Show BUST M util PT BE mi ABLE TO BACK UP PROTESTS AMERICA CANNOT BE AN OS TRICK WITH HEAD IN THE SAND DECLARES PRESIDENT condemn condemns advocates of war as well as peace at any price theorists in cre C moines addre address sd s d D tiare country la Is for peace des colnes la ia president wilson speaking hero here tuesday night dealt with the futility of messages and words of protest to meet breaches of international law do you want the situation situ ution to be auch such that all the president preside nt can do la Is to write messages and utter words of protest I 1 he lie asked in advocating preparedness before the largest audience ot of his present trip why to ask that question Is to answer it ho he said whenever international law Is violated by one or the other belligerents belll ger the president said america was called upon to register a voice of pro protest of insistence insistence there are gre actually men in america who are preaching war the president declared dectar ed men who want the united states to have nt angling alliances abroad ho ile said ho be did ont think they spoke the voice of america which hi ht declared to be for peace ho ile added that others go further than he be in advocating peace they preach the doctrine of peace at any price he eald said whilo men in the audience audie nae called never never he ile I 1 eald aid these men did not know the circumstances t cum ma stances of the world Amerl america ca cannot be an am astrich with its hend head in the band sand he said the presidents addreal punctuated with thunderous applause he ile spoke slowly and gravely with emphatic gestures to enforce hia his words his ilia declaration tuat wat the united states wanted peace drew a response res rouse ronse and his assertion that the eek self respect of the nation must bo be preserved ell cited another great demonstration the president declared he was trying to weigh carefully every word he eald said he ile reiterated that be had been dally daily char charged sed to keep the country olat of war and also to uphold ita its honor tha the difficulty ot keeping america at peace he said during this titanic struggle across the sea cannot be disclosed now perhaps it never can be disclosed how flow anxious and how dito difo o 0 this task has been but my heart haa has been in it I 1 have not grudged a single burden that has been placed up an me with that end in view fer I 1 know that not no only mt own heart but tho the heart of all america was lu the cause of peace peale new york president wilson on thursday night opened his personal appeal to the country tor for national delease defense he ile gave warning that plan plans for the readjustment ot of the army must he be formulated and carried out without delay and solemnly declared he could not predict that the outlook for the united states would be as bright tomorrow as today speaking at banquets of the railway business association and the motion picture board of trade he sounded the keynote of addresses that he will deliver in the middle cat est air wilson was in a fighting mood throughout his address in a speech delivered early in ia thu the day he declared he always accepted an invitation to fight at night he be told the railway men ae no as an advocate ot of peace and had struggled to keep the united ed states at peace but he considered the liberty and honor of the nation even more important than peace peale woe woo to any man who plays marplot or who seeks to make party political or personal per conal ambition tabs take over candor loner lionor and unselfish nn unpartisan ser berrice rice eald the president lu ia speaking ot of hi defense plan lefor tha th railroad men il he le adeclat declared fd that the country expects action this Is a year of accounting and the accounting must be definite dennite on the part of the pities and on the part of every individual who wishes to enjoy the public confidence abr my part I 1 hope every man in public life will get coming to him bald sald mr nir vilson amid laughter and applause the president admitted that in tit a message rnea ao to last coi cot gross gress he had eald said tho r need reed eed for preau edness nas ass no pressing he lie declared de cared that ho he lud learned differently differ eull in the mean nean time he ile cited his recent support ol 01 a tariff o commission as another instance of a change on his part but de dared there previously nas as no need for a commission mr wilson spoke ot of men of high character who were vere clouding the preparedness pa issue he lie declared they were provincial and that the unite i 1 states could no longer cut itself ot of join J bom oin the rest of the world |