Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-09-27
THE PRESIDENTS
SPEAKING TOUR
President Completes Week of
Speechmaking on the Pa
cific Coast.


on the Pacific coast Saturday with
q monster mass meeting at Los An
geles, at which thousands heard his
plea for early ratification of the peace
treaty.
Welcomed to the city by crowd
which densely packed the downtown
section, the president was cheered tu-
multously everywhere he appeared
during the day. Along the line Of
ten-mile parade he rode in din of ap-
plause and later at a public dinner
cheers greeted his declarations that
the treaty should and would be ac-
cepted
When he entered the auditorium for
his night speech he was cheered for
more than two minutes by crowd
estimated by the police at 5000. The
hall was jammed and outside were
thousands who could not get in. Some
had been waiting since early morning
for the doors to open.
At the auditorium meeting Mr.. VIII
son was introduced by Mrs. Josiah
Evans Cowles, national president OF
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs, who told the crowd that the
league must and would become the
bulwark of a war-weary world for all
time.
The president alluded to an address
made by President Mckinley on the
day before his assassination and as
serted that the martyred presidents
words about arbitration seemed to
show he had prophetic vision on the
eve of his death.
Referring to objections that the
league would involve the United States
in entangEng alliances, Mr.. Wilson
said the league was in fact proposal
for disentanglement.
What Washington had in mind was
exactly what these gentlemen want to
lead US back to-" he said. "The day
of alliances is behind US"
When Mr.. Wilson declared it was q
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 a mo-
ment later when he declared the treaty
was founded on the rights of the weak
rather than the power of the strong.
l. hn
a statesmen's treaty.
San Francisco, CaI.-Acceptance of
the peace treaty as a good business
proposition was urged by President
Wilson Thursday in an address to
San Francisco business men.
He asserted that to refuse member
ship in the league of nations would
be to isolate the United States and
to build up a distrust abroad which
would be detrimental alike to the ma
tons political and commercial inter
ests.
Solution of many domestic ques-
tions, said the president, awaited rati-
fication of the treaty. Until there was
a peace, he declared, the nation could
not reorganize "a single element" of
its economic status. He added that
there were many reforms necessary.
As long as uncertainty about peace
continued, he said, and the business
of the country had mo conditions that
we can count on" there would be the
partial paralysis that is characteristic
at length the arbitration and boycott
provisions of the league covenant, de-
claring that had there been anything
approaching such an arrangement in
1914, Germany never would have be-
gun the war.
San Francisco, CaI-America is un-
der an Overwhelming moral compul-
sion" to accept the peace treaty, Presi-
dent Wilson declared in an address
Wednesday, because it was drawn up
on American specifications and mark
ed the worlds acceptance of American
principles.
Even Germany had been forced to
accept these principles, said the presi-
dent
Discussing at length the Shantung
provision of the peace treaty, Presi-
dent Wilson said that he had been as
sured by the great powers that under
the league Of nations there would be
new international policy for the pro-
lection OF Chinese integrity.
These powers. said Mr.. Wilson. had
Japan's promise to return Shantung to
China, and intended to see that 1t was
fulfilled under the league. He said
he had asked his colleagues at Yer
saiIles specifically whether they meant
under the league to inaugurate new
policy toward China and they told him
they did.