Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-09-21
HEARERSSHR|EK
PACT APPROVAL
ECHO To WILSON
Wonderful Meeting at
Los Angeles Closes
Week on Coast.
DEFENDS sHANTUNG DEAL
WITH DIPLOMACY Of HAY

Los Angeles, Sept. 20.-President
making on the Pacific coast, tonight,
with a monster mass meeting here at
which thousands shrieked approval Of
his plea for early ratification of the
peace treaty.
Welcomed to the city By a crowd which
densely packed the downtown section.
the president was cheered tumuitously
everywhere he appeared during the day.
Along the line of a ten-mile parade, he
rode in a din of applause and, later,
at public dinner, cheers greeted his
declaration that the treaty should and
would be accepted.
Greeted by 5000.
When he entered the auditorium for
his night speech, he was cheered for
more than two minutes by q crowd es-
timated by the police at 5000. The
hall was jammed and outside We're
thousands who could not get in. Some
had been waiting since early morning for
the doors to open.
At the auditorium meeting. Mr.. Will
son was introduced by Mrs Josiah
Evans Cowles, national president of the
general federation of womens' clubs.
who told the crowd that the league of
nations must and will become the bull
wark of a warWeary world for all time
Many Republicans There.
The meeting had been advertised as
one of strictly non partisan nature. and
many Of the states prominent repnbli
cans sat on the platform. Among them
were Henry w. Wright. speaker Of the
California assembly, and Marshall Stim
son. who was campaign manager III
southern California for Senator Hiram
Johnson in 1910
When Mr. Wilson declared it was 4
matter of amazement that some men
were now opposing the league. some one
in the crowd shouted Shame on them
and many others took up the cry.
There were more cheers, moment
later. when he declared the treaty was
founded on the rights of the weak ratf-
er than the power Of the strong. 1t
was a peoples treaty, he said. not a
statesman's treaty. The peoples Of the
world, he said, We're tired Of the old
system of autocratic domination and
they would overthrow it zone way or 1n-
,the-.' Under the league. he added.
autocratic governments would be ex
cluded from decent society. because only
self governing PEOPLES could hold mem
bershp.
ShantunJ Open Door Case.
Quoting from n friend who he said
''nevcr let the facts get him if he saw
them coming first the president as
serted that some men could not now 50
the facts in the treaty discussion march
ing upon them.
MY prediction is that the facts are
going to see them be added. while the
crowd cheercd again, and make a very
comfortable meal Of them
Mr.. Wilson reviewed at length the
history Of the German rights in shan
tung provinces, declaring when these
rights were acquired the state of inter
national law was such that President
Mckinley and Secretary Hay did not
even protest. but only asked that Amer
can trade rights should not be affected.
The Hay open door policy, he said,
meant mot the open door to the rights
Of China but an open door for the goods
Of America.
Later, said the president Russia,
France and Great Britain obtained SINH
lar rights. without any protest from the
United States. The peace Of Ports
mouth, he declared By which Japan ac-
quired Port Arthur at the end Of the
Russo Japan war, was exactly similar
to the Shantung provision Of the present
treaty Each, he said, gave Japan rights
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