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New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
Kansas City

A reception committee was waiting
in the Union Station for President Will
sons train, and the downtown streets
were packed with crowd, waiting TO
welcome him as he passed on his way
to the Auditorium, where he spoke.
Led by the 7th Regiment Band, three
companies Of infantry and machine
gun battalion, the escorting parade
passed through four miles OF streets.
All the thoroughfares were thronged,
and the President and Mrs. Wilson.
who were in an auto with Governor
Frederick D. Gardner and Mayor James
Cowgirl, were greeted everywhere with
cheers and waving flags.
Fifteen thousand small American
flags were distributed to the people in
the Auditorium. The hall was crowded,
although arrangements had been made
TO seat 10000 persons. and thousands
who could. not find seats stood outside,
cheering at intervals.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
Whole World Waits
On Labor Question

"Do you realize, my fellow citizens,
that ali through the world the one cen
trail question of civilization is, What
shall be the conditions of labor? Tho
profcundest unrest in Europe is due
70 the doub. what shall be the condl-
tions Of labor, and | need not tell you
that that unrest is spreading to Amer
lea. The treaty Of peace Is Magma
Charta. great gGarantecr that llho,
shall have the counsels Of the w'll 1
devoted 30 the discussion Of its condi-
tions and Of its bettcrment; and labcr
al. over the world is waiting to know
whether America is going 10 take part
in those conferences or not.
"The confidence OF the men who
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
St. Joseph. Mo.

Several hundred persons met the
Presidents special when it stopped mere
for three minutes on the way to Des
Moincs.
The crowd swarmcd around the OBJ
scrvation end of the Presidents car
and called for speech, but acting on
the advice of DR.. Grayson he reirained
from making one and exchanged
friendly greetings.
A group of women Red Cross work
ers got the President and Mrs. Wilson
to sign their roster and Mrs. wilson
was presented with basket Of roses.
Many children, white and negro,
were lifted up to the rail so the Presl-
dent also could shake them by the
hand
The President seemed to enjoy par.
ticularly a tiny black pickaninny and
it's nanny, who, fighting way through
the crowd. got within reach Of the rail.
Hello, little one" he said, taking
hold of a chubby and dirty hand, Il am
trind to soc vou"
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comprehended in the treaty the Prcsi-
dent said that those processes were
more deadly than the processes of war,
and he declared that the weapon of the
boycott. as proposed by the trainers
Of the treaty. is "very much more ter
rible' than the taking up Of arms would
be-
."Thc most terrible thing that can
happen to an individual and the most
conclusive thing that can happen to
the nation is to be read out of decent
society" said he.
the parade OF the President and his
party arranged by the Chamber OF
Commerce Of Kansas City. under the
direction Of its president. 5. b. A.. Par
sons. The weather was perfect
The Presidents train reached Kansas
City at o'clock. on schedule time.
From an early hour people gathered
at way stations in Missouri, and whcr
eyer the engine stopped for water
there was curious gathering eager
.o see the nations chief executive.
The President was busy on rough
draft Of his notes clear up to the time
of, his arrival at Kansas City. so that
people advantaccously placed could see
him working his owr typewriter
The reception committee of the
chamber of commerce met the train
at the Union Station, and headed by
detachment of soldiers. the parade was.
quickly under way. The route Of the
parade was from the station cast to
Convention Hall. more than four miles
long. The people crowded the side
walks the entire distance. The ap-
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splendid steadiness of the American
people, but. my fellow citizens. the
whole world needs that steadiness
and the American people are the
makeweight in the fortunes OF man
kind. How long are we going to de-
bate into which scale we will throw
that magnificent equipoise that be-
long to US? How long shal! we be
kept waiting for the answer whether
the world may trust us or dcsplse
u.s. They have looked to use Tor
leadership.
"Thcy have looked to US for ex-
ample. They have built their peace
upon the basis of our suggestions.
That great volume that contains the
treaty Of peace is drawn along the
specifications laid down by the
American government. and now the
world stands at amaze because the
authority in America hcsitates
whether it will indorse an American
document or not.
"You know what the necessity oil
peace is. Why. my fellow country
men. political liberty can exist only
when there is peace. Social reform
can take place only when there Is
peace. ne settlement VI c'''n ~
tion that concerns our daily liie
waits for peace. | have been re-
cciving delegations in Washington
OF men engaged in the service Of the
government temporarily in the ad-
ministration Of the railroads and |
have had to say to them: 'My friends,
! cannot tell what the railways can
earn until commerce Is restored TO
it's normal courses. Until ! can tell
what the railroads can earn | cannot
tel. what the wages that the rail-
road. can pay will be cannot
suggest what The increase of freight
and passenger rates will be TO meet
these increases in wages if the rates
must be increased ! canont tell yet
whether it VIII be necessary to in
crease the rates or no., and must
r~k You 20 wait
But they are not tie only people
that have come TO see mc. There ar,
all sorts Of adjustments necessary n
this country. have asked representa-
tives OF capital and labor 10 come D
Washington next month and confer
confer about the fundamental thing OF
our life a present-that is to say the
conditions OF labor.
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posed to it. though they will pardon
me if | say ignorantly opposed.
have no quarrel with them. 1t has
been great pleasure to confer with
some of them. and to tell them as
frankly as would have told my most
intimate friends the whole inside of
my mind and every other mind that
| knew anything about that had been
concerned with the conduct of affairs
at Paris. in order that they might
understand this thing and go with
the rest of us in the confirmation of
what is necessary for the peace of
the world.
81 have no intolerant spirit in the
matter. but | also assure YOU that
from the bottom of my feet TO the top
Of my head have got fighting
spirit about it,
And if anybody Gares to defeat
this great experiment, then they
mus gather together the counscllors
of the world and do something
lafter
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07

