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Show NOISY WELCOME ' GIYEH PRESIDENT WILSON GIVEN OVATION IN LOS ANGELES, WHERE HE ADDRESSES AD-DRESSES MASS MEETING. Rids of Ten Miles Through Streets of Southern California Metropolis is One of Continual Demonstration for Executive. Sacraniento--"The league, of nations is a :uiaraiil,v of justice and, without the treaty of peace with (lerinatty, in-cliiilinn' in-cliiilinn' the covenant, the world "would sink hack into thai slouch of despond in which mankind was hetore this war boiian," President Wilson told a crowd of I'J.lRKt persons that, surged about bis special train when it stopped here for twenty five minutes Monday afternoon. after-noon. The president was complei ing a week's tour of the stale, his brief address ad-dress at Sacramento completing his speech making in the golden state. The president had not originally intended in-tended speaking at Sacramento, but" acceded to popular request. As originally orig-inally planned, the president, was to have completed bis week's speech-making on the l'acific coast at Los Angeles, Saturday night. Welcomed to Los Angelas by a crowd which densely packed the downtown down-town sect ion, I he president, was cheer-ei- Itimultuously everywhere he appeared ap-peared during the day. Along Iho line of it ten-mile parade lie rode in a din of applause and later tit a public pub-lic dinner cheers greeted his declarations declara-tions that the treaty should and would be accepted. W hen he entered the auditorium for his night speech be was cheered for more than two minutes' by u crowd estimated by the police at six thousand. thous-and. The hall was jammed and outside out-side were thousands who could not get in. Some had been waiting since early morning for the doors to open. Mr. Wilson alluded to an address made by President McKinley on the day before his assassination, and asserted as-serted that the martyred president's . words about concord and arbitration seemed to show he had a prophetic vision on the eve of his death. Referring to objections that the league would involve the United States in "entangling alliances," Mr. Wilson said the league was in fact a proposal for disentanglement. "What Washington had in mind was exactly what these gentlemen want to lead us back to," be said. "The day of alliances is behind us." Article X the president characterized character-ized as an extension of the Monroe doctrine to the whole world. He declared de-clared there could be no real world rehabilitation until the universal spirit of unrest was quieted by the establishment establish-ment of peace. Without the United States in the league, said the president, there could be no real guarantee of the peace .settlement. .set-tlement. Because the American suggestions sugges-tions at the peace table iiad been accepted ac-cepted as entirely disinterested, he declared, de-clared, most of the decisions at the conference were framed, in the end. "on American specifications." Industrially, Indus-trially, economically, and politically, be added, the world would be "in despair'' if America now deserted it. President Wilson came to Los Angeles An-geles Saturday to conclude his stay on the Pacific coast with a two-day visit devoted mostly to rest. The only appointments on his program up to his departure Sunday night were a public dinner anil a night address at the Shriners' auditorium. Most of Sunday the president and Mrs. Wilson spent quietly, leaving their hotel only to attend services during dur-ing the morning tit St. Paul's Episcopal Episco-pal cathedral. A report that, they would take an afternoon automobile ride brought a big crowd around the hotel, hut. it waited in vain. An extract from a magazine article written in 1014 by Theodore Roosevelt was read by President Wilson in an address ad-dress at San Diego on September 10. as an argument in favor of the league of nat ions. Speaking to a cheering crowd, which tilled the great San Diego stadium, the president also quoted from Senator Lodge, one of the most bitter opponents oppon-ents of the treaty in its present form, and declared that, in framing the league covenant, the Versailles conference confer-ence bad followed the advice of these end other Republican statesmen. When the presidential special stopped for a few minutes at Ocean-side. Ocean-side. Cnl., an old man told Mr. Wilson that he was for the league of nations, and added, "I am a Republican, but 1 voted for you last time and I will vole for you again." "No. 1 am not hankering for trouble." trou-ble." replied the president with a laugh. |