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FOES OF LEAGUE DEFIED TO GIVE BEITFJDOC1ENT Wilson Charges That Opponents Are Wholly Destructive With 'out Single Constructive Idea. THRONG SHOUTS' APPROVAL President of General Federation -of Women's Clubs Introduces President in Stirring Speech. Lob Angeles, Cal., Sept. 20. (U. P.) President Wilson ia ready to "take ehlp now" and go to the peace conference In Paris with any propo sition advanced by opponents of the League of Ration which is better than the league, he declared at a public dinner here tonight. In the present condition of wprld affairs, he said, no constructive idea for betterment should be opposed unless the opposition has a better constructive idea. After this speech. Wilson went to Shrine auditorium for another ad dress. OBLIHOX FOE SOME The world will be absolutely in de spair if America deserts it, the presi dent said. But he voiced confil-nce that the people of America really favored the treaty, and "the job is to get that into the minds of gentlemen who do not un derstand the situation." He predicted oblivion for those who serve only their own interests. "Now we must infect these men with the spirit of the country," he said. When Washington warned agaiilst en tangling alliances. Wilson argued, he had in mind the very condition, of bal ance of power, etc., into which he charged league opponents were seeking to lead America. The league, he said, was really a disentanglement. THOUSANDS CHEER A crowd estimated by police at 6000 and by others as high as 7000 filled the auditorium. The president was rleafen Ingiy cheered as he entered. Others, thronging the streets outside, also cheered him. The place looked like a sea of wav ing flags. Sinking of the "Star Spangled Banner" finally ended the applause, but It broke out again at the end of the anthem. ' Mrs. Joeiali Evans Cowles. president of the general Federation of Womens' Clubs, introduced Wilson. She said : "We are Americans, assembled this evening to honor the chief executive of our nation and to hear him expound a great document, fundamental in concep tion, scope 'and purpose. SO PLfcE FOR PARTISAN "The political partisan has no place In these deliberations. All right think ing, red-blooded patriots should see to it that such partisanship is relegated to oblivlol). "As a people we face the most in exorable of tribunals, posterity. "We must accept the challenge of to day, not with vision bound, but with vision prophetic. "The League of Nations must and will become the bulwark, of a war weary world for all time. "It is my privilege, and I deem it the greatest honor of my life, to present to you the president of the United States, the Honorable Woodrow Wilson." OPPOSITION UK REASON ABLE . At the dinner speech Wilson also said that much of the argument against the League of Nations Is not based upon reason. The league he called a "great con structive idea" and asserted that in the present condition of world affairs, no 3 &n has a rlghUto oppose a constructive lan, unless he hifs a better one. no inargcu ineii uppomuun 10 me treaty is most 'popular in those sections of the country where pro-Oermanism was strongest during the war. Germany would be the only nation to profit if the United States should refuse 'Tone Arm ive cockbcc pressure ar t-enrnriutor nn Victor Columbia records .The. link Ptinnndranlt I . .l:l i ii . r tni-iun pmyja an tn re ar records untn cnB Correct, pressure. Gives belter bona end saves wear on record. TONE ARM Nearly four times as heavy. Built of Bell Metal. Plays all records with correct pressure. I RESULT ' . More volume, j Full round tone. No throaty nasal tones. -No sharp tinny rasping notes. Less surface noise. The only Phonograph built like a piano or violin. WAKEFIELD MUSIC CO. iar. WASHINGTON STREET, PORTLAND, OREGON to accept the treaty, thus Isolating it self, the president said. PEOPLE'S PEACE DEMANDED Objections made by league opponents have so beclouded the issue that many people io hot know wbat is in the treaty, Wilson asserted. "This was a people's war and this treaty establishes a people's peace," he declared. The statesmen at the con ference, said the president, were the spokesmen of their people and he was rthe mouthpiece of the American people without regard to political divisions. Article X of the covenant, Wilson re ferred to as "the Monroe doctrine ap plied to the world." The present universal unrest in the world will not end, he argued, until settled conditions are reestablished through the treaty. SHAME ON THEST, SATS CROWD There were cries of "Shame on them," when Wilson, speaking at the audi torium! criticized opponents of tha treaty. He expressed "amasement" at their attitude. Yells of "God bless you. Woodrow Wilson," and "California is with you" punctuated the speech. Without the treaty, he warned, the world would sink into despondency. COVENANT 18 EXPLAINED The peoples of the world are tired of and done with governments that exploit their people, Wilson said, and they de. mand the advantages, which he de clared were contained in the