Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-11
OPENS
TREATY CAMPAIGN
|NMONTANA TODAY
Speaks at Billings After
Sleeping Quietly When
EtSidetracked."
PEOPLE COME IN FROM
500-MILE RADIUS
Second Speech in the State Will
Be Made at Helena
Tonight.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BILLINGS, Mont. September IL
The special train carrying President
Wilson and the presidential party ar
rived in Billings at S:55 o'clock this
morning from Worden. a small town
twenty-five miles east of here. It was
sidetracked at Worden after midnight
to give the party opportunity for un-
disturbed rest.
Thousands Of visitors from q 500
mile radius were here to greet the
President. Eight thousand or more
persons filled the fair grounds audi
torinm within an hour after the doors
were opened at o'clock and the
streets were lined from the detrain-
ing place to the grounds gate.
At Helena Tonight.
After his address here-the President
will depart for Helena, where tonight
he will deliver his second scheduled
ssLAyih6 Ms aSbeal for the peace
treaty befoSe the people, President
Wilson today declared the question OF
It's ratifcationA was a question whether
the United States would fulfil its
The President arrived here from
Bismarck, N. DA only short time
before the hour Tor his address. At
the auditorium ha found all Of the
5000 seats taken and many standing.
"some Man." Says Mayor.
Mayor W. Lee Mains, introducing
the President, said that where a man
went across the sea and did the major
portion of the work OF Fighting the
whole worlds troubles Me was some
man" Yells from the crowd greeted
this declaration, and there were more
cheers when the mayors little daugh-
son.
Mr.. Wilson said he had cone west
to consult" with the people Ain the
light Of circumstances which affected
the whole world. Everywhere, he de-
clared. the human heart beats the same
was sincere desire that there should
be no more war.
Not an Ordinary Treaty.
1t was a mistake. therefore. the
President continued, to debate the
peace treaty as If it were an ordinary
treaty. 1t was not merely a treaty
with Germany, he said, but a treaty
effecting a settlement of the affairs
Of the world.
And it is this treaty or no treaty"
he added. 1T Is this treaty because
there can be no other.
This settlement is the first inter-
national settlement that is based upon
the happiness of the average people
throughout the world. 1t is peoples
treaty. and venture the prediction
that 1t Is not wise for parliaments and
congresses to attempt to alter it,
Severe Treaty, But Justly So.
It is a severe treaty. the President
men who had called it unduly harsh.
he added, were criticising the admin
istration year ago because they
thought the United States would be
too easy with Germany.
They were pitiless them" he said:
they are pitiful now"
The American dead in the war, Mr..
Wilson declared. had fought not for
the redemption OF America, but for
the redemption Of the world. It was
one Of the hardest Of his trials during
direct the policies Of the nation and
not ito take a gun and go myself"
The basic principle of the treaty.
said Mr.. Wilson, was that the terri-
tory everywhere belonged to the peb-
pie who live upon it. 1t was the
added. and has very few compro-
misses in it," following in general
American specifications. Should II
fail. he declared. it would be i'm
possible to get together again the
elements necessary to make a new
settlement. The United States either
must take the treaty. he said, or play
a lone hand in world affairs.
Lone Hand Must Be Armed.
IF you're going to play a lone
hand" he said, "the hand that you
play must have weapon in it. And
the weapon must be an the young
men of the country. and the business
| Of the country must pay the piper"
There was a spirit Of unrest every
where. he continued, and it was the
province OF the treaty to set up an
Industrial decocracy as we'll as
political democracy. He continued
| that there were domestic questions
| to be settled in that connection, be-
cause there could be no Industrial
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