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THE . OREGON DAILY JOURNAL'PORTL AND, SATURDAY, 4 SEPTEMBER 6, 1819 f SON RECEIVES WELCOME IN KANSAS CITY President Outspoken Against Rule of Bolsheviki in Russia and Assails League Critics. BEAD THE TREATY, HE URGES . -..! Says U. Will Be Left Out in Cold With Germany and Tur- Lau it Paia Trootu Roiortorl lCJ II I viwv i i lyuij llVjUVIVUI (Contlnnrtl From Pan One) ing for the ! enthusiasm to subside. It vu some minutes before the presiding officer,' B. A. Parsons, president of the Chamber of Commerce, could get the at tention of the crowd to Introduce the president. 3 The hall was Jammed and there was a fine crowd all along the Youte that the procession fcjllowed from the station. Aa Chairman Parsons started to speak someone away back In the audience shouted : 1 "Mr. President, remember this is the home town ot Jim Reed." This sally brought a good laugh from the crowd, j ATJDIEirCE BISES TO CHEER , "When the president rose In his seat to speak the audience rose with him cheer ing and shouting for 47 seconds. "It la very inspiring to me to stand In the presence bt such an assembly of my fellow citizen," began the president. "It la my duty to report to you what the peace conference did. I came back from Parts bringing one of the greatest documents of j human history. . "This document brings out all the principles for which- America stands. America's principles were written into this treaty by common consent. Princi ples were written Into this treaty that never were written into another treaty before. In spirit and essence this treaty is an Anferican document. mBS WAR SUBSTITUTE "One of thai things that America has had most at heart has been to substitute for war discussions of peace. The ex tent and purpose of the document are 'expressed In the member states agreeing nor to go to war until they have either arbitrated or discussed their matters in controversy, j 'That is the central principle of some 80 treaties, all of which were confirmed by the senate, of the United States. We have these treaties with Great Britain, and many other sovereign nations." The president said this principle of arbitration Is a sovereign American prin ciple. Carried1 out as It is in the League of Nations covenant it will absolutely prevent war, the president Baid. He then outlined at length the manner In which any nation would be boycotted if It went to wrv ' ME ASS FEWER TAXES "The essence of the treaty is thrit its processes will be peaceful," the president continued. i "The most terrible thing that can hap pen to a nation is to be read out of de-1 ceTit society. No nation will attempt this when this treaty becomes effective. "Carrying out of the provisions of this treaty will mean disarmament. It means that burdensome taxation will disappear. Reject this treaty and you will build up a military class. "In dealing with some nations in Paris we found they were not willing 'to make promises unless they were approved by their general staff. We don't want any such thing in America. "You cannot create a military class without installing in it a desire to use its weapons, America has never . had that spirit. RAPS THE BOLSHEVIKI "There Is no other way to disperse with great armaments, but by com mon agreement among the nations of the world. That agreement is in this treaty, do not forget that. "America also wanted to end autoc racy. It promises to do so when we entered the war. This is accomplished by this treaty. "This war has emancipated the Ger man people as well as the rest of the world. We cannot allow autocracy to be restored. If we do then all that has been won must be fought for over . again. ""It does not make any difference what kind of a government governs you If it is a minority. We must see to it that no minority anywhere mas ters a majority I -mean In that con nection Russia, i The men now in con Because of the fact that President Wilson will make- only cne address in Oregon It Is apparent that only a small percentage of the citizens of the state who will want to hear him can be accom modated even in the largest available hall in the state. Accordingly, fairness compelled the selection of a lottery plan. The accompanying coupon. If properly filled out and mailed to the address indicated, "The Auditorium, Portland." will be represented in the drawing If the coupon is received before hooh Wed nesday. September 10. The drawing must be closed at this date in order to insure those citizens from the more re mote Oregon counties, whose names may be drawn, receipt of tictets by mall. 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Oregon. ; trol -of- Russian affairs i represent no one but themselves, They have, Men asked to consult the .people but they will not There are only U of these 'men' In control of Russian affairs. There were more than 4 in . control of WUhelmstraae in Berlin when the military power ruled In Gerr.