The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-09-06
$4,000 PEOPLE !
APPLAUD WILSON
IN KANSAS CITY
Great Convention Hall Filled
With Crowd Which Cheers
for Two Minutes
SEES AN END TO FORCE
President Believes Arbitration
and Consultation Will Be
Substituted

Kansas Clty, MO-, Sept O.-TieSluent
Wilson appealed to Kansas City
crowd today to support the peace treaty
for charter for new order Of world
affairs.
Making his third speech for the
treaty in Missouri to capacity audi
ence President wilson spoke in conven-
tion hall said to accommodate $1,000.
When the president, accompanied by
Mrs. Wilson, appeared on the platform
of the auditorium the crowd, each OF
whom had small American flag,
arose and cheered for more than two
minutes. President Wilson had appear
ed in the presidential party parade
through four miles Of city streets to
convention hall.
Mr.. Wilson was introduced by B.
A. Parsons president Of the Kansas
City chamber of commerce.
The president covered many of the
same points Of the treaty he had dis
cussed in previous addresses
One of the things America had had
in heart throughout her whole exist
ence, said the president, was that ar
b;tration and consultation should be
substituted for force. This was accom-
plished, he declared, by the league OF
nations covenant.
Boycott Effective Weapon
The boycott imposed by the cove
nant was emphasized by the president
as constituting measure more effect
i've than military force. The most
conclusive thing that could happen
to a nation, he continued was ito be
read out of decent society,""
Effective disarmament would be ac-
complished under the covenant, Mr..
Wilson predicted, declaring it was ridic-
ulous to talk of the league as tending
to war when "its whole essence" is
arbitration and peace. The league he
declared would mean the end of the
military PLAN thruout the world for
ever.
"There is no other way to dispense
with great armament without an agree
ment of the great nations of the world
said Mr.. Wilson ''and here is the
agreement"
The End Of Autocracv.
Autocracy would perish with mill
tarism, added the president and the
intrigue which had terrorized Europe
for generations would be ended. He
declared that "demOcracies will sooner
or later have to destroy that kind of
government and if we don't do it now
the job will still be before u.s.
Moscow Worse Than Berlin
'The men who now control the
affairs Of Russia" said Mr.. Wilson,
represent nobody but themselves.
They have no kind Of mandate.
There are only 81 of them am
told. There is closer monopoly
in Moscow than ever was in Will
helmstrass And a man more cruel
than the czar is controlling the des-
tinies Of that people.
'And if we don't want little groups
Of selfishness to plot the future Of
Europe then we must see to it that lit
tie groups Of selfishness do not block
the future of the United States"
With Jaundiced Eyes
The people said the president had
been mislead about the treaty by men
who look at it with ''the jaundiced
eyes Of those who have some private
interests of their own" When these
men were 'bibbetted" by public opin-
ion they will regret that the gibbet
is so high"
IF anybody dares to defeat this
:. great instrument" he continued, "then
they will have to gather together their
councillors for the world and offer
something better. I say it is case OF
MT up or shut up. A negation will not
site the world.
ss's Not Looking For Fight
The president asked the audience
not to think he had come out to "fight
or antagonize anybody" II have the
greatest respect" he said, "for the sen
ate of the United States. But I have
come out to fight cause that is great
err than the senate and intend to
fight that cause In office or out as long
as I live"
President Wilson ended his address
at 1855 a. m.