Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1919 — ANERICA HOPE OF WORLD, SAYS THE PRESIDENT [ARTICLE]

ANERICA HOPE OF WORLD, SAYS THE PRESIDENT

WllsonOefendsthe Peace League and Invites Critics to a Test. CAVENANT OR A REVOLUTION IHx’lores Ilulers All Know They Must Yield—People* of World Know What They Want, and Will Have It. I Mechanics' Hull, lloston, Feb. 25. president Wilson, In his first speech here on landing from France, Invited the critics of the league of nations plan to “test the sentiment of America.” ' Men, he declared, who would have America fall the world In Its hopes, saw only beyond the nearest horizon. | "They do not know the sentiment of America,” he said. Speaking of hopes and aspiration* of the people of Europe for a lasting peace which he said were pinned to the United States as the “friend of mankind,” the president Bald he had no more doubt of “the verdict of America In this matter than I have of the blood that is In me.” “The nations of the world have set their heads now, to do a great thing, and they nre not going to stop short of their purpose,” he said. "I do not spenk of the governments, but of the peoples who will see that If their present governments do not do their will some others will. And tho secret Is out and tho present governments know It.

Finds Heart of America. “I have come back for nn attempt to transact business for a little while In America, but I sny In ull soberness that I have been trying to speak your thoughts. Probing deep In my heart and trying to see the things that ara right rather than the things that are expedient, I am finding the heart of America. “I find that In loving America I have joined the majority of ray fellow men throughout thu world." As the president concluded, Mayor Peters culled for three cheers, which were given, the audience standing. Immediately after the presidential party left the hull and drove to tho South station for the train which awaited them for Washington. President Wilson left for Washington by special train at 4 :20 p. m. As Mr. Wilson rose to speak the crowd cheered and shouted. He smiled uml bowed repeatedly. The president begun by asking his audience If they could understand he was ns glad to see them as they were to see him, and went on to express his appreciation of his reception. His reception in Europe, he said, he considered as not a tribute to himself, but a welcome to the American people. He regarded It as a welcome to “the friends of liberty,” coming across the sea to see that a new world was to be consecrated on the basis of Justice and right. America Trusted Throughout World. “The greatest thing I have to report to you,” said he. “Is that this great country of ours is trusted throughout the world. “I have not come to report on the progress of the peace conference. That would be premature. “The men who are In conference In Paris realize they are not masters of their people, but servants of thslr people, and that no man will dare go homo from that conference and report anything less than Is expected.” Speaking of the slow progress of the conference, the president reminded his audience of the complexity of tho problems affecting nearly every country In the world. “What we nre doing,” he said, “Is to hear tbe whole case from those moot Interested. I have been struck by tho moderation of those representing national claims. I have seen tears in the eyes of men there pleading for a national ambition, but they were not tears of anguish, but they were tears of ardent hope. “There is no nation in Europe that suspects the course of the Unite.! States. Was there ever sueh a wonderful thing before? “I would not have you understand that the men who representHhe other nations there nre dlscsteemed. Quito the contrary.” The European statesmen, he said, when unable to agree, were accustomed to resort to the nation known” as “the friend of mankind." To illustrate his point, the president related that American soldiers were welcomed in all the European countries. * ' “If 1 were to. regard the pride I feet'

a personal pride, I would be the dost stuck-up man In the world. ' “I have been searching for the fundamental fact that ha* brought Europe to believe In us. She seemed for the first three years to believe we felt we could make more by staying out than going In. “Then suddenly the whole verdict was reversed. It was when they saw that America not only held Ideals, but acted Ideals that they became the coofirmed partisans of America and became converted tq those ideas. Europe Sees New Day Dawning. “Now,” said the president, “this conference we have established calls for something. The Europe I left was full of hope. The Europe of the third yea. of the war was sinking to a stubborn desperation. They thought the end of the war would eventually be a resumption Of the old Tirder. They never dreamed it would be a Europe of settled peace. “Now all the peoples of Europe ere buoyed up In the hope thut nil the nations of the world shall unite their moral and physical forces that right shall prevail. What would happen >f America should fall the world of Its hope? All nations will be set up us hostile camps again, and the men at the pence conference will go home with their heads upon their breasts because they will have failed. We would lenve on the peace table notnlng but a modern scrap of paper.” The biggest roof in Boston stretched over the holders of tickets for the first address of President Wilson after his return from the peace conference today. Out of some IfiO.OOO who had thought It worth while to chance a formal application in 'the hope that their equests Tor admission might be honored, 8,000 gained admission to Mechanics hall. Of these 2,000 stood in the second balcony, which is not provided with seats. The crowd had waited an hour and a half. Outside thousands lined the curbs on Huntington avenue from Massachusetts avenue to Copley square, for a glimpse of the president ns Ills car made its way slowly to the hall from the hotel where he hail luncheon after his arrival at Commonwealth pier and the parade through the business districts and the Back Bay. The police, re-enforced by the military, kept a path open for the presidential party. Hall Gayly Decorated.

For an hour before the president arrived the combined bands of the Commonwealth pier and the Harvard naval radio school entertained the audience. Decorations with the national colors!, remaining from a peace jubilee fete on Saturday night, concealed the walls and ceiling. The platform was flanked with pictures of the president and Lincoln, and of Roosevelt and Washington. A sounding board that was constructed to aid the voice of Colonel Roosevelt when he made his last speech in this city, was use! again today with good effect. Those for whom seats were reserved on the platform Included Ambassador David R. Francis. Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood, Bishop William Lawrence. William Cardinal O’Connell, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary Tumulty. Raymond T. Baker, director of the mint; Gov. John W. Barnett of New Hampshire ; Governor Milliken of Maine, and Congressman Gn.v T. Helvering of Kansas; Patrick t>. Norton of North Dakota, George White of Ohio, and Charles C. Carlin of Virginia. President Wilson arrived at the hall at 2:30 o’clock. He entered at the West Newton street entrance, which led to the stage. As his party reached the outer door a battery in the railway yards at the rear of the hall fired a presidential salute of 21 guns. Inside the hall the band struck up “Hall to the Chief.” The president r was escorted to a private room at the right of the platform and a moment laker appeared on the stage. The thousands who had found seat 3 rose, cheering and waving flags. The roar from the audience drowned the music of the band. President Wilson and his party left for Washington at 4:40 p. m. on a special train. A great crowd, which blocked all the streets around the South Terminal station, cheered the president as he entered the station to boarc: the train. )