Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09
VAST AMOUNT OF WORK BEFORE
NATIONS CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Wilson's New York Speech

But while these things in some
degree softened my inconsistencies,
they made me all the more lager to
get home. where the rest of the
folks lived, to get home where the
great dynamo of national energy
"a situated, to get home where the
great purposes of national action
were formed, and to be allowed to
take part in the counsels and In the
actions which were formed, and 10
be taken by this great nation Whlch
from first to last has followed the
vision of the men who set it up and
created it. We have had our eyes
very close to our tasks at times,
but whenever we lifted them, as we
were accustomed to lift them to a
distant horizon, we were aware tina
all the peoples of the earth had
turned their faces toward us as those
who were the friends of freedom and
of right, n whenever we thought
of national policy and of its re-
lation upon the affairs of the world,
we knew we were under bonds to
do the large thing and the right
thing.
cit is a privilege, therefore, be-
yond all computation for a nan
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small, to take part in the counsels
and in the resolution of a people
like this. / am afraid some people,
some persons, do not understand
that vision. They do not see 1t.
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 neighbors.
Never Was Dubious
IT have had a moments
doubt as to where the heart and
purpose of this people lay. When
any one on the other side of the
water has raised the question Will
America come in and hellp?' 1 have
said, of course, America will come
in and help sShe cannot do any
thing else. She will not disappoint
any high hope hat has been formed
of her. Least of all will she in this
day of newborn liberty all over the
world fail to extend her hand of
support and assistance to those who
have been made free.
81 wonder if at this distance you
can have got any conception of the
tragic intensity of the feeling of
those peoples in Europe who have
Just had Jokes thrown off them.
Have you reckoned up in your mind
how many peoples, how many ma
tions, were held unwillingly under
the yoke of the Austro-Hungarian
empire, under the yoke of Turkey,
under the yoke of Germany?
These yokes have been thrown
off. These peoples breathe the air
and look around to see a new day
they think of what is going to fill
that day with action, they think
first of US. They think first of the
friends who throughout the long
years have spoken for them, who
were privileged to declare that they
came into the war to release them,
who said that they would not make
peace upon any other terms than
their liberty, and they have known
that Americas presence in the war
and in the conference was the guar
antee of the result.
New Task Begins
The Governor has spoken of a
great task ended. Yes, the formu-
lation of the peace is ended, but it
creates only a new task just begun.
l believe that if you will study the
peace, YOU will see that it is a just
peace and a peace which, if it can
be preserved, will save the world
from unnecessary bloodshed.
And now the great task is to
preserve it. l have come back with
my heart fun of enthusiasm for
throwing everything that L can, by
way of influence or action, in with
you to see that the peace is pre-
served, that when the long reckoning
comes. men may look back upon
this generation of America and say
They were true to the vision which
they saw at their BIRTH"