The PrcsiRcnt, speaking IN the CoE-
scum at Dcs Nomcs, soid:
The world is desperately in
need of the settled conditions Of
peace, and it cannot wal. much
longer. 1t is waiting upon us. That
is the thought. that is the burden
some thought upon my heart TO-
night. ;hat tie world is waiting for
the verdict Of the nation to which it
looked for leadership and which it
thought would be the last that would
ask the world TO wait.
"The world is not at peace. I
surpo.e that it is difficult for one who
has not had some touch Of the hot
passion of tie other side of the sea
to realize how all the passions that
have been slumbering for ages have
been uncovered and released by the
tragedy Of this war
"And now all Of this is released
and uncovered. and men glare at one
another and say. Now we are free,
and what shall we do with our free
dom "
What happened in Russia was not
Il sudden and accidental thing. The
people of Russia were maddencd
with the suppression Of czarism.
When at last the chance came 20
throw OFF those chains they threw
them off, at first with hearts full Of
confidence and hope, and then they
found out that they had been again
deceived. There was no assembly
chosen to frame constitution FOR
them-or. rather, there was an as
sembly chosen to choose a constitu-
tion for them, and it was suppressed
and dispersed, and little group of
men, just as selfish. just as ruthless,
just as pitiless. as the Car himself,
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
Years Pay for Veterans

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-Repre
sentative Swopc, of Kentucky. to-day
introduced a bill to give one years
pay at the rate OF $50 a month TO
United States veterans Of the world
war in service more thar year, and
$50 for each month Of service for
those in the army or navy more than
two months.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
The Speech ut Des Holmes

assumed control and exercised their
power by terror, and not by right.
Poison was spread
Throughout Europe
"And in other parts Of Europe the
poison spread. The poison of dis
order. the poison Of revolt, the poison
OF chaos. And do you honestly think.
my fellow citizens, that none Of that
pcisn has - M the veins t this free
people. 10 you not know that the
world IS all now one single whisper
ing gallery. These antennae Of the
wirless telegraph are the symbols
Of our age.
"All the impulses Of mankind are
thrown out upon the air and reach
20 the ends of the earth. With the
tongue and the wireless and the tom
que of the telegraph all the sugges-
tiors of disorder are spread through
the world And money coming from
nobody knows where is deposited by
the millions in capitals like Stock
holm to be used for the propaganda
of disorder and discomfort, and dis
solution throughout the world, and
men loon you cdIInly III tne lace III
America and say they are for that
sort of revolution, when that sort Of
revolution means government by ter
ror, government by force, not govern
ment BY vote.
at is the negation of everything that
is American. but it is spreading. sand
so long as disorder continues, so long
as the world is kept waiting for the
answer to the question of the kind Of
peace we are going to have and what
kind of guarantees there are 70 be be-
hind that peace. that poison will
steadily spread. more and more rapirly
until it may be that even this beloved
land OF ours will be distracted and
distorted by it.
That is what is concerning me,
my fellow countrymen. | know the
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
Armenians Are
Still i'm Grave Danger