-r-r. MORE CRUEL THAJT CZAB. "The group to Russia is more cruel than the czar was and more despotic "I also favor preventing minority government In the United States. We must see that little - groups of selfish men are unable- to plot the future of America. If there Is such a group In this country I will ght to -obliterate It "I am not saying that any group of our own are consciously doing this. But if there Is X want to tell you that I am with you In a finish fight to wipe out anything of that sort." This declaration brought out a great burst of applause. The- president then referred to the promise that had been made to safe guard weak nations and referred to the case of Armenia. PROTECTS RIGHTS OF WEAK "While we sit and debate this treaty." said the president, "this Christian peo ple ,is being exterminated. Great groups of these Armenians, men. women and, children, are-being driven out into the desert and killed and so imperfectly buried that here and there a dead hand Is extended above the grave stretched toward , heaven as though appealing for vengeance. "This great human document that I brought back from Paris will protect all weak nations. It will provide that the legitimate grievances of all weak nations will be brought before the bar of public opinion. This treaty protects all weak nations. Ton have not known how big this treaty was. You have not been told what a thorough American docu ment It was. It creates not the power of the' strong, but protects the right of the weak. It is one of the first charters of mankind. Yet there are men who ap proach this with the Jaundiced eyes of some private purpose of their own. These men will be glbbetted on public opinion and will regret that the gibbet is so high. I don't criticise men who honest ly oppose this treaty, even though they are lgnorantly opposed. I have no quar rel with them. It has been a- pleasure to confer with some of these men and try to tell them what the treaty does. FIGHTING SPIRIT AROUSED "I have a fighting "spirit in this mat ter. If any person tries to defeat this great document they must furnish a better scheme. I want these men who oppose this treaty to put up or shut up. Ignorant opposition is a Bolshevist spirit. I am not accusing: my opponents of being Bolshevists. I hope there will be no international Bolshevism growing up in this country. We do not want the spirit la one of bearing down, not of spirit is one of tearing down not of building up." The president then explained that Ger many and Turkey soon would be the only nations outside of the League of Nations. "Unless, he said, "we should xiecide not to go in, but to wait and laterenter withlGermany." This declaration was a signal for an other outburst of applause. The president called attention to the fact that the Philippine Islands have been promised their freedom and de clared the problem had been to guar antee' -their safety. "The League of Nations will make the Philippines . safe," he said. "They will become members of the league. "The American spirit in this treaty now dominates the world." The president then paid tribute to the work of the American army In France. "Europe saw that our boyB were not only men with arms. In thetr hands but also with. the spirit of freedom in their eyes," said the president. "The war was won by the American spirit. German orders picked upon the battlefield di rected commanders not to let Americans take any positions because they could never be dislodged. "The American army was trained to go only one way ahead ! The indif ference of the American soldier to dan ger changed and strengthened the morale of our allies. The man who tries to de feat the objects for what our men fought will have a life long reckoning with these soldiers." In concluding the president again em phasized that the treaty was certain of ratification. He said he had no fight with the senate. He is fighting for the "great cause of mankind," he declared and said he would fight that battle as long as he lived. His ancestors were troublesome Scotchmen, he said. Some of them were Covenanters and here I stand a Covenanter." PLEASED WITH RECEPTION President Wilson carried his fight to arouse public sentiment for ratification of the treaty of Versailles into the home city of Senator James Reed, the leading Democratic opponent of the document, today. Fresh from what he considered :i great triumph in St. Louis, the presi dent followed up his line of argument here that ratification of the treaty was essential .to the future welfare of the United States. The president and Mrs. Wilson rose early and breakfasted on their train. I bears to the capacity of The Auditorium For example, if there are 100,000 coupons received, of which 1000 are from Marlon county, one one-hundredth of the ad mission tickets, or 73, will be issued to Marlon county applicants. Readers of The Journal are cautioned as follows in regard to filling out this coupon : No person mast fill oat more than one coupon. A check of the coupons received will reveal duplication, In which event all of the coupons signed by tbat person will be eliminated. The coupons must be legibly pre pared. The conpons must be received at The Auditorinm, Portland, not later than noon, September 19. 