treaty. The president went into a detailed explanation of the clauses In the league covenant intended to prevent war, em phasizing the nine months' discussion feature., and the boycott against nations which break the rules of the covenant. The boycott 'Is more effective, he said, than war. The league promises mothers, wives and sweethearts of men who would have to fight at least 98 per cent, Insurance against war, said Wilson. It also bans autocratic governments like the late German government "from respectable society,." He took up, one by one, the argu ments against the treaty, saying he wanted to contrast "some things that have been said with the facts." SHAFT AT JOHNSON A shout of "Where would Hiram John son go?" came from the gallery when Wilson said: "If you have a friend whom you suspect of being a fool encourage him to hire a hall." Some arguments are like "Noxious gases" which are dissipated if exposed to the air, he said. "Go get "em," shouted a man in the audience. Others yelled. "That's a good one." and there were other cries. The facts In the dispute over the treaty are "soing to get" some of its op ponents "and make a very comfortable meal of them," the president predicted. He explained the Shantung settle ment, pointing out that the province was being taken from Germany not from China, and that when Germany took it from China the United States did not protest Other nations enjoy Chinese concessions similar to Japan's in Shantung, he said. FACTS ABOUT KHANTUNG Those who nake the Shantung argu ment against the treaty are interested, not in China, but in defeating the treaty, Wilson declared, and the resultant ap plause lasted nearly a minute. He de manded whether his opponents wanted to go to war against Japan. France and Great Britain to oust Japan from Shan tung. China can be rendered assistance only through the covenant of the league, he argued. There was a long cheer when he called attention to Japan's pledge to give up all rights in Shantung except those of eoonomio concessionaires. Many nations, he $aid, had exceeded their rights in China. "Those are the facts about Shantung." he said. "Doesn't it look a little dif ferent T' "Yes," and "You bet," yelled the crowd. I ON EQUAL FOOTING Taking up tho charge that Britain can outvote the United States in the league, the president sa'd be would dis cuss another thing which was causing 'tome gentlemen pangs pangs of jeal cusy, perhaps." He explained that the United States and Britain each had but one vote In the league council, and that the league assembly, in which Brit ain has six votes, is merely a debating body. This was applauded. The talk about Britain's six votes Is "nonsense," he said. Wilson asked if "great com munities like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa should be denied votes. There were shouts of "No." Those who fear the treaty will bring the country into too close association with other nations advocate a policy of isolation," the president charged PHONOGRAPHS - N'lLh the weight ai.r.rj . i "i i 'n 2 -rY' DIFFERENT TEXT OF WILSON'S LOS ANGELES SPEECH Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. Cal.. Sept. 20. (U. P.) The text of President Wilson's address here to night follows in -part: "Mr. Mayor. Mrs. Cowles, My Fellow Citisens and Countrymen: "I esteem it a great privilege to stand before this great audience and I es teem it one of the roost interesting occasions that I have had to expound a theme so great that I am almost afraid that I am inadequate to Its ex position. I esteem it privilege to be in the presence that I find myself in on the stage this committee of gentle men, representing the nations with whom we have been associated in the war; these men who saved the union and these men who eavedthe world. "And 1 feel that there is a certain sense in which I am rendering my ac count to the soldiers and sailors whose commander in chief I have been, for I sent them across the sea believing that their errand was not only to defeat Germany but also to redeem the world from the danger to which Germany had exposed it, to make the world a place in which arbitration, discussion, the processes of peace and the pro cesses of justice which should stand in place of the brutal processes of war. "And I came back from the other side proud that I was bringing with me a document which contained a great con structive plan to accomplish that very thing. It is a matter of unaffected amazement on my part, my fellow citi zens, that there should be men in high station to oppose its adoption. It is a matter of amazement that they should devote their .scrutiny to certain details and forget the majesty of the plan; that they should actually have made it necessary that I should go through the country telling the people of the United States what is in the treaty of peace, for they have not told you. They have given you no conception of its scope. They have not expounded its subject. They have not told you how it is to accomplish its purposes. They have not shown you how in its" heart lies the liberation of nations. They have not