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Show CHICAGO TURNS OUT TO GREET TRE PRESIDENT Candidate of Democracy Makes Three Speeches and Participates in Several Sev-eral Demonstrations. OPPOSING WOMEN ROUGHLY HANDLED "Silent" Protest Turns Into Near-riot; Banners Are Destroyed ; Police Blamed. CHICAGO, Oct. 19. President Wilson, Wil-son, speaking to a new citizens' meeting meet-ing here tonight, declared that foreign-born foreign-born citizens of the United States should put their American allegiance above all others. He praised the ideals that bring new citizens to thj3 United States, and outlined his belief that in the determination of the future of the world after the present war America will play an important part. During a strenuous twelve hours in Chicago the president addressed a collection col-lection of women as "Fellow citizens," upheld the principle of the eight-hour day, and urged that progressives of all parties work for a broader America. A demonstration lasting more than five minutes greeted the president at a new citizens' meeting tonight. Men stood on chairs and cheered, waving their hats. The president stood and bowed again and again. The applause ended when a clergyman began an invocation. Puts in Busy Day. President Wilson came here today to-day ' to explain his view on problems prob-lems facing the nation. He delivered de-livered three speeches here, participated in several street demonstrations and went over his western campaign plans with his managers at headquarters here. He planned to leave at midnight, and will arrive at Long Branch, N. J., at 'midnight tomorrow. In a speech before the Chicago Press club the president predicted the beginning begin-ning of a " ren'aissance of the sense of patriotic responsibility," and urged the development of progressiveness. Speaking Speak-ing before a gathering of women later, he urged more participation of women in the affairs of the nation, and at a meeting tonight of new citizens he declared de-clared for a united America. At his every appearance the president was cheered by throngs which packed the streets during his automobile rides from place to place, and filled to capacity ca-pacity the halls in which he spoke. He stood in his automobile while passing through the crowds aud smilingly waved his hat to tho people on the streets and in the windows of buildings. Near-riot Started. An attempted "silent demonstration ' ' by members of the National Woman's party in front of the Auditorium developed de-veloped into a near-riot, in which banners ban-ners opposing Wilson were torn from the demonstrators and trampled, and the women were roughly handled. President Pres-ident Wilson was seated in an automobile automo-bile a few hundred feet away when the demonstration started, but passed into the building, and was not a witness to the scene that followed. Shouting ' ' Shame, disgrace, ' ' and "Get the banners," a crowd of several hundred, sprinkled with women, charged the banner holders. Umbrellas and canes were used in the destruction of the placards. Many of the women were knocked down anil nearly all were roughly handled, especially those who strove to retain their banners. The excitemeut continued until all the banners had been seized. With disheveled dis-heveled hair and soiled and torn clothing, cloth-ing, the women marched back to their headquarters under police guard. Police Blamed. Charges that the police sympathized with t he rioters and failed to protect the demonstrators were made by Mrs. Josephine Pearce and Mrs. E. L. Mat-tioe, Mat-tioe, officials of local woman Republican Repub-lican clubs. "There were all kinds of policemen standing about merely looking on, not moving a hand," said Mrs. Pearcp. "Some of them did not seem to want to help us. I saw policemen deliberately deliber-ately stand near by and laugh at us while we were being beaten and the banners torn from our hands. "Wo were merely standing, quietly holdins our banners and not harming anvone. Suddenly there was a regular rio't. They srabbed our banners, trampled mi them, and knocked us down. It was terrible." Like Suffrage Parade. Member? of the ConijresslonaJ union compared the scene at the d emonSLra t Ion with the snrTraBe parade in "VVaMng- (Contlnued on F&ge Four.) CHICAGO TURNS OUT TO GREET THE PRESIDENT Candidate of Democracy Makes Three Speeches and Participates in Several Sev-eral Demonstrations. (Continued from Page One.) hn thf fliiv lu'l'on! I e os iltiU Wilson was inauKuriU.-J. "Die ilt.'--i'iir?;ui atui. k upon ihe suf-iraiv suf-iraiv lciiiOiiMtr,'ii inn i siinihir lo the alia al-ia "k I iv moh.s upon I lit- nr'i t sulTraKti l-aiadf. Mr. Wilson in un 1 irtunate thai In- rims l he risk hi' oinx out of onice 10 th salmi tune In' whhh lm entered." Ha M Mi.