The Kendrick gazette., 1919-09-26
TREATY HELPS WEAK
SAYS PRES. WILSON
WORLD is TIRED OF OLD SYSTEM
OF AUTocRATIc RULINGS
AMERICA NO GUTTER.
CHINA HAS A new FORUM
That's the Boy" Admirers Yell Dur
inq Los Angeles Speech-With v.
s. Out Of League, Germany
Would Gain.

Los Angeles. President Wilson
completed his week of speech-making
on the Pacific coast Saturday night
with a monster massmeeting here at
which thousands shrieked approval of
the peace treaty.
Welcomed to the city by a crowd
which densely packed the downtown
section, the president was cheered
tumultously everywhere he appeared
during the day. Along the line Of a
1O-mile parade he rode in din of
applause and later at public dinner
cheers greeted his declaration that
the treaty should and would be ac-
cepted.
Gets Cheers.
When he entered the auditorium for
his night speech he was cheered for
more than two minutes.
When Mr.. Wilson declared it was
a matter of amazement that some
men were now opposing the league.
some one in 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, he said, we're tired of the old
system of autocratic domination and
they would overthrow it "one way or
another" Under the league, he added,
autocratic governments would be ex-
cluded from decent society because
only self-governing peoples could hold
membership.
Quoting from 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, land
make a very comparable meal Of
them"
Reviews shantuns History.
Mr.. Wilson reviewed to length the
history of the German rights Ia
Shantung provinces, declaring when
these rights were acquired the state
of international 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"
Later, said the president, Russia
France and Great Britain obtained
similar rights, without any protest
from the United States. The peace
of Portsmouth, he declared. by which
Japan acquired Port Arthur at the
end of the Russo-Japanese war, was
: exactly similar" to the Shantune
provision of the present treaty. Each
he said, gave Japan rights in Chins
which had belonged to her defeated
enemy.
Great Britain and France "can no
| ia AOhol III" NlOldLc luOlT 6CCT q
treaties with Japan. the president de
: clared, and the only way in which thu
, case of Shantung could be betteret
was to go to war against France
> Great Britain and Japan. He asked
+ whether those opposing the Shantunt
provision of the treaty were willinl
to start such a war and added: "Thei
fnfa to-, T. ia
/ of assisting China, but. of defeatinl
t the treaty"
g That's it" and that's the boy,
n yelled the crowd, and then there wer
l. more cheers.
Treaty Gives China a Forum.
Under the league, for the first time
he said, China would have forum
, before which she could bring he
case. He said he had felt that al