Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-03-01
Indicates in His Boston Ad-
dress Eagerness to Battle
for League of Nations.
Wilson Declares That Americans VINO
Would Have Their Country ran
The World Are Lacking in
Broad Vision.

| son. lust back from Europe. delivered
| an address in Mechanics hall Mohua!
afternoon, February "a, in which he
threw down the gauntlet to those WIG
| distrust the proposed concert OF gov
ernments. based, he declared, ON the
American ideals which have won the
| war for justice and humanity.
The complete text Of the president
| address follows:
| wonder if you are half as glad TO
| see me as / am To see yout III WARNS
my heart to see Il great body OF my
fellow citizens again, because III some
respectS during the recent months
have been very lonely indeed without
| vour 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 regard to
| the great matters which We're under
| consideration
| | do not want you To think that l
thave not been appreciative- OF the eN-
| traordinarily generous reception winch
was given to nae on the other side, In
! saving that it makes me very happy
TO get home again. ] do not mean TO
say THAT [ WIS not very deeply touened
by the cries tha5 came from the great
crowd, on the older side. But / want
to say 10 you in all honesty that / felt
l<hem to be a call OF greeting 20 y00
rather than to me.
did not feel that the greeting WAS
personal l had IN my heart the over
crowding pride of being your repre-
sentative and of receiving the plaudiis
of men everywhere who felt that your
hearts beat with theirs in the cause OF
liberty.
There was no installing the tone IN
the voices of those great crowds. II
was not tone of mere greeting. 1t
was not a tone of mere generous wei
come it was the calling of comrade TO
comrade, the cries that come 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 a new world was
constructed upon IA new basis and
foundation of justice and right"
l can't tell you the inspiration that
came from the sentiments that came
crowd And the proudest thing l have
TO report to you is that this great
country of ours is trusted throughout
the world.
I have not come TO report the pro-
ceedinss or the results of the proceed
ings of the peace conference; mat
would be premature.
/ can say that / have received very
happy impressions from this CONFER
ence: the impression that while there
are many differences of judgment,
while there are some divergences OF
object. there is, nevertheless. com
mon spirit and common realization
of the necessity of setting up new
standards of right in the world.
Not Masters, but Servants.
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 peo-
ple has awakened to a new purpose
and a 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.
The conference seems to you TO &c
slowly; from day to day in Paris II
seems to go slowly; but l wonder il
YOU realize the cOmplexity of the task
which it has undertaken? 1t seems as
if the settlements of the war AFFECT
and affect directly, every great, ana
sometimes think every small, nation II
the world, and no one decision car
prudently be made which is not prop
erly linked in with the great series o.
other decisions which must accompan!
it. And it must be reckoned in will
the final result if the real quallt.
and character of that result Is to b'
properly judged.
What we are doing is to hear TIN
whole case; hear it from the mouths
| of the men most interested; hear !
| from those who are officially commits
| stoned to state it: hear the riva
| claims. hear the claims that affec
| new areas of the world, that aifec
new commercial and economic connet
| tions that have been established b.
the great world war through whic
we have gone.
Claims Of Nations Moderate.
have been struck by the moderate
ness of those who have representa-
national claims. l can testify that
have nowhere seen the CLEAN of pas
| sion. l have seen earnestness, l hav
seen tears come to the eyes of me-
who pleaded for downtrodden peopl
whom they were privileged to spea
for: but they were not the tears o
anguish, they were the tears of arden
hope.
And don't see how any man can fa
to have been subdued by these pleas
subdued to this feeling, that he wa
not there to assert an individual juds
ment of his own, but to try to assis
the cause of humanity.
In the midst of it all, every mteres
seeks out first of all when ii reache
Paris the representatives of the Uni
ed States. Why? Because. and
think | am stating the most wOnde
full fact In histOry-because there
no nation In Europe that suspects tn
motive of the United States.
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