-. A . It. ( 'olviri, Minnesota slate i-u;iir'iiiaii of tlx? 'on'n-s.'iioi.a I union. Mi.s Alie Paul, national (iiairriiau of tin; i 'unn'i-Niniiul union, chnraeierlzed it as an aitack by l ieniorra t s. '"The violent-attack violent-attack hy Democrats upon the demonstration demonstra-tion fJht'WS tin." Met loUHIlfSH wiUi which r 1 1 Iiiko our campaign," Hhe said. "Kvi-deutly "Kvi-deutly i hey feel keenly the weakness of President U'iIuji'h HutTniKe. position when t hey resort to bwh violence to prevent l.i: host ill l v to national woman suffrage beiuu: revealed lo the people of Ohicufco." Wtfro waiters employed at the Press luh utilized t ho presence of 'resident Wilson at luneh there lo pnin for them-seli-s a raise In wmkcs, without inves-t inves-t i i 1 1 i i r l and without eonipromi.se. Just hefore the president was due to arrive, ihlny speehd wuiters, who were to SfH'e lee hmeheon. put on their coats preparatory prepara-tory lo walking out. They had not askeil lor mm n ft pa j , t when slopped hy t lie BitM ard told iiim Lhey had decided they n.usi have a .u per cent increase on the contract price he Kit; they Would hefiin tuelr duties. The inlvaninRe was theirs, and the increase was granted. .Mrs. Wil.-on accunipank.l the president. I iresse i hi nlack and wearing a luipe liiMntiMd of orchids and violets, siie drew almost as much n pplalise as the president. presi-dent. Visit io Headquarters. iviwecn his speeches to the women and hi niht address, the president went lo i ne western J emoorut ic campaign head-t!uiriers head-t!uiriers and lor tlie first lime witnessed the iletails of th" machinery used in an ctfort !o re-elect him. Senator Walsh, chairman of t he ' hen dquiirters. and Sena-lur Sena-lur Saulshiiry of Delaware showed him .lust how the campaign Is heinii carried on, and then lli president and Mrs. Wilson Wil-son stood for half an hour shaking hands ii!i all the headquarters workers, in-cludim; in-cludim; the stenographers and mailing clerks. A f icrwavd the president had a brief conference with Senator Walsh and was told that a decided "swins had st In In t lie west for tht Democratic ticket.' Meeting of Women. At the meeting- of women the president was Introduced by Mrs. lilla Flag.u" Young, former superintendent of Chicago's schools, -who declared he had kept the I'nftcd States honorably at peace. Miss .lane Addaius occupied a seat in a box. The president tie lined ills message to 1 1 io women us follows : "Society is now organizing Its whole power in order that it may understand itself, in order that it may have a new organization and bo tin instrument of civill.at ion; a nd t am ambitious that America should show the way in this prear enterprise." 1 Ic did not touch on votes for women. The president declared that some of the difficulties in '.he toreign relationships of tho J'nited States have been due to tlie fact that other nations have not realized that this nation was disinterested. "When the nations of the world come to love America," he said, "they will obey and follow America." Hfs speech follows In part: "There never was a time when It was f mi. re uces-sarv for the nations of ths j world ro exr.-ise f-if-jjossessioti, to ae-i ae-i 'i.ure :-eir-knon iedge. to determine tlieir ) direction rin,j jdirpo-, rnd to re'are thm-; thm-; selves to the genoiai work of establishing I j':st .imong mankind. I think i hat j '-very or-e of us as Americans would be ashamed if Amerh-a did not know exa'-th' j what sue was ahour and by what mean; and itst rumen tali ilea ho was poln to a.-t. I, therefore, tiioijfrht that you wmild induUco me this afternoon if ) tried to point out what seemed to me the ieaj-; ieaj-; itiii T''-uliariuts of the task ti.at !ie before be-fore me. ) "You '.an Illustrate it bv the relations between mpluyer and employee. Justice enn no !otiKer, cold. It is beginning to have, warmth and sympathy and emotion In it. And so all tlie problems of society are changing under our very eve?, and there is coming the time, unless I am very greatly mistaken, when this same qualltv of sympathy and mercy will cmne into the hitherto cu'.d and untouched field, when nmlmiK shall aree with nations t ha t the rights of hum a nit v are greater than the rights of sovereigns. New Set of Problems. "Therefore, modern society has a new set of problems to meet. It has to sav if the employer will not voluntnrilv establish estab-lish the proper conditions of labor" the law must oblige htm to '-Miabllrh the proper condili-ins of lubor. If he will not volun-i volun-i tarlly be human.' and fair, he must be j ohliged to be hum.me and fair." i The president made