The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-05
President Wilson's First Talk
Today at Chamber
of Commerce
Luncheon.
POLITICS is ADJOURNED
Almost Contemplate Cutters Was
Epithet Applied to Those Who
Refuse to Go Clear
Through.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. 5-"Almos,
contemplate cutters" was the epithet
applied by President Wilson this after
noon to those who refuse to go through
with Americas program to end al
wars, which Wilson believes can be
accomplished by means of the league
of nations.
In a speech at the Chamber of Com
merce luncheon here, he bitterly de
nounced those who seek to prevent
the United States joining the league.
Discussing men who declare the
United States should not go into wal
to protect every little nation in the
world" the president said:
LET them show me how they Will
keep out of war by not protecting
them. Let them show me how they
will prove that having gone into an
enterprise, they are not almost con
temptible cutters If they don't see
the game through.
'eThey joined with the rest OF us
in the profession of fine purpose when
we went into the war. They went IN
and they professed to go in to see that
nobody after Germany's defeat should
repeat the experiment Germany tried.
Outburst after outburst of cheering
punctuated Wilson's attack on the
treaty foes. He spoke with vigor and
stuck out his jaw, pounding on the rail
for emphasis.
"Those gentlemen are dreaming he
cried. "They are living in past age,
which has gone, and is all but or.
gotten, when they say we can mind
our own business
Following Is the text of the presi'
dents address:
"Mr. Johnson, your honor, Mr..
Mayor, ladies and gentlemen:
at is with great pleasure that l FIND
myself in ST. Louis again, because
have always found it possible in st.
Louis to discuss serious questions IN
4 way that gets mind in contact with
mind. intead Of that other very less de-
sirable thing, passion in contact with
passion
~ am glad to hear the mayor say,
and / believe that II Is true that peli-
tics is adjourned Politics has no
place. mean party politics has no
place my fellow citizens in the sub
jects that we are now obliged to dis
cuss and to decide. Politics In the
wider sense has great deal TO 90
with 1.-THE politics Of the world the
policy Of mankind the concord OF the
methods by which the world is to De
bettered that concord Of will and OF
action which will make every nation
a nobler instrument of divine provi-
dence. That is world politics.
81 have sometimes heard gentlemen
discussing the questions that are now
row WI hp-
tween nationalism and International
ism in these matters. 1t is very diff
cult for me to follow their distinction.
The greatest nationalist is the man
who wants bis nation to be the great
est nation and the greatest nation Is
the nation which penetrates to the
heart Of its beauty and admission
among the nations OF the world.
with every flash of insight into the
great politics of mankind. the nation
that has that vision is elevated UP to
a place of influence and power which
IL cannot get by armies, which 1T can
not get by commercial rivalry, which
1t can get by no other way than that
spiritual leadership which comes from
a profound understanding of the prob
lens Of humanity.
ut is in the light of ideas of this
sort that / conceive privilege to dis
cuss the matters that l have come
away from Washington to discuss. l
have come away from Washington to
discuss them because, apparently, it
is difficult to discuss them in Wash
ington.
1.-The whole subject is surrounded
with mists which it is difficult to pene.
trate.
'"The whole subject is surrounded
with mists which 1t is difficult to
penetrate. / brought home with me
from the other side of the water a
great document, great human docu-
ment, but after you hear it talked
about in Washington for while you
think that it has just about three or
four clauses in it. You fancy that
it has a certain Article 10 in it, that
it has something about Shantung in
it, that it has something about the
Monroe doctrine in it, that it has
something about quitting, withdraw
ing from the league, showing that
you do not want to play the game,
and I do not hear about anything
else in it.
"Why, my fellow citizens, those
are mere details and incidents of