Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-25
Nations Have Set Their Heads
to Great Work and They
Are Not Going to Stop Short
OF That Purpose.
PEOPLE NOW CONTROL
DESTINlES OF WORLD
Leaders in Europe as Well as
in America Now Realize
That They Are Servants of
the People They Rule.
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tsy MORNING IouRAsL SPECIAL .EAssn .vtsEl
Boston, Mass, Feb 24.---President
Wilson will fight at home as he has
fought abroad for league of nations.
Returning from France he has been
on American soil not more than three
hours before he threw down the
gauntlet to those who distrust the
proposed concert of governments
based, he said, on the American ideals
which had won the war for justice and
humanity.
An America confiding to her own
territories her conceptions and pur-
pose to make men free, he said, would
have to keep her honor "for those
narrow, selfish. provincial purposes
which seem so dear to some minds
that have no sweep beyond their
i nearest horizon
Before a responsive audience that
filled the biggest auditoriunn in the
city, theI president pictured the Old
World fighting with stubborn desper-
alton, and expecting in the end MOTH
ing better for the peoples than they
had known for centuries. He pic
tured the American nation entering
the lists with a new purpose-the
?
Glad 10 Be Daca.
Governor Coolidge. Mr. Mayor. Fell
low Citizens: | wonder II you are half
as glad to see me as | am to see you.
1t warns my heart to see 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 | tried at every step
OF the work which fell to me to re-
call what ! was sure would be your
counsel with regard to the great mat
ters which were under consideration.
| do not want you to think that |
have not been appreciative OF the
extraordinary generous reception
which was given to me on the other
side in saying that It makes me very
happy get home again. | do not
mean to say that was not very deep
ly touched by the cries that came
from the great crowds on the other
side. But want to say to you in all
honestly 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
overcrowding pride of being YOUR
representative and of Receiving the
paudits of man everywhere who felt
that your hearts beat with theirs in
the cause of liberty There was no
mistaking the tone in the voices of
those great crowds. II was not a
tone of mere greeting, it was not n
tone of mere generous welcome; 1t
was the calling of comrade to COM
rade, the cries that come from men
who say 1--WE have waited for this
day when the friends of liberty should
come across the sea and shake hands
With us, to see that q new world was
constructed upon a new basis and
foundation of justice and right.
| can't tell you the inspiration that
came from the sentiments that come
out of those simple voices of the
crowd, And the proudast thing |
have to report to you is that this
great country of ours is trusted
throughout the world l have not
come to report the proceedings or
the results of the proceedings of. the
peace conference That would be pre-
mature. | can say that ! have re-
ceived very happy impressions from
this conference; the impression that
while there are many differences of
judgment, while there arel some di-
vergences Of object there is never
the less a common spirit and COM
mon realization Of the necessity OF
sitting up new standards of right III
the world.
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
people has awakened to a new pur-
pose and a new conception of their
power to realize that purpose and
chat no man dare go home from that
conference and report anything less
noble than was expected OF it.
Very Complex Tasks.
The conference seems to you to go
slowly; from day TO day in Paris it
seems to go slowly but ] wonder If
you realize the compleXity of the
task which it has undertaken. 1t
seems as If the settlements of this
war affect and affect directly, every
great, and | sometimes think every
small nation in the world, and no one
decision can prudently be made
which is not properly linked in with
the great series of other decisions
which must accompany it. And 1t
must be reekoned in with the final
result If the real quality and char
acter of that result is to be properly
judged
What we are doing is to hear the
whole cause. Hear ii from the
mouths Of men most Interested: hear
it from those who are officially COM
missioned to state 1t. hear the rival
claims: hear the claims that affect