The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
AMERICA Is HOpE
OF WHOLE WORLD
All Nations Put Trust In United
States Is Message of
President Wilson.
IS FRIEND OF MANKIND
Executive Declares He Is Toying Il
Do Right Thing Rather Than Ex-
pedient one-Proud Of Sol
diers of America.

Mechanics Hall, Boston, Feb. 3d.
The text of President Wilson's adj
dress is as follows:
Governor Coolidge, Mr.. Mayor, Eel
low Citizens:-I wonder il you are half
as glad to see me as am, to see you.
It warns my heart to see great body
of my fellow citizens again, because
in some respects during the recent
months have been very lonely indeed
without your comradeship and counsel,
and tried at every step of the work
which fell to me to recall what / was
sure would be your counsel with re-
gard to the great matters which were
under consideration.
do not want you to think that
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. / do not mean TO
say that was not very deeply touched
by the cries that came from the~great
crowds on the other side. But / want
to say to you in all honesty that felt
them to be a call of greeting to you
rather than to me.
/ did not feel that the greeting was
personal. had in my heart the over
GROWING pride Of being your represen-
tative 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 the great
crowds. 1t was not of mere greet
ing, it was not a tone of mere gen.
erous welcome, it was the calling of
comrade to comrade, the cry that
comes from men who say, I'VE 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 a
new basis and foundation of justice
and right. @
United States is Trusted. -
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 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 or the results of the proceed
ing of the Peace conference; that
would be premature. can say that /
have received very happy impressions
from this conference; the impression
that while there are many differences
of judgment; while there are some di-
Vergences of object, there is neVerthe-
less a common spirit and common
realization of the necessity of setting
up new standards of right in the
world.
Because the men who are in confer
ence in Paris realize as keenly as any
Americans 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 people has
awakened to new purpose and new
conception of their power to realize
that purpose, and that no man dare
go home from that conference and re-
port anything less noble than was ex-
pected of it. ~
Task Is Complex. ...r,...
The conference seems to you to go
slowly, from day to day, in Paris it
seems to go slowly, but j wonder if
you realize the complexity of the task
1t has undertaken. 1t seems as if the
settlements of this war affect, and af-
feet directly, every great and i some
times think, every small nation in the
world land no one decision can pru-
IDENTIFY be made which is not properly
linked in with the great series of other
decisions which must accompany it.
And it must be reckone6 with in the
final result if the real quality and
| character of that result is to be prop
erly judged
Hearing the Whole Case.
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 CONNER
clal and economic connections that
have been established by the great
war through which we have gone.
And | have been struck by the moder-
ateness OF those who have represent
ed national claims. can testify that
have nowhere seen the CLEAN of mas.
sion. ! have seen earnestness, / have
seen tears come to the eyes of men
VINO plead for down-trodden people