Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-07-11
PRESIDENT AT
CARNEGIE HAIL.
Wilson Enthusiastically Greeted
and His Speech Continuously
AppIauded.
CALLS PEACE TREATY JUST
New Task for the United States--Ds-
clares Pact Will Save World
5loodshed-AlIudes to Po-
iitical Foes.


New York, July 1o.-President VIII
son returned to the United States on
Tuesday and, in his first speech deliv-
cred on American soil since the peace
treaty was signed, declared that the
peace concluded at Paris was "a just
peace which. if it can be preserved,
will safeguard the world from unneees-
sary bloodshed."
The only reference the president
made to his political opponents was
when, in referring to the negotiations
at Paris, he said;
Il am afraid some people, some per-
sons, do not understand that vision.
They do not see it, They have looked
too much upon the ground"
The army transport George Wash
| ingtOn, on which he sailed from Brest,
! was escorted up the bay by the battle
/ ship Pennsylvania, and more than a
score of destroyers and smaller naval
craft.
On the New Jersey shore, the state
which first honored Mr.. Wilson with
/ political office, were massed 10000
schoolchildren, who welcomed the
chief executive of the nation with the
/ strains of the national anthem.
| Through the lines of the children, all
dressed in white, the president passed
to the ferry, which carried him to the
Manhattan side of the river, where he
was greeted by the official reception
committee, headed by Governor Smith
and Mayor Hylan.
From the ferry terminal 20 Carnegie
/ hail. a distance of about three miles,
the presidential party passed through
| streets lined with cheering thousands
of men. women and children. who
thronged the sidewalks and filled every
available space.
The president finished his speech
shortly after six O'clock and immedi-
ately departed for Washington. A train
had been held in waiting for him at
the Pennsylvania station.
The president was enthusiastically
| greeted at the hall and his speech was
continuously Interrupted with a2-
plause.
President Wilson'S speech at Carne-
gle hall, in part follows:
'Fellow cOuntrymen: | am not go
ing to try this afternoon to make you
a real speech l am bit alarmed to
find how many speeches | have in my
system undelivered but they are all
speeches that come from the mind and
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 extended to me is
half as great as that which l extend to
you Why, Jerseyman though l am,
this is the first time l ever thought
that Hoboken was beautiful.
81 have really. though / have tried
on the other side of the water to con
ceal it, been the most homesick man In
the American expeditionary force, and
it Is with feelings that II would be
vain for me to try to express that l
find myself In this beloved country
again. / do not say that because l
lack admiration of Other countries.
There have been many things that
softened my homesickness. One of the
chief things that softened ii was the
very generous welcome that they ex-
tended to me as your representative on
the other side of the water.
"And it was still more softened by
the pride that l had in discovering that
America had at last convinced the
world of her true character.
81 was welcome because they had
seen with their own eyes what Amer
len 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 a vision even more
beautiful than which they conceived
when they had entertained dreams Of
liberty and peace.
1T Is a privilege, therefore. beyond
all computation for a man, whether In
a great capacity or a small, to take
part in the counsels and In the resolu-
tons Of o people like this. am afraid
some people. some persons, do not un-
derstand that vision. They do not see
It. They have looked too much upon
the ground. They ave thought too
much Of the interests that were near
them and they have not listened to the
voices Of their neighbors. have never
aad a moments doubt as to where the
heart and purpose Of this people lay"