eoinplimentar-r ref-I ref-I erence lo a big manufacturing cornnanv l wine recently voluntarily established an jeiglil-honr day without reduction of pav, and continued: "The spirit of the thing is even better I than the thing itself. It Is the recognition of their partnership, aji human spirits with the men who ate doing their work. "I ain happy to say that 1 am not singular singu-lar and Isolated in this, because all over the United States men have begun to have tiiat sort of enlightened humanl-tarinntsm, humanl-tarinntsm, which ought to have been obvious ob-vious from tiie first, that if you treat a man like a human being he will work, for you with a heart as well as a hand. Things Necessary. "There are several things which are necessary in such a society and we oueht to set all our thoughts and all our energies ener-gies to accomplish these necessary things. The first thing is t hat the several elements ele-ments of society should understand one another. "I have said before, and I say again, that one of the things that most deeply distressed me in the recent conference of the heads of the railways and their employees em-ployees was to find that there was a profound pro-found mutual misunderstanding, distrust and hostility. "U ought not to be so. Something is wrong when the men who are working together at the same thing do not trust one another and that wrong thing rests, I am profoundly convinced, upon ignorance; igno-rance; it rests upon not associating with eac h other in the kind of conference which will enable them to understand one another. an-other. Defines Politics. "Politics, my friends, consists of something some-thing that you can almost express in the formula, 'get together.' Try to understand under-stand what the common task Is and all take part In it In the same spirit, because politics is nothing but a systematic attempt at-tempt to keep the law adjusted to tlie real facts, keep the law behind the real, handsome, helpful constructive forces of society, and you cannot do that unless you understand society. You cannot understand under-stand society unless you understand the component parts, so that after all the formula, 'get together,' lies at the base of it all, and tho first step is for the elements ele-ments of society to understand one another, an-other, hut that is not all that is necessity. neces-sity. The next thing Is that tlie elements of society should understand their common com-mon relationship to the society of which they constitute a part. When T see gentlemen gen-tlemen running amuck I am perfectly aware that they do not see that they are destroying the delicate fibre of the very thing upon which their business depends, via., the social structure itself, and that by running recklessly against the interests inter-ests of other people they are really checking check-ing the enterprise which they think they are promoting. "If you are wrong you will get it knocked out of you, and if you are right you will help knock it out of other people. "What difference does it make that you think a thing as a Republican If it is wrong? What difference does it make to think a thing as a Democrat if it is not true? Your being a Republican or a Democrat Dem-ocrat does not make it true. And what difference tioes a party make, or a party's interests make as compared with the Interests In-terests of the nation Itself? "Now. it occurred to me that you would permit me to suggest what the particular function of woman is in this new age. Men have tried their hands at it and, in the opinion of a great many of you, have made a sad mess of it. And It must be obvious, if what T have already said is true, that the functions thai have to be determined by tiiose who lead opinion have taken on an entirely new character. Spirit of the Law. "The whole spirit of the law has been to give leave to the strong, to give op-i op-i port unity to those who could dominate, ! but ir seems to me that the function of 1 society now has another element in it. land I believe that it is the element which I women are going to supply. It is the ele- ment of mediation, of comprehending and j drawing the elements together. It is the power of sympathy, as contrasted with I the power of contest. j "Life is bitter only when it is lonely. : Life is bitter only when there does not : seem to be any force fighting with you j except the pitiful Utile force that is withtn .yourself; and if we are going to rally I the forces of society, the great sympa-' sympa-' thetie irresistible masses of women are I going to play a most distinguished and ' leading parr. And it will be so much I more interesting, that contest. It is much i more interesting to help a man than to hit him. J