Evening star., 1919-09-21
PRESIDENT ENDS
|; !: :. :: TALKS ON COAST
Monster Mass Meeting Held
!: at Los Angeles After
1 Ten-MiIe Parade.
APPOSERS ARE "SHAMED"


=.
4y the Associated Press.
~ LOS ANGELES. Calf. September 20.
~President Wilson completed his
week of speechmaking on the Pacific
uoast tonight with a monster mass
meeting here, at which thousands
ehrieked approval of his plea for
<early ratification of the peace treaty.
Welcomed to the city by crowd
which densely packed the downtown
oection, President Wilson was cheer
ID unanimously everywhere he ap-
peared during the day. Along the
line of a ten-mile parade he rode in
q din Of applause, and later, at a
public dinner. cheers greeted his dec
Arations that the treaty should and
you'd be accepted.
{ 5000 Hear Speech.
! When he entered the auditorium for
His night speech he was cheered for
more than two minutes by crowd
estimated by the police at 5000. The
hall was jammed, and outside were
thousands who could not get in. Some
had been waiting since early morning
for the doors to open.
3 At the auditorium meeting Mr.. Will
6on was introduced by Mrs. Josiah
Evans Cowles, national president of
fhe General Federation of Women's
Clubs, who told the crowd that the
Nark of a war-weary world for all
time. The political partisan" she
asserted, had no place in discussion
Of the peace treaty.
The meeting had been advertised as
enc of strictly non-partisan character,
0ublicans sat on the platform. Among
tbem were Henry W. Wright. speaker of
The California assembly, and Marshall
Stimson, who was campaign manager in
i 4outhern California for Senator Hiram
". johnson in 1910.
= A1ludes to Mckinley.
The President alluded to an address
made by President Mckinley on the day
Hefore his assassination. and asserted
ghat the martyred Presidents words
mput arbitration seemed to show he
lad prophetic vision on the eve of his
leath.
g Referring to objections that the
fsague would involve the United
&tates in entangling alliances. Mr.. Will
SON said the league was in fact
proposal for disentanglement.
What Washington had in mind was
xactly what these gentlemen want
= lead US back to- he said. The day
u alliances is Behind u.s.
"a "Shame" on opposers..
when Mr.. Wilson declared it was a
after Of amazemcnt that some men
ers now opposing the league. some
z(ae ia. the crowd shouted "Shame on
hem!" and many others took up the
s&fy. There were more, cheers a mo-
lent later when he declared the
1featy was founded OH the rights Of
ne weak rather than the power of
1ke strong. 1t was peoples treaty.
- said. not q statasma1's treaty.
1.-The people of the world" said the
5efesident, were tired of old system
Y autocratic domi9ation and they
tould overthrow 'itsone way or an
sSther."
Under the league, he added, auto
@ratic governments would be exclud-
a from decent society. because only
ielf- governing peoples could hold
1Aembership.
Describing a friend who he said
never let the facts get him If he
NV them coming hrst," the Presi-
dent asserted that some men could not
low see the facts In the treaty discus
Ion marching upon them.
.s my prediction is that the facts are
6oing to see them.' he added. while
fAe crowd cheered again. .tand make
very comfortable meal of them"
&c As to Voting Power.
trurning in his speech to the objec-
non that Great Britain would have a
Hfeponderance of voting power in the
4eague assembly, Mr.. Wilson said it
NAs nonsense" to have any such fear.
fScause the assembly was largely a
NEebating body, while the colunci1
made the great decisions. Naming
canada, Australia and India, he ask
"a; "Woud you want to deprive these
m1llfons Of a voice in the debate?"
i The crowd replied NO" in a great
khorus and the President added:
1 Hts a proposition that never has
b9en stated because to state it an
tWers it."
rSpeaking unwisely and too soon,'
aid Mr.. Wilson, Germany has re-
kealed her hope that the United States
would be separated from the other
k1eat powers as it had been impossible
10 separate her during the war" The
krpwd stood up and shouted its ap-
krpval again when he added America
no gutter"
4 Saying he did not want to see the
Republican party "misrepresented and
hfsled," the President declared that
theh international affairs were at is
Que there had been neither republicans
tor democrats.
4 No man, he said, had a right to op-
lose a great constructive proposal ex-
(ept by a better constructive proposal
He was perfectly willing to go back
tb Paris to secure acceptance of a
getter league of nations, he added. If