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IS DES MOUSES TONIGHT Today the presidential party will leave for Des Moines where the president will speak tonight and remain over Sunday. Instructions were sent out that the president is to be allowed to spend Sunday his own way. It was his in tention to go -to church in the morning -and to take an automobile ride in the afternoon. The presidential train was halted for three-quarters of an hour in the early morning in order that the arrival in Kansas City could be made according to schedule. A small crowd of farm ers, and residents' of Independence gath ered and greeted the president, who shook hands with them. Some of the women wore "Mother Hubbard" house dresses and one of them in an apologetic manner Informed the president that "they would have dressed up" if they had known he was to stop. The pres ident told them that he was very glad indeed to see them "just as you are." One old man told the president that Independence formerly was the home of the noted bandit Jesse James. The women in the audience asked the president to bring Mrs. Wilson out on the, platform and when she appeared they cheered and applauded her. One woman who had a bouquet of roses handed them over the platform railing to Mrs. Wilson, who smiled and thanked her. TEXT OF SPEECH The text of President Wilson's ad dress follows: "Mr. Chairman, my fellow countrymen : "It Is very inspiring to me to stand in the presence of so great a company of my fellow citizens and have the priv ilege of performing the duty that I have come to perform. That duty Is to re ' port to my fellow citizens concerning the work of the peace conference, anH every day It seems to me to become more necessary to report, because so many people, who are talking about it, don't understand what it was. "I came back from Paris bringing one of the greatest documents of human history (applause). One of the things that made it great was that it was permeated throughout with the prin ciples to which America has devoted her life. Let me hasten to say that one of the most delightful circumstances of the work on the other side of the water was that I discovered that what we called American principles had pene trated to the hearts and to the under standing, not only of the great . peoples of Europe, but to the hearts and under standings of the great men who Were representing the peoples of Europe. PACT OF PRINCIPLES , "When these principles were written Into this treaty they were written there by common consent and common con viction, but it remains true, neverthe less, my fellow citizens, that principles are written into that treaty which were never written Into any great inter national understanding before and that they have their natural birth and ori gin in this dear country to which we have devoted our life and service. (Ap plause.) And if you will bear with me I will remind you of some of the things that we have long desired and which are at last accomplished in this treaty. I think that I can say that one 01 the things that America nas had most at heart throughout her ex istence has been that there should be substituted for the brutal processes Of war the friendly processes of consul tation hnd arbitration, (applause), ihd that is done in the covenant of the League of Nations. "I am very anxious that my fellow citizens should realize that this Is the chief topic of the covenant of the League of Nations. The greater part of its pro visions, the whole intent and purpose of the document are expressed In provis ions by which all the member states agree that they will never go to war without first having done one or other of two things, either submitted the mat ter in controversy to arbitration, in, which case they agree to abide by the verdict, or submitting it to discussion n the counsel of the League of Nations and for that ' purpose they consent to allow six months for the discussion and whether they like the opinion expressed or not, and I want to remind you that is the central principle of some 30 treaties entered Into between the United Statrn of America and some 30 other sovereign nations, all of which are con firmed by the senate of the United States (applause). GERMANY STOOD ALOOF "We have such an agreement -vith France, we have such an agreement with Great Britain, we have such an agreement with practically every great 1 nation except Germany, which refused to enter into such an agreement, be cause, my renow citizens, Lfermany knows that she intended something that didn't bear discussion and that if she ha? submitted the purpose which led to' this war to so much as one month's discussion, she never would have dared go into the enterprise against mankind. which she finally did go Injo, and therefore, I say this principle of dis cussion is the principle already adopted by America and what is the compulsion to do this? The compulsion is this: That if any member state violates that prom ise to submit either to arbitration or to discussion, it Is thereby ipso facto deemed to have committed an act of war against all the rest. Then, you will ask, do we at once take up arms and fight them? No. We do somethijisr very much more terrible than that. We absolutely boycott them (applause). It Is provided in that In strument that there . shall be no com munication even between them and the rest of the world. -They shall receive no goods : they shall ship no good ; they shall receive no telegraphic messages they shall send none : they shall receive no mall : no mail