the police closed tn,
doors.
1t was the second extended al
dress to he delivered by the presiden
during the first day of his country
wide speaking trip in the interests
of the treaty. Ealier in the dav a
Columbus. Ohio, he had outlined il
. fifty minute speech the purpose o
the trip, which he said. was to re
port to the people and to explain
Just what the treaty. contained.
The League of Nations, he ha
euologized at Columbus, as the onl
agency that would prevent recurrence
Of world war, and as a guarantee
that American soldiers would no
again have to cross the seas. Tn
treaty's provision for AN Internal
i, ional labor organization. he ais
praised, saying it was the magn
charta of the rights of labor through
out the world
IN short talk at Urbana. O.. Nj
Wilson also had declared the treat
was made for the protection Of tn
weak peoples of the earth and tbs
he was making his appeal for rat
fication as an American and withou
nartisan considerations. The pres
! dents next schedule address is in s
! Louis tomorrow night.