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Show WOMEN APPLAUD WILSON'S ADDRESS. The president was Introduced at the luncheon by Airs. K. J. Mott, president of the Collegiate Alumnae, and the 1S00 women in the room yiood up and cheered for two minutes. A few hours earlier ho had been welcomed to the city by I crowds which kept up a wave of cheering I as ho passed through the downtown streets. The president told the luncheon puests that there were no words ttroni enough to picturo properly the extent to which the world was trusting to tho leadership of America. "We cannot desert humanity," he said. "We are the trustees of humanity. I cannot conceive a motive adequate to hold men off from this pxeat enterprise." Touching upon the Shantung provision of the treaty, Mr. Wilson said he was not sa tisi'ted with that settlement, but hat it v. us ''irrational" to propose to make the situation be tier by tho treaty's amendment, amend-ment, lie traced at length the growth of Japanese power in Shantung, declaring the original grant of the Shantung rights to Germany was tho result of a hypocritical hypocriti-cal demand bv the German foreign office. |