will be received from them. The nationals, the citizens of the member states, will never enter their territory until the matter is adjusted am' their citizens cannot leave their territory. The most complete boycott ever conceived in a public document. And I want to say to you with confi dent prediction that there will be no moro fighting after that (Applause.) STANDS FOR PEACE "Gentlemen talk to you as If the most probable outcome of this great combi nation of all the fighting people of the world, was going to be fighting, where as, as a matter of fact, the essence of the document is to the effect that the processes shall be peaceful, and peaceful processes are more deadly than the processes of war. Let any merchant put up to himself that. If he enters into a covenant and then breaks it and. the people all around absolutely desert his establishment and will have nothing to do with, him, ask him after that if it will be necessary to send the police. The most' terrible thing that can happen to an Individual and the most conclu sive thing that can happen to a nation Is to be read out of decent society, (Ap plause). . ' There was another thing that we needed to -; accomplish : that is accom plished in this document We waht dis armament and ; thla document provides the ontjf possible way for disarmament by common agreement ' Observe, my fellow citizens, that just " now every great fighting' nation in the world is a member of this partnership except Ger many, and inasmuch as Germany has accepted a limitation of -, ber army to 100,000 men I don't think for the time being she may be regarded as a great fighting nation. Here in the center of Europe, a great nation of more than 60, 000,000, that has agreed not to main tain an army of more than 100,000 men, and ail around her the rest of the world in concert to see that no other nation assumes what she attempted and agree ing among themselves that they will not impose this limitation of armament upon Germany merely, but that they will im pose it upon themselves. MILITARY RULE OPPOSED "And you kiSow. my fellow citizens, that armaments mean great standing armies and great store of war material. They do not mean burdensome taxation merely ; they do not mean merely com pulsory military service, which saps the economic strength of a nation, but they mee.n the building up of a military class. Again and again, my fellow citizens, in the conference at Paris, ' we were face to face with this situation: That in dealing with a particular civil govern-! ment we found that they would not dare to promise that their general staff was not willing that they should prom Ifc; and that they were dominated by the military machine which they had created nominally for their own. defense, but really whether they willed it or not, for th provocation of war. "And so. as long as you have a mil itary class; it does not make any dif ference what your form of government is. If you are determined to be armed to the teeth, you must obey the orders and directions of the only men who can control the great machinery of war. Elections 'are of minor Importance be cause they determine the political policy; and back of that policy is the standing pressure of the men trained to arms, enormous bodies of disciplined men behind them, unlimited supplies of military stores, and wondering if they are never going to be allowed to use their education and their skill and ravage some great people with the force of arms. MEANS DISARMAMENT "That is the meaning of armaments. It is not merely the cost of it, although that is overwhelming, but it is the spirit of it and America has never had, and I hope In the providence of God never will have that spirit (Great applause). "And there 'is no other way to dis pense with great armaments except by the common agreement of the fighting rations of the world. And here is the agreement. They promise disarmament, and promise to agree upon a plan. But there was something else we wanted, that is accomplished by this treaty. We wanted to destroy autocratic authority everywhere in the world. We wanted to see to it that there was no place In the world where a small group of men could use their fellow citizens as pawns in a game ; that there was no place in the world where a small grou pof men, without consulting their fellow citizens. could send their fellow citizens to the battlefield, and to deal in accomplishing something dynastic, some political plan that had been conceived in private, some object that had been prepared for by universal, world wide Intrigue. That is what we wanted to accomplish. "The most startling thing that devel oped Itself at the opening of our partici pation in this war was not the military preparation of Germany we were fa miliar with that though we had been dreaming that she would not use It but her political preparation. To find that every community in the civilized world was penetrated by her intrigue. The German people did not know that, but it was known in Wilhelmstrasse, where the central offices of the German government were, and Wilhelmstrasse was the master of the German people ; and this, war, my fellow citizens, has emancipated the German people, as well aa the rest of the world. CRITICIZES