Evening star., 1919-09-20
PRESIDENT SPURNS
SPECIAL PRIVILEGE
FOR j. s. IN LEAGUE
San Diego Speech Is Made in
Most Picturesque and Re-
-
markabIe Setting.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SAN DIEGO, Calf, September 90
Respectfully commended to all cities
of the Union want to hear this
or any other President of the United
States or public man is the way San
Diego heard woodrow Wilson.
Instead OF a congested mass Of hui
man beings in q stuffy,s Inusty-aired
auditorium, With. moving chairs and
other disconcerting noises, San Diego
had an open-air meeting in big
athletic stadium, and no less than
thirty thousand people heard every
Mr.. Wilson's voice is none too
strong and hardly compares with the
powerful vocal chords of William
is concerned the President need only
to have been able to articulate suf-
f1ciently for a room as big as the hall
of the House of Representatives in
Washington and the words of his
speech would have carried to the ends
of the amphitheater in San Diego.
Like a Foot Ball Game.
The stadium looked like the Yale
bowl or the Princeton stadium on
the day of foot ball game. The
President stood on a platform which
had been lnclosed in glass. put lust
size of those used on the. parlor
monographs of old. By electrical de-
vices the voice was magnlf1ed and car
ried to the far parts of the arena. :,
One could tell by the applause and
the attention of the audience that the
speech was being heard, but to re-
assure myself I walked around the
half-mile track which bordered the
interior stadium and heard the speech
everywhere except in one or two
places without the slightest difficulty.
The crowd sat perfectly still except
was the most picturesque and at the
same time the most remarkable set
ting in which President Wilson had
ever made public address.
Advocates Whole-Hearted Action.
The speech itself contained little
that was new to the correspondents
travelling with the President but it
seems as if Mr. Wilson put great
deal more emphasis than usual on his
intention to insist on an unqualified
covenant of the league which would
make America party to the preser-
walton of the territorial integrity of
all countries. Mr.. Wilson said that
America had better not go through
the mockery of joining the league if
she did not mean to go into it whole
heartedly. and not on basis of spe-
cial privilege, for he declared that to
give strong powers like the United
States specific exemptions would be
to disregard the principles of equality
and justice on which any human part
nership. should be based.
Explains Votes in League.
Los ANGELES, Cal. September 20
President Wilson is giving five days
of his time to the state of California.
more than he has devoted to any other
state on his tour. Aside from the fact
that California boasts that it is the
most progressive state in the Union
and therefore able to discern more
ing toward the advancement and
progress of human society. Mr.. Will
son has been told that California had
received through the speeches of its
erroneous impressions of what the
treaty of peace contains.
The President has not been debating
with Senator Johnson. but has been
ed had been the impression. for ex-
ample, that Great Britain had six
votes. in the league of nations to
Americas one, that audiences have
gone away wondering now they had
been. led to believe such a statement.
Mr.. Wilson has simply read the cove
nant to them and disclosed that the
British empire and the United States
have one vote each in the councll OF
the league, the only body that can
accomplish action" while tan;rs the several sh
colonies of the British empire each
have delegate to the assembly.
which takes no action. but simply
discusses.
The President calls the assembly the
"voice of humanity" and the council
an instrument for the carrying out OF
| the mandates of world opinion when
1t has crystallized.
Removes misunderstanding.
When the President showed that the
assembly voted on no questions except
the admission of new members, and
that when it renders any other opin-
ion on An International question. no
majority vote can be valid unless 1t
includes the Affirmative vote OF all the
] states on the council OF whfcn, OF