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Show WILSON VERY ARGUMENTS First Audlen9es Encountered Encoun-tered on Tour Cool, but Quickly Warm Up to Nation's Chieftain. Ohio's Capital Hears Executive and Apparently Appar-ently Is Convinced; Still No Hero Worship. By DAVID LAWREjSX'E. (topvriyht, 1910, by The ult Lithe Tribune") LOl'IS, Mo., t-opt. 5. President Wilson comes :is a stranger from afar. His nr.st audiences arc cool, awestruck and even apathetic toward the gospel he preaches when he begins, liut tfrad I ually the president touches the heart I strings of American patriotism and cnio-! cnio-! tion and brir.gs down the house. Street Jcrowds are unentlnisiastic, a hand clap- ping throng here nnd there, occnsional lv . a cheer so rar.- as To bo con epicuou.- and M r. "il on proceeds j down the main thoroughfares of the 'city a respected magistrate of the poo-j poo-j pie, with an austerity and dignity that i bejjets solemnity, not joy. ! Out in Olno. which helped re elect Wilson in 101-3, though every ttate herc-jabouts herc-jabouts voted the other way, one mitrht ! have expected a joyous welcome. iut j to anyone who saw the cheering thrones ion the Champs Ely sees in Paris, or : even the demonstrations of the undemonstrative un-demonstrative British or the fanatical enthusiasm of the emotional Italians, tlie reception at Columbus was a painful pain-ful anti climax. He was the man who had come back from overseas, after representing rep-resenting the United States in the most momentuous conference ever held between be-tween governments. But there was nothing triumphant or heroic about the president 's journey down the streets of Columbus. He got more attention in that very city seven years ago as an unknown candidate. INTERESTED, ALSO, IN HIGH LIVING COST. To be fair, one must note certain things. The street cars were at a standstill. A strike, said to have been called chiefly to impress Mr. Wilson with the restiveness of labor, had tied up traffic. And, besides, it was drizzling. driz-zling. This combination of circumstances circum-stances made Mr. Wilson's visit about as welcome as a dinner guest when the cook had left. Also, folks hereabouts, according to local newspaper men, are worried about the cost of living they would have liked to hear Mr. Wilson denounce the profiteers and tell thorn how he expects prices to be reduced. And if, as the president has hitherto claimed, the delay in ratifying the treaty is affecting the prices of com- (Contlnued on page 8, column 2.) wrested from the enemy. The inference was plain that under a Iciikuc oir nations na-tions there would bo jurisdiction over the Irish question if it threatened the peace of the world. ONE CRITICISM IS PROMPTLY ANSWERED. Another criticism which Mr. Wilson did answer in his speech was that which claims America will be oblityjd continuously to send troops to light in foreign countries. A deafening roar of applause greeted the president as he said in conclusion, ''When this treaty is accepted, men in khaki will not have to cross the seas again."- All through the Columbus speech the president seemed anxious to tell the proletaria that the program of "no annexations and no indemnitiics ' ' had been fulfilled. He denied that the former for-mer German colonies had been "annexed." "an-nexed." He praised the system of trusteeship which he said would enable en-able the peoples living hitherto under German rule to develop into self-governing nations. He stressed the fact that no indemnity was levied upon Germany, Ger-many, but merely reparation for damage dam-age done. And in closing he appealed again to the working masses by his emphasizing the "Magna Charta" of labor drawn at Paris and the international interna-tional labor conference soon to be held at Washington. Makes Deep Impression. Humanitarian phases of the treaty suppression of opium and liquor traffic in backward areas of the world, sanitation, extension of the work of the Eed Cross against disease these and other things which the president described de-scribed as a "league, of the line passions pas-sions of the world," made a deep impression im-pression on the audience. Mr. Wilson sought to reach the hearts of the people anew and regain the faith which neglect of domestic problems or his absence abroad or the pain of acute ills, like the cost of living, have tended to drive away. The president may not have converted his audience to a sudden interest in foreign policy but he left it warmer than he found it. PRESIDENT CARRIES FIGHT FOR COVENANT INTO REED BAILIWICK ST. LOUIS, Sept. 5. President Wilson reached today the real beginning of bis western speaking tour in the interest of the peace treaty, the start of his long swing around the circle of states west of the Mississippi. In Missouri the president found a situation situa-tion as refards ratification of the peace treaty without an exact parallel in any other state. In the treaty ratifying body at Washington the state is represented by Senator Heed, the only Democratic senator who has taken a definite stand for the treaty's rejection, and Senator Spencer, one of the Republican senators who have declared themselves generally friendly to it' and have agreed on a set of reservations reserva-tions as a basis for its acceptance. In St. Louis Senator Reed recently made an address bitterly assailing the treaty, and within the next few weeks Senator