Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-03-05
President Says People Want Gov
enant and Must Have 1t.
LOOK TO THE U. S. FOR HELP
Pictures the Tense Emotions Of Dele.
gates Who, He Asserts, Are Alto
aether Without Untoward Pas
sons in Their Action To.
ward World Society.

mere Oh ldluluS lIDll IIdAiSC ihNAlSN
the critics of the league of nations
plan to "test the sentiment Of Ameri-
ca" He spoke as follows: 49,,
Governor Coolidge, Mr. Mayor,
Fellow Citizens-I wonder if you are
half as glad to see me as am to see
you. 1t warns my heart to see Il great
body of my fellow citizens again, be-
cause in some respects during the re-
cent months have been very lonely
indeed without your cOmradeship and
counsel, and I tried at every step of
the work which fell to me to recall
what I was sure would be your coun-
sci with regard to the great matters
which We're under consideration.
Gives Credit to People.
II do not want you to think that I
have not been appreciative Of the eX-
traordinary generous reception which
was given to me on the other side in
saying that it makes me very happy
to get home again.
II have not come to report the pro-
ccedings or the results Of the proceed
irgs of the peace conference; that
would be premature.
"Very Happy Impressions"
II can say that I have received very
happy impressions from this confer
cnce; the impression that while there
ore many differences of judgment.
,,,biIr xhoro oro eomo diyoruonnoS ~
object, there is nevertheless common
spirit and common realization Of the
necessity of setting up new standards
Of right in the world.
1.-THE conference seems to you to 60
slowly; from day to day In Paris it
seems to 60 slowly; but wonder II
you realize the completely Of the task
which it has undertaken. 1t seems as
If the settlements Of this war affect,
and affect directly, every great. and l
sometimes think every small nation in
the world, and no one decision can
prudently be made which Is not prop
erly, linked In with the. great series
of other decisions which must accqms
pany it. And 1t must be reckoned In
iWithGthe final result If theGrear quail
ity and character of that result 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 1t
from those who are officially commits
stoned to state it; hear the rival
claims hear the claims that affect new
nationalities, that affect new areas Of
the world, that affect new commercial
and economic connections that mhaveE
been established by the great world
war through which we have gone.
PASSIONS Clean Absent.
"And have been struck by the mod
erateness Of those who have represent
ed national claims. I can testify that
have nowhere seen the CLEAN Of pas
sion. have seen earnestness. I have
seen tears come to the eyes Of men
who plead for downtrodden people
whom they were privileged to speak
for, but they were not the tears of an
guish; they were the tears of ardent
hope.
"And don't see how any man can
fail to have been subdued by these
pleas, subdued to this feeling that he
was not there to assert an individual
judgment of his own, but to try to as
sist the cause of humanity.
nd tn, fh<, 1ct - 4 to-
terest seeks out first of all, when it
reaches Paris, the representatives of
the United States. Why? Because-and
think am stating the most wonder
full fact in history--because there is no
nation in Europe that suspects the mo-
tives of the United States.
"Was there ever so wonderful
thing seen before? Was there ever so
moving thing? Was there ever any
fact that so bound the nation that had
won that esteem forever to deserve it?
1T is impossible for men to believe
that all ambitions have all of sud-
den been foregone. They remember
territory that was coveted; they re-
member rights that it was attempted
to extort; they remember political am
billions which it was attempted to re.
alize-and, while they believe that
men have come into different tenn
per, they cannot forget these things.
And so they do not resort to one an.
other for dispassionate view of the
matters in controversy.
Come to Mankind's Friend.
''They resort to chat nation which
won the enviable distinction Of being
regarded as the friend of mankind.
whenever it Is desired to send a
small force of soldiers to occupy a
! zee Of territory where 1t is thought
nobody else will be welcome, they ask
for American soldiers. And where
other soldiers would be looked upon
with suspicion, and perhaps met with
resistance, the American soldier IS
welcomed with acclaim.
II have had so many grounds for
pride on the other side Of the water
that I am very thankful that they are
not grounds for personal pride. I'd
be the most stuck-up man in the
world. And it has been an infinite
pleasure to me to see those gallant sol
diers of ours, of whom the Constitu-
ton Of the United States made me the
proud commander. You may be proud
Of the Twenty-sixth division, but !
commanded the Twenty-Siyth division
and see what they did under my dlrec-
ton!
"And ererrhody nraiSeS the Ameri.