The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-07-15
PRESIDENT WILSON'S SPEECH
AT CARNEGIE HALL.

New YORK, July c.-1He 1uli 'e-A'
of President Wilson's speech at
Carnegie hall follows:
''Fellow Countrymen: l am not
going to try this afternoon to make
you real speech, am bit alarmed
to find how many speeches / have IN
my system undelivered, but they are
all speeches that come from the mind
and I want to say to you this after
noon only few words from the
heart.
s'You have made me deeply happy
by the generous welcome you have
extended to me, but do not believe
that the welcome you extend to me
is half as great as that which l ex-
tend to you. Why, Jerseyman though
I am. this is the first time l ever
thought that Hoboken was beautiful.
Really Homesick.
'I have really, though l have tried
on the other side Of the water to
conceal it, been the most homeslck
man in the American expeditoinary
force, and it is with feeling that 1t
would be vain for me to try to ex-
press that / find myself in this be-
loved country again. do not say
that because I lack in admiration OF
other countries.
"There have been many things that
softened my homesickness. One OF
the chief things that softened it was
the very generous welcome that they
extended to me as your representa-
tive on the other side of the water.
And it was still more softened by the
pride that had in discovering that
America has at last convinced the
world of her true character.
Men of Vision.
CT was welcome because they had
seen with their own eyes what Aamer
ica had done for the world. They had
deemed her selfish, they had deemed
her devoted to material interests.
And they had seen her boys come
across the water with vision even
more beautiful than that which they
conceived when they had entertained
dreams of liberty and peace.
ssAnd then I had pride of finding
out by personal observation of the
kind of men we had sent over. l had
crossed the seas with the kind OF
men who had taken them over with
out whom they could not have got to
Europe and then when I got there
saw that army of men, that army OF
clean men, that army of men devoted
to the high interests of humanity
that army that one was glad to point
out and say: These are my fellow
countrymen.'
Softens Homesickness.
"It softens the homesickness
good deal co have so much Of home
along with you and these boys were
constantly reminding me OF home
They did not walk the streets like
ANYBODY else. l do not mean that
thev walked the streets self-assertive,
". They did not. They walked the
streets as if they knew that they be-
longed wherever free men lived. That
they we're welcome in the great re-
public of France, and were comrades
with the other armies that had helped
to win the great battle and to show
the great sacrifice. Because it is a
wonderful thing for this nation,
hitherto isolated from the large af-
fairs of the world, to win not only
the universal confidence Of the peo-
ple of the world, but their universal
affections.
"And that nothing else less than
that, is what has happened. Wher-
ever it was suggested that troops
should be sent and it was desired that
troops of occupation should excite no
prejudice, no uneasiness on the part
of those to whom they were sent, the
men who represented the other ma
tions came to me and asked me to
send American soldiers. They not
only implied, but they said that the
presence of American soldiers would
be known not to mean anything ex,
cept friendly protection and assist
ance. Do you wonder that made ou1
hearts swell with pride to realize
these things?
Anxious to Get Home.
"But while these things in some
degree softened my homsickness
they made me all the more eager to
get home where the rest of the folks
live; to get home where the great