Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-16
WE ARE GOING To !.
SEE JOB THROUGH
SAYS WILSON IN
PORTLAND SPEECH
No Matter What influences
Are Brought to Bear on the
Treaty, Il Is Going TO Be
Ratified, President Predicts,
GREAT OPPORTUNITY
FOR AMERICA, SAYS
Our Fortunes Are Linked Up
With the Rest of the World
10000 Clamor for AdmiS-
sion to Portland Meeting,


lay MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wisHl
Portland, ore, Sept l5.--"lf Amer
lea stays out of the league of nations
it will do so at great cost to democ-
racy and in violation of its material
as we'll as its moral interests, Presi-
dent Wilson declared in an address
here today.
Deploring the suggestion he said
was being made on all sides that the
United states take advantage or the
world situation without shouldering
any of the responsibility. Mr.. Wilson
declared such a policy would be fu-
tile, because this country as much as
any other was Interested in guarantee
ing a stable world order.
Duding an all day stop here, the
president spoke first at an afternoon
luncheon, where his declarations
were cheered repeatedly by 200 busi-
ness and professional men of Port
land He made only brief I'M
promptu talk, however, the only set
speech on his days schedule being
at an evening mass meeting at the
Municipal auditorium. For this meet
ing 1000 tickets had been distributed
in lottery, in which local officials
said there were more than 10000 ap-
plications for admittance.
From the time the presidential
train arrived, the president and Mrs.
Wilson were followed by cheering
crowds. When he appeared on the
rear platform of his private car at
the station, railroad man shouted
alta Boyp' and a crowd which had
squeezed through the police lines to
the tracks, started q roar of welcome
which continued all the way along an
automobile ride through Portland's
principal streets
Taken for o Sixty-Mile Auto Ride
Later the presidential party was
taken for sixtymile automobile ride
over the Columbia highway. hundreds
of private cars following in the rear
and thousands being parked along the
way, that their occupants might JOIN
in waving a greeting to the chief ex-
ecutive At all of the small towns
through which the party passed there
were waiting crowds.
The luncheon was given in Mr.. VIII
sons honor by c. S. Jackson, puDlsh-
er of the Oregon Journal and Cover
nor Olcott and Mayor Baker We're
among the guests. In the evening the
president and Mrs. Wilson dined pri-
vately at a hotel. Leaving Portland
late tonight the presidential party Will
spend all of tomorrow on their special
train en- route to San Francisco,
where. they are to arrive "Wednesday
morning. president wilson's luneheon
address, in part, follows:
II think we are now all convinced
that we have not reached the rlght
and final organization OF our lndus-
trial society, that there are many
features of our social life that ought
to undergo correction. There are an
tagonisms set up that breed heat be-
cause they breed friction and the
world must have leisure and order in
which to see that these things are set
right The world cannot have leisure
and order unless it has guaranteed
peace.
"Whether you will or not, our for
tunes are tied in with the rest of the
world, and the choice that We have
now is whether we will receive the IN
fluences Of the rest of the world and
be affected by them, or dominate the
influences of the world and lead 1t.
"What Are You to Be-"
what are you to be-boys, running
around the circus tent and peeplng
under the canvas? Men declining 10
nav the admission and sitting on the
roof and looking in on the game
or are you going to play your re-
sponsib1e part in the game, knowing
that, YOU are trusted as leader ana
umpire, both?
IF you are going to put into the
world this germ, shall call II, OF
| American enterprise and American
| faith and American vision, then you
| must be the principal partners in the
new partnership which the world II
| forming | take leave to say without
| intending the least disrespect at any
| body that consciously or unconscious
| ly, a man who opposes that PROPOSE
| ton either has no imagination or nc
| knowledge, or is gutter. America
| has put her hand to this great enter
prise already in the men she sent
overseas and their part was the mega
| tive part merely.
EVERY drop of blood | have In me
| getszup and shouts when ] think ol
| the opportunity that America has.
come of a certain stock that raised
cain in the northern part OF the island
of Great Britain under the name OF
| the Covenanters. They met in Q
churchyard and on the top of a flat
tombstone they signed an immortal
document called the Solemn League
| and Covenant" which meant that
they were going to stand by their re-
| ligious principles in spite of the crown
| of England and the force of England
/ and every other influence, whether oi
men or the devil, as long as any OF
| them lived.
| Now / have seen men of all ma
tions sit around table in Paris and
sign a solemn League and covenant