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Show REED ATTACKS WILSON'S VIEWS IN OHIO SPEECH AKRON, Ohio, Sept. 7. President Wilson Wil-son in his defense before the country of the league of nations covenant "is mistaking the visions of ambition for the inspiration of idealism." Senator Reed, Democrat of Missouri, declared at a mass meeting here todav. The Missouri senator sena-tor asserted that in Mr. Wilson's utterances utter-ances "the calm onlooker will recognize onlv the vapors of anger and the intemperance intem-perance autocracy manifests at opposition." opposi-tion." If a citizen refuses to repudiate the policies under which this country "has become great," declared Senator Reed, he is "denounced as pygmy-minded." "The president marshals his syllogisms as a general marshals the battalions of his army,'" said the Missouri senator. "They move forward in logical phalanx, but his soldiers are epithets, his battalions bat-talions aggregations of evil names and his army an assemblage of denunciatory epigrams." While the president "talks much of the dutv of sacrifice," he rides "at government govern-ment expense on social trips, lives In the palaces of princes" and accepts presents pres-ents from foreign diplomats "worth hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of dollars." said Senator Sen-ator Reed. The "sacrifices." lie added, "'are to be made by the American boys who perish in the snows of Siberia or who die beneath the suns, of the equator." Declaring that the league will bring universal uni-versal peace, Mr. Reed continued, "the president yet demands a standing army of half a million men; insisting that war will be no more, he proclaims the doctrine nf universal military training; asserting that the day has come when swords shall be beaten into plow shares, he demands millions for a navy." |