"And at this moment il j. an open
question whether the Armenian pco-
pie VIII not. while we sit here and
debate, be absolutely destroyed.
When | think of words piled on
words. Of debate following debate.
when these unspcakable things that
cannot be handled until the debate is
over are happening in these pitiful
parts Of the world, | wonder that
men do not wake up 20 the moral
responsibility of what they are doing.
"Grcat peoples are driven out upon
q desert whore there is no food and
can be none. and they are compelled
to die: and then men. women and chill
dren thrown into common grave, so
imperfectly covered up that here and
there is a pitiful arm stretched out
to heaven and there is no ply in the
world. When shall we wake to the
moral responsibility of this great
occasion?
"And 50 there are other aspects TO
that matter. Not all the popula-
tions that arc having something that
is not square deal live in Armenia.
There are others. And one of the
glOries Of the great document which
| brought back with me is this, that
everywhere in the area Of se'' lem nnt
covered by the political questions in
volycd in that treaty people Of that
sort have been given their free
dom and guaranteed their freedom.
But the thing does not end there,
because the treaty includes the cove
nant of the league of nations. And
what does that say? That says that
it is the privilege of any member
state to call attention to anything
anywhere that is likely TO disturb
the peace Of the world or the good
understanding between nations upon
which the peace Of the void 10.
pends. and every people in the world
that have not rot what , rr
they ought to have are thereby given
world forum in which TO bring the
thing to the bar Of mankind.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07

pause for the President was generous
all along the route. tra.Ticinc had been
excluded from the line Of march and
office buildings were quite generally
decorated with the national colors.
Kansas City is the home town Of
United States Senator James A. Reed,
one of the most aggressive opponents
Of the league Of nations and Mr.. Will
sons policies. Senator Reeds friends
we're on hand in force to see that his
political interests were protected, II
they needed any protection, and once
during the applause for one OF the
Presidents points man in the gallery
shouted Three cheers for Jim Reed!"
While it was not an interruption, it
was clear reminder that western
Missouri Is dcbatablc ground for the
central idea Of n league of nations.
Heard by 1000 Persons
The convention hall is enc of the
largest enclosures in the country. If
YOU ask native how many il will hold
he will say it will seat 1900, and that
twice as many as that can crowd in.
II seemed to be full when the Prcsi-
dent arrived. According to New York
standards there seemed to be about
10000 people in the hall. The decora-
,ions were profuse. Each seat occu-
,so,. lol boop providci with n small
flag and when they were waving 1t was
a sigh: to be remembered.
Edward F. Goltra, friend Of William
J. Bryan and member Of the Democratic
national committee, after listening TO
the Presidents address both in st.
Louis and Kansas City. said that he un-
qucstionably was making converts to
the league Of nations.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
Des MOines

President Wilson'S peace treaty spe-
cial arrived at p. m. and received an
enthusiastic greeting from the crowd
at the station. A reception committee
headed by Governor Harding and
Mayor Fairweather escorted the Presi-
dent to the Coliseum. where he spoke.
The President and Mrs. Wilson are
expected to spend Sunday here. 1t Is
believed they will attend the Central
Presbyterian Church in the morning
and take motor trip to Fort Des
Moines and Camp Dodge in the after
noon.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
Independence, Mo.