shown you that in it is the redemption of our promise that we were fighting for the right of the weak and not foe the power of the strong. PROMISES ARE REDEEMED "These promises are redeemed in that great document. These hopes are real ized, and the only buttress for that great structure ia the League of Na tions. "If that should fail, there Is no guar antee that any part of the settlement will stand. If that should fall nations will once more sink back into that slough of despond in which they for merly struggled, suspecting one another, rivaling one 'another in preparation of war, looting against the weak in order to supplement the power of the strong. "And they would do more than that, because mankind is now aware that the rights of the greater portion of man kind have been safeguarded and re garded. "Don't for a moment suppose .that the universal unrest of the world at the pj-esent time, my fellow citizens, is due te any wisdom, to any newly discovered ambition ; it is due to the fact the sad, the tragic fact, that great bodies of men have been, throughout the age. denied their rights and the rights of humanity. "The peoples of the world are tired of and done with governments that ex ploit their peoples. They are determined to have, by ones process or another, that concerted order of conciliation and de bate and conference which is set up in that great document which we know as the covenant of the League of Nations, for the heart of that document is not .Article X or the right to withdraw, or any other thing you have been talking rbout the heart of that document is that every great fighting nation in the world fi-r Germany ai present is not a great fighting natlon-very great fighting nation in the world solemnly agrees that it will never resort to war without first having done one or the other of two things, either submitted the matter in dispute to arbitration, in which case it agrees to abide by the ver dict ; or If it does not choose to submit it to arbitration, submit it to the ex amination and discussion of the council of the League of Nations, before whom it promises to lay all the documents, to whom it promises to disclose all the pertinent facts, by- whom it agrees all the documents and facts shall be pub- WHY CREMONA TONE IS BETTER Sound chamber like a Grand Piano. Built of heavy spruce which gives resonance. Connected to sound producing part same as piano. iiv il fil -Mi. 1 1 lished and laid before the opinion of the world. PE3TALTT IS AUTOMATIC "And If any of them disregards that promise and refuses to submit the ques tion ia dispute either to arbitration or discussion, or goes to war within less than nine months, then there is an au tomatic penalty that is applied, more effective, I beg leave to say, than war itself, namely, the application of an ab solute boycott. The nation that disre gards that, we agree, shall be isolated, shall be denied the right to ship out goods or ship them in, to exchange tele graph messages, or messages by mail ; to have any dealings of any kind with the citizens "of the members of the league. WHY GERMA3TT WAITS "Autocratic governments are excluded henceforth from respectable society. It Is provided in the covenant of the League of Nations that only self-governing peo ple shall be admitted to its member ship. And the reason that Germany is, for the time being, excluded is that we want to wait and see whether she really has changed permanently her form of constitution. If she has changed her mind in reality, if her people have taken charge of their own affairs, and will prove It to us, they are entitled to come Into respectable society and Join the League of Nations. Until then they are on probatipn. And you see the way some of them talk you would think-the probation had to be rather long because they don't seem to have repented of their essential purposes. "There is a very complex question as to the cession of the rights which Germany formerly enjoyed in the Shan tung province in China, and which the treaty transfers to Japan. The only way in which to clear this matter up ts to know what lies back of It. Let me recall some circumstances which probably most of you have forgotten. I will go back to the year 1898, for It was in March of that year that Hhe cessions which 'formerly belonged to Germany were transferred to her by the government of China. "It had happened that two German missionaries had been murdered. The central government of Peking had done everything In its power to quiet the local disturbance and to allay the local prejudice against foreigners which led to the murders, and had been unable to do so, and the German government held them responsible nevertheless, for the murder of the missionaries. WAS HYPOCRITICAL EXCUSE "But it was not the missionaries that the German government was interested in. That was a pretext. Oh, my fellow citizens, how often have we made Chris tianity an excuse for wrong. How often. How often, in attempting to pro tect what was sacred, have we done what was tragically wrong! "And that was what Germany did. She insisted that because