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Show SIS THAT 1ST IS ITIIlf SI Minister to Sweden Declares De-clares League Proposal Is Greatly Favored. (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) CHICAGO, Aug. 13. "The western people are looking eagerly forward to the coming of President Wilson ou his trip through tho country in behalf of the league of nations," said Ira Nelson Morris, United States minister to Sweden, Swe-den, at the Blackstone hotel today, on bis return from a hunting and fishing vacation in Wyoming with his family. 1 "All tho people with whom I talked," he continued, "appeared to be in sympathy sym-pathy 'with what the president Is trying to accomplish. They feel, as I do, that t lie sooner rho peaco treaty is ratified, tho better it will be lor the country, as the other problems relating to com- merce and industry v ill then adjust j themselves. "They are troubled with the high cost ! of living out there, just as people are in i Chicago and tho east. The exorbitant' cost of food, clothing and other necessities necessi-ties of life is ou everybody's tongue. In Woming they have been suffering from ' drought : until recently there bad been (no rain for many weeks, consequently i there was r.o pasturage for livestock; ranchers were compelled to sell and ship I out their cattle and sheep." I Mr. Morris said this wa the firt real ! rest he had enjoyed in five years. He ( will leave Chicago for Washington at the end of the week, and there "'ill be in j conference with Secretary (f State Lan-j Lan-j sing before returning lo Sweden. |