The sun., 1919-09-11
WILSON TELLS
NON-PARTISANS
CHAOS LOOMS
who'll Buy Our Wheat?"
He Asks, if Europe Is in
Eruption Again.
GIVE CANNOT AID RUSSIA"
"How, White Father" Is
Greeting of Red Tomahawk,
an Indian Chief.
BY Stor Correspondent of The sus.


BISMARCK, n. D., Sept. 10.-Presi-
dent Wilson made one speech to-day
in State which helped turn the bal
ance for him in 1916, and he made
precisely the same appeal in behalf
of his "all or nothing" ratification
demand that he made in behalf of his
personal fortunes three years ago:
II will keep you out of war"
He will protect them and their chill
dren's children from the horrors of
war If he can coerce an ignorant and
stupid Senate to give him his kind of
League of Nations, for without his
kind of league there will be bloody
revolution, red riot, mankind tearing
at each others throats and the wreck
of civilization.
So he promises and prophesies.
No human being could go into the
supreme court of the English Ian
guage and convict Mr.. Wilson before
judges of literal word usage Of stat
ing these alternatives In downright
positive letter of fact phrases, for
that is not the way his oratory Is
| functioning. On the contrary, he
slightly qualities, delicately shades,
deftly turns every rosy promise or
black prediction, qualities. shades and
turns by artful range Of musical voice
and by studied gesture, so as to make
| his statements 'unactionable" at the
bar of language, but not so as to dull
the impression he creates.
= Example of Wilson wordcraft.
For example, 1t would be difficult
| to say that he directly accuses United
States Senators of being "contempti-
Bile Quitters and political Bolshevists,'
but he maneuvres invariably to get
his hearers TO thinking definitely OF
the Senators and then tosses into
! their processes of thought epithets of
contempt.
| Here in North Dakota, addressing
people of peculiar political leanings, he
| N"PiOSeu tilS SuDlle HlelIou 10 Stedee
the belief in the minds OF the people
that the only dangerous delay there
has been in getting the world back to
peace is the delay now caused by the
United States Senate; to instill into
their minds that the Senate is holding
up the world, a wicked, ignorant Sen
ate, Dick Turpin OF a Senate. He
used 1t to make them believe that his
ways are the ways of peace and that
the Senate's ways are the ways of war
He utilized 1t to put into their minds
the notion that the Senate would
make the United States an outcast
among the nations, but that he is try
inG to make America the guiding an
gel of an emancipated world.
The President used it to hint that
Senate opposition to his programme IS
partly based upon a pro-German re-
vival in America, a revival designed to
lure the United States into an alliance
with Germany to dominate, when the
time is ripe. the rest of the world He
used 1t to intimate that the Senate
would keep labor in oppression, while
he is trying to free labor, to make 1t a
partner Of capital. He was at pains tc
transfer to his hearers his though,
that anarchy will spread to America
with frightful results If the Senate has
its way and his demand is denied.
Clincher for 'AII on Nothing, PIE.
And all Of the time he used II I,
make the people believe that the cove
Eant OF the League OF Nations, the peac,
treaty itself, must be rejected in toto I,
the peril OF all mankind, or accepted II
TOTO TO the salvation of all mankind
Not here In his North Dakota address
delivered at the State capital at noor
was there suggestion or hint that (
would be possible to ratIfy treaty ant
covenant with few safeguarding .eser
vations. Although he maintains that tn,
senate has kept the people In ignoranc,
OF the real benevolent scope of tn,
treaty he himself conceals the statet
purpose OF The Senate. And yet It Nigh
be difficult in perusing his stenographers
output 20 point TO so many exact prom
ises or threats, though these are th
very flesh and blood OF his appeals.
This Is the sort OF thing, the style o
speechmaking that makes Mr.. Wilson
difficult to report. He found In thl
State, as has been said, a people OF pc
cullar political beliefs. State where tn,
Non-Partisan League, organized ana ex
panded by man convicted of sedition
one A. G. Townley. is the dominant po
litical party, having stolen the Republi
can organization cashbox, machiner!
and even old title. This organisation
| Continued on Ninth Pd0s