The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23

nifty miles of running in one section
there wero twenty three tunnels. some OF
them n mile long.
Welcome at Sacramento.
He stopped at California's capital in
response to an invitation FROM Ben II.
Allen, editor OF, the Sacramento Union
who was one OF Herbert Hoover's lieu
tenants In the Food Administration. Mr..
Allen Joined the train at San Francisco
and had a chance to persuade Mr.. Will
son to depart from his rule Of not maxi
ing platfrom speeches. AS 1t turned nut
the President selected a happy time to
deviate, for Sacramento produced one of
his largest and friendliast gatherings.
The school children, marshalled by their
women teachers, fiuttered a flag greeting.
and within the station of the Southern
Pacific as many persons as could pos
sibly crowd into the train shed pressed
about the Mayfiower and called an ami
able greeting. To these Mr.. Wilson
made a brief talk. saying he was cure
that their main reason for turning out
was not only a desire to welcome their
President, but to show their interest and
their support I'm the great cause 1 have
come out to advocate" This cause, he
asserted to be, "the safety and guaran-
teed peace of mankind
1--WE undertook a great war for a
definite purpose" he said. THAT Def
mite purpose is carried out in a great
treaty. 1 have brought the treaty back
and we must not much longer hesitate to
sign it. Without the treaty, without the
covenant of the League of Nations which
1t contains, we would simply sink back
mankind was before this war began,
with the threat of war and terror con-
stantly over them. We cannot go back.
We will not go back"
His allusion to Shantung and to China
was that the League of Nations is
"Chna's only hope" 1t afforded he
said. the only hope that China can get
of the restoration to herself. not only of
the sovereignty of Shantung, but of the
sovereignty which other nations as we'll
have taken from her. 1t afforded. he
said, the only expectation in similar
cases elsewhere that by the pressure,
1.-THE silent, terrible irresistible pressure
of public opinion throughout the world
ancient wrongs will be righted and men
will get the chance to live that they
never had before"
Addresses 5000 in Reno.
without the treaty and the covenant,
he asserted. justice would be impossible
anywhere in the world, and he closed
his talk with:
IT am sure. my fellow citizens, not
only from this great outpouring here.
but from the great outpouring l have
seen everywhere in this country, that
the heart of America is right and that
her course is irresistible"
In Reno tonight the President spoke
for an hour before 5000 persons and re-
i'll
pears to be friendly to the cause of a
league of nations, though there are a
great many persons here who would like
to see reservations. who believe that the
Senate Ia justified in Incorporating pro-
tective clauses in the treaty. Nevada Is
a Democratic State and the issue here
Is as partisan as II Is anywhere else.
Masses of Democratic voters are follow
ing Mr.. Wilson for the same reason that
the Democratic minority In the United
States is following him, because they
don't know what else to do. But there
Is no burning enthusiasm apparent for
treaty or covenant. The demand is to
get the controversy over and done with.
Mr. Wilson's speech was along now
familiar lines. He has had no fresh
ideas to offer for two weeks or so, but
he manages with a marvellous facility
to clothe old statements in new words.
II possible. his appeal is becoming more
emotional than ever, a more direct APP
peal to the hatred of war. He claims
everything and admits nothing The
theory of his appeal is to convince the
people that the League of Nations is a
world cureall that 1t will cure political
illnesses and economic diseases; that It
will bring happiness 10 women folk and
security to their children.
There is nothing that cannot be ex-
pected from II in the way of tranquility
and prosperity, and without 1t every
thing must be feared. That was the