Show WILSON CONVINCED CAUSE ENDS SPEAKING TOUR AT ST LOUIS AND RETURNS TO THE CAPITAL believes ht Hs has explained why he considers immediate preparedness imperative and that he has won many converts st louis president wilson valson finished his speaking tour in st louis on thursday and expressed the conviction that his mission had succeeded beyond his greatest hopes president wilsons Wil sons advisers believe he has explained clearly why ble considers immediate preparedness imperative has won many converts to the movement and his given new impetus to a discussion of the cause from tho the sympathetic attitude of most of his audiences from the enthusiasm his every appearance in public has evoked from the huge crowds which have greeted him they have drawn the conclusion that the people overwhelmingly support his plans at least in the middle west president wilson on thursday told an audience of cheering tumultuously at his feet that the united states should have the greatest i navy in the world 1 I believe tho the navy of the united states should be incomparably the greatest in the world he said the president declared that submarine commanders abroad have instruct eions which for the most part conform with international law but that the act of one commander might set the world afire including america upon the ocean there are hundreds of 0 cargoes of american goods he said cotton grain and all the bountiful supplies america is sending out to the world and any one of those cargoes any one of those ships may be the point of contact that will bring america into the war for the first time during the tour the president told of how bow one set of belligerents was cut off from the world he said this kept the united states from helping them as it would like he made the statement in trying to show that the united states was really neutral the president opened with the statement that he had come seeking something in the middle west and found it he said he had been told the middle west was against preparedness but did not believe HT president wilson sited kansas city and topeka on february 2 in his journey across the country for the purpose of explaining his preparedness program to the people at topeka the president asserted the right of americans to travel abroad and their right to send food cotton and manufactured products to peaceful populations in open neutral neu markets and wherever the conditions of war make it possible to do so under the ordinary rules of international law it may be necessary to use the force of the united states to vindicate the rights of american citizens to en aly ji y the protection of 0 international law he declared emphatically he urged the support of the people 0 of kansas in preparing that force for use if necessary in his address at kansas city president witson wilson demanded that steps be taken during the present month to back him up in defending american lives and commerce abroad his demand mand met with shouts and applause from an audience of persons who waved american flags leaped to their seats and cheered cli the president said the time had come tor for him to ask his fellow citi zens to get up on your hind legs and talk and tell the people who represent you what the nation desires desire and demands the thing that everybody in ill a democracy is listening for is the tramp tramp tramp of the facts when hen the president ceased speaking he be leaned forward and asked the great audience to join him in singing america the band played softly the audience stood and the words edme in a glorious burst of song from throats threats at des moines iowa on february 1 ho be president dealt with the butil futility ity if f messages and words of protest to meet breaches of 0 international in tei national law do you want the situation to be such that all the president can do is ia to write messages mes ines bages and utter words of protest lie he asked in advocating preparedness before the largest audience of his bis present trip why to ask that question is to answer it he said whenever international law is violated by one or the other belligerents the president said america was vas called upon to register a voice j 4 protest of insistence there are arc actually men inen in america no are arc preaching war the president pies ident declared men who want the unit united ed states to have entangling alliances abroad he said he did out ont think they spoke 0 tho the voice of Amor america amoric lc which he declared to bo be for peace he added that others go further than he in advocating peace they preach the doctrine of peace at any price he said while men in the audience called never never ile ho said these men did not know the circumstances cum stances of the world america cannot be an ostrich with its head in tho the sand he said the presidents address was punctuated at ed with thunderous applause he spoke slowly and gravely with emphatic gestures to enforce his words his declaration that the united states wanted peace drew a response and his assertion that the self respect of the nation must be arese prese preserved arved elicited another great demonstration the president declared he was trying to weigh carefully every word lie he said he reiterated that lie he had been dally daily charged to keep the country out of war and also to uphold upheld its honor the difficulty of keeping america at peace he said during this titanic struggle across the sea cannot be disclosed now perhaps it never can be disclosed how anxious and how dit fl coq cuq this task has been but my heart has been in it I 1 have not grudged a a single burden that has been placed upon me with that end in view for I 1 know that not only my own heart but the heart of all america was in the cause of peace speaking at cleveland on january 29 president wilson warned the nation that the time may come when he can not both keep the united states out of war and maintain its honor and declared that the country must bo be prepared to defend itself and be prepared zt st once america is not afraid of anybody lie he said 1 I know I 1 reflect your reeling and the feeling of all our citizens citizen 2 when I 1 say that the only thing I 1 am afraid of is not being ready to perform my duty I 1 am afraid of the danger of shame I 1 am afraid of the danger of inadequacy I 1 am afraid of the danger of not being able to express the correct character of this country with tremendous might and effectiveness whenever we are called upon to act in the field of the worlds affairs for the first time during I 1 his ils I 1 present tour the president spoke of the navy and the coast defenses the latter he said are good in quality but not in quantity on monday at chicago the president solemnly warned men and women in the auditorium that no man can competently say whether the united states will he be drawn into the dfwar war the navy is ready at any tite time to go into war the president said sai bailit LIt it is efficient though inadequate the vast hall was as quiet as a death chamber when he made the dramatic statement the president later stirred the assemblage to vigo vigorous rou s applause by declaring that this war was vas brought on by rulers and not hy by the people it was the presidents fifth speech of the day he had journeyed from cleveland to milwaukee and back to chicago since midnight sunday night but he did not show the effects of his arduous day he was if anything more vigorous in his deliverer deli verey than ever he seemed inspired by his big audience |