Bisbee daily review., 1919-09-21
M 'K|NLEY HAD LEAGUE V|S|ON
 AYERS WILSON
Tells Los Angeles Audience That Martyred President, on Eve of His Assassination,
 Had Glimpse Behind Veil

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2O.-Presl dent Wilson completed his week cr l speechmaking on the Pacific coast tonight with a monster mass meeting here at which thousands shrieked ap- proval of his plea for early ratifica- tion of the peace treaty.
 Welcomed, to the city by a crowu which densely packed the downtown. section, the president was cheereu tumultuously everywhere he appeareu during the day. Along the line of q ten mile parade he rode in a din of applause, and later at a public din ner cheers greeted his declarations that the treaty should and would be accepted.
 5000 Hear President. When he entered the auditorium for his night speech he was cheereo 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 Mir Wilson was introduced by Mrs. Jo- siah Evans Cowles, national presv dent of the General Federation O. Women's clubs, who told the crowu that the league of nations must ant will become the bulwark of a war. weary world for all time. The DO cha place in a discussion of the peace treaty.
 The meeting had been advertiseu as one of strictly non-partisan char acter, and many of the states prom, nent Republicans sat on the plat- form. Among them were Henry W Wright, speaker of the California as sembly, and Marshall Stimson, who was campaign manager in southerII California for Senator Hiram John son in 1910.
 Says Mckinley Prophesied.
 Mir Wilson alluded to an address made by President Mckinley on the day before his assassination, and as- serted that the martyred presidents words about concord and arbitration seemed to show he had a prophetic vision on the eve of his death.
 Referring to objections that tAe league would involve the Uniteu States in "entangling alliances" Mir. Wilson said the league was in fac, a proposal for disentanglement.
 ;p was exactly what these gentlemen want to lead us back to-" he saIu. ''The day of alliances is behind Us.
 Cheers for the Weak.
 When Mr. Wilson declared it was a matter of amazement that some men were now opposing the league, some one in the crowd shouteO shame on them," and many others took up the cry. There were chee-sl a moment later when he decIareul the treaty was founded on the rights of the weak rather than the powerrul strong. It was peoples treaty, nel said, not a statesman's treaty. The peoples of the world, said the presr dent, were tired of the old system oI autocratic domination and they wousd overthrow it "one way or another" Under the league, he added, auto cratic governments would be excluo-I ed from decent society because ony self-governing peoples could hold membership
 Describing a friend who he sara never let the facts get him if he saw them coming first" the president asserted that some men could no. now see the facts in the treaty dIs-t cussion marching upon them.
 Defends Shantung Pact.
 My prediction is that the fac,s are going to see them," he addeA while the crowd cheered again, "anu make a very comfortable meal 0, them"
 MT. Wilson reviewed at length tnS history of the German rights in Shan tung province, declaring when thosv rights were acquired, the state of m- ternational law was such that Prest dent Mckinley and Secretary Hay dru not even protest, but only asked thaI American trade rights should not Ds 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