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Show WILSON WARNS AGAINST PRO-GERMANISM; B. H. ROBERTS REPLIES TO MAJOR CLARK; U. S. WELCOMES GENERAL PERSHING HOME ELEMENTS OF CHADS 1GISI WORLD PICT, PRESIDENT DECLARES I ! Omaha Speech Marked by Vigorous Dissent j From Program of i Amending Proposal. i . Mo nroe Doctrine "Swallowed "Swal-lowed Hook, Sinker and Line" by Foreign Governments, He Says. OMAHA. Sept. 8. Ms'.-Uishii,' for the flrht time djrl:,i; h'.s speuliinjj toor ti.e i America Necessary to Peace of Christendom, l ' j He Tells Big Audience j in South Dakota City. j l Executive Continues His j Campaign for Cove-I Cove-I nant-Treaty With Night ! Speech in Sioux Falls. SIOUX FALLS, s. D., Sept. S De-iclarin De-iclarin that pro-Germanism again had j nations. President Wilson rtped to an aadre.; iutc- today to arguments ad-anccd ad-anccd by tiiose v!;o fa-, or rc-B-rvatio;.'!. reser atlon." said t:.e president, "it &:i a::er,t with a bis "but." We asre, 'jut.' " The liroposeu reservations providing for untoiidiiioiial withdrawal fro.'ii me.nLnr-bi.ip, me.nLnr-bi.ip, .said the prenideM. n.eai:i t.iat its r-;)o:;ors '.'.anted tu sit near the door .with t.Jtir haj.d on the knob," and if they saw any tning tiie didn't like, to "scut-I "scut-I t!e and run." T;.e league proviso ti.at in-i in-i turnational obligations must be fulfilled before withdrawal never ouid restrain the United States, ho taid, because tit is nation always would li e up to its provisions. pro-visions. Those who wanted a reservation to article ar-ticle X, Mr. Wilson continued, simply didn't want to come in now, but wanted to be "late joiners." DECLARES DOCTRINE HAS BEEN "SWALLOWED." Any reservation regarding the Monroe doctrine, he added, was unnecessary because be-cause the doctrine has been "swallowed, hook, line and sinker," by ihe peace conference con-ference and had ben authenticated by the big poveis of the world for the first time. There was no trie); about it, he asserted, for the document was ine work of honest men. So far as reservations about domestic questions were concerned, he declared, it would be supererogation. "We didn't ask Germany's consent about tho meaning of any one of tiiose terms when we were in Paris," he said; "we told them what they meant and said, ! s!gn here.' Does any patriotic American ! want that method changed?" ! There were cries of "Xo, no," from the crowd. PRESIDENT TELLS OF EFFECT OF CHANGES. If reservations were put in, Mr. Wilson Wil-son told them, all that the senate had written in would have to go back for tiie consent of Germany. He added that there were indications that those on the other side of the water are not in as good humor hu-mor as they had been. The only way the Shantung provision could be bettered. Mr. Wilson declared, ! j lifted its head in this country, Presl-j Presl-j dent Wilson declared in an address jhere tonight that "every element of ! chaos'' was hoping there would be "no steadying hand T placed on the world 's affairs. President Wilson arrived at the Coli-uni Coli-uni at S:35 o'clock and immediately began his address. He w as cheered loudly as he mounted the bpeakers'' i platform. He was introduced by Gov- era or Peter Norbcck. Although it was raining when the president 's train arrived, the down-town streets were lined with crowds and a wave of cheering Hollowed the president presi-dent on his way to the Coliseum. A Shriner "s band led the parade. Governor Gov-ernor Peter Norbeck. a Republican, presided at the meeting. Mrs. Wilson, who sat on the stage, was presented with some roses by two little girls who walked across the stage to her place while tho crowd which packed the hall cheered. Mrs. Wilson thauked the girls with a kiss and there were more cheers. DECLARES WAR NO SUDDEN OUTBURST. The president opened his addresi by relating how a lady who shook hand-wi;h hand-wi;h him at a ivay stop today had burst into tears when she tried to tell him of her son killed in France. This ineident, said Mr. Wilson, brought home to him that the eountrv had sacrificed greatly, not for a temporary tem-porary advantage, but for a permanent betterment of the world. In the eves of the Anwrican boys v. ho went across the seas, he continued, the people of i Europe had seen a determination noi I only to defeat Germany but to see that' such a thing never happened again. ! The president declared that the war w-as "no sudden outburst,'' but the deliberate plan of Germany conceived years before. :' CCOLING OFF TIME TO BE ALLOWED NOW. Germany did not dare discuss her course for t wenty-i'our hours, he said, and so the treaty had been I'ramcd so that no future war could occur without at lenst six months of discussion. In their cooling off' process, said Mr. would be to fo lo war with Japan, England En-gland and France. He told the crowd the nation could nut "sign ail but a part o a. treaty. " ,-Ye cannot rewrite this treaty," said he. "We must take it or leave it.'" Ho said he believed the treaty should be accepted soon, but added: "Liut no man can tell how long it will take the United States senate to do any- 1 thing." I The president said he had heard some men wanted the L'niteil Hlates to stand ' alone for an "a rmed pan-Americanism," ! but he did not believe the people would ac- ! cept it. He paid a tribute to Senator ; Hitchcock, tho Democratic leader in ihe treaty fight, whose homo is in Omaha. He 1 had "been proud to stand by Senator I Hitchcock," he said, to fight. I MEANS "ADVICE." NOT COMPULSION. Quoting article X of the league covenant, cov-enant, M r, Wilson said anyone who understands un-derstands the English language must ad- ' mil that when it said the league could j "advise," it meant "advise" and not I "compel." He characterized the league I as "the only possible guarantee against' war," and siud he would fee! recreant to J 1 those who fought the war if he did not ' I secure its adoption. I ; Mr. Wilson said he was happy to appeal , lor acceptance of the treaty, not as the 1 representative of a party, but as the rep- I rcsentatlve of the whole people, saving! lie hoi loved the people ha, been led to think there w ere only four of five clauses : i:i the peace licaty. The president sliowod I to the audience a bulky volume containing I the treaty text. Those who picked little lit-tle ilaWK in it, he declared, had no conception con-ception 01" the majesty of .the document. Every one who had read' the Ireatv, de- I flared the president, agreed that it" run- ' Litincd "a co:npi.