this thing had happened, for which the Peking government could not really with Justice be held responsible, a large, and im portant part of one of the richest prov inces in China should be ceded to them for sovereign control for a period of 99 years. Not only that, but they should have the right to penetrate the prov ince, with a railway, and have the right to exploit any ores that lay within 30 miles on either side of the railway, and all this for 99 years. "And they forced the Peking gov ernment to say that they did it In grati tude to the German government for cer tain services which she was supposed to have rendered, but never did render. That was the beginning. "I don't know whether any of the gentlemen who are criticizing the pres ent Shantung settlement were In public affairs at that time or not, but I will tell you what happened, so far as this government was concerned. One of the most enlightened of our presidents was the head of the government at that time, William McKlnley, a- man who loved his fellow man and believed in jus tice. Associated with him was' one of our greatest statesmen, John Hay. "The state of international law was such At that time that they did not feel at liberty to make even a protest against these cessions to Germany. Neither did they make any protest when immediate ly following that, similar concessions were made to Russia, to Great Britain and to France. El SSI A GIVEN BIGHTS "It was almost Immediately after that that China granted to Russia the right of the possession and control of Fort Arthur, and a part of the region of Talio Alo Wahn. Then England, al Uiough she had similar rights elsewhere in China, got a similar concession, and then France Insisted that she must have a port, and got it for 99 years. And not against one ef those did the government of the United States make any protest whatever. They only insisted that the door ehould not be shut In any of those legions against the trade of the United States. "You have heard of Mr. Hay's policy of the open door. Not The open door to the rights of China, but the door to the goods of America. I am not criticising this, because it is one oT the covenants of the League of Nations that it is an unfriendly act for a government to in terfere In the affairs of another unless its own interests are immediately con cerned, and the only thing Mr. Hay or Mr. McKinley was at liberty to do was to call attention to the fact that the trade of the United States might be un favorably affected, and insist that under no .circumstances should this be dona, a promise which was more or less kept. "jrouowing tnai came the war between Russia and Japan. At the close of that war Japan got Port Arthur and the rights which Russia enjoyed in China, just as she is now getting Shantung and the rights which our recently de feated enemy had in China. An exactly similar operation. That peace that gave her Fort Arthur was concluded, as you know, on the territory of the United States, at Portsmouth, N. H. "Nobody directed a protest against that. Japan had beaten Russia. Port Arthur did net at that time belong to China. It belonged for the period of the 4ease to Russia, and Japan was ceded what Japan had taken by the well recognised processes of war. "At the opening of this war, Japan took Kiao Chau, ard 'supplanted Ger many in the Shantung province. Vow, all the processes were repeated, bat re peated with a new sanction. bltlTAIH AH FRAKCE BOUJTD "In the meantime, after this present war began. England and France, suc cessively, feeling that it was essential that they should have the assistance of Japan on the Pacific, agreed that if Japan would go into the war and take whatever Uermany had in the I'aclnc, she should retain everything north of the equator which had belonged to Ger many, And that treaty now stands. That treaty absolutely binds Great Brit ain and France. Great Britain and France cannot any longer, having of fered Japan this inducement to enter the war and to continue her operations, consent to an elimination of The Shan rung provision -irsm the present treaty. "Let us pnttthese' gjentlemen - to the test who are epJecuox t the-. Shantung CEMENT COMPANY FIRES ITS OPENING IN- RATE HEARING Testimony Designed to Show Portland Concern Handicapped, in Present Freight Schedules. OTHERS ARE INTERYENORS Portland Chamber of Commerce Joins in the Fight for a ' Reduction in Rates. Denied the fruits of business, even in its immediate trade territory, the Oregon Portland Cement company of Portland fired its opening un Saturday afternoon before Examiner Ulysses G. Butler of the Interstate Commerce commission, in an effort to bring freight rates on cement shipments to a basis comparable with those enjoyed by California and Washington cement mills. As interveners with the Portland com pany appeared the Portland Chamber of Commerce, the state public service commission and the Portland Traffic and Transportation association, while the claims made by the company are opposed by the railroad administration, representing all western roads, and