The sun., 1919-09-10


the cost Is by writing In the few obvi-
ously necessary reservations.
When Mr.. Wilson tells the people OF
Minnesota that Europe will not accept
any change in the treaty or league, the
people OF Minnesota are not Impressed
because they say they are sure Europe
will be only too willing to accept what
ever the people Of America think 10
proper and right They are taking Sem
ator Knute Nelson's word for II.
No Interest In the League.
Nowhere along the pathway Of this
tour has that public sentiment been ex-
pressed more frankly. The League OF
Nations has created no issue out here.
It didn't fisure at all in the special Con-
sress election held July /. 1t does not
make a ripple. Therefore II was not
surprising that the Presidents appear
ancs in the Twin cities failed to arouse
any great interest. Great crowds
turned out in Minneapolis and in this
city, but they displayed extraordinary
decorurn. Their regard and concern for
the dignity Of the President was main.
tanned so carefully that they refrained
from those blasts Of cheering which oc-
casionally annoy the eardrums of great
men who pass among the people. They
paid Mr.. Wilson the high compliment Of
silence undisturbed.
When portions Of them massed within
walls to hear his voice they unbent to
some extent. especially this afternoon In
Minneapolis, and perhaps equally SO in
the Auditorium tonight in this city.
But the double appearance scarcely can
be written irA Mr.. Wilson's list Of sue
cesses. He received large measure Of
what a President is entitled to. espe-
cially Presidents averse to noisy
cheering. but he did not get what the
author of the League of Nations cove
fant might have expected. The other
point Of view was too palpable to be ig-
nored. The thing stands out as plainly
and massively as the bluffs Of the Mis-
sissippi. Senators Nelson and Kellogg,
In their stand for reservations have the
support Of their people without regard
to partisanship.
President Kept in waiting.
A toilsome day for the President be.
gan with the arrival Of his special train
in this city at Q A. NJ. BY the rules OF
the game which has worked SO smoothly
In other cities the line OF precisely
numbered motor cars bearing the thigh
hats" entitled to tonneaus near the
President, should have been drawn Ut
between the files of ever present mill.
tary. But something had delayed the
programme and the President waited
upon the platform of his private car
for half an hour before the delinquent
cars came shooting down the hill to the
railway station.
Thereafter episodes flowed swiftly
through the hours. Gov. ]. A. A. Burn.
quist, Republican, highly admired by
Minnesotans without special divisions
OF party because he believes in swattins
an I. w. w. wherever he sees one
headed the general committee of recep
ton and rode with the President to tht
State Capitol, where the Legislature
sat In special session. The crowd II
the streets along the route of the cars
was reasonably large. but markedly re
served.
And again 1t is worth while to &C
eentuate a curious feature OF these
Presidential progresses through thu
streets of the Central States. The PEG
pie crowd to the curbs, but they merely
stand and stare. Are they cheered GU
or what is it? Has 1t altogether TO d.
with the public apathy toward tht
League Of Nations or Is there something
else behind it that might interest poll
tieians?
In the House of Representatives
standing under an unfamiliar portal
of Mr. Lincoln, the Speaker, w. l. Nolan
received the President, and presented
the Governor, who referred to the CUES
as the Great outstanding world figure
Woodrow Wilson"
world waits ON America.
The President felicifated the Legis
lature upon its adoption of the woman
suffrage amendment and rapidly ap
preached the topic of another specia
reason for the session-the high cos
of living. He referred to this as on
of those things which are so compli
Gated that, as 1t seemed to him, w
could not do anything in particula
without knowing how the particular
affect the whole. He said 1t wa
dangerous to play with complicate'
piece of machinery. piece by piece, un
less you know how the pieces are re
lated to each other"
He described the high cost of livinl
as a fact due to man power sacrifices
Upon battlehelds and to the slackenin
and dlverting of all the processes o
industry. But back of all this. he con
tended. introducing his deftly correl
lated subject of an unamended, reser
vationless league. was the fact tina
we have not yet learned what the basi
of peace is going to be-"
And he added that the world is no
going to settle down until 1t learn
what part the United States is soin
to play in the peace He asserted tina
II must be the duy of tina United State
TO set the commerce of the world gein
again and then see to 1t that our ow
methods OF finance and commerce ar
quiekened in every way possible. II
added, land then we have to see to
that nobody monkeys with the pre-
cess
After saying that the United State
Is face to face with a great industris
problem, and that I'VE might as we
face, gentlemen" he pronounced hi
theory of a partnership between labo
and capital as a means OF ending
situation In which the laborihg me
of the world are not satisfied with the
relations with their employers"
Too Provincial Heretofore.
''The point wish to make" he sail
sis that the world is looking to Amer
lea to set the standards with regar
to the conditions of labor and the RI
latlons between capital and labor an
II is looking to us because we haN
been more progressive than most nation
In those mattera though sometime
we have moved very slowly AID wit
undue caution, and as a result OF OF
progressiveness the ruling influence
among our working men are cohservs
tive In the sense that they see it
not to the interest of labor to brea
10 civilization, and progressive in II
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