Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-02-25
WILSON WILL CONTINUE WORK
 FOR A LEAGUE
Throws Down Gauntlet To Opponents of World Peace.
BOSTON TENDERS
 HOUSING WELCOME.
4 Little Party of Militant "Suiis" Interfere and Are
 Arrested.

Boston, Feb. 24-Presdent Wilson will fight at home as he has fought abroad for q league of nations Re- turning from France he had been on , American soil not more than three hours today before he threw down the gauntlet to those who dstrust the proposed concert of governments bas- ed he said. in the American ideals which had won the war for justice and humanity
 n America confining to her own ter ritories her conception and purpose to make men free. he said. would have to keep her honor flor those narrow. selfish provincial purposes
 which seem so dear to some minds that have no sweep beyond their north horizon
 Before responsive audience that filled the biggest auditorium in the city the president pictured the old world fighting with stubborn desper- ation and expecting in the end noth-
 ing better for the peoples than they
 had known for centuries. He pie tured the American nation entering the lists with new purpose free
 dom of mankind. The old world had caught the vision and any treaty of
 peace drawn otherwise than in the
 new spirit would he nothing more
 he asserted. that modern scran of
 paper' and the present peace unless
 guaranteed by the united forces of l the civilized worlA could not stand a generation.
 SDeaks FOrcefully. Bending over the speakers table, l his face set in tense lines and his right hand clinched, the president exclaimed. 'any man who thinks that America will take part In giving the
 world anv such rebuff and disappaint- ment as that does not know America invite him to test the sentiment of 1 the naion."
 Interrupted by applause the presi-
 dent halted and then evoked the greatest demonstration of the after- noon when he added that he would ac-
 cept no sweeter challenge than the
 issue of the American purpose in
 the way.
 ] T have fighting blood in me-" he
 said with appadent feeling. land it is
 sometimes delight to let it have scope hut if it is a challenge on this
 occasion, it will be an indulgence" At another point in his address.
 the president said that If the great
 hope of the world for league of na
 tions was disappointed. he would
 wish flor my part never 10 have he'd
 America play any par. in this at
 tempt to emancipate the world have
 no more doubt of the verdict of Amer
 lea in this matter than have dou5t
 of the blood that is in me"
 Was Heartily Received. New England gave the president a
 rousing welcome home This city
 probably never has seen greater
 crowd than gathered at every point of vantage along the route iron, | Commonwealth Pier to which the na-
 val cutter Ossipee brought his party from the steamer George Washington.
 through the downtown districts and
 around two sides of Boston Common
 to the Copley Plaza hotel, where stop was made for luncheon.
 At every turn. the president was cheered. Hat in hand, he stood in
 his motor car throughout the two miles of the parade except in one block between Washington and Ire mont streets where because of the marrow way spectators were not al- 1 lowed to congregate.
 The national army, the navy. the
 state guard and the city police in lines
 on either side of the route formed a
 guard of honor for the entire distance
 of the drive. So effective were the ar-
 rangements that not an unpleasant
 incident occurred
 '.Suffs' Partic:pate.
 Opposite the state house in front of which q group of wounded soldiers greeted the president, handful of suffragists claiming to represent the National Woman's party, took their stand for demonstration which : they had announced Before the pa- : rade reached them they were told by the police hety were told to move on. Refusing, they were arrested for lott { ering and locked up. Later at the :. hotel the president received commit tee from the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage association. non-militant l organization, and asked its members r to convey to the state todv his : "warm regards and sympathy"
 President Wilson was accompanied
 in the parade and later to Mechanics
 hall, where he spoke before 5000 per-
 sons. bv Mrs. Wilson. He appeared . physically fit for what he described r as the approaching strenuous attemnt ]. to transact business for little while :. in America"
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