Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-21
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WILSON AT LAST
COAST MEETING
President Completes Week of
Speech Making in Los
Angeles.

Los Angeles, Sept. 20.-President
Wilson completed his week Of speech
making on the Pacific coast tonight
with monster mass meeting here
at which thousands shrieked ap-
proval of his plea for early ratifca-
ton Of the peace treaty.
Welcomed to the city by crowd
which densely packed the downtown
section the president was cheered
tumultuously everywhere he ap-
peared during the day. Along the
line of 10-mile parade he rode in a
din of applause and later at public
dinner cheers greeted his declara-
tions that the treaty should and
would be accepted.
When he entered the Auditorium
for his night speech he was cheered
for more than two minutes by a
crowd estimated by the police at
5000. The hall was jammed and out
side were crowds who could not get
in. Some had been waiting since
carly morning for the doors to open.
At the auditorium meeting Mr..
Wilson was introduced by Mrs.
Josiah Evans Cowles. national presi-
dent of the General Federation Of
Women's clubs, who told the crowd
that the league of nations must and
will become the bulwark of a war
weary world for all time" The "po-
litical partisan" she asserted, had no
place in discussion of the peace
treaty.
Nonpartisan Meeting.
The meeting had been advertised
as one OF the strictly nonpartisan
character and many of the states
prominent republicans were seated
on the PLATFORM. Among them were
Henry w. Wright, speaker of the
California assembly, and Marshall
Stimson, who was campaign man
sger in southern California for SEN
ator Hiram w. Johnson in 1910.
Mr. Wilson alluded to an address
made by President Mckinley on the
day before his assassination and as
serted the martyred presidents
words about conquered and arbitra-
ton seemed to show he had pro-
phetic vision on the eve of his death.
Referring to objections that the
league would involve the United
States "in entangling alliances" MI.
Wilson said the league was in fact
a proposal for disentanglement.
"What Washington had in mind
was exactly what these gentlemen
want to lead us back to do he said.
The day Of alliances is behind us"
Peoples Treaty, Wilson Says,
When Mr.. Wilson declared it was
matter of amazement that some
men were now opposing the league.
someone i'll the crowd shouted
shame on them" and many others
took up the cry. There were more
cheers moment later when he de-
clared the treaty was founded on
the rights Of the weak rather than
the power of the strong. 1t was a
peoples treaty, he said, not a states
mans treaty. The peoples of the
world. said the president, were tired
of the old system of autocratic
domination and they would over
throw it zone way or another"
Under the league, he added, auto
cratic governments would be exclud-
ed from decent society because only
self-governing peoples could hold
membership.
Describing a friend who he said
never let the facts get him if he
saw them coming first" the presi-
dent asserted that some men could
not now see the facts in the treaty
discussion marching upon them
my prediction is that the facts
are going to see Them" he added.
while the crowd cheered again, "and
make very comfortable meal of
them"
Reviews History of Shantung.
Mr.. Wilson reviewed at length the
history of the German rights in
Shantung province, declaring when
those rights were acquired the state
of interpational law was such that
President Mckinley and Secretary
Hay did not even protest. but only
asked that American trade rights
should not be affected. The Hay
open door policy, he said, meant
mot the open door to the rights of
China, but an open door for the
goods of America"