Foreign Relations. I "I take leave to say that some of the ; difficulties of our foreign relationships in , the last two years have been due to the fact that it was not comprehensible to . some foreign statesmen that the United : States was rpally disinterested. "They had never heard of such a thing. And in proportion as the X'nited States demonstrated to the world thai its influence in-fluence In the family of nations is disinterested, dis-interested, it will have lhat part of power which does not come from arms, but comes from the gieat invisible powers which well up in the human heart. "When the nations of the world come to love America they will obey and fol-: fol-: low A merioa. i "Slowly we are getting the stage: slowly 'we are marshalling the forces; slowly we ! are growing together. Then in some j happy day America will see clearly, as I she saw at first, that , vision of .justice i and freedom and righteousness which gave her birth and distinction at first." Press Club Address. I In his speech before the Fress club, President Wilson said in part: j I en.lov these runs away from home I to meet nonpartisan bodies of men, j because I regard a campaign as a I great interruption to the rational con-i con-i sideration of public questions. I think j that we have a very bad American ; habit of changing our point of view ! for a few months during the time when we are determining the character charac-ter and personnel of our government. Therefore I think it is useful as well as refreshing to look at t hings, son let tmes at arm's length ; to wi tb-draw tb-draw from the melee and to see j tilings as you would try to see them at other seasons. One of the thing? that has struck me recently is that so many men have said to me, when 1 have asked "What is all this abo.it?" that they want to stop a!l "this progressive business." The thing has amazed me because what they cail this "progressive "progres-sive business" is the inevitable process proc-ess of life; it :s a procesR of adjustment: ad-justment: things will not stand still, and if things will not stand still, laws cannot stand ?:;H. Must Progress. The relations of n en to each other in sonetv alter ineivselves whether we w!li or not. h ' me'e de vf. iop-inni iop-inni of the a:n i'.'.es of society. Progress: ve policies ought not to be resisted unless they involve, changes winch bring about de' erf oria t Ion. If t he;' a re rnovine in tue wrons di-i di-i re' -t ion. they are not adjustment, j and, therefore, it seems to me that : i o n i a 1 1 e r how we are going to v o e I on November 7. we ought to make np our mind to Mti one faet, that what j we call progrefcsiv action, not only j In Arnerha. bul in the world, has j come to siay. , j And I want to urge upon you the adoption of this Idea, that prores-siveism prores-siveism by intention, at any rate, whether it be wise or not ir. detail, is Intended to harness all forces t o-gelher o-gelher for the advancement and Improvement Im-provement of society. Preparedness Plea. The world at large !s now beat-in? beat-in? its wate'-p against a dam. and If when the dam breaks it will take engineers worth something to huild the channels that will confine it, isn't it wot til while getting tnc engineers read 'r The word that we want to dwell upon , In our thoughts Is tlie word "light." Contribute tight to this thing, pour light upon it. Whenever it is deserving of criticism, criticize it. not In order to stop It, but in order or-der to better it. That Is the object of the tariff commission; com-mission; to tnrow tight upon what everynoly has been confident he knew all about, and very few peopie have known anything about at all. In piomorhm ihe tariff commission J wanted to find a body of men who would look ai this thing without caring car-ing which way the facts cut. I asked congress for a nonpartisan commission commis-sion and they gave, me a bipartisan commission. I did not want them to say anything about how many should belong to one party, because that ought to have no more to do with it than which church he 15-longed 15-longed to. I want to find men who will make a scientific inquiry aa to the facts and make an absolutely fearless report, and then let us go on , those facts and not on our prepossessions, prepos-sessions, Trade Commission. That is the object of the federal trade commission, too. You know the lawyers had tlie business men very badly scared about the antitrust anti-trust laws, chiefly because they had an unpleasant way of keeping the business men guessing. You see what I am trying to illustrate illus-trate in this, that what wc want for our guidance is not heat but light. Now, for thaLX reason. I am particularly par-ticularly interested