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Show CHECKMATE ! RADICALISM, i ISO! PLE1 (President Declares War I Was Not Fought Only for Political Democ-racy Democ-racy in the World. Declares Peace Must Be Followed by Social Betterment; Audjences ! Responsive to Appeal. ! By DAVTD UV WHENCE. I (I'oi'y riu'ht, !Salt Lake Tribun-' j I1V1NGSTON, Mont.. Sept. 11. Koute Wiih President Wilson to Spokane, Spok-ane, Wash. Tears of unforgotten sorrow, sor-row, not the joy of holiday applause, will ever be reuombered by President Wilson and his party r.s the pa t he tie outb;;rt of bereavd mothers and fathers fath-ers in Montana as they listened to touching words of consolation from tho man who suid their sens had died in a cause even grvr.tor than The proerva- ' tion of the I'niou, namely the saving of civili.tr ion. The president sr.ys that his was the responsibility, hi.s h.e orders or-ders which sent hundreds of thonaiiis of A merican boys to their deat h in Kran-.e, and that his is the duty of assuring as-suring pairnts t:nd relatives whose iads made the Faerifice that it is not forgot-jten, forgot-jten, that it is not now to be denied that America went to wa r to save democracy democ-racy and to prevent further war. And as lie portrayed their nobleness of spirit and patriotism that lay behind jti? willingness to give life itself for the American ideal, tho eyes of the ro-j ro-j pie seemed to reveal an approving response. re-sponse. In Billings the audience gavo way to its emotion; handkerchiefs went to the eyes of young and old. The mere men tion of what satisfaction those bereaved parents had today in the memory of the heroic dead was sufficient to draw tlio crowd to its dis- tinpuUtaed speaker. America lost relatively rela-tively few in the war, but here and there groups of parents sit in the big auditoriums which welcome the president, presi-dent, and they sit as if they had come to hear again from the yiresident what the war was for and what their boys fought to attain. REACHES TIIE HEARTS OF MONTANA CROWDS. Mr. Wilson did not omit at Billings to reach to the hearts of such a crowd. Evidently he say the many in his audience audi-ence who were weeping, so he uttered words of consolation and said that "tears of sorrow " wore also tears of hope, and he prayed that the sacrifices would prove not to have been in vain. These are curious meeting in the northwest. Here gr.:'at waves of radicalism radi-calism have surged from the Pacific coast eastward and Mr. Wilson l'olt it incumbent upon himself to sny that the war was fought not merely for political democracy, for that, he said, would be "useless without industrial democracy' democ-racy' but to letter the living conditions condi-tions of human beings everywhere. It was here in tho radical northwest that the president unfolded for the first tinio tho philosophy which he thinks will checkmate Bolshevism in the United States nnd will do a great deal toward squelching it in the tremulous continent of Europe. Here are his suggestions: sug-gestions: OUTLINE OF THE j PRESIDENT'S PLAN. j First Remove the food on which Bolshevism J'-eeds, namely, wrongs suffered suf-fered by the average man nnd woman, nnd imposed by class friction and misunderstandings, mis-understandings, j Second To end class warfare, the president proposes conference, discussion, discus-sion, exposure, conciliatory disposition and willingness on the part of each class at least to listen to the other's point of view. Third So long as wrong exists, there is no legitimate excuse to suppress ngi- j (Continued on Page A, Column 3.) ' ;ers which favor tl.e ratification of the treaty and the adoption of the covenant or the league with certain reservations that thu sentiment cannot be ignored. The president has yet failed to advance any good roason v.'liv some of the ?u-gei'ed ?u-gei'ed reservation; perhaps not aii should be rejected. People everywhere seem confident the Equate will ratiiy the treaty. On the other hand Mr. W ilson 's own references to reservations indicate clearly that until the rcserva-tionis: rcserva-tionis: group in the senate assume the leadership and completely ivpudiate?. or at least sliasplv disassociates itself from those who would defeat- the league nnd treatr altogether, it si ems useless for him to sav which of tho reservation.? reserva-tion.? he would finally deem unembar-rassing unembar-rassing and acceptcble. COALITION NEEDED TO QUIET ISSUE. There must come a coalition of Democrats Demo-crats and Republicans who sineeivly favor the ratification of the treaty and the establishment of a league of nations and that coalition must tigree upon the number of reservations they believo essential es-sential before thero can be any compromise. compro-mise. That is why the president is v"0-ceeding v"0-ceeding in his speeches on the assumption assump-tion that the real opposition to the treaty nnd league