The Presidential special train arrived
soon after a. m. and waited for half
an hour The community turned out
in a body to see its visitor and point
out to him the spots that Jesse James's
childhood knew. Women in mother
hubbards surrounded the Presidents
car, pcering up at the windows in the
hope Of discovering what a Prcsldcn-
tial breakfast might consist of. It was
an event 10 be cherished along with
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07

attend the financial conference in Wash.
ington this autumn. PEDRO PALACES will
act as secretary of the commission,
which will include Manuel ". de Iriondo,
former president of the Bank OF the
Nation, and Luis Zuberbuler former
president OF the Commercial Exchange.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
On the Road With Wilson

the memories OF the notorious Jesse
James when the screen was removed
from the car window and President
Wilson leaned out to shake hands with
as many calico-gowned and shirt
slecved persons as could reach him.
The train departed in time to reach
Kansas City, ten miles away, at
o'clock
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
President Wilson risited four COM

President Wilson risited four com-
mmnities yesterday in his speech
making tour in behalf of the peace
treaty, dreakfasting at tho birth
place Of Jesse James in Missouri and
going to bed in Des Moines, Iowa.
Some of the incidents Of the days
journcu fOllOW:
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Argentine Mission Coming
For Financial Conference

BUENOS AYRES, Sept. 6.--Domingo
Salaberry, Minister Of Finance in the
Argentine government, will head the
commission from this country which will
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07

zcns in control of our affairs, then |
am with you 20 destroy the power OF
that CrOuD.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
Neutralized Austria

1t is to be hoped that Marcel Hutin, of
the Echo de Paris, is right when he says
that the peace treaty will forbid the in
corporation Of German Austria into Ger
many. Such union would be direct
threat against France. The French loss
in killed during the war was about l.
100000. The annexation Of Alsace-Lor-
raine just about offsets that loss.
Frances present population is less than
40,000000. Germany had a population
before the war of about 68,O000 900. Her
loss in killed may have been over 2,000,-
Posen and Silesia, a small strip of West
Prussia and all of North Schleswig, in
addition to Alsace- Lorraine, and then
annex German Austria, her area and
population would be considerably larger
than they were in 1914.
To France the segregation of Austria
from Germany is political and military
necessity 1t is one of the safeguards
against renewal cf Teuton aggression.
The acquisition of Austria would revive
the hopes and aspirations of the Pan
Germans, for it would give them chance
to argue that Germany had again made
a net gain in territory and population as
the result of war. Two impulses to re-
venge would be united. The German
stocks of Central Europe would be uni
fled politically as they never were before.
If left to herself German Austria
probably would gravitate into the Ger
man Empire-stiIl an empire, though a
republic. The most practicable way to
prevent this is to erect Austria into a
neutralized state like Belgium. If her in
dependence and territorial integrity were
guaranteed by an agreement like that
which protected Belgium up to 1914 her
people might soon content themselves
with a modest national existence, devoted
to peace and internal Development The
Austrians dislike the Prussians. They
are a milder race, with higher type Of
culture, and they would find many COM
pensations in q release from their dis
tasteful companionship with Hungary
and the burdensome obligations of their
former military alliance with Germany.
Vienna is a proud and ancient capital,
entitled to look down on Berlin as a
mushroom upstart. Would its future not
be more assured and more comfortable
as the seat of the government of a care
free and independent state?
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
MEAfBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Victory Asks

