The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-03-06
WORLD HAS FAITH
IN UNITED STATES
President Defends League of
Nations Before Large Aud
fence at Boston.
WANTS THE PEOPLE TO DECIDE
Executive Challenges Opponents Of
Plan to Test American Sentiment
America Must Not Fail.


was the guest of Boston yesterday
The city was not alone, however, i
extending to the chief executive a we
come home from his labors at tn
peace conference in Paris, for thOJ
sands OF persons, from all parts @
New England, arrived on early train
TO swell the throng in the street
through which he passed on his wa
from Commonwealth Pier to his hote
in the Back Bay District
President Wilson in his address a
Mechanics Hall spoke as follows:
Governor Coolidge, Mr. Mayor, Fe
low Citizens: 1 wonder if you are hal
as glad to see me as l am to see you
1t warns my heart to see great bod
of my fellow citizens again, because il
some respects during the recen
months have heen very lonely indee'
without your comradeship and coun
sci, and 1 tried at every step of tn
work which fell to me to recall VIVA
l was sure would be your counsel wit
regard to the great matters whicl
were under consideration.
81 do not want you to think that
have not been appreciative of the eS
traordinarily generous reception whicl
was given to me on the other side, il
. saying that it makes me very happ.
to get home again. 1 do not mean t.
say that l was not very deeply touches
by the cries that come from the grea
crowds on the other side. But l wan
to say to you i'll all honesty that l fel
them to be a call of greeting to yOl
rather than to nle.
81 did not feel that the greeting wa
personal. l had in my heart the over
crowning pride of being your repre-
sentative and OF receiving the plaudit
of men everywhere who felt that you
hearts beat with theirs in the cause o
liberty. There was no mistaking thu
tone in the voices of those grea
crowds. 1t was not a tone of mer,
greeting, it was not tone of mer'
generous welcome; it was the calling
of comrade to comrade, the cries tina
come from men who say, we havt
waited for this Gay when the friends
OF liberty should come across the Sc;
and shake hands with US, to see tina
a new world was constructed upon /
new basis and foundation of justic'
and right
az can't tell You the inspiration tina
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 coun
try of ours is trusted throughout thu
world.
People the Masters.
81 have not come to report the re
suits of the proceedings of the peact
conference; that would be premature
1 can say that l have received yer!
happy impressions from this confer
ence; the impression that while thert
are many differences of judgment
while there are some divergences o
object, there is nevertheless a spiri
and a common realization of the ne
cessity of setting up new Standard
OF right in the world
Because the men who are in con
ference in Paris realize as keenly a
any American can realize that the.
are not the masters of their people
that they are the servants of their pee
pie and that the spirit of their peOp1
has awakened to new purpose and 1
new conception of their power to real
ize that purpose, and that no man dar
go home from that conference and re
port anything less noble than wars ex
pected of it.
1.-The conference seems to you to g
slowly; from day to day in Paris
seems to go slowly; but l wonder
you realize the eCmplexity Of the tasl
which it has undertaken. 1t seems a.
if the settlements of this war affect
and affect directly, every great, ant
l sometimes think every small nation
in the world, and no one decision ca1
prudently be made which is not prop
erly linked in with the great series o
other decisions which must accom-
pany il, and it must be reckoned il
with the final result if the real qualit.
and character of that result is to b.
properly judged.
Hearing Whole Case.
What we are doing is to hear tn,
whole case; hear it from the mouth
of the men most interested; hear i
from those who are officially commits
stoned to state it; hear the riva
claims; hear the claims that affec
new nationalities, that affect new
areas of the world, that affect new
commercial and economic connection
that have been established by tn,
great world war through which w
have gone. And I have been strucl
by the moderateness of those VIII
have represented national claims.
can testify that 1 have nowhere seel
the CLEAN of passion. 1 have seel
earnestness. have seen tears CONF
to the eyes of men who plead. 70
downtrodden people whom they wer'
privileged to speak for; but they wer'
at Aha tears nf an0rish they yer