Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-03-06
WILSON IS READY
The President Will Fight For
League of Nations
Program.
OUR FAITH MUST BE KEPT.
Declares People Of Country Are
In Saddle and Debating
Policies of Govern
ment.

MECHANICS HALL, BOSTON.
Feb. 24-The text of President VIII
sons address is as follows:
Governor Coolidge, Mr.. Mayor, fell
low citizens: I wonder If you are
half as glad to see me as / am to
see you. 1t warns my heart to see
Q great body OF my fellow citizens
again, because in some respects dur
Ing the recent months have been
very lonely indeed without your com
radeship and counsel, and I tried at
every step of the work which fell to
me to recall what was sure would
be your counsel with regard to the
great matters which were under con.
sideration.
Il do not want you to think that
have not been appreciative of the ex-
traordinarily generous reception
which was given to me on the other
side, in saying that it makes me very
happy to get home again. do not
mean to say that was not very deep
" 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
oveIcrowding pride Of being your rep
resentatjye and of receiving the plaud-
its of men everywhere who felt your
hearts beat with theirs in the cause
OF liberty. There was no mistaking
the tone in the voices Of those great
crowds. 1t was not tone OF mere
greeting, it was not a tone of mere
generous welcome; it was the calling
OF comrade to comrade, the cries that
come 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, to see
that a new world was constructed
on a new basis and foundation Of
Justice and right
Il can't tell you the inspiration that
came from the sentiments that come
out OF those simple voices Of the
crowd. And the proudest thing /
have to report to you is that this
great country OF ours is trusted
throughout the world.
Finds Common Spirit.
II have not come to report the
proceedings or the results of the pro-
ceedings Of the peace conference; that
would be premature. can say that I
have received very happy Impressions
from this conference; the Impression
that while there are many differences
of judgment while there are some
Emergencies Of object, there is never
theless a c nmon spirit and COM
mon realization of the necessity of
setting up new standards of right in
the world.
Because the men who are in con-
ference in Paris realize as keenly as
any American can realize that they
are not masters OF their people; that
they are the servants Of their people
and that the spirit Of their people has
awakened to a new purpose and
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.
Progress Must be Slow. Z
The conference seems to you to
go slowly; but wonder If you realize
the completely of the task which it
has undertaken. 1t seems as if the
settlements of this war affect and
affect directly every great, and /
sometimes think every small nation
In the world, and no one decision can
prudently be male winch is not prop
erly linked in with the great series
Of other decisions which rust accom-
pany it. And it must be reckoned
with the final result IL the real quail
ity and character of that. result is to
be properly judged.
What we are doing is to hear the
whole case; hear it from the mouths
OF the men most interested; hear It
from those who are officially COM
missioned to state it; hear the rival
claims; hear the claims that affect
new nationalities, that affect new
areas OF the world, that affect new
commercial and economic connections
that have been established by the
great world war through which we
have gone. And l. have been struck
by the moderateness Of those who
have represented national claims. /
can testify that I have nowhere seen
the CLEAN of passion. have seen
earnestness. have seen tears come
" tu0s eyes OI mSu VINO plead for
down-trodden people WON they were
privileged to speak for; but they were
not the tears Of anguish, they were
the tears of ardent hope.
All Trust America.
"And don't see how any man can
fail to have been subdued by these
pleas, subdued to this feeling, that
he was not there to assert an indi-
vidual judgment of his own but to
try to assist the case of humanity.
And in the midst Of it all every in
tsrest seeks out first of all when II
reaches Paris, the representatives of
the United States. Why? Because.
and. I am stating the most wonderful
fact in history-because there is no
nation in Europe that suspects the
motives Of the United States.
"Was there ever so wonderful
thing before? Was there ever so
moving thing? Was there ever Anv
fact that so bound the nation that
hadb. won that esteem forever to de-
ser Ut?