The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1919-03-07
MUST LET THE
PEOPLE DECIDE
BE HEARD IN DECISION
ON PEACE LEAGUE.
ALL FRIENDLY TO U. S.
WILSON DELIVERS SPEECH AT
MECHANICS HALL IN BOSTON
TO BIG CROWD.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Boston, Feb. 24.-president Wilson
made the following speech ut Mechan-
les Hall in Boston, after landing from
his trip back from Europe.
Governor Coolidge. MIR. Mayor. Fell
low Citizens:
Il wonder If you are half glad TO
see me as | am to see you. 1t warns
my heart to see great body of my fell
low citizens again. because In some re-
spects during the recent months l have
been lonely indeed without your COM
rsdeship and counsel and tried at ev-
cry step of the work which fell to me
to recall what | was sure would be
your counsel with regard to the great
matters which We're under consldera-
ton.
Il do not want YOU to to think that
| have not been appreciatlve OF the eN-
traordinary generous reception which
was given to me on the other side. in
saying that II makes me very happy to
get home again. do not mean to say
that | was not very deeply touched by
the cries that came from the great
crowds on the other side. But | want
To- say to you in all honesty that felt
them to be a call Of greeting to you.
rather than to me.
Il did not feel that the greeting was
personal. / had in my heart the over
browning pride OF being your repre-
sentative. and Of receiving the plaudlts
of men everywhere who felt that your
hearts beat with theirs in the cause of
liberty.
There was no mistallnG the tone in
the voices Of those great crowds. 1t
was not a tone of mere greeting, II was
not tone Of mere generous welcome.
IL was the calling Of cOmrads to com
fade. the cry that comes from men who
say. We have waited for this day when
the friends OF liberty should come
across the sea and shake hands with
Us. 10 see that u new WDTli was con-
structed upon new basis and founda-
tlun of justice and right
Il can't tell you the inspiration that
came from the sentiments that came
out OF those simple voices in the
crowds. And the proudest thing l have
10 report to you is that this great
country Of ours is trusted throughout
the world. u
Il have not come to report the Sro-
CeedinGs or the results of the proceed
inEs "i the peace conference; that
would be premature. | can say that /
hav" received very happy Impressions
from this conference.-the Impression
tlht, while there are many differences
"f Judgment. while there are some di
ycTEencles Of object. there is. never
theless a common spirit and n common
realization Of the necessity OF setting
mp new standards OF right in the world.
because the men who are in con-
ference realize as keenly any Amer
lean can realize that they are not the
masters OF their people, that they are
the spirit OF their people has awakened
to new purpose and a new conception
of their power to realize that purpose,
and that no man dare go home from
that conference and report anything
less noble than was expected of it.
The conference seems to you to go
seems to go slowly: but l wonder If
you realize the compleXity of the task
which it has undertaken. 1t seems as
II the settlements of this war affect
and affect directly. every Rfaat-a nd
| sometimes think. every small--nation
in the world. and no one decision can
he made which is not properly linked
in with the great series of other deci-
siuns which must accompany II. and it
must be reckoned on with the final re-
suit. II the real quality and character
of that result is to be properly Judged
What we are doing is to hear the
whole case: hear 1t from the mouths
from those who are officially commits
stoned to state it; hear the rival
claims; hear the claims that affect new
nationaIities. that affect new areas
Of the world. that affect new COM
merciul and economic connections that
have been established by the great
world war through which we have
gone.
And I have been struck by the mod
Trateness Of those who have presented
national claims. / can testify that
believe L have nowhere seen the CLEAN
Of passion. | have seen earnestness
| have seen tears come to the eyes of
men who pied for. down trodden peo-
speak for. but they We're not the tears
Of anger. they were the tears of ar
dent hope.
to have been subeued by these pleas,
subdued to this feeling, that he was
not there to assert an individual judy
ment of his own, but to try to assist
the cause of humanity.
And in the midst of It all every in
terest seeks out, first of all. when it
the United States. Why? Beca Ss
and I think am stating the most WON
derful fact In history--because there
Il mo nfsn Of ~ The that
thing seen before? Was there ever
any fact that so Bound the nation nsfs e shst
had won that esteem forever to de-
serve it!
that the great men who represent the
other nations there in conference are
disesteemed by those who know them.
quite the contrary. But you under
again and again clashed with one an
other in competitive interests. 1t IL
impossible for men to forget the sharp
issues that were drawn between them
in past times.
1T Is impossible for men to believe
that all ambitions have all of a sud
den been foregone. They remember
territory that was coveted they re-
member rights that 1t was attempted
TO extort; they remember political am
billions which 1t was attempted to real
lie. and while they believe that men
have come into different temper, they
cannot forget these things and so they
do not resort to one another for n dis
passionate view of the matters in con-
troversy. They resort to that nation
which has won the enviable distinction
Prince Leopold Held for Crime.