The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-09-05
HUGH HAILLEE.


passing through Mankato.
HUGH BAILLEE.
Washington, September 3.-Presi-
dent Wilson will leave Washington at
seven o'clock this evening on his TO-
600 mile trip around the United States
in an effort to convince people that
the peace treaty should be ratified
as it is without amendments or rescr-
yations. He hopes tor so solidify
public opinion in favor of the treaty
that opposition senator's will feel the
pi assure of their constituents back
home and be obliged to stand behind
the terms.
Has Faith in Own Power.
The president believes that this will
create an irresistible demand for the
treaty. In his tour President Wilson
will make bald statements of the facts
concerned with the treaty rather than
devote his speeches to oratorical ef-z
forts. He will invade the states of
some of his chief opponents to the
treaty in the senate.
Most of the presidents efforts win
be directed to states west of Chicago
where general antipathy toward the
covenant is most noticeable. He win
also make strong campaign on the
western coast where the people are
suspicious of the Japanese and are op- :
posed TO TIE chanting settlement.
viii Address Legislature.
While on the coast the president will
review the great Pacific feet at Seattle
on septer.eher I2 2 e on i fris.e n
st Paul on September 8 enrorfe to
the coast and will address, the Mime
sofa legislature in special session at
noon. He will also speak at a great
mass meeting at the ST Paul audi
torium in the evening.
One OF the arguments which ,ba
president Will advance for the imnte-
date ratification of the treaty will be
that the present industrial unrest ana
the high cost of living commodities
demand such action immediately.
President Wilson has not prepared his
addresses in advance but will speak ex-
temporaneously from shorthand notes
which he will prepare on board the
train. He has been too busy to cut
line speeches for the tour.
When his opponents in the senate
reply to his speeches the president
will take issue wherever he may be
listed for an address and thus he will
make nationwide debate of the SUBJ
ject. score of newspapermen will
accompany the special train, motion
picture men and a battery of photo
graphers. Two representatives of The
United Press viii be on the train.
Movies to Benefit.
In few days after each speech Is
made pictures of the crowds and the
train will be flashed on thousands OF
motion picture screens throughout the
country. Telegraph companies will
have special representatives on board
the train SO that all speeches can be
quickly wired to the waiting millions.
Secretary Tumulty will accompany
the president as will Mrs. Wilson, Ad-
miral Grayson, his private physician;
Gilbert M. Close, his chief stenog-
rapher, and Joseph Murphy, assistant
head of the United States secret serv-
ice department, will head the secret
service men on the journey. The spe-
cial will consist of private car for
the president, car for the secret
service men, car for the newspaper
representatives, diner and two bag
gage cars. The train will be a Sec
ond section to regular passenger
trains and will not run as special.
A pilot motor will precede the presi-.
dent all the way for safety.
Before leaving the president plan
ned to issue invitations to labor lead
ers, financiers, manufacturers and
farmers to attend conferences for
the consideration of pending indus
trial problems.
L. c. MARTIN.
Washington, September 3.-Declaring
that those senators who ask for amend
ments to the League of Nations are pro-
posing an "insane international policy"
Senator Hitchcock said their course was
We're so closely mixed it was hard to
distinguish between the two.
Hitchcock's speech opened the fight for
UNQUALIFIED endorsement OF the treaty.
He declared that any amendments to
the terms would kill the treaty and In
volve the United States IN loss and dam
gers. That the United States receives
many benefits from the terms was his
Suppose the senate refuses to agree
to the Shantung provisions" he argued.
The president will then either refuse to
go further with the treaty and pigeon
hole it in the state department along with
other treaties that proved failures or no
will turn it over to other countries, as
Suppose he submits it to them for their
re- reconsideration, can anyone believe that
thew will agree to It?
Does anyone suppose that Japan
would agree to REIMBURSEMENT of fhe
rights given her in Shantune and stand
humiliated before the entire world? I
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