the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. After making an Interesting showing I a.iiv" cm utsi-repancies in rate struc tures governing shipments from Oswego as compared with other sources of ce ment shipments, and showing what was declared to be apparent discrimination against the Portland concern, the hear ing rested late Saturday afternoon, to be resumed Monday. John H. Lothrop. rate expert of the traffic and trans portation association, was the first, and only witness called by the Interveners Saturdav. Ha wan rlniwlv nitMiinrAl to bis exhibits, which showed glaring ! inequalities in rate structures, by C. W. McCulloch, who is presenting to Examiner Butler the claim of the Port land company. Monday officers of the cement com pany, including George MacDonald, sec retary and treasurer, and C. T. W. Hol Iister, will be called to testify. The witnesses are prepared to submit testi mony showing the peculiar condition in freight rate making that works a commercial hardship against the Oregon cement makers. These inequalities will be shown, it is said, to be among the most one sided yet revealed in Port land's fight for a square deal in freight rate making. It will be shown that the freight charges on cement from Oswego, deliv ered to Portland over not more than nine miles of level trackage, is practic ally as 'much per hundredweight as on shipments originating in California or Northern Washington. -. Portland interests will center their attack on the present rate structure with the idea of bringing about a mile age basis for figuring rates on cement freight. : . J. Picketing But No Noise Is Allowfed Striking Workmen Noisy picketing or violation of the laws covering the constitutional rights of non-union workers will not be tol erated by the police in this city, accord ing to an announcement made Saturday by Chief of Police N. F. Johnson, after a long conference with the managers of several Portland flour mills. Bright and early Monday morning an officer in full uniform will be stationed at every mill and laundry in the city that is being picketed by union work ers. No partiality is' to be shown by the officers, the chief said. "Peaceful picketing is allowed and will not be interfered with," the chief said. "Should any person get it into his head to start trouble some place. we want a man there to settle the thine before it goes too far. This applies to J both sides." Regarding his conference with the mill managers the chief said that the men did not ask anything unreasonable. "I suggested that they keep all private detectives, deputy sheriffs and watch men out of the way and allow us to handle the situation on the outside. We will not police the inside of the buildings. Their watchmen can at tend to 11118." As the new work will entail the work of many more men the war emergency squad and traffic squads will be di vided between the day and first night reliefs. Captain L. V. Jenkins, -adviser to the chief, and Deputy District Attorney Richard Deich were also present at the conference. While no definite announce ment was made, it is taken for granted that Captain Jenkins will be In com mand of the men on duty at the plants. Fire Destroys Hospital Vancouver, B. C, Sept 20. The Hhaughnessy military convalescent hos pital was destroyed by fire here today. Over 100 patients were removed safely from .the east wing, which was totally destroyed. settlement. Are they ready to fight Ja pan, Great Britain and France, -who will have to stand together, in order to get tjils province back for China. I know' that they are not. Their interest in China is not the interest of assisting China, but of defeating the treaty. And not onlv that but back of this Dro vi sion with regard to Shantung lies, as' everybody knows, or ought to know, a very honorable promise which was made by the government of Japan, In my pres ence in Paris, namely, that just as soon as possible after the ratification of this treaty they will return to China all sovereign rights in the province of Shan tung. JTOJTE OTHER PROMISED "Great Britain has not promised to re turn Wai Hal Wal. France haa not promised to return her part ; Japan has promised to relinquish all the sovereign rights which were acquired by Ger many for the remaining 78 of the 19 years of the tease, and to retain only what other governments have in many ether parts of China, namely, the right te build and operate the railway under a corporation, In ether words, she re tained only the rights of economic con cessionaires. I think all these nations have Invaded some of the essential rights of China by going too far In -the con cessions which they have demanded. Hallway and steamship handlers to the number of ,200.000 have been or dered to take a strike, vote to enforce demand made on -August it. . ,. . - Plans for Edifice Are Accepted by Christian Church The First Christian church of Port land, which will erect a handsome build ing at the corner of Park and Columbia streets, has accepted plans for an edifice of a design unusual tn a place of wor ship. 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