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Show APPEALS If CONVERTS TO PESCLPiCT California Refuses to See Any Personal Issue Between the President and Senator ' Johnson. Lawrence Reviews Situation Situ-ation in Golden State; Appraises Effects of White House Oratory. ! By DAVID LAWRENCE. (Copyright. 1019, bv ait Lake Tribune. j EX KOl'TE WITH PRESIDENT j WILSON" TO SAX DIEGO, Cal., Sept. IS. Crowds are always difficult to i analyze. Their applause is not always conclusive. Their demonstrations are I not always spontaneous and the element ele-ment of contagion and suggestion enters en-ters into the psychology of the moment. mo-ment. But more distinctive than any other audiences on' the whole journey have been the three which President Wilson addressed at San Francisco. Their respective responses were different, differ-ent, their demeanor significant. First Mr. Wilson addressed an audience au-dience of several hundred women. There were no male guests except newspaper news-paper correspondents. The noise of their combined voices when cheering was naturally a feeble contrast to the lusty outbursts of tho mixed audiences to which we have grown accustomed. But their punctuations of applause seemed to indicate that the idealism of the president, as expressed in his advocacy of a league of nations, made a deep impression as contrasted with the alternative policy of political isolation iso-lation defended by Hiram Johnson, senator from this state. PRESIDENT MAKES j EFFECTIVE APPEAL. j Xo more attentive audience ever listened to a Wilson speech. And the president's tracing of the historical background of the Shantung settlement was so effective that I heard favorable comment on every side as the women left the banquet hall. Did the women of California want their sons to go to war to take Shantung from Japan and to fight Great Britain and France, who pledeed themselves to support Japan On the Shantung question before America Amer-ica entered the war? That was Mr. Wilson's query and the women answered an-swered with a chorus of "Noes" that was unmistakable. But if the audience at the luncheon criven by the women on the first day of the president 's visit to San Francisco Fran-cisco was friendly and sympathetic, it did not begin to compare with the demonstration of enthusiasm which interrupted in-terrupted his speech again and again at the second day's luncheon attended bv the Advertising club, the Commonwealth Common-wealth clu, the Down-town association, the Rotary club, the Home Industry league and the League to Enforce Peace. Business men they were to whom the president said frankly he believed ho could address a business argument. With telling effect lie read the figures telling the horrible cost of the late war in men and money and vitality. The hundreds of men present literally rasped as the president reminded them that the direct cost of the conflict, irrespective of the sums loaned to one another by the belligerents. was one hundred and eighty-six billion dollars, and as he said that more than seven and a half million men had died on the field of battle, which was one million more than had been killed in all the preceding wars since the year 1793. Add to that, remarked Mr. Wilson, tho enormous number of maimed and wounded: add to that the vitality of future generations which had been subtracted from the world by the recent