Arizona republican., 1919-03-11
CHAMBER TO HEAR TA[KbY
 V|CEPRES|DENT.
After Tumultous Greeting
 MT. Marshall Speaks For Fifteen Minutes on Sub ject Nearest to People

Never before was there such jam in the capitol building as that of yes terday afternoon when several thou sand people gathered to meet and hear President Thomas R. Marsh all. Only a few hundred had that pleasure, for that was the extent of the capacity of the house chamber and ! the galleries which were filled far be- ! yond capacity in the mind of the archl- | tect of the building.
 l At o'clock. President Johns called l the joint session of the senate and house to order. and appointed a com | mittee composed of Messrs. Campbell and Green of the senate and Mir. Hend- | rick and Mrs. Westover of the house [ i to escort the vice president and Gov ernor Campbell from the executive chambers.
 Mir. Marshall, on his entrance, was greeted with tumultuous applause, not | only because of his exalted position. | but because those who were there re- l garded him in a sense as their neigh | bor. He was introduced by the gov | | ernor The president said that | he had come to Arizona, as he had been ! doing for several years. to rest, to re- 1 gather strength of body and mind, ! though he said his mind had never been remarkably strong. He did not accept the invitation to address the legislature with the notion of honoring it, but he felt that he was being hon. ored.
 "AlI is Past or Future"
 The vice president disclaimed any intention to speak of the foremost mat ter now before the American people, but for fifteen minutes he spoke of it in a most interesting manner.
 Said be "I do not wish to speak loosely on that question and without weighing my words. However. I may be pardoned for observing that there comes a time in the history of nations as we'll as in the lives of men when there is no such thing as the present moment; when all is either past or in the future; when all is history or hope. There is a spot in Iceland where at certain season of the year the rays Of the setting mingIe with those of the rising sun; where it is difficult to say that a day is yesterday or tomorrow.
 Tt is my belief that there are few f thinking men or women in America [. today who are wandering in a wilder ,, ness of doubt, in a quandry whether Q they can go back to the days prior to a August. 1914, or whether they must step s out into an unknown future.
 $ While l would be forever against
 anything that would besmirch the - honor of the American flag or lessen n the grandeur or glory of the American l. people, yet am convinced that we are # facing a new era and that things must - be different in the future. Napoleon t on his way to his coronation remarked s to courtier. Things are not differ
 ent from what they were The courier. ,f with courage and honesty, replied, No. if sire. but the million and a half of men e who have died, died that things might e not be as they are.'.
 ltl New Era Coming
 n 'fo you l want to present this aues- t ton; Do you think ten millions of men $ suffered and died on the fields of ,t Flanders and France that things might r. be as they were before? If you do ,f l do not A new era is coming. In the 10 last four years We have found out -- and l say 1t with all reverence-neither ,e God nor man can get along with self
 centered. selfish men and women.
 "l believe with George Washington
 the greatest of all Americans. with the ! exception of Abraham Lincoln. if the . latter was not greater, that we should
 nave no entangling alliances. if we car get out of it. But times have changed
 In Washington's day there were nc steamships. no cables, no wireless and F Whether you wish it or not, you arc hooked up with the world and what
 ever touches any part of the civilized
 world for veal or woe. touches Ari.
 zona- In this most beautiful portior CT or America, and I say it advisedly. fol a l nave been all over it, it is the mos ,y beautiful, you have been in this grea nd war. TOUT industries. your homes ant r. your finances have felt it."
 nc That there should be a movenen rt Tor peace, or to reduce the chances n or war, the vice president declared ms though he did not commit himself f,
 any plan for an alliance of nations CT Sald he: "l am loyal to the presiden as or the United States. Twice I hay He been the tail Of the Wilson kite. Whel he IL went up went up, and when it zoe at doWn, l expect to go down.
 m Must Prevent War
 75 T say 1 am loyal to the presiden, so ana do not pretend to discuss tb v- league Of nations, but in reviewing fin
 Worlds affairs, l see nothing for hu
 manlty to do but to devise some nIa
 10 prevent wars in the future or in,
 mediately begin preparations for th f. next war. On this question. I am wit ed the president in his effort to prever ,,o the next war;
 ed Later on. Mfr. Marshall said: "On th he other hand, there are certain gres en questions for which it is better to f;gy m than to abandon them, and if I thou9l
 there was anything in a league of na - tlons to lower the self-respect of th
 united States, then I would ratbt
 light But" added the vice pres;den
 T would rather eat a little dirt tb.
 have another war"
 Describing the evolution of thing
 and along with the evolution of FOO,
 the evolution of evil: with the increas
 oI facilities for peaceful arts an ir
 crease Of the facilities for war M
 harsnau said MacAdams came alon
 "itn an Improved method of makin
 rosds. Turning to Governor Camr
 oeli' MT. Marshall produced A laur
 oy discialming any intention of mn
 sung further subject of such imm,
 olate interest in Arizona.
 reople's Voice Not Always Gale
 from the subject of the world proy
 rem, the vice president went to fl
 Arizona problem. The trouble vii
 representative government. he s.i
 was not that it failed to represent tl
 people, but that it too often repr,
 sehteo them too accurately: rem,
 Sehten their follies and their passion ne was not of those who believed tb, the voice of the people is the cboi, oi tod Too often he had heard n Noice or the people in the wrong |, nisht though. be believed. that il .oice or the sober second thought tne people IS the voice of Cod