The daily banner., 1919-07-09
THE PRESIDENT
HOME AGAIN
SAYS United States Will AID
th3 Weak.
CUTY TO MAINTAIN PEACE
MIR, Wilson Declares America VIII
! Lend a Hand to Nations She Help
ed to Set Free

MIR. Wilson Declares America viii
I Lend a Hand to Nations She Help.
ed to Set Free.
New York, July 9.-President Will
son returned from the peace confer
-ence in Paris, delivered an address IN
Carnegie Hail and then left for Wash
iHg,on.
The formulation of peace creates
new task" said President Wilson IN
his address. This is a just peace"
he added, (which if it can be presery-
ed. will save the world from unneces-
sary bloodshed The great task Will
be to preserve it. l have come back
with my heart full of enthusiasm, to
throw my influence in with you to see
that the peace is observed.
America will not fail TO lend her
hand in assistance to those she has
made free"
The presidents arrival was announc-
ed by the crashing strains of "Over
There" the tune which he made the
keynote of his speech in the Metropoll-
tan Opera House on the eve of his
departure for Europe last March. AS
he was about to take his seat after
the cheering had subsidized, Major Scott,
commander of the R-34, accompanied
by General Maitland, royal air force
observer on the dirigible, and General
Charlton, air attache of the British
embassy, were brought forward and,
introduced The president smilingly
shook hands with all three, while the
band played Hes Jolly Good Eel
low"
Following is the complete text of
the presidents speech:
The Presidents Address.
"Fellow Countrymen: am not 60
ing, to try this afternoon to make you
a real speech. I am a bit alarmed to
find how many speeches have in my
system undelivered, but they are all
speeches that come from the mind and
1 want to say to you this afternoon
only few words from the heart.
"You have made me deeply happy
by the generous welcome you have ex-
tended to me, but do not believe that
the welcome you extend to me is half
as great as that which I extend to
you. Why, Jerseyman though 1 am,
this is the first time I ever thought
that Hoboken was beautiful. l have
really, though have tried on the other
Gil af ho tn1 tn nnnana1 IL hnnn
the most homesick man in the Ameri-
can expeditionary force, and it is with
feelings that it would be vain for me
to try to express that / find myself
in this beloved country again.
81 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 representative on the
other side of the water, and 1t was
still more softened by the pride that
1 had in discovering that America had
at last convinced the world of her
true character.
''I was welcome because they had
seen with their own eyes what Ameri
ca 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 q vision even more
beautiful than that which they con-
ceived when they had entertained
dreams Of liberty and peace.
"And then had the added pride of
finding out by personal observation
the kind of men we had sent over. /
had crossed the seas with the kind of
men who had taken them over, without
whom they could not have got to Eu.
rope, 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-coun-
trymen.' 1t softens the homesickness
a good deal to have so much of home
along with you, and these boys were
constantly reminding men of home.
"They did not walk the streets like
anybody else. / do not mean that they
walked the street self-assertively.
They did not They walked the streets
as if they knew that they belonged
wherever free men lived, that they
were welcome in the great republic
of France and were comrades with
the other armies that had helped to
win the great Battle and to show the
great sacrifice
Won Confidence of the World.
Because it is wonderful thing for
this nation, hitherto isolated from the
large affairs Of the world to win not
only the universal confidence of the
people of the world, but their univer-
sal affection. And that, and nothing
less than that, is what has happened.
Wherever 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