New-York tribune., 1919-09-10
World in State of Revolu-
ton, He Asserts; Fail
IRE to Settle Problems
Will Invite Upheaval
Unrest of Workers
Declared a Menace
President S a k S to
Three Audiences in
Day; Reiterates Warn
ing of Danger Ahead

Staff Correspondence
ST PAUL. Sept. 9.-President Will
un to-day declared the people had
made up their minds that if the gov
.rnments of the world cannot get to-
eether they will destroy the govern
ments. He was speaking at Mime
spclis before the most enthusiastic
audience he has addressed thus fa-
on the trip.
Apparently fearful that he had used
TOO strong language to describe the
state Of unrest, the President added:
~ am not speaking of revolution.
believe that the most disastrous thing
that can happen to the under man, to
the man who is suffering, to the man
who has not had his rights, is to destroy
public order for that makes it certain
that he never can get his rights. l am
far from intimating that, but am in
timating this, that the people of the
world are tired of every other kind of
experiment. except the one we are 60
Ing to try
Warning Is Repeated
While this perhaps was the most
startling statement the President made
he came very near saying the same
thing III another part of his address
when he declared:
FOR, my fellow citizens, what does
not seem to me to be realized in this
blessed country of ours is the fact
that the world is in revolution. l do
not mean in active revolution. l do
mean that it is in state Of mind
which will bring about the dissolution
Of governments. l mean that it is in
state of mind which may bring about
the dissolution of governments if we
Do not enter into world settlement
which will really in fact and in power
establish justice and right"
Apparently with a desire to drive
homs his meaning, Mr.. Wilson said a
little later.
This is the only country in the
world whose leadership and guidance
Nll be accepted. If we do not give it
4 mmay look forward, my fellow citi-
1eas, to something like a generation OF
- nd ,o, T.
{ impossible to pass through without the
"feckage of a very considerable part
our slowly constructed civilization" J"
= Three Speeches in Twin Cities
The President delivered three
peeches in the course of the day. The
afst was before a joint session Of the
A'nhesota Legislature in st. Paul; the
A scond IN the Minneapolis Armory in
ae afternoon, and the third in the
". raul Auditorium at night.
discussing the high cost of living
'eiofe the Legislature, which is in ex-
~ session to consider that subject,
sao at night in the Auditorium, the
.'esoent declared the problem was the
''su!s of "a world condition."
= "is due to the fact" said he, chat
~s man power of the world has been
.ss'heed in the agony of the battle
@S'a' and that all the processes Of
SSus'ry have either been slackened
Inverted. I imagine that it will
several generations before foreign
'"Sfnments can finally adjust them
/ ~, ''s 10 carrying the overwhelming
4 !, winch have been accumulated
"''S war. Until the industrial
~. u mere and el-cv here has been
NJ W ''s feet, you cannot finally han
A' question of the cost of living"
,s.;. vi MS night speech the President
4 ..s.. . expressed confidence that the
,aa,. would be ratified without change,
50 l Know what you want. Say
get It, Tell me you don't vans
.sn'. Nv "nat am urging and I will go
@"No!p was greeted WIN cries
lest of Sentiment Made
ssi.s meeting closed with an incident
A.. 'ne Presidents friends hope will
&,,. "e'gnt with Senators Kellogg and
Na, mayor Hodgson sprang to the
sll.s - >, the President ended his speech,
sf.s tue audience and then said. "All
sr OF the immediate ratification
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