BOLSHEVIKI "We don't want to see anything like that done again, because we know that democracy will only have to destroy that form of government ; and if we don't destroy it now, the job is still to be done, and by a combination of all the great fighting peoples of the world to see to it that the aggressive purpose of such government cannot be realized, to make it no longer worth while for little groups of men to con trive the downfall of civilization In private conference. "But I want to say something about that. That has a different aspect and perhaps you will regard it as a slight digression ffrom the discussion which I am asking you to be patient enough to follow. "My fellow citizens, it does not make any difference what kind of a minor ity governs you, if It is a minority. And the thing we must see to Is that no minority anywhere masters the ma inritv. That is at the heart, my fel- lcw citizens, of the tragical things that ... haDnenine in that great country which weTonl to help ana can find no way that Is effective to help 1 mean the great realm of Russia. "The. mert who are now measureably In control of theffairs of Russia repre sent nobody but themselves. They have again and again been challenged to call a constitutional convention. They have again and again been challenged to prove that they had some kind of a man date even from a single class of their fellow citizens. And they dared not at tempt It ; they have no mandate from anybody. There are only 34 of them, I am told, and there were more than 34 men who used to control the destinies of Europe from Wilhelmstrasse. OPPOSES MINORITY RULE "There is a closer monopoly of power in Petrograd and Moscow than there ever was in Berlin, and the thing that is intolerable is not that the Rusian people are having their 'way, but that another group of men, more cruel than the czar himself, is controlling the destinies of that great people. And I want to say here and now that I am against the con trol of any minority anywhere. Search your own economic history and what have you been uneasy about? Now and again you have said there were small groups of capitalists who were controll ing the industry, and therefore the de velopment of the United States. Seri ously, my fellow citizens, if that is . so (and sometimes I have feared that it was) we must break up that monopoly. I am not now saying that there is any group of our fellow citizens who are consciously doing anything of the kind. I am saying that these allegations must be proved. But if it is proved that any class, any '. group, anywhere is without the suffrage of their fellow citizens in control of our affairs, then I am with you to destroy the .power of that group. MUST HAVE UNDERSTANDING "We have, got to be frank with our selves, however. If we do not allow minority government in Germany, we must see to it that we do not have it in the United States. If you do not want little groups of selfish ' men to plot the future of Europe, we must not allow lit tle groups of selfish .men to "plot the - . s L - , imm r v r RemedV Jor Granulated ZVe Red,Ye,Va(eryEyes ilidS future of America. Any man that speaks for : a class must prove that he also speaks for all his fellow citizens and for mankind ; and then ,'wa will listen to him. I The most difficult thing in a de mocracy, my fellow Citizens. Js to get classes, where they -unfortunately exist to understand one another and unite ; and yet you have not got a great democracy until the do understand one another and uniu). So that if we are in ' for seeing that there are no more cxaxs and no more kaisers, then let us do a thorough job and see that nothing of that sort occurs anywhere. "Then there was another thing we wanted to do, my fellow citizens, that is done in this document We wanted to see thai helpless people were nowhere in the world put at the mercy of un scrupulous enemies and masters. MORAL RESPONSIBILITY BIG "There Is one pitiful example which is in the hearts of all of us. I mean the example of Armenia. There are Chris tian people, helpless at the mercy of a Turkish government which thought it in aervice of God to destroy them, and at this moment my fellow citizens, it is an open question whether the Armen ian people will not : while we sit nere and debate, be absolutely destroyed. When I think of words piled on words, of debate following debate, when these unspeakable things that cannot be handled until the debate is over are happening in those pitiful parts of the world. I wonder that men do not wake np to the moral responsibility of what they are doing. "Great peoples are driven out upon a desert, where there is no food and can be none, and they are compelled to die and then men, women and children thrown into a common grave, so imperfectly covered up that here and there is a pitiful arm stretched out to heaven ; and there Is no pity in the world. When shall be wake to the moral responsibility of this great occasion? VOICE GIYEN TO ALL "And so, my fellow citizens, there, are ether aspects to that matter. ' -vnt- oit thA nomilations that are hav ing something that is not a square deal live in Armenia. Tnere are omer. auu one of the glories of the great document which I brought back with me is this: That