Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-27 | Page 11 | Wood is Honor Guest at Dinner

(lie returning snldiors. Ho said tliat the people shoui.l remenibff that they are lominu' heme witli their blood heated and their minds full of war. They come back a in is hi y sis lit better men than when 1 hey wont over. The experience they havo had wus mii education to them that put hope into their souls and the possl-Liililies possl-Liililies of a useful career into their minds. 100 IS HONOR GUESTATJIEO Raps Wilson, Roasts I. W. W. and Declares for a Dry America. (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) LINCOLN, Neb., May 20. Without in the least intimating that he has heard anything of the talk ahout his heing a candidate for president, General Leonard Wood dipped deeply Into politics and political po-litical issues this evening in his speech before tho Knife and Fork club, at a dinner din-ner at which he was the chief finest of honor. Over 300 members of the cluh and invited guests were present. He look several digs at President Wilson and the Wilson plan of verbal massage in assuaging assuag-ing the anger of an enemy; declared for I a dry America; praised the women of I the country for sending abroad a clean i soldiery; damned the I. W. W. and the l red flag; declared for a square deal for ' labor and fair deal for capital and took ; strong grounds on behalf of preparedness. I The general's speech was cut short by ; the necessity of catching a train for Chi ! cago hut it was characterized by a ma-' i chine-gun-like delivery, an epiizram-1 epiizram-1 matie quality and straight hitting character, charac-ter, fi-eneral Wood was briefly introduced as the man upon whom had descended the mantle of Roosevelt. At each plate lay a folder containing a. picture of Roosevelt and an appreciation of him In poetic form. General Wood spoke in high terms of