The sun., 1919-09-13
WILSON FINDS WEST
FOR RESERVATIONS
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standing what the treaty means, but "if
Congress wants to btate the meaning
over again in other words, we under
stand the treaty to mean what IL says
all right; 1 have no objection"
Means BegEing of Germany.
But nothing else. ladies and gentle
men. The Senate can bubble in lam
guage all that II pleases, but II must not
change the document unless 1t wants
to throw the world Into anarchy and
ruin the United States with the rest of
the world. You can avoid n misunder-
standing without changing the docu-
ment."
Subordinated to the dire prediction
that all civilization will 20 up In flames
il the Senate makes the slightest change
In the manuscript Mr.. Wilson brought
back from Paris is the argument calcu-
lated to impress a victorious country
proud in the triumph OF its army and
navy, the argument that any change
means begging a beaten foe, Germany.
to sign an amended document, and he
says that would be more than he could
bear.
IF the Senate ratihes on the condition
that SO and so is understood. then that
will have to be submitted to every
signatory of the treaty" Mr." Wilson
says, including the German Assembly
at Weimar. That gravels me. That
goes against my digestion"
That touch should have tapped the
fountains of applause, The West cheers
readily at time when It likes a man or
mans ideas But the applause that
~ fDw tV,at HON fNe
victors brought to humiliation by a
stupid Senate brought no more shouts
or volume of handclapping than barely
could have been heard across Broad
way. The thin plants of distressed
babies overwhelmed the acclaim. AS the
actor folk say, TT didn't get over"
Nor did his other and more portentous
arguments. predictions and threats fare
better.
His Police stand Approved.
The one rare burst Of applause that
Mr.. Wilson received at Occur d'Alene,
Helena and here In Spokane leaped from
the responsiveness of the people to his
denunciation OF the striking policemen
of Boston when he called the police
strike there IAN intolerable crime
against civilization" In that applause
there was the real ring OF fervld APP
proval, that indefnable. indescribable,
but always identihable note of approval
from the heart.
The Northwest is a great deal more
interested in hearing Mr.. Wilson de-
nounoe agitators than It is in hearing
him encourage them by such speeches
as he delivered yesterday and to-day.
For there were in the audience which
heard with amazement his statement
that he would not ask agitators TO stop
agitatlng. that he would only beg" of
them to agitate In an orderly fashion,
many men who have taken their lives
In their hands out in this part of the
country In an effort TO check agitation
and anarchy. They don't know what
he is talking about when he tells them
that he approves of agitation against
wrongs, because they say, the leaders
of agitation are the persons who define
wrongs"
Mr.. Wilson came to Occur d'Alene,
with its bitter memories of the Western
Federation of Miners, of the assassinated
Steunenberg and of Big Bill Haywood,
from uninterested Helena, where the lit
tie girls who dropped flowers In his path
way were the most interested of his
hosts. In Helena last night he delivered
the longest speech the tour has yet re-
nation. a speech which resurveyed his
now familiar appeals. He said one or
two things though which made some of
his hearers blink. that men who oppose
the League OF Nations are comparable
TO the men who tried to divide the Union I;
that he came to understand the Mexican
question solely through hearing the re-
ports of liars and that Shantung is out
side the League of Nations.
Enters by Bitter Root Valley.
He approached Occur d'Alene this
morning through the old prospectors'
gateway, Rathdrum, leaving his special
train at 8 A. N. to travel fourteen miles
by motor car through the Bitter Root
Valley. It is a valley richly productive in
fruit and wheat though the drought Of
the past season has hit the fruit grow
ers and the ranchers very hard through
out the Northwest, and the Presidents
fast speeding motor car shot between
apple orchards, where files of young
trees marched up to the roadway bowling
to the ground under their luscious bur
dens.
Later Mr.. Wilson was to be presented
with some fine baskets full of the fruit,
as yesterday he received presents of rain
bow trout from Montana, including a
twenty pOunQer InlS Is 0Sn story
which can be corroborated by the Presi-
dent of the United States and the AS
ISOLATED Press. but neither can show
that the rainbow trout OF Montana COM
pares in any way with the speckled beau
ties of Maine and King and Bartlett
lake and Spencer stream.
He spoke In a tent at Occur d'Alene,
a tent set up under the black wall of a
mountain. -Four thousand persons
crowded in, since the country round
about was highly interested in the
Presidential visit, and he was introduced
by Gov d. w. Davis. who had travelled
In a State of vast distances three solid
days for the honor or presenting Presi-
dent-three days from Boise to Occur
d'Alene. The President expressed his
pleasure over being able to get away
from Washington, ian interesting but
lonely" place, where persons in respons-
ible positions lose touch with public
opinion. AS for him. he delighted at
every opportunity to get out into the
wide reaches of the country, TO look into
the eyes of his fellow citizens penetrate
to the heart of their thoughts and re-
charge the currents of his activity in
their behalf