Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-22

America 8 postwar attitude, declaring
that America had large share in i'm
| posing the peace terms and had duty
to see that they were enforced.
Challenging the worth of Germanys
signature to treaty, the Tiger declar-
ed that if France had known in 1918
that reparation would have been un-
paid four years later, she would have
gone on to Berlin. The Tiger receiv-
ed great burst Of applause for the
assertion.
NJ. Clemenceau, who protested thas
he came to America on no official mis-
sion, but as private citizen to present
the truth as he saw it, declared that
reparatlon was an American idea. be-
cause President Wilson had come for
ward with his famous Il points and
the armlstice repre- sented substantially
the American point of view
AT mention of Woodrow wilson there
, was another great burst of applause.
Expressing the hope that America
could find some way Of renewing con-
yersatlons with France and England,
looklns toward enforcement of the
peace treaty, Clemenceau said:
i don't want to speak of the Ieaxus
OF Nations. But I might. I might
The Tiger said he did not believe in
the League as means Of preventing
war, but that he believed in it as
means OF arranging matters. deferring
war, and giving people time to think.
You have seen one of the greatest
dramas In the world he said.
We are now in the greatest crisis.
Nobody knows when it will end and
What effect European misery may have
on American prosperity"
lie asked what America had made
war tor and what she had gained.
lie said America had come 10 tha
point where she was granted time to
think. No sacrifice was demanded of
her except the will to assert herself
as the nation she had vanquished were
unable to do anything just at the pres
ent moment.
To the strains OF the AfarseiIIaise
and the Star Spangled Banner. N
siemenceau stepped upon the stage of
the Metropolitan Opera house and
faced an audience that packed the
mouse from the orchestra circle to top
most gallery.
He entered the building BY side
entrance, lodging a crowd that would
nave titled the auditorium several
tunes over and that. denied admittance.
fingered anyhow in hope of getting a
glimpse OF the picturesque S1-year-oId
statesman. When he stepped from the
wings, there were cheers and cries of
slVe la Tiger and 'Nive la France"
mingled with the more polite handicap
ping.
Objects to Throne Chair
Ciemenceau took his place behind a
low semicircle of palms and chrysan-
tnemums that obscured his squat fig
ure almost to his waist.
The chair provided for him was a
small cane-seated affair. appropriately,
as the Tiger said, for Sample cit
zen; The management had provided
big throne chair, but the Tiger, Wis
lting the auditorium late Tuesday aft
ernoon for final inspection, "ordered
It out. declaring it would make him
look like Queen Victoria"
Above his head hung cluster of
ampiifylng horns to carry his voice to
the big audience.
Flags of the two nations which the
Iiper hopes by his tour to weld more
closely were intertwined over the stage.
The famous golden horseshoe also was
draped in French and American colors.
The audience was select one. Eve
ming clothes predominated, even in the
upper galleries.
An army of plain clothes men lined
the corridor through. which he entered.
Notables on the stage included Cen
eral Pershing, Alvin 0wsley. national
commander of the. American Legion:
Acting Mayor Pulbert, Major General
K. t. Bullard. commandant of the sec
ond army corps area, and Major Gen
eral John f. O'Ryan.
Pershing on Stage
Clemenceau sat between Pershinx
and John w Davis, chairman, smiling
at the cheering audience.
When the applause that greeted the
noted Frenchman ceased, Nine. Peral-
tn, of the Metropolitan, sang a stanza
Of the Star Spangled Banner. Then
Rothier, another Metropolitan artist.
sang the Marseillaise. Clemenceau
stood facing the singers, his eyes
sparkling with emotion.
John w. Davis, $ormer ambassador
to. Great Britain, introduced the war
premier, the grizzled veteran of state
craft who had finger in the history
Of the world, as lie Pere 10 yictoire.''
Explaining that the Council of For
eign Relations, under whose auspices
the meeting was held. believed that
nothing was of more consequence than
the wellbeing of the American people.
and the relations they entertained with
distant countries, the chairman paid
tribute to the service of France in the
world war. and to the man who, when
the hearts of men grew faint in 1917.
hreathed fresh life into the weary
hosts Of all the allied armies"
NJ Clemenceau. showing little sign
of fatigue. spoke for nearly an hour
and half.
There was only one disturbance.
This was when Il heckler in the bal
cony screamed n few words
put him out" came cries from va
rious parts of the house.
TIE Tiger never halted, but pro
reeded as if the heckler had been mute.
$50 MEN ARRESTED ON DOCKS.
Los Angeles, Nov. 21.--One hundred
ind fifty men, found lounging on the
municipal docks Mt Los Angeles harbor
etlay. were arrested by harbor guards
md ordered to leave the city.