The daily morning oasis., 1919-04-09
MUST LET The
| PEOPLE DECIDE
OPINION OF ALL AMERICA WILL
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

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Boston, Feb. 24.-President Wilson
made the following speech at Mechan-
les Hall in Boston, after landing from
his trip back from Europe.
Governor Coolidge. Mr. Mayor. Fell
low Citizens:
| IT wonder if you are half as 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 nave
been lonely indeed without. your COM
cry step of the work which fell to me
| to recall what I was sure would De
| your counsel with regard to the great
i matters which were under cons1dera-
| ton.
81 do not want you to to think that
| have not been appreciative of the ex-
| traordinary generous reception when
4 was given to me on the other SIDE, IN
| saying that it makes me very happy 10
! get home again. 1 do not mean to say
Il that was not very deeply touched py
| the cries that came from the great
| crowds on the other side. But l want
| to say to you in all honesty that l felt
| them to be call of greeting to YOU
| rather than to me.
81 did not feel that the greeting was
| personal. had in my heart the over
/ browning pride of being your repre-
j sentative, and of receiving the plaudlts
/ of men everywhere who felt that your
| hearts beat with theirs in the cause of
4 liberty.
4 "There was no mistaking the tone in
4 the voices of those great crowds. 1t
/ was not tone of mere greeting, 1t was
4 not q tone of mere generous welcome
Il it was the calling of comrade to com
| rade, the cry that comes from men who
Il 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 new world was con
structed upon new basis and tounoa-
II tion of justice and right.
ST can't tell you the inspiration that
came from the sentiments that came
out of those simple voices in the
II crowds. And the proudest thing nave
to report to you is that this great
the world.
ST have not come to report the pro-
ceedings or the results of the proceed! I!
II ings of the peace conference; that
have received very happy impressions
| from this conference.-the impression
that, while there are many differences
Of Judgment, while there are some dl-
vergencies of object, there is, never
theless common spirit and common
realization of the necessity of setting
up new standards of right in the world.
Because the men who are in con-
ference realize as keenly as any Amer
ican can realize that they are not the
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
4 that conference and report anything
less noble than was expected of it.
"The conference seems to you to 90
4 slowly. from day to day in Paris II
tG go bs KIT Of the
which it has undertaken. 1t seems as
II the settlements of this war affect.
and affect directly, every great-and,
In the world, and no one decision can
be made which is not properly linked
in with the great series Of other deci-
sions which must accompany It. and 1t
must be reckoned on with the final re-
salt. IL the real quality and character
Of that result is to be properly judged.
What we are doing is to hear the
Il whole case; hear 1t from tho ~ 'uths
Of the men most inter !: il or it
from those who are offici,-, COMM;
stoned to state it; hear the riN+i
claims; hear the claims that affect new
II nationalities. that affect new areas
Of the world, that affect new COM
nercial and economic connections that
have been established by the great
world war through which we have
"And I have been struck by the mod
erateness Of those who have presented
national claims. can testify that
believe I have nowhere seen the CLEAN
of passion. I have seen earnestness
have seen tears come to the eyes OF
men who pied for down-trodden peo-
speak for. but they were not the tears
Of anger, they were the tears Of ar
Il 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 individual judg-
meat 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
reaches Paris, the representatives OF
the United States. Why? Because
and think 1 am stating the most won
derful fact in history-because there
r. no nation in Europe that suspects
the motives Of the United States.
there setsTe ereF a. fneFs
20 moving a thing? Was there ever
any fact that so bound the nation that
had won that esteem forever to de-
II would not have you understand
that the great men who represent the
other nations there In conference Gre
disesteemed by those who Who know them
stand the countries of Europe have
again and again clashed with one an
other In competitive interests 1t is
impossible for men to forget the sharp
issues that were drawn between them
In past times.
1T IL impossible for men to believe
that all ambitions have all Of sud
den been foregone. They. remember
territory that was coveted; they re-
member rights that it was attempted
to extort; they remember political am
billions which 1T was attempted to real
iHe, 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 a dis
mt vii ~ in
troversy. They resort to that nation
| which has won the enviable distinction
Prince Leopold Held for Crime.