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Show oo I WILSON IS GIVEN ' BIG RECEPTION Woman's Party Banner Bearers Bear-ers Are Roughly Handled by Crowd in Chicago. Chicago, OcL 19. President Wilson, speaking to a New Citizens' meeting here tonight, declared that foreign-born foreign-born citizens of the United States should put their American allegiance above all others. He praised the Ideals that bring new citizens to the United States and outlined his belief that in the determination of the future fu-ture of tho world after tho present war America will play an important part. During a strenuous twelve hours in Chicago, the president addressed a collection of women aa "fellow citizens," citi-zens," uphold the principle of the eight-hour day and urged that Progressives Pro-gressives of all parties work for a broader America. A demonstration lasting more than five minutes greeted tho president at a new citizens' meeting tonight. Men stood on chairs and cheered, waving their hats. The president stood and bowed again and again. The applause ended -when a clergyman began an invocation. in-vocation. He delivered three speeches here and went over his western campaign plans with his managers. He plan- ned to leave at midnight and will arrive ar-rive at Long Branch, N. J, at midnight mid-night tomorrow. In a spyoech "before the Chicago Press club, the president predicted the "beginning of a renassiance of the sense of patriotic responsibilities md urged the development of pro-gresslvcness. pro-gresslvcness. Speaking before a gathering gath-ering of women later, he urged more participation of women in the affairs of the nation, and at a meeting tonight to-night of citizens he declared a united America. At his every appearance the president was cheered by throng3 which packed the streots during his automobile rides from place to place and filled to capacity the halls in which he spoke. He stood in his au-I au-I tomobile while passing the crowds and smllincly waved his hat to tho people on the streets and In the windows win-dows of buildings. Silent Demonstration. An ntiemptod "silent demonstration" demonstra-tion" by members of the National Women's party In front of the Auditorium Audi-torium developed Into a near riot in which banners opposing Wilson were torn from tho demonstrators and trampled, tram-pled, and the women wore roughly handled. President Wilson was seated seat-ed In an automobile a few hundred feet away when the demonstration started, but passed Into tho building and wn. not a witness to tho scene that followed. Shouting "Shame, disgrace," and "get tho banners." a crowd of several sev-eral hundred, sprinkled with women, charged tho banner-holders. Umbrellas Umbrel-las and canes were used in tho destruction de-struction of tho placards. Many of the women wero knocked down and nearly all wgtc roughly handled, especially es-pecially thoso who strove to retain thoir banners. Tho excitement continued until all the banners had been seized. With disheveled hair and soiled and torn clothing, the women marched back to their headquartors under police guard. Charges that the police sympathized with the riolerr. and failed to protect the demonstrators, were ruado by Mrs. Josephine Pearce and Mrs. L. Mat-tlce, Mat-tlce, officials of local woman Republican Repub-lican clubs. "There were all kinds of policemen standing about merely looking on, not moving a hand," snid Mrs. Pearce. "Some of them didn't seem to want to help us. I saw policemen deliberately delib-erately stand nearby and laugh at us while wo were being boaten and tho banners torn from our hands. "We were merely standing, quietly holding our banners and not harming harm-ing nnyono. Suddenly thoro was a regular riot. Thev grabbed our ban- ncrs, trampled on them and knocked us down. It was terrible." Negro waiters employed at the Press club utilized the presence of President Wilson at lunch there to gain for themselves a raise in wages, without Investigation and without compromise. Just before the president presi-dent was due to arrive, thirty special waiters, who were to serve the luncheon, lunch-eon, put on thoir coats preparatory to walking out. They had not asked for more pay, but when stopped by the steward told him they had decided de-cided they must have a 50 per cent Increase on the contract price before they would begin their duties. The advantage was theirs, and the increase in-crease was granted. Mrs. Wilson accompanied the president. pres-ident. Dressed in black and wearing a large bouquet of orchids and violets, vio-lets, sho drew almost as much applause ap-plause as the president. Visit to Headquarters. Between his speeches to the women and his night address, the president went to tho western Democratic campaign cam-paign headquarters and for the first time witnessed the details of the machinery ma-chinery used In an effort to re-elect him. Senator Walsh, chairman of tho headquarters, and Senator Snulsbury of Delaware showed him just how tho campaign is being carried on, and then the president and Mrs. Wilson stood for half an hour shaking hands with all the headquarters workers, Including In-cluding the stenographers and mail lng clerks. Afterward the president had a brief conference with Senator Walsh and was told that a decided "swing had set In in the west for the Democratic Demo-cratic ticket." Meeting of Women. At the meeting of women tho president pres-ident was introduced by Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, former superintendent of Chicago's schools, who declared he had kept the United States honorably at peace. Miss Jano Addams occupied a seat In a box. The president defined his message to the women as follows: "Society is now organizing its whole power in order that it may have a new organization and be an instrument instru-ment of civilization; and I am ambitious ambi-tious that America should show the way In this great enterprise." He did not touch on votes for women. The president declared that some of the difficulties in the foreign relationships rela-tionships of the United States have been due to the fact that other nations na-tions have not realized that this na- tion was disinterested. "When the nations of the world come to love America," he said, "they will obey and follow America." His speech follows In part: "There never was a time when it was more necessary for the nations of the world to exercise self-possession, to acquire self-knowledge, to determine de-termine their direction and purpose, and to relate themselves to the general gen-eral work of establishing justice among mankind. I think that every one of us as Americans would bo ashamed If America did not know exactly what