The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-02-28
Indicates in His Boston Ad-
dress Eagerness to Battle
for League of Nations.
Wilson Declares That Americans Who
Would Have Their Country Fail
The World Are Lacking In
Broad Vision.

Boston.-President Woodrow VII
son. just back from Europe, delivered
an address In Mechanics hall Monday
afternoon, February "A. in which he
threw down the gauntlet TO those who
distrust the proposed concert of gov
ernments, based, he declared. on the
American ideals which have won the
war for justice and humanity.
The complete text of the presidents
address follows:
wonder If you are half as glad to
see me as l am to see you? 1t warns
my heart to see great body of my
fellow citizens again, because In some
| respects during the recent months l
have been very lonely indeed without
your cOmradeship and counsel, and l
| tried at every step Of the work which
| fell to me to recall what l was sure
| would be your counsel with regard to
the great matters which were under
consideration.
| l do not want you to think that i
have not been appreciatiye 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 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.
l did not feel that the greeting was
personal. l had in my heart the over
crowding pride of being your repre-
sentative and of receiving the plaudits
of men everywhere who felt that YOU
hearts beat with theirs in the cause o.
liberty.
There was no mistaking the tone IL
the voices of those great crowds. l
was not a tone of mere greeting. 1
was not tone of mere generous wei
come; it was the calling Of comrade t.
I comrade, the cries that come from mel
who say: I'VE have waited for thi
day when the friends of liberty shout,
come across the sea and shake hand
with us, to see that a new world wa
constructed upon new basis an
foundation of justice and right"
l
came from the sentiments that cam
out of those simple voices of tn
, crowd. And the proudest thing hay
, to report to you Is that this gres
country Of ours is trusted throughOl
the world
l have not come to report the pr
ceedings or the results of the prOcee'
.. ings Of the peace conference; tn,
would be premature.
I can say that l have received vel
happy impressions from this confe
{ ence; the impression that while theI
t are many differences Of judgmen
, while there are some divergences I
! object, there is, nevertheless, a cor
mon spirit and common realizatiC
of the necessity of setting up ne
standards of right in the world.
. Not Masters, but Servants.
Because the men who are iIi co
u ference In Paris realize as keenly
' any American can realize that thu
e are not the masters Of their peOpl
n that they are the servants of the
people, and that the spirit of their pc
t pie has awakened to new Durpo
i. and new conception Of their pow
a to realize that purpose, and that !
. man dare 60 home from that conft
:, encc and report anything less mob
than was expected Of 1t.
/ The conference seems to you to
e slowly; from day to day In Paris
n seems to go slowly; but l wonder
l. you realize the completely Of the ia
S. which 1t has undertaken? 1t seems
% if the settlements of the war affe
"a and affect directly, every great, and
g sometimes think every small, nation
- the world, and no one decision C
prudently be made which Is not pre-
e erly linked in with the great series
II other decisions which must accompa
lie 1t. And it must be reckOned In wi
re the final result if the real quail
n and character of that result is to
IF properly judged.
- What we are doing is to hear
= whole case; hear it from the mout
Of the men most Interested; hear
- from those who are officially comm
III stoned to state it; hear the RI
ty claims; hear the claims that ant
In new areas Of the world, that aft
D. new commercial and economic conn
no lions that have been established
IN the great world war through VIII
=. we have gone.
h. Claims Of Nations Moderate.
have been struck by the mOdera
~ ness of those who have represen
national claims. / can testify tina
have nowhere seen the CLEAN of p
sion. have seen earnestness, l hi
seen tears come to the eyes OF II
who pleaded for down-trOdden PEG
whom they were privileged to spt
for; but they were not the tears
anguish, they were the tears of ard
hope.
And don't see how any man can
to have been subdued by these pie
subdued to this feeling. that he ,
not there to assert an individual ju
ment of his own, but to try to as
the cause Of humanity.
In the midst Of it all, every inter
seeks out first of all when 1t reac
Paris the representatives of the U
ed States. Why? Because, an
think am stating the most won'
4 ful fact In history-because there
no nation in Europe that suspects
I motive Of the United States.
Hard 70 Forget Differences.
1t Is impossible for men to bell
that all ambitions have oil Of a