everywhere within the area of set tlement covered by the political ques tions Involved in that treaty, people of that sort have been given their" freedom, and guaranteed their freedom. But the thing does not end there, because the treaty includes the covenant of the League of Nations. And what does that say? That says that it is the privilege of any member - state to call attention to anything anywhere tbat is likely to disturb the peace of the world, or the good understanding between nations, upon which the peace of the world de pends, and every people of the world that have not got what they think they ought to have is thereby given a world forum in which to bring the thing to the bar of mankind. WONDERFUL DOCUMENT "An incomparable thing, a thing that never was dreamed of before, a thing that was never conceived possible, that it should not be regarded as an un friendly act on the part of representa tives of one nation to call attention to something being done within the con fine of another empire, which was dis turbing the peace of the world and- the arood understanding between nations. There never before has been provided a world forum in which the legitimate grievances of peoples entitled to consid eration can be brought to the common judgment of mankind. "And if 1 were the advocate of any oppressed people I surely could not ask any better forum than to stand up be fore the world and challenge the other party to make good its excuse for not actins in that case. That compulsion is the most tremendous moral compul sion that could be devised by organized mankind. I think I can take it for granted, my fellow citizens, that you never realized before what a Bcope this great treaty has. You' have been asked to look at so many little spots in It- with a magnifying glass that you did not know how big It was, what a great en terprise of the human spirit it is and what a thoroughly American document it is from cover to cover. It is the first great international agreement in the history of mankind where the prin ciple adopted has been not the power of the strong, but the right of the weak. PASSION IN OPPONENTS "To reject that treaty, to alter that treaty is to impair one of tha first char ters of mankind. And yet there are men who approach the question with passion, with private passion and party passion, who think only of some immediate ad vantage to themselves or to a group of their fellow countrymen, and who look at the thing with the jaundiced eyes of those who have some private purpose of their own. "When at last, in the annals of man kind, they are gibbeted they will regret that the gibbet is so high. "I would not haVe you think that I am trying to criticize those who ivuuai;rcuiiuo., 4 ..----.- 1 this great document I take off my ine conscience; and there are men wno j are conscientiously opposed to it, though they will pardon me if I say ignorantly opposed I have no quarrel with them. It has been a pleasure to confer with some of them, and to tell them as frankly as I would have told my most intimate friend, the whole Inside of my mind, and every ' other mind that I know anything about that has been concerned with the conduct of affairs at Paris in order that they might understand, this thing and go with the rest of us in the confirmation of what is necessary for the peace of the world. Opposition constructs noth ing. Opposition is the specialty of those who are Bolshevistlcally in clined. "Again I assure you I am not compar ing any of my respected colleagues to Eolshevists ; but I am merely pointing out that the Bolshevistic spirit lacks every element of constructive opposition. They have destroyed everything and they have proposed nothing. "And while there is a common abhor rence for political Bolshevism, I hope there will not be any such thing grow up in our country as international Bol shevism, the Bolshevism that destroys the constructive work of men who have conscientiously striven to cement the good feeling of the great peoples of the world. And the majestic thing about the League-of Nations is that it is to in clude the great peoples of the world all except Germany. Germany Is one of the great peoples of the world. I would be ashamed not to say that ' "Those 60,000,000 industrious, inven tive and accomplished people are one of the great peoples cf the world. They have been set upon, they have been mis led ; their minds have been debased by a false philosophy. They have been taught things that the human spirit ought to reject But they will come out of that nightmare : they will come out of that fantasm, and they will again be a great people ; and when they are out of It when they have got over that dream of conquest and oppression, when they have shown that their new government really IS based npon new principles and upon democratic principles, we, there at Paris, all agreed that they should be admitted to the League of Nations. ALONE WITH GERMANY "In the meantime, her one-time part ner, Austria, Is to be admitted : Hungary, I dare say, will be admitted : and the only nations outside of the league un less we chose to stay out and go in later with Germany the only great nation left vat - is Germany; tha only na tlons left cut, of any' consequence, ra