The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-03-01
MUST LET The
PEOPLE DECIDE
OPINION OF ALL AMERICA WILL
BE HEARD IN DECISION
ON PEACE LEAGUE.
ALL FRIENDLY TO U. S.
WILSON DELIVERS SPEECH AT
MECHANICS HALL IN BOSTON
TO BIG CROWD.
Western Newspaper Union News Service

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Boston, Feb. 24.-President Wilson
made the following speech at Mechan-
les Hall in Boston, after landing from
his trip back from Europe.
Governor Coolidge. Mr.. Mayor. Fell
low Citizens:
"I wonder IL you are half as glad to
see me as 1 am to see you. 1t warns
my heart to see a great body of my rel
low citizens again. because in some re-
spects during the recent months nave
been lonely indeed without your COM
radeship and counsel and tried at eV-
cry step of the work which fell TO me
to recall what was sure would De
your counsel with regard to the great
matters which were under considera-
ton.
II do not want you to to think that
1 have not been appreciative OF the eA-
traordinary generous reception which
was given to me on the other side, IN
saying that IL makes me very happy 70
get home again. L 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 l want want
to say to you in all honesty that felt
them to be a call OF greeting to you
rather than to me.
II did not feel that the greeting was
personal. j had in my heart the over
browning pride of being your repre-
sentative and of receiving the plaudits
of men everywhere who felt that your
hearts beat with theirs In the cause OF
liberty.
There was no mistaling the tone in
the voices of those great crowds. II
was not tone of mere greeting, IL was
not a tone of mere generous welcome
it was the calling OF comrade to com
rade, the cry that comes from men VINO
say. We have waited for this day wnen
the friends OF liberty should come
across the sea and shake hands with
us. to see that a new world was con-
structed upon a new basis and founda-
ton of justice and right
"I can't tell you the inspiration that
came from the sentiments that came
out of those simple voices in the
to report to you is that this great
country. of ours is trusted throughout
the world.
IT have not come to report the pro-
ings of the peace conferences; that
would be premature. 1 can say that l
have received very happy impressions
from this conference.-the Impression
that, while there are many differences
of judgment, while there are some di-
vergencies of object, there is. never
theless. 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 con
lean 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 n new purpose and new conception
of their power to realize that purpose,
and that no man dare go home from
that conference and report anything
less noble than was expected of II.
THE conference seems to you to go
slowly. from day to day In Paris II
seems to go slowly; but 1 wonder If
you realize the completely of the task
which it has undertaken. 1t seems as
and affect directly, every great-and.
/ sometimes think, every small-nation
in the world, and no one decision can
be made which is not properly linked
in with the great series of other deci-
sions which must accompany 1t. and 1t
must be reckoned on with the final re-
suit, If the real quality and character
of that result is to be properly judged.
What we are doing is to hear the
whole case; hear II from the mouths
of the men most interested; hear it
from those who are officially commits
Stoned to state 1T: hear the rival
claims hear the claims that affect new
nationalities. that affect. new areas
of the world, that affect new COM
mercial and economic connections that
world war through which we have
gone.
erateness of those who have presented
national claims. can testify. that 1
believe I have nowhere seen the CLEAN
OF passion. l have seen earnestness;;
/ have seen tears come to the eyes of
men who pied for down. rodden peo-
pies whom they were privileged to
speak Tor. out they were not the tears
OF anger. they We're the tears of ar
dent hope.
81 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 judg-
ment of his. own. but to try to assist
the cause of humanity.
And in the midst OF 1t all every in
terest seeks out, first OF all. when It
rsr sfot the of
and think / am stating the most WON
derful fact in history-because there
is no nation in Europe that suspects
the motives of the United States.
thing seen before? Was there ever
moving a thing? Was there ever
had won that esteem forever to de-
~ would not have you understand
that the great men who represent the
disesteemed by those who know them.
Quite the contrary. But you under
stand the countries of Europe have
again and again clashed with one an
impossible for men to forget the sharp
issues that were drawn between them
In past times
ut 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 1t was attempted
to extort: they remember political am
billions which II was attempted to real
ize, and while they believe that men
have come into different temper, they
cannot forget these things and so they
do not resort to one another for a dis
passionate view of the matters in con-
troversy. They resort to that nation
which has won the enviable distinction
Prince Leopold Held for Crime.