The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-12
PRESIDENT SEES
LENINE MENACE
UNLESS HE WINS
Moves Montana Women to
Tears in Pleas for Saliva
tiOn of All Mankind.
HELENA GREETING FRIGID
Admits League Is Only 10 Per
Cent. Insurance Against
Wars in the Future.

nv GfdU torrespoHdeHt OF IHh BUN
HELENA, Mont. Sept. lin his two
addresses in Montana, at Helena to-
night and at Billings this morning. the
President made wholly emotional
appeal for his "all or nothing" League
of Nations. He said nothing whatever
to clarity the minds of Montanans
about the point in dispute between
him and the Senate He played for
the tears of women.
He .plucked at heartstrings with
such tones as only slSilful orators
know how to use. There was in his
voice as he freshened the sadness in
many hearts that have known be-
reavement for their country the mex
pressible melancholy of funeral
| march.
The dead soldiers OF America who
| lie buried in France, who can never
be forgotten by the fathers and
mothers and wives and sisters and
sweethearts, for what did they die?
For the salvation of America? Oh,
no. For the salvation of mankind;
and as the tears moistened many a
handkerchief he swiftly altered his
mood to the sternness of a prophet
threatening fire and sword as punish
ment for the nearsig htedhess OF the
American Senate.
Must Have Industrial Democracy.
Blood and terror the world over un-
less the League of Nations is ratified
as he wants it ratified, without a syl-
liable changed-such was his predic-
ton. There must be industrial
democracy" as well as political de-
moCracy."
And we have not finished dealing
with monopolies." added Mr. Wilson.
He saw the central fact of the world
as universal unrest, with ''tragicar'
disorder everywhere threatened, with
the poison circulating through open
veins of the world" with apostles of
Lenine in our midst. Chaos and the
downfall of civilization were plainly
in sight unless the League of Ma
tions is adopted as he wants it.
The promise and the threat-the prom
Use of world made over into a sem
blance of the heaven that Christianity
offers as the result of his unqualified
league and the threat of he'll on earth
IL 1t Is rejected or altered; these were
the thoughts he put into the minds OF his
hearers. And with this, deftly woven
into threat and promise, he left with
the minds of a people keenly disturbed
over /. w. W.-ism, a suggestion that
agitation is good. He did not intend TO
ask men 10 stop agitating, although he
begged of agitators to agitate in an
orderly fashion," Through each of the
Montana speeches ran the skilful in
sinuation that the United States Senate
is rather a stupid body of out of date
persons who are merely blocking the
peace and prosperity and happiness OF
the world.
How was all this received by his au-
diences here and at Billings? Tearfully
by the women, thoughtfully by the men.
Neither in this State nor further east
ward in his progress to the coast has
NJ Wilson's tour been triumphal pro-
cession.
Denounces Police Strikes.
, President Wilson interjected in to the
League of Nations speech in this city
a tonight an indigant denunciation OF the
striking policemen of Boston. He said
I This strike OF policemen in a great city
1 which leaves that city at the mercy OF
an army of thugs, is crime against
= civilization The obligation of police
/ man is as sacred as that of "A soldier
a He is public servant not private
employee He has no right to prefer
= any private advantage to the public
e safety"
n The crowds received him frigidly il
y North Dakota and masses OF peopl,
- stood silently and sat silently here II
i Montana. There is no possibility q
4 mistaklng their attitude, for they tel
t you that they are proud and happy
to greet "Our President, but as fol-
e the League of Nations we'll. I guess
c we don't know much about It out here
s kind of a fifty fifty sentiment, reckon
t they ought to hurry the job along
d little. Seems like both sides ought t.
hack down a little
II there is anything they want II |!
Information, information about what tn,
. covenant actually means In terms Of
:, Americanism, and they are not getting
} Il from Mr.. Wilson. They are told
u /, that great charter of mankind /.
:; waiting, that political Bolshevists ant
- contemptible cutters are trying L
. wreck this sacred document, that ther,
~was an old oruer Ol wlCkeuness WniCi
,, must give way 10 a new order of justice
IL the league is accepted as he brough
y II home from Paris, that American sol
= diers didn't fight for America. sine
u America was in no immediate danger,
J. but solely for the salvation OF mankind
ID and the salvation of mankind is nov
being imperilled by the United State
= Senate slow thinking men OF a past age
= that the world, including the Unite;
"