she was about and by what means and instrumentalities she was going to act. I, therefore, thought that your would indulge me this afternoon aft-ernoon If I tried to point out what seemed to mo the leading peculiarities of the task that lies before me. "You can illustrate It by the relations rela-tions between employer and employee. Justice can no longer be cold. It Is beginning to have warmth and sympathy sym-pathy and emotion In It. And so all the problems of society are changing under our very eyes, and there is coming com-ing the time, unless I am very greatly mistaken, when this same quality of sympathy and mercy will come into tlfe hitherto cold and untouched field, when nations shall agree with nations that the rights of humanity are greater great-er than the rights of sovereigns. New Set of Problems. "Therefore, modern society ha a new set of problems to meet. It has to say If the employer will not voluntarily vol-untarily establish the proper conditions condi-tions of labor the law must oblige him to establish the projfer conditions of labor the law must oblige him to establish the proper conditions of labor. la-bor. If he will not voluntarily be humane and fair, he must be obliged to be humane and fair." The president made complimentary reference to a big manufacturing company com-pany which recently voluntarily established es-tablished an eight-hour day without reduction of pay, and continued: "The spirit of the thing is even better than the thing itself. It is the recognition of their partnership, as human spirits with the men who are doing their work. "I am happy to say that I am not singular and isolated in this, because all over the United States men have begun to have that sort of enlightened enlight-ened humanltarianism, which ought to have been obvious from the first, that If you treat a man like a human being he will work for you with a heart as well as a hand. Things Necessary. "There are several things which are necessary In such a society and we ought to set all our thoughts and all our energies to accompjlsh these1 necessary things. The first thing Is that the several elements of society H should understand one another. "I havo said before, and I say again, that one of the things that most deeply distressed me In the .recent conference of the heads of tho rail , ways and their employes was to find, that there was a profound mutual I mis- understanding, distrust and hostll Ity. "It ought not to be so. Something Is wrong when the men who are ( working together at the same thing do not trust one another an I that wrong thing rests, I am ?u"g convinced, upon orane, it rests upon not associating with each loth-er loth-er In the kind of conference which will enable them to understand one ( another. Defines Politics. "Politics, my friends, consists of something that you can almost ex-press ex-press in tho formula, 'got together. , Try to understand what tho common task is and all tako part in it in the i same spirit, because politics is noth-J lng but a systematic attempt to keep the law adjusted to tho real facts, keep the alw behind the real, hand-some, hand-some, helpful constructive forces of society, and you canot do that unless you understand society. You cannot understand society unless you understand under-stand the component parts, so that after all the formula, 'get together, lies at the base of it all, and the first step is for the elements of society so-ciety to understand one another, but that Is not all that Is necessary. The next thing Is that the elements of society so-ciety should understand their common com-mon relationship to he society of which they constitute a part. When I see gentlemen running amuck I am perfectly aware that they do not see that they are destroying the delicate fibre of the very thing upon which their business depends, viz., the social structure itself, and that by running recklessly against the Interests of other people they are really checking tho enterprise which they think they are promoting. "If you are wrong you will get it knocked out of you, and if you are right you will help knock it out of other people. "What difference does it make that you think a thing as a Republican if it is wrong? What difference does it make to think a thing as a Democrat Demo-crat If It Is not true? Your being a Republican or a Democrat does not make It true. And what difference does a party make, or a party's interests inter-ests make as compared with the interests in-terests of the nation Itself? "Now, It occurred to me that you would permit me to suggest what the particular function of woman is In this new age. Men have tried their hands at it and, in the opinion of a great many of you, have made a sad mess of it. And It must be obvious, if what I have already said Is true, that the functions that have to be determined by those who lead opinion opin-ion have taken on a entirely new character. Spirit of the Law. "The whole spirit of the law has been to give leave to the strong, to give opportunity to those who could dominate, but it seems to me that the function of society now has another element in it, and I believe that it is the element which women are going to supply. It Is the element of mediation, media-tion, of comprehending and drawing the elements together. It is the power pow-er of sympathy, as contrasted witn the power of contest. "Life is bitter only when It Is lone-j ly. Life Is bitter only when there' does not seem to be any force fight-! ing with you except the pitiful little force that Is within yourself; and if we are going to rally the forces of society, the great sympathetic irresistible irresist-ible masses of women are going to play a most distinguished and leading part. And It will be so much more interesting, that contest. It Is much more interesting to help a man than to hit him. Foreign Relations. "I take leave to say that some of the difficulties of our foreign rela-, tionships In the last two years have been due to the fact that it was not comprehensible to some foreign statesmen that the United States was really disinterested. "They had never heard of such a thing. And in proportion as the - A United States demonstrated to the A world that Its Influence in the fam- i ily of nations is disinterested, lt will y f have that part of power which does v not come from arms, but comes from r.he great invisible powers which well up In the human heart. "When we are getting ohe stage; slowly we are marshalling the forces; slowly we are growing together. Then in some happy day America will see : clearly, as she saw at first, that vis- ' ion of justice and freedom and right- I eousness which gave her birth and i distinction at first." |
