Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-09-12
WILSON INvADES
The NORTHWEST
Spends Sunday in Des Moines
Where He Attends a Presby-
terian Church.
IOWA CAPITAL MOST CORDIAL
President Speaks to Great Audience in
Auditorium Where He Claims
Treaty Delay Peris World Be-
cause of BoIshevism.

cause OF BoiSneVlSnns
On Beard the Presidents Special
Des Moines, Ia, Sept. 8.-President
Wilson left here last night on the first
lap of his journey into the great
Northwest. Happy at the reception
accorded him here the president had
the first breathing spell of his long
trip. The only fly in the ointment was
the news from Washington that Sena-
tors Cummins and Kenyon, Iowa's sem
ators, had joined the ranks of the ex-
IRENE reservationists.
This did not keep the president
from enjoying a comfortable and rest
full day. He arose late in the morn
ing went with Mrs. Wilson to the Cen
trail Presbyterian church where he
heard a sermon by Rev. Frank Chal-
mers McKeen, one of his students at
Princeton, and in the afternoon he
took long motor ride through the
Iowan capital.
Des Moines Extends Self.
Des Moines in its welcome to the
president extended itself. The streets
were crowded with thousands of per-
sons all anxious to do honor to the
nations chief executive.
For the first time in telling of the
award of Shantung to Japan, he said
that for this country to recover it
inStanter for China, we would have to
fight not only Japan but France and
Great Britain as we'll The president
received applause from 1000 persons
who comprised his audience every 81
seconds. This constitutes the most
friendly reception on the trip.
The president is satisfied with the
results he thus far has achieved. He
believes that the speech he delivered
to the members of the chamber of COM
merce at st. Louis is the best he yet
has made and for this reason he ex-
pressed the hope he may be able to
address reasonably small audiences
in the future.
Aside from the particular features
Of the treaty there was much interest
here in the presidents words last
night on labor. The president has re-
piled to Samuel Gomper's telegram re-
garding the threatened strike of the
steel workers but the reply has not
been made public. Zone of the diff
culties in our labor situation" said
the president, "is that there are some
employers who will not meet their en-
ployees face to face and talk with
them"
Among Home Folks.
The president was grateful for the
respite here. From now until next
Sunday when he reaches Seattle, he
will be constantly on the go.
Although this is a strong Republi-
lican county, the president was among
home folks" One of his uncles, the
late General William Duane Wilson,
n pioneer of Iowa, lived in Des Moines.
He was the Oldest brother of Presi-
dent Wilson's father.
Another thing that the President
liked about Iowa is that, besides rails
ing corn, they raise babies out this
way. There are % husky youngsters,
p white and one black whose first
names are Woodrow Wilson.
Would Foil Reds.
A possibility that bolshevism may
spread in threatening proportions to
the United States, unless the peace
treaty is ratified promptly, was suSs-
gested in the presidents address here.
The whole world was waiting I'M
easily, he said, while the poison which
had wrecked Russia was spreading
among peoples who did not yet know
what guarantees there were to be for
liberty in the new world.
Labor and capital in the United
States. he asserted, could not proceed
inteligently with their settlements,
nor could great problems like the rail-
road situation be solved while the sus-
pense continued.
Monroe Doctrine Safe.
Mr.. Wilson defended the Shantunp
provision of the treaty and said the
league covenant section referring to
the Monroe doctrine had been inserted
to give the Monroe doctrine right of
way in the Western hemisphere" He
declared it would do so.
The Monroe doctrine provision, he
said, had been objected to as vague
because it referred to 'such regional
understandings as the Monroe doc
trine." This language was used, he
said, because the other delegates
thought it wise to make a specific ref
erence to policy of one country with
out leaving the way open for other ma