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Show PRESIDENT SURE OF THEPEOPLE Treaty Issue Will Be Decided Rightly and Not for Any Private Purpose. CROWD IS NOISYi Cheer for Nearly Quarter of an Hour When President and I Mrs. Wilson Enter Hall. SAN PRANCISCQ, Sept 17 To an uproarious up-roarious crowd In the civic auditorium li'ri- tonlRht. rrrsldrnt YVIIfr.n declared that in his trip across the rontincr.t ho bad tecom ronvinced that the treaty issue would he decided rightly by the people nnd "not l any private purpo" of their own." He repeated his declaration that the lajuo of rations was not the work the Vers-- 'lies conference, but grew out of yeais of thought by men who did not devote iny portion of their consideration to politics Some of the mot constructive construc-tive minds In both parties ho asserted ha I hrcn devoted to the project for a generation There was much disorder In the hall during th address arid the president Spoke ivlth apparent difficulty against a bum of talk In the distant galleries. Once lie stopped to ask for doner attention, at-tention, but the crowd did not quiet dcn. When he left his hotel for th auditorium he wa. cheered by a crowd which had blocked the street for more than an hour On the way he passed along in B continuous roar of applai.M nnd w'teri lie :ind Mrs. Wilson entered the auditorium the crowd stood up and shouted Itself, hoarse. When the ohear ing had been In progress for more thai thirteen minutes the "Star Spangled I' inner" was played on a pipe organ but It failed to quiet the crowd. Vayor Rolph at last Introduced Chester Ches-ter Powell, editor of the Fresno Republican, Republi-can, and Republican national committeeman commit-teeman in 191t", who presented the president presi-dent In a single sentence while the crowd leant un Its shouting Yells Continue Five Minutes. When Mr Wilson took the platform end held up his hand for sllenee yells continued for more than five minutes in the galleries while some in the audience shouted "Put them out" and others hissed There was still much noise when he bcRon speaking and it continued while the address proceeded. It was one of the largest balls In which the president has spoken, seating 13,000. It -was packed, many standing. Declaring the league opponents had offered of-fered no substitute. Mr Wilson discussed nt length the objections made, repeating mnn of his previous arguments against ciiangei Virtually all of the feature Under debate now. he declared, had been changed once along the line of suggestions sugges-tions b the senate foreign relations committee. com-mittee. The right of withdrawal Mr Wilson assened, was Virtually absolute under the covenant in its present form. Ho declared de-clared also that the Monroe doctrine Is adequlteJy safeguarded and thai such Great Britain's Votes bile Great Britain has six votes In the i assembly, Mr Wilson sa'd, it has been "carefully arranged' so that the one vele of the United States wrj'd balance Ml of the six It was only in th.; n mm mbl.. . he sa'.d, that six votes w?rc given the cmpue, and that was not. In the main a otlnc, 1-cdy. He declared Iho kc-BOmbly kc-BOmbly could VltS to admit h new member mem-ber to the bague or to recommend to ary member e consideration of ji ci treaties as I ,: n.ntly ara in confllc. with the cuvOtiAiil but aside from tho-. Iv functional be said, no action coiili be taken without the concurrence of ;h American delegate under the ununlmous voto imfev. The council, where the great nations are on an equality and where Unanimity ..- rcqvii (0. Mr. '.Villon dtfCUVfedi was the I league's agcnc of action. This assembly was largely a forum, he said, where the I conscience of tho world could be broucht to lav uoon the questions likely to leaa to war. Turning to the Shantung provision of the treaty. Mr. Wilson said that neither the United States government nor tha men now protesting against tho Shan- ' tung award had many any protest against I the original cession of rights there to Germany. iatcr, he continued. France I Great Britain and other great powers took Chinese tcrritoiy without any ob- i Jecllon from this country. Every great European power, the president presi-dent asserted, now enjoyed special priv-! priv-! liege in China, in some cases at the expense ex-pense of China's socreignty. But, he declared Japan hud promised lo return everything that savored of sovereignty to China li was not in the province of the peace conferr-nce, aaid the president, to consider the question of Belf-deter-uiination as affecting peoples other than those formerly under ih' sover-. sover-. Igntj of th..- central empires Bui under un-der tjie league, he added, such questions ques-tions would be brought under the Jurisdiction Jur-isdiction of the great powers. It would offer, he declared, "a forum on which to conduct a successful agitation." agita-tion." "If they're not satisfied with that," he added, "their case is not good. " .More applause followed the statement state-ment and there was another outburst of cheering when he said confidently that the United States was going to be in the League. Reading a quotation from a former German statesman, the. president .said those opposing the treaty were trying I for a result which would be welcome to Germany It was inconceivable, he continued, that Germany now would be able to separate tho United SUtes from the other powers as she had been unable to do by force of arms. Mr. Wilson said it was impossible to work out industrial reforms as long ds the peace treaty uncertainty continued. con-tinued. Ratification of the treaty, he said, would be the first step toward preventing any sort of minority from dictating in the United States. |