Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-07
EXECUTIVE TELLS
DIES MONIES PEOPLE
THEY WILL END WAR
Every Seat in Coliseum Is
Filled With Interested
Throng.
MISSOURI CROWD SWARMS
ABOUT CAR URGING SPEECH
Shakes the Hands of Many
Children, Both White
and Black.
CORTED BY AIRPLANE
Speaker Declares World Is Dcsper.
ately in Need OF Settled Con-
dition Of Peace.
MISSOURI CROWD sWARMs
ABOUT CAR URGING SPEECH
sOoRTED BY AIRPLANE
rRy Associated Prr,.1

DIES MONIES. IOWA. Sept. 6-The
Versailles treaty, with It's league Of
nations' covenant, was explained here
tonight by President Wilson as "A pure
~ American document, extending de-
mocracy over the world and shifting
foreign relations from n basis OF force
and war TO one Of arbitration an!
peace.
Making his second address OF the
day. the President spoke in the Des
MONIES Coliseum. said 10 seat 900.
Every chair was taken and many were
standing. Earlier in tho day he, naI
spoken at Kansas CITY. more than 800
miles away.
On the way to Des Moines several
hundred persons met the Presidents
train at st. Joseph, Mo. where the
train stopped for three minutes. The
crowd swarmci around the observa-
ton end OF the Presidents car and
called for a speech; but, acting on the
from making one and exchanged
friendly greetings
group OF women Red Cross work
ers got the President and Mrs. Wilson
was presented with basket OF roses,
Many children. white and negroes,
were lifted up TO the rail so the Presi-
dent could shake them by the hand
The President seemed to enjoy par.
tieuiar!y tiny black pickaninny and
It's nanny, who. lighting way
through the crowd. got within reach OF
the rail
Hello. little oner he said. taking
hold Of chubby and dirty hand, Il
a m glad to see you"
Flowers Dropped on Train.
An escort OF airplanes dropped now-
ers on the train as II approached the
city. and he was cheered during an
automobile ride through crowds that
packed the downtown stress. When
h.AA nj n "a nj lca h. ~ -n1
again.
The meeting was opened with an In
vocation and Mr.. Wilson was intro
the Des Moi n chambe p 's Of Com %.
merce. who spoke on the Outstanding
figure in the life Of the world today"
Mrs Wilson was not on the plat
FORM
Describing the world as desperately
In need OF the settled condition OF
peace. the President said the United
expected TO have 10 wait upon. was de-
laying the coming OF that peace.
The treaty. ne said. not only would
establish peace. but it would end for
destinics of the many.
Names Requirements OF Peace.
You know what the necessity of
peace is. Why. my fellow country
men. political liberty can exist only
can take place only when there is
peace. The settlement OF every ques-
ton that concerns our daily life waits
cations in Washington OF men en-
gagged in the service OF the government,
temporarily in the administration OF
TO them, my friends. cannot tell wha,
the railways can earn until commerce
Is restored 70 IT'S normal courses: In
I'll l can tell what the railroads can
earn. cannot tell what the wages
that the railroads can pay will be
] cannot suggest what the increase OF
freight and passenger rates will be TO
rates mast be increased. cannot
tell yet whether it will be necessary
to increase the rates or not and
must ask YOU to wait
But they are not the only people
that have come to see me. There are
All sorts OF adjustments necessary in
1atives of capital and la Dor to come to
Washington next month and confer.
things Of our life at present That
is to say, the conditions of labor.
Asserts Unrest tx Spreading.
DO you realize, my fellow citizens,
that all through the world. the one
central question of civilization is.
What VIA shall be the conditions of labor?
due TO the doubt what shall he the
conditions of labor and need not
tell YOU that that unrest is spreading
W amer lCd ne treaty OF peace is
magma charta, great guarantee that
labor shall have the counsels of the
world devoted to the discussion of its
conditions and Of its betterment; and
labor all over the world is waiting to
know whether America is going to take
part in those conferences or not.
Tile confidence of the men who sat
at Paris was such that they put II
in the document that the first meeting
OF the labor conference under that
part Of the treaty should take place
in Washington upon the invitation of
the President of the United States"
citing what happened in Europe
with the rise of Bolshevism, Mr.. viii
son said the move OF radicalism and
disorder was spreading
DO you honestly think that none
OF that poison has got into the veins
of this free people?" he asked.
Says Revolution Threatens.
Men look you calmly in the face in
America and tell you they are for that
sort Of revolution.
$50 long AS the question of what
kind of peace the world was to have
and what guarantees were to be be-
hind 1t remained open, the poison would
continue to spread.
How long shall we be kept waiting
for the answer whether the world will
trust us or despise us?" he continued
- THE world stands annoyed because
an authority In America hcsitatts
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