re-cent war, and it staggers the imagination imagina-tion Kd. all or it. assisted the president presi-dent could have bu avoided if the process of arhitrnt Tt or nine months ' (Continued on Pase 10. Column 4.) UN WINS if CONVERTS TO PACT (Continued From Page Oue.) discussion, now provided for in the eov.'nant. had been compulsory in I'.Ul. ! HUNDREDS SHOUT EARNEST APPROVAL. The men present shouted tlneir approval ap-proval and rose from their seats in an outburst of applause that was the climax cli-max of the whole reception. Interruptions Interrup-tions of checritii; were frouent. but none more effective than that which followed Mr. Wilson's description of the war costs, unless it was his flat statement that America would be a member of the leacuo of nations regardless regard-less ot the counsels of the opposi! ion, for the crowd took to that with rest and cheered and demonstrated noisily and happi'.v. Tut if these two luncheon addresses wetv pininlv an evidence of the sympathetic sym-pathetic and the friendly interest of men and women voters, it cannot be said that the biir mass meeting i" the auditorium at niifhl was the - same. Karelv have the circumstance been so difficult for speakinu and rarely has a crowd been so porplexinp; in its makeup. make-up. Fully lliVoo' people were packed in everv conceivable space aisles, rafters, stairways and balconies, A more uncomfortable mass of humanity hu-manity 1 have never seen. l'eople could neither net in nor out. They wvro fastened as if in a vise. hoy Cava Mr. Wilson a thunderous welcome. wel-come. And tho demonstration lasted fullv fifteen minutes, durillir which time even the president seemed to n-jov n-jov the waving of flues and the expressions ex-pressions of enthusiasm, but as the ore-it majority who had come to listen hiv.'cd the upraised hand of the mayor, a minority who had come to disturb kept 1:11 a perpetual clamor. At fir.-t It seemed as If it was more tils- j comfort and an ai ictv to cet merer the i front, but iradually the president's face h..:aior.c I as lie saw that a small (.ro'ip had oliced itself in the ball presiimal'lv to Interfere !! ronktnc of the sieech Itself. reorlo 0:1 the platform, mal.v of them Keput Ileitis, r'alllly shewed their enit.ari a-mient. as they did not wart a ; few poo; le to R.vo the ttv.pre s!on that j San Vranci-co lisd so fur icrc.v.ten its j deii o. l .o v as to re'UM- to b. -T !. 1 of anv 1 ..itilu- 0,11. t:on. An-iin and ne.i 11. I the ercn lilaed In ord.or to secure ouiet. , and fine. lv the president start.,! speak- ' tr.c amidst an au.t.bte f.irhi'ieaee on the : outkiris of tlx crowd. ! nu.'.len.-e ; .ii.iu't respond t.) f re .3 ue 11 ! 1 y matte points. Some started to upp.aud. but evl.i. nt y f. jr, d it would f.e the d.fiurl-ers the c port . mil y thev solicit to prevent Mr. 1 Wilson tioul making an extended iHec:l. j Wilson Is Aroused. j Hut scn.eth.'.nu In the hostility of the j stn-o.ph-ro nrons.-l Mr. W'.'.-on. and be d .1 l. b.l tillher-O r.ver .hlu -tie, started to the nc.se. I s...".'.iy 1:1 tli audilo: .iin.s. .... 1...S not st-a;ned Ins o.ce or B'.iemptrd to do more ih..,n et.nd ! s ro-lliics. llut on th s o.'.-.oion h.e slr n k fo-lh pi his ' k-ument an.l liandl. .1 the Shimtiipc and Ihe trlh .p..e I . 