Germany and Turkey, and we are Just now looking for tha pieces; of Turkey. She la so thoroughly disintegrated that the process of assembling the parts is becoming increasingly difficult and the chief controversy; w la who shall at tempt that very difficult and perilous Job. , "la It not a great vision, my fellow MMuna thla At th thnn erhtf ill world combined for peace and this of all the h great peoples of the woria asaociaiea to see that, justice is done, that the strong, who intend wrong are restrained, and that the weak who cannot defend them selves arec made secure f We have a problem ahead of us that ought to in terest us in this connection. "We have promised the people of the Philippine island that we will set them free. It has been one of our perplexities how we shouhimake them safe Vfter we set them free. Under this arrangement they will be safe from the outset They will become members of the League of Nations, and every great nation in the world will be obliged to respect and "pre serve, against external aggression from any quarter, the territorial integrity and political independence of the Philippines. It simplified one of the most perplextng problems that has faced the American republic . AMERICAN SPIRIT WINS "But it. does not simplify our prob lems, merely, gentlemen. It illustrates the triumph of the American spirit I do no, want to attempt any flight of fancy, but I can fancy those men of the first generation of Washington, Hamil ton, Jeff rson and the Adamses, I can fancy them looking on with a sort of enraptured amazement that the Ameri can spirit should have made conquest of the world. "I wish vou could have seen the faces of some of the people that talked to us ovef there about the arrival of the American troops. At first they did not know that we were going to be able to send so many, but they caught some thinr from the first groups that chanced the whole aspect of the war, One of the most influential ladles in Paris, the wife of a member of the cabinet told us that on the Fourth of July, last year, she and others had at tended the ceremonies with very sad hearts and merely out of courtesy to the United States, because they did not believe the aid of the United States was srolnir to be effective. 'But' she said, 'after we had been there and had seen the faces of those men in khaki and seen the spirit of their swing and attitude and seen the vision that was in their eyes, we came away knowing that victory was in sight" ALWAYS FORWARD "What Europe saw in our boys wasn't merely men under arms, indomitable men under arms, but men withan ideal in their eyes; men who had come a long way from home to defend other peoplb's homes, who had forgotten the convenience of everything that person ally affected them and that turned them away from the longing love of the peo-' pie who are dear to them, who came across the bread sea to rescue the na tions of the world from an intolerable oppression. "I tell you. my fellow citizens, the war was won by the American spirit Orders were found were picked up on the battle field German orders, direct ing tho commanders not to let the Amer icans get hold of a particular position because you never could get them out again, and you know that one of our American wits said that it took only half as long to train an American army as any other because you only had to train them to go one way, and it is true that they never thought of going any other way. And when they were re strained because they were told it was prematura or dangerous, they were, im patient They said, "We didn't come over here to wait ; we came over here to fight' And their very audacity, their very indifference to danger, changed the morale of the battle field. They wouldn't fight prudently. They were going to get there, and America, in this treaty, has realised, my fellow country men, what those gallant boys we are so proud of, fought for. The men who make this Impossible or difficult will have a life-long reckoning with the fighting forces of the United States. I have consorted with those boys, I have been proud to call myself their com mander In chief. I didn't run the busi ness. They didn't need anybody to run it All I had to do was to turn them loose. FIGHTING FOR A CAUSE "And now for a final word, my fellow citizens. If anything that I have said has left the impression on your mind that 1 have the least doubt of the re sult, please dismiss the Impression. And if you think I have come out on this errand to fight anybody, please dismiss that from your mind. I have not come to fight or antagonize any individual or body of individuals. I have, let me .say without the slightest affectation, the greatest respect for the senate of the United States, bit my fellow citizens, I have come out to fight for a cause. That cause is greater than the senate ; it ts greater than the government It Is as great as the cause of mankind, and I intend, in office or out to fight that battle aa long as I live. My ancestors were troublesome Scotchmen, and among them were some of that famous group that were known as the Covenanters. Very welL Here Is the covenant of the League of Nations. I am a covenanter." Will Sell Tickets For Legion Banquet Tickets entitling