Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-02-25
WILSON WILL, CONTINUE WORK
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en him rest. He appeared to en-
 Joy the day and in taking farewell to
 Mayor Andrew J. Peters, the official
 host, said that he had Immensely en- Joyed his brief stay ilere
 I So occupied was Mr. Wilson wrn
 the program prepared for him that all
 official business brought to his at ] tention was deferred until he was
 aboard the special train which drew l out of the South station at 4:30 this I afternoon for Washin gton. The six
 billion dollar revenue bill was among 1 the documents which he received
 from Secretary Tumulty and upon which he had not acted when he left
 the city.
 The presidents address follows: Governor Cool idge, Mr. Mayor, fellow citizens: wonder if you are half as glad to see me as 1 am to see you. It warns my
 heart to sec great body of my fel- 1 low citizens again, because in some respects during the recent months l have been very lonely indeed without your comradship and counsel and 1 tried at every step of the work which 1 fell to me to recall what I was sure would be your counsel with regard to the great matters which were under consideration.
 1 do not want you to think that l have not been appreciative of the ex- traordinarily generous reception which was given to me to me on the I other side, in saying that it makes me very happy to get home again. do not mean to say that l was not very deeply touched by the cries that came from the great crowds on the other side. But I want to say to you in all honesty that I felt them to be a call of greeting to you rather than to me.
 l did not feel that the greeting was personal I had in my heart the over- crowning pride of being your repres- entative and of receiving the plaudits of men everywhere who felt that your hearts beat with theirs in the cause of liberty. There was no mistaking the tone in the voices of those great crowds. It was not tone of mere greeting, it was not tone of mere generous welcome: It was the call ing of comrade to comrade, the cries that come from men who say: we have waited for this day when the friends of liberty should come across the sea and shake hands with us to see that new world was constructed upon new basis and foundation of justice and right"
 World Trusts U. s.
 l can't tell you the inspiration that came from the sentiments that come out of those simple voices of the crowd. And the proudest thing l have to report to you is that this great country of ours is trusted throughout | the world.
 have not come to report the pro- ceedings of the results of the pro- ceedings of the peace conference; that would be premature. l can say that I have received very happy inn pressions from this conferences; the impression that while there are many
 differences of judgment, while there
 are some divergencies of object, there
 is nevertheless spirit and common realization of the necessity of setting
 up new standards of right in the
 world.
 Because the men who are in con- ference in Paris realize as keenly
 as any American can realize that they
 are not the masters of their people;
 that they are the servants of their
 people and that the spirit of their
 peoples has awaken to new purpose
 and new conception of their power
 to realize that purpose, and that no
 man dare go home from that confer
 ence and report anything less noble
 than was expected of 1t.
 | Task Was Complex.
 The conference seems to you to go
 slowly; from day to day in Paris 1t
 seems to go slowly; but 1 wonder if |you realize the complexity of the task which it has undertaken. 1t seems
 as if the settlements of this war af- fleet and affect directly, every great,
 and I sometimes think every small nation in the world, and no one decis- lion can prudently be made which is 1 not properly linked in with the great series of other decisions which must
 accompany it. And it must be reck-
 oned in with the final result if the
 real quality and character of that re-
 suit is to be properly judged.
 What we are doing is to hear the
 whole case; hear it from the mouths
 of the men most interested; hear it from those who are officially com Imissioned to state it; hear the rival claims; hear the claims that affect
 new nationalities, that affect new
 areas of the world, that affect new Icommercial and economic connections that have been established by the
 great world war through which we ihave gone, And | have been struck by the! noderateaess of those who have represented national claims. l can testify that I have nowhere seen the I gleam of passion. I have seen earnest ness I have seen tears come to the Ieyes of men who plead for downtrod- den people whom they were privileg-
 ed to speak for; but they were not the