The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-09-12
THE PRESIDENT ON HIS TOUR


/ the league of nations from the senate
! to the people of the United States
/ President Wilson is everywhere re-
ceived with popular demonstration
that excels anything ever before ac-
| corded public official
| He has touched the heart and
awakened the consciences of the peo-
pie.
At st. Louis. for instance, the staff |!
correspondent of the Universal Ser
vice says that his motor headed by
an escort of mounted police passed |
through the heart of the industrial !
part of the city and every grim fac
tory window was clogged with work
men, anxious 10 see him And when
they saw him they cheered him to the
echo. 1t was the same way in the
residence district, too, where men
women and children. practically all
carrying the American flag, waited
along the line to get a glimpse of the
nations chief executive and made his
passing most noisome bit a well
come affair
Downtown ST. Louis did itself
proud when the long procession of
cars swung into the businss center
of the city. Every building was puQ-
fusely decorated with flags and bRnt-
ing and every window was checker
boarded with heads, so closely packed
; were the vantage spots. The sight Of
the president was a signal for vocal
achievement, and st. Louis sure
achieved some husky tone waves in
the course Of the day.
1t was a spontaneous welcome and
a whole-sOuled approval of the course
! of the president and gall and worm
wood for Senator Reed
In noting his tour, good Bob Davis,
an\ ex-cOngressman, says:
"The president is on his tour.
The socialists are opposed to the
league of nations. So they resolved
in national convention at Chicago
! the day before.
$50 is Senator Reed.
$50 is little coterie of republican
/ senators. So are some newspapers.
"But watch the people.
I'm his speeches at Columbus, Ohio,
I and Indianapolis, Ind, the president
I had capacity audiences. Capacity
means all the buildings would hold.
Tile would have had at either place
hundred acres of people il he had
spoken in the open. He said he
! wanted everyone to forget he was a
1 republican or democrat Thou
sands cheered him when he said that.
7 Thousands cheered him, republicans
and democrats alike. all through his
{ heart to heart talks. Thousands hung
{ upon his words when he said eff this
treaty was ratified the boys in khaki
would never have to cross the ocean
again" He said this war was not
fought for anybodys or any nation
| glory. He said:
{ I wonder if some of the OppOn-
ents Of the league of nations have for
gotten the promises we made our
people before we went to that peace
table? We have taken by processes
of law the flower of our youth from ev-
cry countryside, from every house
hold, and we told those mothers and
fathers and sisters and wives and
sweethearts that we were taking
those men to fight war which would
end business of that sort and if we
do not end it, if we do not do the best
/ that human concert OF action can do
to end it, we are of all men the most
unfaithful-the most unfaithful to
the loving hearts who suffered in this
war; the most unfaithful to those
! households bowed in grief, yet lifted
with the feeling that the lad laid
down his life for great thing, among
other things in order that other lads
might not have to do the same thing 4"
"The president wants the people to
read the league of nations for them
serves.
mot form opinions from politicians
who ar discussing it technically
; with view of finding faurt
Not from selfish critics, because
the world is full of men who cannot
construct, but who can criticise.
"A man need have only modicum
Of sense to be a critic. 1t takes q
big man to be constructive.
There is some talk of sending
speakers behind Wilson to criticise
him, We hope so. We would like
for them to see how the great Ameri-
can people would treat them.
"The bOlsheYiki would listen 70