Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-09

| INtW NOTk, July D,-lne 1ull teNJ OF
President Wilson's speech at Carnegie
Hall yesterday follows:
Fellow Countrymen:
II am not going to try this afternoon to
make You real speech ] 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 | 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 grcat as that which l extend to
you. Why, Jerseyman though ] am.
this is the first time | ever thought
! that Hoboken was beautiful.
II have really, though | have trietl
on the other side of the water to con
ceal it, been the most hnmcsick man in
the American cxpcditiouary 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. ] do not say that because
lack in admiration of other countries.
Enjoys Generous Welcome
There have been many things that
softened my homesickncss. One of the
chief things that softcncd it was the
very generous welcome that they ex-
tended to me as your representative
on the othof side of the water. And
! il was still more softcnrd by the pride
that | had il discovering that America
had at least convinced the world of her
true character d.
II was welcome because they had
seen With their twn eyes what America
had don, for the world They had
deemed hcf selfish. They had deemed
her devoted to material interCsts-and
they had seen her boys come across
the water with vision even more
bcautiful than that which they con
ccivcd when they had entertained
dreams of liberty and of peace.
And then I 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 bad taken them over, with
ont whom they could not have got to
Europe. and then when ! got there
I saw that army of men, that army of
clean men, that army that one was
glad to point ont aud say, These are
my fellow countrymcn.
Americans at Home Abroad
at softens the homesickness SooG
deal to have so much OF home along
| with you, and these boys were con
: stanty reminding me of home. They
did not walk the streets like anybody
l else. | do not mean that they walked
! the streets self assertivply. They did
, not; they walked the streets as if they
knew they belonged wherever free men
) lived that they were welcome in the
great republic of France and were con
nected with the other armies that had
helped to win the great battle and to
, show the great sacrifice. Because it is
wonderful thing for this nation.
hitherto isolated from the large AFFAIRS
of the world, to win not only the UNI =
versal confidence of the people or the
, world. but their universal affections:
"And that. and nothing less than
that. is what happened. Wherever II
was suggested that troops should De
{ sent and ii was desired that troops VI
occupation should excite no preJudl'e
no uneasiness on the part or those ~
whom they were sent, the men "n'
: represented the other nations came u
" me and asked me to send Amerlvat
= soldiers. They not only implled' pu'
r thpv said, that the presence or Amer
/. can soldiers would be known not u
d mean anything except friendly protrc'
r tior and assistance Do you wohuP'
: that it made our hearts swell Win prl"'
q to realize these things!
a But while these things in some u'
gree softCncd my inconsistencies '"''
s made me all the more eager TO get NOM
II where the rest of the folks nVe' I" ~
home where the great dynamo OF Il"
tional energy was situated; 10 se' n'"'
: where the great purposes OF ma,
Q action were formed, and to b" ailoWe'
a 70 take part in the counsels ana III 'n
:. octiors which were formed and 10 o
n taken by this great nation. when IRON
II first to last has followed the vision o
h tho mon who set it up and created II
u Never Doubted L. S. Stand
II I'VE have had our eyes very CLOS
upon our tasks at times, but wh"heE'
n we lifted them, as we were accuStoihe'
Y n lift them to a distant horizon, W
'r were aware that all the peoples OF tn
,r earth had turned their faces toward u
as those who were the friends of free
is dom and of right, and whenever W
D. thought of national policy and of it
h relation upon the affairs of the worl
h ve knew we were under bonds to Il
lc thp large thing and the right thing.
x "It is privilege, therefore, b"yon
m If ,,n,,t,tion for n man. whether i
id great capacity or a small, to tax
part in the counsels and in the rcsolu
r. tions of a people like this. am atfa'
ly some people, some persons, do nc
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