Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-09-13

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And Guarantee Liberty
Everywhere.
Tacoma, Wash. Sept 13.-Reading
his address to congress asking dec
laration of war with Germany, Presi-
dent Wilson declared the purpose
there outlined was not yet fulfilled
and would not be until the treaty rati-
fed
Pointing out that he had asked in
that address for a complete freedom
from autocracy and guarantees for
liberty everywhere, he said that was
the program which had been adopted
without respect to party and which
it now was proposed in some quarters
to abandon. When he asked whether
the people wanted it abandoned, there
were shouts of mo, no." and cheers
from the crowd. 1t was the frst Of
two addresses to be delivered by the
president in Washington during the
day. night meeting being scheduled
at Seattle
$4,000 Hear Him.
Before he went to the armory the
president was driven to the stadium
where cheering mass of humanity
coined him. With seating capacity
of 10000; the stadium was packed ex-
cept for small spaces at the ends Of
the horseshoe and thousands more
thronged the steps and terraces above.
In a brief address at the stadium
Mr.. Wilson said he was grateful that
the children had come out to see him
because he felt the decisions being
made now affected the children more
than those of the present generation.
There was a continual roar Of
cheering after he finished speaking,
and until his party had circled out Of
the stadium on the way to the armory.
Speaks at Auditorium.
At the armory. which was packed,
Mr.. Wilson was introduced by n. B.
Coffman, president of the Washington
state branch of the league to enforce
peace
Giving the cost Of the war on both
sides at $1s6.0oo, 100000 and the cost
to the United States as $1.eoo, 600 an
hour for two years, he said that was
the cost in money of saving ciSiliza-
ton. In addition, he continued, there
were 7,450,20o battle deaths, These
were terrible facts" he declared, and
he had come out to the people to sec
whether they had forgotten them ~ :
The co untrN has not forgotten, :" he
man who stands IN the way Of the FUR
fillment of our pledges TO forget the
sorrowful day when he male the at
tempt.
League is Remedy.
The remedy for all Of this proposed
as q fulillment of the nation g. pxom-
ises, asserted Mr.. Wilson, Yves the
league of nations, which. -alJasa16er-
nanently could overthrow autS kcy
and quiet disorders. A new kind Of
disorderly autocracy was growing up,
he said, in such movements as that
which had overturned Russia
am an enemy of the rulership
of any minority, however constttut-
ed" he continued. 'Minorities often
have been right but they cease to be
right when they use disorderly
means
The labor section Of the treaty was
praised by the President who said it
had been made by men with hearts
under their jackets and in the in
terests of humane and Just labor con-
ditions.
Party passion the President said.
had been aroused by the treaty dis
cussion although the fundamental
principles of the document had come
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He asked his audience to forget that
he had anything to do with the con-
summation of those principles and to
overlook that there would be an elec-
ton in 1920.
On his first return from Paris Mr..
Wilson. went on, he had received cor
tain suggestions from the senate
foreign relations committe, which
came for the most from the rsp1blic-
q ciAA nf ho
to the peace conference, he said. he
had secured the acceptance e6 every
one of those suggestions
Reading Riot Act
Il say these things" he confined,
because want to read the riot net
to anybody who tries to introduce
politics into this thing. There IL
something SO much greater than be-
ing republican or q democrat thai
toned in connection with It. That y
being an American, and the way to
be an American is to fulfil the
pledges We have made
The crowd cheered this declaration
and there was more appliance when
Mr.. Wilson went on to tell OF the
work Of former President Taft and
former Attorney General WYckersham
for the league. :
Mr.. Wilson said he WAS deeply
touched by the interest of mothers
and of children In the hope or world
peace. Saying many Of the children
had hailed him along the way "a
woody" the President digreased to
remark that he had no objection to
that II it were applied .'as . name
and not as = description
elared the President. should live IN
fear il this nlay,s fnr ~nr,A 80 a