American Legion members to attend a banquet . at the Multnomah hotel in honor of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., September IT, will soon be sold by J. D. Hoban. assistant secretary and treasurer of Portland post' Plan ning for the forthcoming state conven tion, September 17-18, several Legion of ficers met Friday night in the chamber of commerce. They announced Rose velt would speak also at The Audi torium. An inventor has combined a medicine bottle and dropper, the outlet being on one side and a rubber bulb covering the top. COCKROACHES EASILY KILLED TODAY WusiNtt STEARNS' ELECTRIC PASTE Aba SURE DEATH t WATER BUGS, RATS end K1CE fUmijtcVm. TwwsfaMe, SSed$lJ0. ORDK ntOH YOU DtALE ' OPPONENTS WILL MAKE TOUR FOR FIGHT DN TREATY "Battalion of Death" Will Fol low Trail of President While Reserve Groups Plan Campaign JOHNSON TO BE HEADLINER His Itinerary o Include Indian apolis, St. Louis and Kansas City; Thence Through West. By Ij. C. Martin Washington, Sept. 6. (U. P.) With senatorial opponents of the treaty and League of Nations plan ning a tour over the ground now be ing covered by the president, leaders of the various senate factions today were "counting noses" in an effort to determine their voting strength. A leading Democratic senator today declared that 20 Democrats will vote for reservations to the treaty while 27 Will vote for unqualified ratification. This prediction, it was made plain, was based pn the assumption that there will be no more changes of position. TRTIWO FOR COMPROMISE Meanwhile the "mild reservationlsts" and the1 Lodge group were trying to compromise their differences over the wording of the reservation in article 10 of the league covenant, which is now the real issue among those favoring res ervations. Senator Lodge's proposal, adopted by the foreign relations committee, is for a- reservation which assumes that the United States will stay out of foreign wars .over territorial Invasions and the like, except on the most extreme provo cations. Senator McCumber's plan of represent ing the views of "mild reservatlonists" assumes that the United States will be willing to get into such wars if a plain case of unlawful aggression can be made Out FREE TO DECIDE Both proposals leave the United States free to decide through congress when it will go In and to what extent On the other reservations-withdrawal, domestic questions and the Monroe I ' v y " " "', I LAST STARTING TIMES SUNDAY TODAY The most popular y a j of all screen I H sP actresses in a 1 " noted THIRD Euffeni Walter (j iiao SIX DAYS!; fcl. 1st- m I Si "W K8 U f ' III I ii I lSJ p I WWW I 11 11111 ur ... r , 113 1111 1 1 tU) r 1 tr si - - - ' doctrine there -was today ho ' essential disagreement between the Lodge and "mild" groups. Senators McNary, Mo Cumber, Colt and others said they find these three acceptable in the main, ' The 'Jbattallon of death." as the treaty Irreconcilable are known, plana to use, the time which, the two reservations groups will consume in composing their differences, in trailing the president. - Several times such a tour has been tentatively decided upon, only to, b sbandoned. Now it is definitely an nounced that Senators Borah, Johnson and McCormick will launch it next Wed nesday at Chicago, continuing through the middle west and west. TRIO WILL OPPOSE Johnson is to be the headltner with others making short individual trips within reasonable reach of Washington. Following the' Chicago meeting at which Johnson. Borah and McCormick will speak, the three will septate and John son will probably Mart lengthy tour.1 Johnson's arrancemita already de cided upon Include Indianapolis Septem ber 11, St LouisSHCember 12. and Kansas City September 1 Johnson, who in addition being one of the biggest league foel is looked upon as a possible Republican presi dential nominee, will thus be following directly the route 01 President Wilson, After the Kansas City speeeh, John son will probably proceed westward, but other definite dates are yet to 1 be an nounced. . ,:-. '.. Other senators will not stray so far away from Washington. Senator Reed will speak at Akron, Ohio, and 'Senator Wadsworth will speak two days later a Salem, N. T. Stolen Goods -found By Police in Search, Of Glues to Robbery Conducting an Investigation of the re cent . attempted robbery of the Monta vil'a bank. Inspectors N'iles and Tacka- berry atyldejitally discovered In the possession of George Davis., a miner, at 1337 Oreely street, a quantity of alleged stolen property Friday. , Davis was arrested on a charge Of burglary and brought to the police Sta tion. Shortly afterwards the property, Including a storage battery, a spotlight, a kit of automobile tools and other ac cessories, were Identified by T. A. Haf faker. an electrician at The A'udltorlum, who stated that they had been stolen from his rooms at Kl Alnsworth street Thursday night. Inspector Tackaberry said that he did not think it probable Oavl3 was connected with the Monta villa affair. Weather Forecast Washington, Sept. 6. (I. N. S.) The weather bureau today Issued the Tollow ir.ff forecast for the week beginning September fl : Pacific state, fair, south ; occasional showers, north portion. Nearly normal temperatures. i