0:1 and the , II. niters f "treat b- taln s s. vol", with t ol.,-i',v t1-. ,t i;il. I,'.v resloi'.,'. q .et ami re-).,- :.' ltv the t mo lie had I.;, -l ed he III. lV not l..le converted tho-e M -O CAU.e l. I'.ll p-eco-l CI d h. SH..I- . t ilt tie t.,li e'. the l;.ti,rl . : s, and V r. fo:i nn.y e cou-lder .1 a tr umph. Au.-ui-e o r. 1" pel. .lie--1: -!' toi.ard tl'.e . u.i of his n-.. e h. tor. tiv flleer power of or Worn al iipp- .i' mat p. - .Asie argument. the pr. .i.l. nt hud pl umed a Bttcr.t.a hear- 1 11 1: 1 S:relr: t"ie effe -t In pin Fra-le-o. i che cm t,r;ef'.' set down these thn : 1 as fi-.hiTr.ent.il t. n. mi Johl soi Is el d the Idol of 1 a. Horn ... lie is still fie stroi col p. I.'.!. V.1 f k.-re In tl'.e Mat-, t ilt the p, op 00 not i.v.iid 11'. l j prr.--or.al co. 1-, - 1 V.rsV l.tweeil Mr Ji'I'M-eil .I'd M" Wl.-pon. Wl.-pon. nl. I the I. .tier ui.-el. ret: air. d from ...: anilhiiK that lli,k-ht le so co;i-stru.J. co;i-stru.J. J Not Personal Issue. l.lit be-im-e the p.o;." do not eor, .l.r: It a ier.-!.Jl Is-ue. t-nt a l-iltler of for-eicu for-eicu po... .' on wt.l. ll two k'rt.ii ni'-n 111a .Infer, they r.avr, f.-r 1 ) - most p.irl. t .rned f. r tin- moment from the .tolm- .n.un to tl'.e l.-.ovaii p il. -oi h.i . At the o il-et "f the delate, tt I true th...t , Ih. e st ito xxas i.olii'sll ol .T In lllilii. y I'l filer of the li.kie. Vt.e lr!ii nn;i-ri..e:s nn;i-ri..e:s tre teh.nl Johnson ay u unit N,,:l.:-af that Mr 11-.OI1 ir.'ilht at. out arlnle 1 of the ..oen.int and the ,p- 1 .-r: ill-It j It would k-i"' Ireland to cot a he.un c would sa' -"fi' Khent lain. t-. -IS ot p. who w. net he sr. p. f! id only if I pi e!,l rot I. CI - to s.l- lo li : eat I r 1 in leH.eU'eH llllt. Il:.e Irellld l f 1 1 , '1 . ..M.p ete Independent e. All'.-ll. il W-'dd kOf to w. T at o nl II. r at IciM Mop .1.1 llrtde v Itti ll-r'i'in.l or tier color.i. e. Ak..lu ntni i a-: i.n 1 a-.'.ed pei .or " ho knew of ti-.e Ir.sh niiiliition lice and Its t rciii.-n.ic.is lolenln. ll, ."usl nli.it kind of a doeluia-t.on doeluia-t.on ahout the Irinir's e-vi-ilAiil would . cause Uiriii to accept the prm. hple of a l.-Okue .f nations, hut the o;il iciMiir ol ni;n..l ." Is the Immediate freedom of p, ,it an"' ,-ost. e en the con, plea- I lion of the 1'nlted Slates In a foretell war Tho president has e nceinit ered hostility ; tiete and theie en his lonrurv. In the , nert hi. est lie m iv the scow Is of I, W. 's n- d those who fear tho lenk-ne of nations will cri; ill Holshei pan and the opportuioti o,' Ihe lieinas, kiio to loi.se l.io p I ole 1 a nil t , to a, lion. I olust Talk Plainly. j H.-iv further S"utli on tho Vacifle t'.I 1r U l,tn ni-'t 111" Ul'.X l Iri -I.; -ontrnt ie-i.!-nl In Ahum a a, i wiln tlic iV.sIi-nr, ' r cf other feti'!(;n r'-i in.-iiio w ha h w i,ii'l I'eO o A in.! U :i in.ikf , a -.p-r:iti lM-.i.-.' with ,ennnr t!l n:itl.'tin Ull Will" h ttie I'iiU.mI, Sl lfr ti"-i'-lrl. a : ho W M ! Tl.i-v l"'i I 'tv "i" I-'-'M ,,!i.Pr. tint, tt.. v . K of .IrfiM.tlir tho irrulv .r:u-,- . nmi Hio J.mkiio K l" HHu" to ltv'k if Ilic pi i-lilcrt voilhl h.ie to p;ty rrnli"ii; ,nim u ho ho nil-:. n w tien ho .I.-n.Mii..--- i)i- In r!i"n, nntl ii5 he pro.'iTiM on Ihm I trip H nun' hi' rio.:..l that will h;io 1 . ni h,.m M. in re iy t tian lie ha rj .-t iho m.iln 'ouro-a of opposition i the I p,,i,-e Ii.M.tv. i;u:-!ne;.t nnn of rvrry partv two r,u:er for t ir tv ie.tl;i '. r stetl-oj 1-e tlio MiMinte. 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