The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-07-12
PRESIDENT READY
FOR INQUISIT|ON
Willing to Appear Before Any
Committee of Congress and
Explain Treaty.
SAYS PEACE PACT IS JUST
Wilson in Address at New York
| Declares That if Treaty Is Pre-
| served Much Boodshed VIII
Be Prevented.

Washington, July 10. - President
Wilson was represented as being ready
toiplace himself at the disposal OF the
senate foreign relations committee OF
other committees of congress TO an
Swer any questions concerning tine
peace treaty and the league OF ma
tions, which he will present to the sem
ate in person
Wilson Calls Treaty Just.
New York, July 10.-President Wilson
In his first speech delivered on Amerl-
can soil since the peace treaty was
signed, declared that the peace con-
cluded at Paris was "a just peace
which, if it can be preserved, will safe
guard the world from unnecessary
bloodshed.'
The only reference the president
made to his political opponents was
when, in referring to the negotiations
at Paris, he said: ..
81 am afraid some people, some per-
sons, do not understand that vision.
They. do not see it. They have looked
too much upon the ground. They have
thought too much of the interests that
were near them, and they have not
| listened to the voices of their neigh
bors. l have never had moments
doubt as to where the heart and pur-
pose of this people lay"
The president finished his speech
shortly after six o'clock and immedi
ateiy departed for Washington. A train
had been held in waiting for him al
| the Pennsylvania station.
I The president was enthusiasticailS
greeted at the hall and his speech was
1 continuously interrupted with ap
plause. Pandemonium reigned for ter
! minutes upon his entrance into the
building, the huge audience waving
everything at hand in the air. Many
small American flags were noticeable.
Wilson's Speech.
The text of President Wilson's
speech at Carnegie hall in part, fol
lows:
'1Tellow countrymen: am not go
ing to try this afternoon to make yor
aGfeal speech. | am a bit alarmed tt
find how many speeches have in my
system undelivered, but they are al
speeches that come from the mind anC
I want to say to you this Afternoon
Il f,,,, from tho hnupt
You have made me deeply happ!
by the generous welcome you have eX
tended to me, but l do not believe tina
the welcome you extended to me Il
half as great as that which | extend t.
you. Why Jerseyman though l am
4 this is the first time ever though
that Hoboken was beautiful.
81 have really, though l have triet
on the other side of the water to con
ceal it, been the most homesick man il
the American eXpeditionary force, an,
it is with feelings that it would b
vain for me TO try to express that
find myself in this beloved countr
again. | do not say that because
lack admiration of other countries.
!. There have been many things tina
softened my inconsistencies. One of tn
chief things Mat softened it was til
very generous welcome that they eN
tended to me as your representative o
the other side of the water.
"And it was still more softened b
the pride that had in discovering tina
America had at last convinced tn
world of her true character.
Found U. S. Unsefish.
81 was welcome because they ha
seen with their own eyes what Amer
lea had done for the world. They ha
deemde her selfish. They had deeme
her devoted to material interests. An
: they had seen her boys come acros
the water with vision even NOR
beautiful than which they conceive
when they had entertained dreams {
liberty and peace.
4 "And then / had the added pride {
finding out by personal observation tn
kind of men we had sent over. ha
crossed the seas with the kind of me
who had taken them over, withor
whom they could not have gone to Ell
rope, and then when l got there I sa'
that army of men, that army of clea
men, that army of men devoted to tn
high interests of humanity, that arm
that one was glad to poitn out an
say: These are my fellow countr,
! men
1T softens the inconsistencies a GOO
deal to have so much of honlA alon
with you, and these boys wee COZ
stantly reminding me of home. The
did not walk the streets like anyboc
else. do not mean that they wake
the streets self-assertively. They d
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