The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-13
TACOMA ROUSED.
by PRESIDENT
Shouts of "No! Now When
HE Asks if People Want U. S.
Ideal Abandoned.
PROGRAM UNFULFILLED

! PROGRAM UNFULFILLED
Tacoma, Wash, Sept. 13.--(A. P)-
Reading to Tacoma audience today
b part of his address to congress
skiing a declaration of war with
Germany, President Wilson declared
\ The purpose there outlined had not
Yet been fulfilled and would not be
hntil the treaty was ratified.
Pointing out that he had asked in
YEthat address for a complete freedom
Efrom autocracy and guarantees for
li berty everywhere, he said that was
NEfhe program which had been adopted
respect to party, and which
II1t now was proposed in some quar-
Iuers to abandon. When he asked
the people wanted 1t aban-
there were shouts of mo, no.
cheers from the crowd. 1t was
HIfhe first of two addresses to be de-
9Ihvered by the president in Washing
lIton during the day. a night meeting
lIbeing scheduled at Seattle.
Before he went to the armory, the
/ IIpresident was driven to the Stadium,
ItNhere cheering mass OF humanity,
many school children, well
HIcomed him. With a seating capac-
Iity of 10000, the Stadium was packed
IeXcept for small spaces, at the ends
i | of the horseshoe, and thousands more
ii IIthronged the steps and terraces
III above.
III In brief address at the Stadium,
IINlr. Wilson said he was grateful that
/ the children had come out to see,
UIbccause he felt the decisions being
IImade now affected the children more
IIthan those of the present generation:
III There was a continual roar OF
IIchoering after he finished speaking
Hand until his party had circled out
ii of the Stadium on the way to the
Harmony.
iii At the armory, which was packed,
Mr.. Wilson was introduced by n. B.
Coffman, president of the Washing
ton state branch of the League to
Enforce Peace.
Nonpartisan Reception.
. This. was to be his crowded Satur-
day. The first stop here in TINS
sturdy metropolis of the north was 10
III be the DrSIuuG TO d w liiN- up III h'S'N
tie that promised seriously to tax the
staving powers of the nations CHIEF
tu executive. .
The president, his attendants said,
"slept like a top" and is in fine spirits.
Greeted by a reception committee
II in which the "nonpartisan" idea was
actively carried out, the president
was escorted to a big flag g-bedecked
automobile and headed parade
Iuthrough the principal streets, wind
ing up at the armory, where the frst
! meeting of the day was to be held.
No Question of Welcome.
Regardless of where the majority
of the voters of the state of Wash
uinston stand on the question or ratl-
fcation of the peace treaty, there can
I've no question concerning their wei
come to the chief executive of the
nation. All along the line the people
have crowded to the railroad stations
just to cheer the train as 1t passes
9long.
War Cost Not Forgotten.
Giving the cost Of the war on both
sides at S186,000. 100000, and the cost
Ito the United States as s1000,OOO an
IuhOur for two years, he said that was
Iuthe cost in money of saving ciVlliza-
Iution. In addition, he continued, there
wcre 1900 200 battle deaths. These
IUere terrible facts" he declared and
uhc had come out to the people to see
Iwhether they had forgotten them.
THE country has not forgotten" he
IIpdded. "and it will never permit any
urlan who stands in the way OF the
IIfulhllment of our pledges to forget
IIthe sorrowful day when he made the
Nvattempt."
The remedy for all of this proposed
nm
Nuises. asserted Mr.. Wilson, was the
of nations, which alone per-
Iurianentlv could overthrow autocracy
land quiet disorder. A new kind OF
udisorderly autocracy was growing up
Lin said. in such movements as that
In hch had overturned Nussia.
Foe of Minority '.uIership.
II am an enemy of the rulership OF
Unuy minority, however constituted
uube continued. '"Minorities often have
Sulccn right, but they cease to be
blight when they use dsorderly
4 Mmeans.'
The league, asserted Mr.. Wilson,
as an almost complete insurance
nainst war. adding that even II 1t
re only a 40 per cent. insurance
would be worth while. The war
uulust ended. he continued, never could
UIaNo DPPun ullucl tllI iNtuS ~ ~
uRause Germany did not dare discuss
Ubl arbitrate her cause as she would
Ill ave been bound to do under the
ukovcrant. Nor would she have dared
mnvade Belgium, he continued, under
the covenant.
The labor section of the treaty was
so praised by THE president VINO
lid it had been made by men with
Whcarts under their jackets" and IN
yUthn interests of humane and just
uE Dor conditions.
oriqinated With Republicans.
Party passion" the president said,
Mrhad been aroused by the treaty dis
mcussion. although the fundamental
Uprinciples of the document had come
M,cars ago from republican states
IIn1cr. He asked his audience to for
Veot that he had anything 20 do with
Iuthe consummation of those princi-
upcs and to overlook that there would
Ubo an eeltcion in 1920.
On his first return from Paris, Mr..
Ellison went on. he had received GER
Ifrin suggestions from the senate for
Ieign relations committee, which came
for the most part from the republican
Istle of the committee. Returning to
vfhr peace conference, he said, he had
ysccured the acceptance of every one
Im these suggestions.
NTT say these things" he continued,
hecausc | want to read the riot act
Itpb anybody who tries TO introduce
Imhtics into this thing. There is