The Yale expositor., 1919-09-18
WILSON SPECIAL
IN bad LANDS"
Leaves Bismarck for the West
Late in the After
noon.
Big Day FOR A LITTLE CITY
Twenty Thousand North Dakota Farm.
ers Gather to See the Chief Mag
istrate-Johnson, Borah and
Mccormick Hit at President.


Bismarck, n. D., Sept 11.-If North
Dakota wants League of Nations ii
gave no tangible evidence of the fact
TO President Wilson here. Fresh from
an enthusiastic greeting at both ST.
Paul and Minneapolis he rode full
tilt against the hard-handed, sun
Drowned farmers of the great North
west, and found them hostile to the
thing that is nearest his heart. Fiji
teen hundred persons heard his argu-
ment practically in silence in the
auditorium.
This little town boasts of a popu-
lation of 1000 and it is estimated
that at least 10000 persons had come
in for the big event of the year. the
presidents visit. They were glad to
see him, to be sure, but all told this
day in North Dakota was the frostiest
one of the trip, and this despite the
fact that radiant sun warmed the
body and settled haze of heat upon
the foothills along the Missouri.
The crowd was curious to see the
president. 1t clapped its hands and
shouted loudly when he hove i'm sight.
But then, it was glad to see "old Bill
Brown" for instance, who was driving
the second car in the procession.
introduced by Governor.
The president was introduced by
Gov. Lynn j. Frazier the Nonpartisan
| executive of the state. and Governor
Frazier wasted no words in perform
ing this duty. What he said in brief
was something like this:
Ladies and Gentlemen: This is
great occasion for us. The president
is going to talk on some topics of ma
tiOnal interest. We're glad to hear
him"
The governor, IT is almost unneces-
sary to say, is against the league i'm
its present form, as is the Nonpartisan
! league, and as majority of the
farmers of this state profess that po-
litical creed they are against It. They
think the president is pretty much of
a "one-man" proposition. Out here
where the communal spirit is strong
that goes against their grain.
Only once, it seemed, did the presl-
! dent try TO warm up to his audience.
He asked the men where they would
sell their wheat if America was cut
off from the rest Of the world At no
time did he mention the name of Sen
atOr McCumber.
After the meeting the president was
driven 10 the country club, which
Let he. ~ ri
ing the now sluggish waters and mud
flats of the Missouri.
During the late afternoon the spe-
cial entered the bad Lands" coun-
! try, and the president and Mrs. VIII
son. from the observation platform of
their car, were interested spectators
of what nature can do when she has
tantrum.
johnson Hits Back.
Chicago, Sept 11.-United States
Senator Hiram w. Johnson attacked
President Wilson, the League of Ma
lions and the allied powers in vio-
lent talk before the Hamilton club
here. 1t was Wilson, the senator ex-
claimed, who had done the contempt
ible quitting" in abandoning the ideals
that he and the Americans behind him
stood for. 1t was Wilson also who had
done all the quitting on the questions
of self-determination, open covenants
openly arrived at and world democ-
racy.
"For every idealistic principle enun-
ciated my Wilson in 1917, there Is an
American grave i'm France today, with
old school diplomats walking over it,
winking at each other and laughing at
America" said the senator
He went on to accuse the allies of
having played false to their aims, or
at least to the aims which America
brought into the war. FOch and Glenn
enceau, Lloyd George and the various
those four or five foreign gentlemen"
"The peace treaty" he said, sis de-
signed to divide the spoil and booty
of the war among the four great pow
ers of Europe and Asia. We get none
other premiers presiding I'm the secret
councils" of Paris, he referred to as
of the booty. And we want none. The
! league is a covenant which guarantees
that this booty will remain in the pos
session. of the despoilers. 1t Is not our
duty to underwrite something which
is entirely un-American and entirely
unjust"
In the evening Senators Johnson,
Borah and Mccormick spoke to
large audience at the Auditorium the
alter.