Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-04 | Page 4 | Senator Reed Creates a Disturbance

SENATOR REED CREATES 1 A DISTURBANCE. Senator Reed of Missouri, in his tour I against the peace covenant Is having m thing but a delightful time. In Mis sourl, his home legislature repudiated him and In Chicago, before the Chicago Chi-cago Association of Commerce, at s luncheon he met with a stormy reception. recep-tion. A Chicago paper presents an inti-mate inti-mate view of what happened at the luncheon. Senator Reed"s attempts to poll his audience of 2000 of the leading business and professional men of the nty on their opinion of the content of the league of nations' constitution brought forth long and loud storms of protest and shouts of approval that intermingled In a road of nolte. drowning drown-ing out the speaker'! voice and producing pro-ducing the highest excltemenL The meeting was Just on the verge of bitterness, when th speaker, with one of the cleverest oratorical turns, brought back the good nature of the erowd with a political yarn about Mark Hanna. and went on with his address. ad-dress. Senator Reed had Just closed his Introduction, In-troduction, an Impassioned appeal to hla audience to unders'and the mean lng of tbe league of nations, which be had pictured as ruling America and making her the tool of Europe In foreign for-eign wart. ' American liberty and human liberty never were In auch e stress of danger aa at the present time." he shouted in It burning climax. "I want to know how many of ou real lie thla. I want to know how many of you can Judge. How many have even read tbe const! tution of the leaguft of nation tfcir ouahly?" About one In twenty five hand went up. "When America understand thla document and what It contains the will repudiate it with an overwhelming vote." he continued. Then ho put another an-other question "How many of you understand thin means the Furrender of the Monroo doctrine f There were a number of shouts of "Ye8!" and "No!" "How many of you know that It means we take patr in every Rrral world war?" The audience had by this time "found Itself." There were shouts of "Yes!" and "No!" from all over tho huge ball room, scattering at first until un-til It seemed that every one was shouting shout-ing his opinion, and continuing it. Scarcely had it subsided before Senator Sena-tor Reed put another question: "How many of you know it means larcely the surrender of our so ertign-Ityt" ertign-Ityt" I Then the storm broke loose, lafetinc more than a minute, the temper of tho , crowd rising with the roar and confu jslonslon. The senator saw the feelln I was near the breaking point and poured oil on the waters with an ap-Jpeal ap-Jpeal to be ;ood naturcd and without rancor, topping it off with 1)Ib story about Hanna.