seeks to defeat both with or without reservations, lie is painting ft picture of world dislress based upon the chaotic outcome of a defeated de-feated peace treaty nnd an nbandoned league of nations, but most of his hear-erB hear-erB do not believe the senate extremists extrem-ists will over command n majority. Til! it is clearly proven that, they are in the minority it is the president's strategy strat-egy to portray the dangers involved in an acceptance of their point of view. The president started in Montana to point out whnt seems to him the inconsistency incon-sistency of tho extremist group in the senate, like Senators !orah, Johnson and Knox, Republicans, who are againsl the whole treaty nnd league. First, It-calls It-calls attention to Mr. Knox's speech saying tho terms imposed upon Germany Ger-many wero too cruel and harsh. Quotes Old Speeches. The president, with ft smile, reminds his hearers of the speeches, nuulc by Republican Re-publican leaders in tho last congressional congres-sional campaign, to tho effect that ft "soft pence" might be made with Germany Ger-many by the Wilson administration and then' points to the dissatisfaction expressed ex-pressed by tho Republican trnators now that Germany has been dealt with severely. se-verely. They were pitiless then, they are pitiful now. Here Mr. Wilson's epigram set the crowd smiling, ttro. Second, the president presi-dent nhswers ft criticism so oflen advanced ad-vanced that ho Went to Taris 'without a mandato from the American people to set up the lengtio of YiationB and thnt his simple business Was to get a treaty with Germany signed and come home. Mr. Wilson read with dramatic effect a provision of the naval appropriation appro-priation Act of 191(3. which is the law of tho land today, authorizing Mr. Wilson, Wil-son, before tho close of the European war, or 09 nearly afterward ns possible, to call an international conference to arrange a method for the peaceful settlement set-tlement of disputes between nations. Mr. Wilson says the covenant provisos pro-visos both arbitration and nine months ' discussion, nnd that he was authorized bv both houses of congress to call an international conference for the purpose. pur-pose. But what is more, the act was passed by practically unanimous vote and many of the Republican senators who are today opposed to the league voted for that provision. "This Treaty or None." "It is this treaty or none," exclaims tho president, ns he draws the line bet-ween the most extreme of his critics and his own position, and adds "this is a people's treaty."" He contends that the alternative for America if it rejects the treaty is a big army and navy nnd increased taxes and ' ' one hand on the sword" in a world that would distrust America and be suspicious sus-picious of her aloofness, The president is making n deep impression. im-pression. If those at Washington would heed the testimony of disinterested-observers tliev would e'ear the decks of, the peace treaty and turn their minds to the problems of capital nnd . labor which are accumulating a momentum in this tvestcrn country that is potentially ominous. Neither the Democratic nor Eepublican party Will cavo to accept the consequences of an obstructive indifference in-difference to theso issues .and the party that deals' promptly and satisfactorily with radicalism will not only win these western Btates but save tin eastern states from a tidal wave of industrial chaos. STOP RADICALISM. IS WILSON'S PLEA (Continued from Preceding Page.) tation. Agitation itself does not do so much hafm, he thinks, as indifference to it creates bad feelings and industrial stagnation. Fourth Agitation thnt has for its real purpose the attainment of objects through wnys other than tho political means or the orderly processes of government gov-ernment should bo cruslrd nnd presumably pre-sumably tho whole power ef the federal fed-eral government will be invoked to drive the poisfln of such propaganda out of the veins of American communities. communi-ties. Fifth Pcstroy every monopoly, no mutter: by whom held. The president adds that "no minority, no class, no special interests, no matter how respectable, how rich, how poor, should get control of tho affairs of the United States." DWELLS ON THE "SOCIAL UNREST." Tho president dwells on industrial unrest, un-rest, because he believes delay in signing sign-ing the treaty and establishing a concert con-cert of nations is stimulating unrest everywhere nnd postponing the settlement settle-ment of domestic problenis in all countries, coun-tries, largo and small. Yet the people, after the meetings, do not seem to . understand why Mr. Wilson is opposed to reservations to the peace treaty. They applaud him as he denounces the suggestion of withdrawal with-drawal from the league after two years, but so effective has been the campaign in this section of licpublican newspa- |