Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-09-27
NOISY WELCOME
GIVEN PRESIDENT
WILSON GIVEN OVATION IN LOS
ANGELES, WHERE HE AD-
DRESSES MASS MEETING.
Ride of Ten Miles Through Streets OF
Southern California Metropolis 10
One of Continual Demonstration
for Executive.


Sacramento-"Th league of nations
is IA guaranty of justice and, without
the treaty of peace with Germany, in
Guiding the covenant, the world would
sink back into that slough of despond
in which mankind was before this war
began" President Wilson told a crowd
of 1900 persons that surged about
his special train when it stopped here
for twenty-five minutes Monday after
noon.
The president WAS completing IL
weeks tour of the state, his brief ad-
dress at Sacramento completing his
| speech making in the golden state.
The president had not originally in
tended speaking at Sacramento. but
acceded TO popular request As orig
inally planned, the president was to
have completed his weeks speech-mak-
| Saturday night.
Welcomed to Los Angeles by
crowd which densely packed the down
town section, the president was cheer
ed unanimously everywhere he APP
peared during the day. Along the
line of ten-mile parade he rode in
a din of applause and later at pub
lie dinner cheers greeted his declara-
tons 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 thous-
| and. The hall was damned and out
side were thousands who could not get
in Some had been waiting since early
morning for the doors to open.
| Mr.. Wilson alluded to an address
made by President Mckinley on the
day before his assassination, and as
serted that the martyred presidents
words about concord and arbitration
seemed to show he had prophetic
vision 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 acknowledgements.
What Washington had in mind was
exactly what these gentlemen want to
lead us back to-" he said. 1.-THE day
of alliances Is behind us"
Article y the president character
lied as an extension of the Monroe
doctrine to the whole world He de-
clared there could be no real world
rehabilitation until the universal spirit
of unrest was quoted by the establish
ment of peace.
Without the United States in the
league, said the president, there could
be no real guarantee of the peace set
Element. Because the American sugges-
tons at the peace table had been ac-
cepted as entirely disinterested, he de-
claied, most of the decisions at the
conference were framed, in the end,
ION American specifications" Indus
trially, economically, and politically, he
added, the world would be "in despair"
If America now deserted it.
President Wilson came to Los An
geles Saturday to conclude his stay
on the Pacific coast with two-day
| NiSii NNNOtSu hioSliS W ttst. ihS oiiy
appointments on his program up to
his departure Sunday night were a
public dinner and a night address at
the Shriners' auditorium.
Most of Sunday the president and
Mrs Wilson spent quietly, leaving
their hotel only to attend services dur
ing the morning at st. Paul's Episco-
pal cathedral. A report that they
would take an afternoon automobile
ride brought big crowd around the
hotel, but 1t waited in vain.
An extract from n magazine article
written in 1914 by Theodore Roosevelt
was read by President Wilson in an adj
dress at San Diego on September 10,
rs an argument in favor of the league
Of nations.
Speaking to a cheering crowd, which
filled the great San Diego stadium. the
president also quoted from Senator
Lodge. one of the most bitter oppon-
ents of the treaty In its present form,
and declared that. in framing the
league covenant. the Versailles confer
ence had followed the advice of these
and other Republican statesmen.
When the presidential special
stopped for a few minutes at Ocean