On the front page of The Tribune to-
day appears a message from the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to the people. Two
thirds of the allotted time has elapsed
and only one-third of the Victory Loan
has been bought.
This fact, as the secretary knows, is
neither humiliating nor ominous. 1t
needs merely to be displayed prominent
ly as reminder
THAT in the Rhine Valley the home
sckest, grouchiest, finest, bravest army
that ever went an errand for democracy
is dreaming every night of the Statue of
Liberty.
THAT over 1O0,O0O,C00 of the richest
and most prodigal people in the world
said to their government: "Damn the
expense! Do the job in hurry"
THAT their advice was literally con-
strued;
THAT the job is finished, all but the
paying;
THAT victory is priceless, whereas
the three billion dollars yet to be invest
ed in sound United States notes is only
a good weeks work
THAT the kind of democracy we be-
lieve in is one that paws its debts on de-
mand;
HAT we are the only people in the
ID with a surplus Of goods to con-
sumo and waste;
THAT we take the whole American
miracle too much for granted.
Those whom we sent to stop the Hun
did they ask, Glow much is it worth?"
Did they debate how much they could
afford to give?
Victory itself is an absolute thing. 1t
has no account to balance. We have won
it by the will of God and the valor of
our young manhood, and now we are on
our honor to pay for it cheerfully.
We will
Carter Glass's appeal on the front
pages of this mornings newspapers is a
s3,OO0,OO 900 draft on the faith of
democracy.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
The Soap-Boxers
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: note the statement that the Saliva
ton Army on its first coming to New York
was refused permission to speak in the
streets, although the purpose and character
of the army had long been known by its
excellent work in London and by the report
from London of our consul This throws
into high relief the unreasonable PRIVILEGES
which have been accorded to the Bolshevik
soap box spouter. His avowed object is the
subverson of our institutions and his in
c1dental intent is wholesale murder
The insstence by DR.. Hornaday on the
termination of this nuisance is plain. ordi
nary horse sense, No one will disagree with
HIM except those who seeking the over
throw of our free institutions and the senti-
mental, idle women, who have been we'll
dubbed "Parlor Bolsheviki," whose mental
processes are of such peculiar nature that
they consider that SO long as these fellows
are in the minority they ought to have all
the privileges of debate, it being understood
that if they ever acquired control it would
not only be no question of privilege of debate
but an immediate slaughter of all who dis
agreed with them. AS between the fools
who howl for Bolshevism and the fools who
are fearful lest they be mstreated, perhaps
the first the less vicious
The carrying out of the course insisted
upon by Dr. Hornaday would also be to the
best interests of the propagandists them
selves. If they force matters far enough.
relying upon the careless indifference of our
people, they will repeat Germany's error.
1t will be very unheathful for them to wake
up the real American in a fighting mood.
Under some circumstances they have not
always been known to wait the slow processes
Of law in dealing with traitors
CHARLES f. MANIERRE.
New York, April 2S, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
In Communistic Russia
(From The Morning Post)

An instructive example Of the effects of
Bolshevik methods of government is related
by M. Tchaikovsky, the President of the gov
ernment of Northern Russia, who is now in
London. Last years harvest in Russia was
good, but after it had been garnered the pov-
ernment issued decree that the cultivator
must not keep more than twelve pools of his
crops for himself, but must deliver up the
balance to the state. What was the effect
The despoiled peasants said to themselves:
1T is of no use for the future to SOW more
land than will produce twelve pools of grain,
for the produce will only be taken from u.s."
And on this conclusion they acted, with
results that have been terribly affecting for
Russia. Boshevism, in short, has succeeded
in making one blade of corn grow where two
or three grew before
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
The Cooking Teachers

If you are teacher in New York it is
of difference whether you are listed in
Schedules 3 l and B 2 or in 49, If you
are in the last-named classification you
don't get the 500 war bonus and for the
first five years of service receive the low
est pay in the school system.
A 4-3 teacher is an instructor in home
economics and has felt a special strain
during the war, as she labored to instil
knowledge of conservation. But to teach
anything "practical" is fad, and the
cooking teachers feel the weight of the
prejudice.
But the economic situation seems to
be taking care Of the discrimination. Of
the teachers available so per cent are
refusing appointment. Cooking is taking
on the status of a highly paid profess
sion, and the competent cooking teacher
does not need to worry about employ
ment. In the name of all the gods of
gastronomy, 4-3 teachers, appeal for
equal treatment
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
As Mexico Sees Us

Mr.. Carranza feels that the one great
problem in America for some years to come
will be the adjustment of relations between
labor and capital. He regards the increasing
number of strikes, the Boshevils propaganda.
the l. W. w. agitations as symptoms of un-
rest which, if neglected, may lead to grave
danger.
The danger may be averted, Mr.. Carranza
believes, by conciliatory action and wise
legislation, but if policy of repression is
adopted he feels that it will have merely a
temporary effect And the adjustment of the
relations between capital and labor seems
TO him to be more important just now than
the formulation of a world policy.
The time to establish league Of nations is
after, not before. the signature of the peace
treaty Mr. Carranza said, in the course of
one Of these informal conversations. "On