The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-09-19
MILLIONS ACCLAIM WILSON AZ
NE speeds ACROSS
the LAND.
FEW ASK FOR CHANGES
Majority Feel ThaE president's Guild
ance Should Be HeId-He Regards
Pact A. Sure TO Come aoon.
(By Mt. Clemens News Bureau)


Train-From the Capital at Washing
ton to the far Pacific coast the Presi.
dent of the United States has jour.
neyed on the most unusual expedition
ever undertaken by a chief executive
Of the nation.
To discuss national questions, many
presidents have toured the land; but
Mr. Wilson Is laying before America
a question which affects the whole
world-the question Of whether or not
we are to Join In the League of Ma.
tons; whether we are to forget our
former isolation and share with the
other peoples Of the earth the respon-
sibilities OF maintaining civilization
md preventing, as he says we can do,
future warfare.
Between the capital and the coast
the president made fifteen speeches
and half dozen brief talks. All of
1000 fellow citizens listened to him.
Several millions had the chance to see
him, and apparently everyone wanted
to see him. from those who thronged
the streets of the cities and towns
where he stopped. to those who came
to the railside or stood at little Gag
stations in remote places, knowing
their only reward could be fieeting
glimpse and wave of the hand.
He has met and talked to all types
or cltiZens-to men big In the bust.
ness, financial and professional worlds.
to farmers and mechanical workers,
to Indians and cowboys and foreign.
Torn herders and rangers, to soldiers
and to mothers who lost soldier-sons
In the late war.
What do they all tell him? unant.
mously they say they want peace
definitely settled. they want no more
wars, they want the League of Ma.
tons, and most Of the American peo.
Pie, 1t may be fairly said. tell the
President they want the League Just
as 1t is, without the reservations or
amendments which certain senators
Lave insisted upon. The majority OF
citizens say to those who interview
them on this tour: ~-.
woodrow Wilson guided US rightly
before and during the war with Ger.
many. We entered that war, every.
one agrees, to end all wars. He SAYS
tne league can d9 that. We want 10
10 that. SO let US keep on trusting him
and get the league into operation AZ
s22a g possible. Forget politics"
Most Amertfans encountered on the
'2Ir @Syg esrgoetsp politics. Repub.
lean Governors aud Mayors have in.
reduced the President Is bis audi
nee; the Major part Of the local com.
nittees which have met him have
cen REPUBLICANS. They have all said:
we are nHI6lng but Americans. Mr..
resid-
.-NGT. Wilson's arguments for the
eague, briefly summarized. are those:
There can be no peace. either now
II in the fueure, without 1t. There
an only be regrouping Of nations
md a new Balance of Power" which
s certain to lead to war. There can
,e no war in the future, with the
eagua In existence, because no single
nation would defy the united rest Of
, nkind, and II 1t did, 1t could be
= 1ght to terms bI a. economic
1~y;ccccft, and without the use OF arms.
There can be no reduction In the
cost OF living until the league 10 e.
labl:shed, for nations will not go
ahead with PEACE time production IN
I'll they know that peace Is definitely
assured and that production q war
material Is no longer necessary.
There can be wonderful prosperity.
with the league in existence, tT 2k
atoms OF labor and capital all over
the world will be made closer and
slore friendly, and the worker will re-
;SlYe a fairer share Of what he pro
euces. --~a~atsazas esgsss
These declarat1n Of the president, !
logically and eloquently put, have left
hls hearers thinking and thinking
deeply. And then Mr.. Wilson has
pointed out. the people themselves, as
differentiated from senators and politi.
CLAUS sem to want just what the
N1eI Fhich is America for
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Quite as unusual as the purpose OF
che cross country tour Is the manner
An which 1t is being carried out and
the completeness Of the arrange
meats on the nine car train which is
bearing the party.
AZ the rear is the private car May
eovver occupied by the President and
MRS Wilson. Next is a compartment
car for the secretary Tumulty, Az
-,,,val Crayson, Mr.. Wilson's Physi'
eian four stenographers. the CHIEF
executive clerk and seven secret ser
vice men. Byond are three compart-
nent cars which house twenty-one
correspondents, Eve movie men, AND
q tejegraphic and a railroad expert
Than there is q dinner. e. club car and
two baggage cars, one OF them con
veyted into a business ONCE. INC
a, a-.ot1xy IN time at every