-ie seUleiVieiit of the mat- I (Continued ou Page 1, Column 1.) I I ilson, n was certain mat much oi the passion that starts war would be crad-I crad-I icated. I lie said he could not understand how I a man could refuse to discuss his case j unless he was wrong. The same rule, he : declared, applied to differences be-i be-i tween nations. I Anoriea could stay out of lhe league, said the president, but it would be at i the expense of the peace of the worjtt 'America is necessary, ' he added'. to the peaee of tlr? world. And the peace ami confidence of the world a ro necessary to America. ' ' I PRESIDENT PAYS SIGNAL HONORS TO INVALID WOMAN By JAY JEROME WILLIAMS, Staff Correspondent Universal Service, ON HOARD PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL, Sioux City, Iowa, Sept. S. President Wilson Wil-son paid a signal honor today to Mrs. C. X. Diets, the mother of Gould Dietz, chairman of the Nebraska branch of the League to Enforce Pence, and C. X. Diets. She is an invalid and was unable to attend at-tend the Auditorium, whor-2 he spoke. ; The president ordered hts automobile stopped at tiie door and both he and Mrs, Wilson left the car and entered the Diet, home. The president is the tiiird chief executive lo call on Mrs. Dieiz in tiilj manner. Her former visitors were President Presi-dent Roosevelt and President Taft. A siren shrieked all the time PresUluut Wilson was being driven t h rough t ;e-streets ;e-streets of Omaha and its wild wail ir.av have had something to do with the apathv of ihe crowds. Vendors of flags and bijJ -to;:s, bearing the president's portrait, were (Continued on ra;;c -i, Column 2.) i Omaha Speech Marked j by Vigorous Dissent From Program of Amending Proposal. (Continued From Page One.) America Necessary to Peace of Christendom, He Tells Big Audience in South Dakota City. (Continued From Page One.) "out of luck," for sales were poor; and, to cap the climax of the vUi t, a large gray lioree took up a place In the presidential presi-dential motor procession back to the rail- I road station. From Indianapolis on, the president has I run into regular oidlime "corn beit" wea-thff, wea-thff, the kind that blisters tiie paint off barns and dizzies great gaping" wounds In the soil. The weather, though, has not prevented the inhabitants of every corn-holt corn-holt town and crossroads from congregating congregat-ing at the red brick or frame depot to cat oh a fleeting glimpse of the president. Ho Is standing the trio well, and is In the best of health. His voice, for the first timo. today showed the effects of hard usage to which it has been put. , ters that led to the war and that it con- J tained the machinery by which they shall j stay settled. " j The disputed land titles of Europe had . been .settled by the treaty, Mr. Wilson .j continued, on the basis tnat In each case ; the land belon-.-d to the people that lived on it. . The "charter of liberty for the working men of the world," Mr. Wilson said, j "never had been dreamed of before." He addt:d there was only one way to see to j tin; enforcement of such provisions, and j that was through a leag.io of nations, j J cclurintf the league would Include all . the grea t peoples except Germany, the president sa Id Genua ny would be a d- milled after "a period of probation." He referred to charges that the treaty was V o harsh, and said it provided only that Germany pay what she was able. She 1 had committed a "criminal act," he said, i and must suffer and pay. Confidence that the I'nlled States would enter the league at its formation was expressed ex-pressed by Mr, Wilson, who said the only alternative would bo to stay out and then com.- in later along with Germany. EmphaMzing the arbitration features of , t he league, he said that in ca se those processes failed the result would be not war, but an economic boycott and isola-1 isola-1 ion, under which the strongest nation in Km rope could not stand for six months. After that, he predicted, "they will have no stomach for war." Johnson to Make Speech. SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Sept. 8. Senator Hiram W Johnson. Repu bllean, of California, Cali-fornia, will speak In Sioux Kalis Septem- i her IS on the league of nations, according accord-ing to information received here today f rom Congressman Chris topherson at Wa .shington. Senator Johnson, who is a league opponent, 'will speak from the same platform that President Wilson will ! occupy tonight. i The presidential train Is expected to ar-i ar-i rive from Omaha at 8 o'clock. After a .: short parade the president will go directly to the Coliseum. ! After be delivers his address he will go ; j directly to his t rain, which is scheduled i to depart at 10 p. m. for Minneapolis and : St. Paul, where he will deliver two ad- I dresses Tuesday. i OX "BOARD PRSIDEXT WILSON'S ; CDITTA t TH TV C: . 0 r-a 1 i ; Ftoris t he presidential train made during the day. President Wilson came out on the platform of his car and shook hands! with townfolk. I The train slowed up going through Council Bluffs, Iowa, and there was a , rush of people to get a view of the presi- j dent. .Several persons tried to climb aboard the train, and some managed to get a hasty handshake with the president. Again at Onawa. a small Iowa town. I several hundred people surged toward the plat form, and the president smilingly shook hands with as many as he could ! reach during the three or four minutes I the train stood still. So far the presidential party has en- 1 countered excellent weather, but it was quite hot as the train sped through Iowa. 1 |
