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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN'8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING C0.f INC. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Mgr.. W. E. CHAMBERLAIN, Business Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage In the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico $2.00 per year, $1.25 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $3.50 per year. Single copies, 5 cents. Payment should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake of Act March 3, 1879. under the Utah, City, 3 Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. Salt Lake City, Utah. 311-12-1- WILSON MAKES FORLORN HOPE SPEECHES LAKES meeting with the President of the United States so pleasant withal that he probably went away thinking that the only folk opposed to his league covenant were those who applauded at the Tabernacle when he was setting forth the views of the senators on reservations. It was quite noteworthy that the President was more than a bit nettled at these interruptions and once he stopped to scoldthe hostile braves in language of pedagogic severity. His eyes snapped and his imperious nature to have his own way displayed itself in an exhibition of set teeth that was quite Rooseveltian. Some, no doubt, regretted that he did not show a similar inflexible spirit at Versailles. A little later he admitted that his Scotch temper sometimes got the better of him and that when he was mad all through he retired from among men and cooled off. The crowd seemed to like these touches of nature in their Presi- dent, for it relieved that aspect of austerity which clings about the man despite his efforts to meet the hoi polloi on terms of common humanity and fellowship. Everyone wrho saw the President for the first time on the rostrum was pleased at his demeanor. They felt that he wTas, not only in mind, but in manner, in poise, in dignity and in general culture a worthy representative of a great nation. And for that very reason there was a tinge of pathos in the uphill fight he was making, very gallantly and ably, for a bad cause. While his oratory lacks the supernal fires that sweep an audience along on wings of flame it is not 'without emotional power. The rhetoricians tell us that the elements of a good style are clearness, elegance and force. His oratorical style is so wonderfully lucid that vacuities, he cannot conceal, as Pitt was wont to do, by the flaws of his argument. Elegance he has in abundance. If he hesitates one does not fear that the next phrases will be clumsy and painful ; one is conscious that in a moment the fitting words will flow with grace and distinction. A certain force he has, but it is not the compelling force of the great orator. It does not set men to cheering madly, forgetful of reason and obsessed by the human appeal. Sometimes the President makes the mistake that brought down on him biting criticism at the beginning of his tour. He has tried to sen-- 3 disguise the bitterness of his feeling toward the United States ators who oppose him, but the ugly fangs of prejudice show when, after saying he entirely respects them he concludes by representing them, and indeed all who differ from him on the league covenant, as . It reminded us of a young scapegrace we once knew who had finally been cast out by his father. Naturally the youth was furious and when discussing the affair with his friends he said : SALT 'rV high-soundi- pro-Grm- an ng With all due respect to the old man, he is a damned scoundrel. That was the impression we got from the Presidents polite denunciation of those who disagree with him. As to the arguments we can only record the impressions they left on those who do not agree with the President. His supporters seemed to be thoroughly satisfied with his presentation of the case for the covenant. His opponents found it weak almost to pettyfogging, but it could be described as pettyfogging only in the sense that the speaker avoided answering those arguments which opponents of the covenant believe to be the most convincing. Space is wanting to traverse the entire speech, which was one of the longest of the Presidents tour, and we must content ourselves with giving our ideas of a few of the tours de force which seemed to be most persuasive to his hearers. The opponents of the treaty were anxious that the President should explain why the Senate, an essential part of the treaty-makin- g power of the United States, should be denied the right to amend the treaty in view of the fact that other powers were permitted to get in advance all that they demanded in the way of reservations. For example, Great Britain, through Lloyd George, forbade the conference even to take up the question of the freedom of the seas, although jt had been included in the Presidents fourteen points. Great Britain, in advance, reserved the right to remain master of the seas. Inasmuch as our Senate is a part of the treaty-makin- g power of the United States why should it be denied the right or even the privilege of making amendments? The Presidents only answer to this is that the treaty must again be submitted to Germany and that we will be put in the attitude of aiding Germany against our allies, that, in fact, we will be giving Germany the victory which she failed to gain on the fields of battle. It is a resounding appeal, but it fails to go to the root of the matter. If the treaty ought to be amended to protect the United States no reason can be paramount to that. One of the Presidents sallies which appeared to please his supporters immensely was a homely illustration uttered when he was arguing that we could not be compelled to send our boys across the seas to put out every fire. If there is a fire in Utah you dont send to Oklahoma for firemen, he said. Very true we dont; but the President of the Lnitcd States, who of the army and navy, does, in effect, that very is commander-in-chie- f ; 9 thing. At present there is a fire in Russia and our boys arc goin from Utah, Oklahoma and the other states of the Union to put it out, |