in something that we are Just doing to which you gentlemen gen-tlemen of the press do not seem to have paid much attention. I mean in the appointment of those seven men whom I selected the other day to be associated with the national council of defense. Don't you see that The minute vou create a body like that you have taken a great step in the direction of Industrial preparedness, not onlv for war, but also for peace? Because the idea Is not to shut these seven ' men in a room and simply hear what they have to say. They are the nerves by which the government is to reach the professions and industries indus-tries which they represent, and learn how the duty of supplying tlie government gov-ernment in case of necessitv (,-an be best distributed among them so as to bring all resources to the assisi-ance assisi-ance of the nation. I predict that this is the beginning of a renaissance In this country of the sense of patriotic responsibility and a patriotic intimacy of relationship. I believe it is going to lead to a kind of co-operation ano a kind of development develop-ment and a kind of enterprise in times of peace which we have never known before. Speech at Stockyards. When the president entered the hall tonight to-night to address a New Citizens' Allegiance meeting the audience stood and cheeied The Stockyards pavilion, where the meeting meet-ing was held, was decorated with American Amer-ican flags and packed with people. Judge Clarence M. Goodwin presided. Governor Dunne of Illinois spoke for "America first." The preliminary speakers wei e constantly con-stantly interrupted by shouts of "Wilson, Wilson." When the president rose the crowd, led by Governor Dunne, stood and cheered uproariously. "I come here tonight to-night to address those who have newlv sworn allegiance to the United States," said the president. "But I realize that I can nm do It without speaking to mv own conscience and to the conscience of the other people of the nation." He pointed out thai the new citizens had chosen their new allegiance. "Within the last few months." he added, "some distinctions dis-tinctions have been drawn. A man or a woman who becomes a citizen of the United States Is not expected to give up his or her love for the countrv of their birth. "But people who come to this country' are expected to put their new allegiance above every other allegiance. It puts an obligation on him. Depends Upon Loyalty. "The future of this nation depends upon the self-control and loyalty of its citizens. Only by conscience and by loyalty felt in every throb of the heart can you become true citizens. "A free self-governing people does not need to be watched." The president's address ad-dress wan frequently interrupted bv a shout, "Say it again!" People in "the crowd shouted often as the president spoke for the need of loyalty. "It is necessary that new citizens who come to this country should not live bv themselves. That is importing the old country here. "The strength of a nation does not rest so much in its thinking as in its feeling. Outside the heart there is no life. Y'ou must see to it that you do not hold aloof. "You must remember that the United States has a great part to play in the world. Can you imagine a nation more fitted to play a great part? A nation made up out of the world should understand under-stand the world." He said the United States stands for the rights of mankind everywhere. "We are prepared to understand other nations." Men Lost at .Vera Cruz. He said the men lost at Vera Cruz were drawn from four different stocks. "I like to think thai in tlie days to come America mav Interpret the thought of the world. I "like to think that the only things that disturb America are not things which interfere with her ambitions, but with her sympathies. "I like to think that when it comes to the settlement of the present war we shall be able to assist in interpreting the needs of the future." He added he did not mean the United States should have any part in determining deter-mining the terms of settlement. He spoke of the fa'-t that many Americans are drawn from Germany, Ireland, England, France, Itafy, Spain and many other nations. "Ivel us never allow ourselves to do things against our ideais." he continued. "Let us never allow ourselves to want a single foot of foreign territory. Let us stand by the litile nations that need to be stood b. Lei us show that we are not interested in-terested in the geography of politics. "Let us show that we want no boundaries boun-daries to the rights of mankind. "I believe in you as I would have you believe in America. I have not come here to read you a lesson, but merely to bid you welcome to a great partnership." |