ohnson of California, a Republican member mem-ber o.f the foreign relations committee, and others are expected to address opposition oppo-sition meetings here. In addition to his address tonight, the president is to make i one address in Kansas City tomorrow morning. The president headed a parade through the central thoroughfares of the city at 0-30 o'clock this morning and was given an ovation. When he appeared on the rear platform of the train thousands of persons broke through the military cordon cor-don and surrounded the presidential train. Police, secret service men and the military mili-tary found it difficult to control the crowd. The executive smiled his appreciation. appre-ciation. , a. Thousands of persons lined tne decorated dec-orated streets as the parade passed. After the column of automobiles circled the business section the president and Mrfl. Wilson repaired to a hotel. committee of women entertained Mrs. Wilson. WILSON ef EARNEST 11 li APPEAL (Continued Prom Page One.) - modifies in the United States, his audience audi-ence would have preferred to hear him on that phase of their domestic ills. The president told the correspondents afterwards that he expected to discuss this in future speeches. Mr. Wilson's first utterance, incidentally, inciden-tally, is not to be taken as the proverbial prover-bial keynote. Ho didn't cover all the subjects with which he plans to deal. He will develop his ideas as he goes along, suiting the speech to the occasion, occa-sion, as the spirit moves him. All his speeches are extemporaneous. That is a tremendous strain, For, in his effort at Columbus to make a comprehensive survey of so vast a subject as the peace treat-, the president touched only superficially super-ficially on a number of things. But while he did not go into details, Ike did express himself in simple enough fashion to convey his points convincingly. AUDIENCES EVIDENCE FAITH IN WILSON. If interruptions of applause mean anything, then Mr. Wilson's audience at Columbus not only seemed to accept his doctrines, but to exhibit faith in the man who was exhorting them anew to follow liis leadership. Again and again, the president failed to explain why the people should accept his view rather than the view of treaty opponents, oppo-nents, but insisted that the people ought to read the treaty and see for themselves, them-selves, and if they did not read it, then they should accept tine interpretation of the men who made the treaty and knew what was intended. It was the familiar asking the people to have faith. Indeed, that idea in his speech seemed to get more applause than any other, for through Mr. Wilson's speech ran a sentimental note a constant exaltation exalta-tion of American ideals and principles and of the promise made to the lads who died the promise to make this a war against wars. The president has put on his campaign clothes. He is trying to get close to the people- on this trip and to translate the technical language of the treaty into understandable understand-able Americanisms. POPULAR CHORD IS STRUCK BY WILSON. He gets thunderous applause as he reverts to the Declaration of Independence Independ-ence and the rights of people to govern themselves, and then transfers his audience audi-ence to Bohemia and to Poland, and exclaims ex-claims that the treaty is "shot through with American principles of fylf-govern-ment." Instead, too, of talking about ''plebiscites," Mr. Wilson wisely speaks on the "referendum," by which tiie people of Upper Hilesia are to be given an opportunity in American style to say whether they wish to belong to Germany or Poland. In simple language lan-guage he showed in one speech why "strategic frontiers" hail been rejected as a principle in disposing of territories wrested from Germany, and why, under a league of nations, Italy would not need Fiume. But he promptly added that if there wore no league, not only would Italy need a strategic frontier, but that, the military point of view would prevail everywhere. Undoubtedly, Mr. Wilson will make more of this point as he goes further west into country which doesn't believe in large armies or navies and which is always ready to embrace some other system that really means peace and not a mere truce. PROPOSES NO LONG DISTANCE DEBATE. The president chatted with the correspondents cor-respondents between stations. He seemed eager to answer questions and talk about the treaty. He made it clear that he does not propose to enter into a debate with the senate at ion:,r distance. dis-tance. Thai would be futile, lie thinks, Ivcause it would divert attention from the main issue what, the treaty contains con-tains which is so valuable to the American Ameri-can people that they cannot afford to reiect it. The president believes his mission is simply to explain the treaty and to discuss only incidentally the objections ob-jections which have been raised against it. He wouldn't admit that he had Senator Knox in mind as lie declared the terms imposed upon Germany were, to be sure, severe, but not unjust. Senator Knox argued the verv opposite lat week. Xor would Mr. Wilson say la'.er that he was thinking of Ireland as he referred f-elingly in his Columbus Colum-bus speech to other wi-ontjs in Uurope which needed to be righted and would be righted, but could not be dealt with at Paris because the conference had jurisdiction only over territories |