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Show DECLARES LEAGUE IS HOPEOF WORLD PRESIDENT WILSON BRINGS A MESSAGE TO UTAHNS IN BEHALF BE-HALF OF PEACE PACT. Declares That the Triumphant Establishment Estab-lishment of the Principle of Democracy Democ-racy Throughout the World Awaits Ratification. Suit Lake City. It is probable that every I'tiilin who could ilo so journeyed jour-neyed (o Salt Lake City or Ogden on September 23, to catch a glimpse of President Wilson, and possibly be fortunate for-tunate enough to hear him speak at the famous tabernacle In Salt Lake. Fifteen thousand persons listened to I he president's address in the tabernacle, tab-ernacle, while twice that number were unnble to secure admission. The president's address at the tabernacle was the second of the day, although lie spoke but briefly at Ogden. Fresident Wilson was the fourth president to visit Salt Lake while in office, but It Is probable that no previous pre-vious executive received a more cordial cor-dial welcome. When the presidential party arrived in Salt Lake, they were met by a reception committee headed by the governor and other prominent men of the state, and the party was taken in automobiles through the principal prin-cipal streets, which were crowded with cheering, smiling people. A five-minute ovation of the standing, stand-ing, cheering, shouting crowd greeted the president on his appearance on the tabernacle rostrum. After considerable consider-able effort quiet was obtained, and Fresident Holier J. Grant of the L. D. S. church delivered the invocation. (iovernor Bamberger introduced the president with n single sentence, and when the nation's executive rose to J I v v 1 I WOODROW WILSON. his feet another ovation, almost as great ill volume, greeted his second appearance. Mrs. Wilson, too, was tailed to her feet in response to the reception giveu her. The president launched straightway to his subject. He dwelt for a time on the principal prin-cipal objections raised to the league of nations and said that these have been swept away, and that its opponents oppo-nents are now seeking to stab the leaLTUe at its very heart. Keservations to the league, he said, are. to all intents anil purposes, equiv-i.lcnt equiv-i.lcnt to amendments. Any reservation, reserva-tion, be declared, would mean reopening reopen-ing of negotiations with Germany, and "hen be added that no part of the world wants that, the audience broke into a demonstration of applause with shouts of no, no, no, from all parts of the hall. ""The triumphant establishment of Hie principle of democracy throughout the world awaits the ratification of the league." Fresident Wilson said, and went on : "This means the establishment not wily of political democracy but of in-dust in-dust rial democracy.'' The president dwelt upon the present pres-ent industrial unrest and said that even in the United States there is abroad today an antagonism to the ordered processes of government everywhere. While this unrest is as-Miming as-Miming a menacing force, he said, the whole world is waiting for the United States to ratify the treaty. "'IT. i" government of tl:? United States is the only government in the world which the rest of the world trusts," declared the president. The president's sincerity, the care with which he weighed his words, and Itje ease of his address made his mes. s:r:e simple and at the same time tre-ji.edously tre-ji.edously impressive. When he came to a consideration of the motives ef the league opponents he seemed to uialte doubly sure of the phrasing of his words. Thus, when he said point-blank : "The only serious forces back of the opposition to the league of nations come from the same sources as those from which the pro-German propaganda propagan-da proceeded before and during the war,'' the applause of the crowd was tempered by the serious consideration of his words. Fresident Wilson gave credit to nniuy eminent men who have spoken In behalf of reservations and against the league of nations, but said that they were not fully informed, that they did not know what the actual provisions of the covenant are. When he said : "We, by withholding from the league of nations, promote the purposes of Germany. Shall we, by vote of the United States senate, do for Germany what she could not do for herself by force of arms?" shouts of "no" arose again from the hall, noes echoed and re-echoed in a thunder of voices. Germany, he said, is now isolated and desires nothing so much as that the United States be isolated as well by refusing to enter the league of nations na-tions at this time. The president fairly pleaded with the audience to read and reread the covenant, that they might really know its meaning and its provisions. He told of the Information coming to him through governmental sources I from this country and abroad that led him to his conclusions concerning op-' op-' position to the covenant. He referred to the covenant as the first great arrangement among nations na-tions not based on a division of spoils, and said that the treaty as it now stands with the covenant is a renunciation renunci-ation of spoils, the greatest human arrangement ever attempted, and that it forbids exploitation. Pact Is Hope of China. The Shantung arrangement and the future of China he went into at some length, saying that China's hope is in the league of nations. Outside of the league, he said, the United States would be powerless to do anything for China. As a member of the league, the president added, the United States would be able to right not only the injustice of Che Japanese domination of a part of Shantung, hut would be able to bring about reconsideration of similar concessions now held by Great Britain, France and other nations. He declared that, without the league of nations in 1918, the United States, under the international law of that time, and the same holds true today without the league, was powerless eren to object to the cession of Shantung Shan-tung by China to Germany. He spoke, too, of the Portsmouth treaty concluding conclud-ing war between Russia and Japan, a treaty made in this country, in which the United (States"was again unable to object to the cession of Port Arthur, taken from the Chinese by the Russians, Rus-sians, to Japan, because of the limitations limita-tions of international law. The president asked his hearers to make felt their moral judgment that the thing for America to do is to redeem re-deem the pledge made when she en- tered the war, by compelling the rat- ification of the treaty. In reference j to article X, greatly opposed by op- ponents to the league, the president said : "Article X is an engagement on the part of the great fighting nations of the world, that they will preserve against external aggression the terri-' torial integrity of existing political in- dependencies of league members. That j is cutting the heart out of all war. i Every war of any consequence that you may cite originated In an attempt to seize the territory of some nation." He answered the opposition of the Irish nationalists to this covenant by stating that the league does not guarantee guar-antee governments from overthrow by their own ieople, that the United States, itself conceived by such action, would never interfere in a similar case. The possibility of the United States being drawn intw a petty Balkan conflict, con-flict, an example often used by his opponents, Mr. Wilson minimized. "If you want to put out a fire in Utnh," he said, "you don't send to Oklahoma for the apparatus," and drew an analogy, an-alogy, stating that the council of the league is pledged to select the powers most ready, most convenient to the scene of possible trouble, and to nominate nom-inate them for action only with their own consent. Continuing the same line of thought, he said that if a fight becomes big enough under the league of nations to involve the United Slates, this country would probably be drawn in. even though outside the league. I There is no force in the covenant, j he said, to compel the United States to do anything, except moral force. He then asked: "Is anybody in the United States afraid of moral force, afraid of the duress of duty?" and the answer an-swer came back with the unmistakable unmistak-able no of an audience understanding j and convinced. |