The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-09-24
President Wilson Continues His
Patriotic Battle for the
League Of Peace
PARTISANSHIP OF THE
LODGE CLIQUE EXPOSED
Crowd Overtaxed the Great Au-
ditorium at Oakland-Califor-
MIA Hears Him Gladly


MIA Hears Him Gladly.
Oakland, Cal. Sept. 1S.-President
Wilson told an audience here that the
people had been S'singularly and, I
sometimes fear, deliberately mislea",
as to the contents OF the peace
treaty.
In an address interrupted many
times by cheers he said that any man
who discussed the treaty on the basis
of small and technical objections
would in the end be overwhelmed
by public opinion.
Mr.. Wilson spoke before a crowd
which jammed the auditorium here
with its seating capacity of $4,000.
Many others stood in the aisles and
| in the rear of the galleries.
For the first time during his trip
the president was introduced by a
woman, DR.. Aurelia H. Reinhardt.
president of Mills College OF Oak
land, presenting him as one TO whom
the interna tional affairs Of the coun-
try might be safely entrusted. When
he rose to speak some one shouted.
Are we> with him." And many
| shouted in chorus, Yes"
For the second time during his trip
President Wilson whose purpose was
not to serve governments but ito
serve peoples all the peoples of the
world, he declared. at last had seen
a vision of liberty and had drawn Ut
a treaty for the peoples "and the for
tunes of children everywhere. 1t
Twas for the benefit Of those of future
generations, he asserted, that the
document had been formulated.
.'The characteristic" of the treaty
asserted Mr.. Wilson. was that II
gives liberty to peoples who never
could have won it for themselves .
Had the world not already been rent
by the great war. he said, the world
would have been amazed that such a
thing was possible. He declared ii
meant the end of the dreams Of every
irperialistic government in the
world.
/ For one thing, continued the pres
ident, the treaty attempted to inter
nationalize all of the great water
ways of Europe He said that in eff
feet it proposes to "cut out every in
fuence of national privilege.
Discussing the labor section of the
treaty. he declared there would be set
up new standard of labor for the
whole world under which laborers
would be regarded as human
In that connection he mentioned
the seamen's act passed by congress
a few years ago.
i The international labor conference
to be held in Washington next month
was recalled by the president and he
was cheered when he added:
eve are waiting to learn from the
senate of the United States whether
we can attend it or not
In short, said the president, the
treaty provided an organization OF
liberty and mercy" for the world
Referring to Germany's temporary
exclusion from the league of nations.
the president said if the autocratic
German government were revived with
a Hohenzollern on the throne, Ger
many forever would be excluded from
the. league and from respectable So
| ciety
"The Hapsburgs and the Hohenzol-
lerns are permanently out Of busi-
ness" added Mr.. Wilson, while the
crowd cheered again.
There were more cheers when he
referred to the withdrawal feature OF
the league covenant and said that
should the United States so into the
league with a seat near the door"
it would be invited to take a front
seat Immediately.
Turning to the arbitration and lis
cussion features of the covenant. the
president said it invited all the ma
tions to lay any grievance before the
jury of humanity before going TO war
IF you think you have friend
who is fool he added, encourage
him to hire q hall"
Some one in the gallery. shouted:
ooh you Hiram Johnson and the
crowd laughed and checred
Arperica foremost of al nations.
said the president. declared it as one
of the principles on which she enter
ed the war that there should be no
more wars.
why do we debate details" he
asked while the crowd cheered. when
the heart Of things is sound? ?'
The league Of nations covenant.
President Wilson said. in his luncheon
address today. sis the enterprise Of di-
vine mercy and peace and good will"
Continuing he added:
Il believe in divine providence. il,
did not. would go crazy. if / thought
the direction of disordcred affairs Of
this world depended upon our finite
endcavor. / should not know how to-
reason my way to sanity. But l do
not believe there is any body of men,
however they concert their power or
their influence. that can defeat this
great enterprise
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