The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-05
WILSON TOUCHES HEART
STRINGS OF PATRIOTISM
Brings Down House" at End of Speeches
Even When Audiences Are Apa-
thetic-New Faith Exhib-
tied in President.

Ideals and principles and OF tho promise
made to the lads who died the promist
president has put on his sampaI9a
clothes. He 10 trying to get close b
the people on this trip and to translate
the technical language Of the treaty ints
understanding America he gets thun-
/ derous applause as he reverts to the
declaration Of independence and the
rights OF people to govern themselves
and then transfers his audience u
Bohemia and TO Poland and exclaima
that the treaty Is "shot through VITA
ment." Instead, too, Of taking about
"plebescites" Mr.. Wilson wisely speakt
Of the referendum" by which tho peos
pie OF Upper Siesla arc to be giveg
an opportunity In American style to say
whether they wish to belong to Ger1
he showed In one speech why
strategic frontiers" has been rejected
as a principle In dlsposinu OF territory
wrested from Germany and why under
league Of nations Italy would not need
Flume.. But he promptly added that
y there were no league not only would
italy need a strategic frontier, but thai
the military point Of view would pres
van. everywhere. UdoubtedIy, Mn
Wilson viii make more Of this point
as he goes further west into the coun.
try which does not believe In large
armies or navles, and which 10 always
ready to embrace some other system
that really means peace and not mere
truce.
The president came Into the club ana
chatted with the correspondents bes
tween stations. He seemed eager to
answer questions and talk about the
treaty.
No Long Distance Debate.
He made 1t clear that ne does NOT
DrODOS9 N wi
senate at long distance. That would
be futile, he thinks. because 1t would
divert attention from the main issue OF
what the treaty contains, which is so
valuable to the American people that
they cannot afford to reject 1t. The
president believes his mission Is simply
to explain the treaty and to discuss only
incidentally the objections which have
admit that he had Senator Knox in
mind as he declared the terms imposed
upon Germany were to be severe but
not unjust Senator Knox argued the
very opposite last week. Nor would
Mr.. Wilson say later what he thinks
Of Ireland, as he referred In his
Columbus speech to other wrongs In
Europe which needed to be righted.
and would be righted. but could not be
dealt with at Paris because the corr
ritories wrested from the enemy. The
inference was plain that under a league
OF nations there would be Jurisdiction
over the Irish question II 1t threatened
cism which Mr. Wilson did answer in
his speech was that which claims
America will be obliged 10 continue to
send troops to fight in foreign coun-
tries. A deafening roar Of applause
greeted the president as he said in cons
clusion, when this treaty Is accepted.
men in khaki will not have to cross the
seas again" All through the Columbus
speech the president seemed anxious to
tell tho proletarat that the program
OF mo annexatons and no indemnitiesSs
had been fulfilled. He denied that the
former German colonies had been "an-
nexed." He praised the system OF
trustoeship which he said would enable
the peoples living hitherto under Ger
man rule to develop into self-govern-
ing nations.
Appeal - Working Classes.
He stressed the fact that no indem-
nifty was levied upon Germany. but
merely rcparation for damage done and
in closing ho appealed again to the
working mas lc5 by his emphasis on the
magma charta Of labor drawn at Paris
and the intc"r 'tional labor conference
soon to bc he'd mt Washington. HtI-
manitarian pha Sos of the treaty, as sup
preston of opium and liquor traffic in
backward areas Of the world. sanitation.
extension OF the work of the Red Cross
against disease these and other things
which the president described as a
League of the Fine Passions of the
World" made a deep impression on the
audience. Mr., Wilson sought to reach
the hearts of the people anew and res
gain the faith which neglect of domestic
problems, or his absence abroad, or the
pain of acute ills like the high cost of
living. have tended to drive away. The
president may not have converted his
audience to ~ sudden interest In foreign
policy. but he left them warmer than
he found them.