Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-09-10
Presidents Arguments Are Re- ceived With Cheers in
 Minnesota.
HYPHEN IS SCORED AS
 BEING "UN- AMERICAN"
Hearers Tell the Speaker to "Go To It" in His Fight for the Rat
 ification of the
 Covenant.

St. Paul, Minn., Sept 9.-Readjust- mcnt of the cost of living, President Wilson declared here today, must await the establishment of com pete peace basis, which will put la- bor and capital on their feet.
 In two addresses the president as- serted that the connection between accordance of the treaty of peace and amelioration of living conditions was q direct one, and that the world was looking to America to take the lead
 in restoring the world to sound economic basis.
 Mr. Wilson spoke in the morning at special session of the Minnesota l legislature and in the evening at a public meeting at the St. Paul audi torium During the afternoon he also addressed meeting in Minneapolis. | Tomorrow he is to speak in Bis marck, N. D.
 For his night meeting here, the president found the auditorium filled to capacity.
 Opening his speech, MT. Wilson said there were no political considerations treaty. It was an American issue, he
 
 people rather to "hold counsel" than to make fight against anybody.
 Despite the varied national origins of the people of America, said the president. a distinctly American type had been developed and one of the dis functions of that type was the belief
 in equality, as contrasted with the class distinctions of the other coun-
 tries.
 Adding that there were "a great
 many hyphens" left in America, the
 president declared a "hyphen" the "most un- American" trait to be found
 in the country.
 Speaking of the mixed origin of
 the American people, the president said:
 Race Mixed One. 'Tt is based upon long experience that in every part of the world l can , recognize an American the minute l l see him. he said "And yet that is not because we are all of one stock. We have more people of various or
 igin of stock than any people in the world. We come from all the great , caucasian races. We are made up of all the nations of peoples who have . stood from time to time in the center l of civilization.
 'In this part of the country it is l doubted whether in some of our great cities fifty per cent of the people come
 from parents born in America. l "The memory of America does not = go very far back as measured by the [ distances of history. A great many millions of our people carry m their = hearts the traditions of other people, : the traditions of races never bred in :. America, and yet we are all unnlis- I ltakably and even in appearance I American and nothing else. And there g is only one possible explanation for !, that, my fellow citizens, and that IS : that there is in the practice and III l the tradition of this country, set ot . principles, which however imperfect- . ly. get into the conscience of every l. man who lives in this country
 Just as the soldier of the civil wal
 had saved the country, MT. Wilson
 said. the American soldier Gin this : war had saved the world" And just q as great nation had really beer , born from the civil war, so "a great |. CT thing" would result from the sac f. rifices of the past few years" a Saying that of course the league Q would not be an absolute guarante' d against war, MT. Wilson asked wheth n CT it would not be worth while ii I q reduced the probability even by tel
 per cent. There were many cries O T. 'Yes, Yes," over the hall and then 7. burst of cheers. The crowd cheere. n again when the president added :" .s think it reduces it about 99 per cent