Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-03-08
PRESIDENT BRINGS
MESSAGE TO PEOPLE
WILSON DECLARES THAT UNITED
STATES Is NOW TRUSTED
1Y WHOLE WORLD.
Regarded 40 Friends Of Liberty, Cons
ing Across the Sea to See That New
World 10 consecrated on Basis
Of Justice and Right.

BostOn.-In an address at Mechan-
les Hall Monday afternoon, February
"a, President Woodrow Wilson, who
had just returned from his European
trip, made the declaration that the
United States is trusted by the world.
The presidential party reached the
hall at 2 30, and as the party reached
the outer doors a battery of guns In
the railway yards at the rear Of the
hall fired a presidential salute of
twenty-One guns, while inside the hall
the band struck up Hail to the Chief"
The preliminaries were brief. John
Mccormack sang "The Star Spangled
Banner" Mayor Peters welcomed the
president In the name of the city; and
Governor Coolidge extended the greet
tngs OF the commonwealth.
The president began by asking his
audience IL they could understand he
was as glad to see them as they were
to see him and expressed apprecia-
ton of his reception.
His reception in Europe, he said, he
regarded as a welcome to 1.-THE friends
of liberty" coming across the sea to
SEQ that new world was to be con-
secrated on the basis Of justice ana
right.
Nation Trusted by World
1.-THE greatest thing have to re.
port to yOu," said he. sis that this
great country of ours Is trusted
throughout the world. / have not
CONS to report on the progress Of the
peace conference. That would b. pre-.
mature.
1.-THE men who are in conferences In
Paris realize they are not masters OF
their people but servants of their
people, and that no man will dare 60
home from that conference and. re-
port anything less than expected"
Speaking Of the slow progress Of
the conference. the president reminded
his audience Of the completely Of the
problems affecting nearly every c0un-
try In the world
"What we are doing" he said. "fs to
hear the whole case from those most
interested. have been struck by the
moderation Of those representing ma
Ya0far claims. n s4s
~ &avs sesn xtsA<s ~ she eyss %
ae4- there pleadiA9 {os ~ astsonak
ambition. but they were not the teAre
Of. anguish. they were the tears OF
ardent hope. ss...
There Is no nation in Europe that
suspects the course Of the United
States. Was there ever such q won
.derful thing befOref
II would not have you understand
that the men who represent the other
nations there are disesteemed. Quite
the contrary" 81
The European statesmen, he said.
when unable to agree, were to RESORT
to the nation known as the friend OF
mankind
The president related that Americas
soldiers were welcomed in all the
European countries.
II have been searching for the fun-
damental fact that has brought Eu-
rope to believe in u.s. She seemed
for the first three years to believe
we felt we could make more by stay
ing out than going in. Then sudden
ly the whole verdict was reversed. re
was when they saw that America noe
only held ideas, but acted ideas, they
became the confirmed partisans of
America and became converted to
those ideas.
Europe ID Hopeful
mo" said the lresident, "this con-
ference we have established calls for
something. The Europe left was fun
of hope. The Europe of the third year
of the war was sinking to a stubborn
desperation. They thought the end or
the war would eventually be a resump-
ton of the old order They never
dreamed it would be Europe of set
tied peace.
snow all the peoples Of Europe are
buoyed up in the hope that all the
nations of the world shall unite their
moral and physical forces that right
shall prevail What would happen II
America should fail the world of its
hope: all nations will be set up as
hostile camps again and the men at
| the peace conference will go home with
their heads upon their breasts because
| they will have failed. We would leave
on the peace table nothing but mO0-
err scrap of paper"
American Army Oeaths 1O7. 444