The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1919-02-27
MUST LET THE
PEOPLE DECIDE
OPINION OF ALL AMERICA WILL
De HEARD IN DECISION
ON PEACE LEAGUE.
ALL FRIENDLY TO U. S.
WILSON DELIVERS SPEECH At
MECHANICS NALL IN sosTok
TO BIG CROWD.
Western Newspaper Union News Service

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Boston, Feb. 2a.-President Wilson
made the following speech at Mechan-
lcs Hall in Boston, after landing from
ais trip back from Europe.
Governor Coolidge. Mr.. Mayor. Eel.
iow Citizens:
\ wonder IL you are half as glad to
zee me as ! am TO see you. 1t warns
ny heart to see a great body OF my fei-
low citizens again. because in some re-
SpeCts during the recent months nave
1een lonely indeed without your com
-adeship and counsel and tried at ev-
cry step Of the work which fell to IN"
20 recall what | was sure would be
your counsel with regard to the great
matters which were under considcra-
Ion.
Il do not want you to to think that
. have not been appreciatiVc OF the cN-
.Iaordinary generous reception which
1as given to me on the other side. in
saying that it makes me very happy to
get home again. ! do. not mean to say
shst ! was not very deeply touched by
The cries that came from the great
srowds on the other side. But l want
20 say to you in all honesty that felt
lhsn to be call of greeting to you.
Athsr than to me.
Il did not feel that the greeting was
personal. ! had in my heart the over
brow ming pride of being your repre-
sentative. and of receiving the plauditS
9f men everywhere who f"lt that your
hearts beat with theirs in the caus" Of
iberty.
There was no mistaking the tone in
she voices of those great crowds. 1t
vas not n tone of ni'rc greeting, ii was
1ot tone of mcr. generous welcome.
u was the calling of conrad" /" com
cAde. the cry that comes from men who
say, We have waited for this day when
she friends of liberty should come
across the sea and shake hands with
us, to Sc" that n new world was con-
structed upon new basis and founda-
:ion Of justic" and right
Il can't tell you the inspiration that
came from tn" sentiments that came
out of those simpl" voices in the
crowds. And the proudcst thin- | have
- report to you is that this great
country of ours is trusted throughout
ehe world.
Il have not come to report the pro-
Jeedings or the results of the proceed
lnSs Of the peace conference that
you'd be premature. | can say that
nave received very happy Impressions
from this conference.-the Impression
That, while there ar" many differences
Of Judgment, Will" there are some d.
serSencies of object, ther" is. never
eheless, a common spirit and "A common
-salization Of the necessity of setting
1p new standards Of right in the world.
Because tn" men who are in con-
ference realize as keenly as any Amer
lean can realize that they are not the
masters of their people, that they are
che servants of their people. and that
lhe spirit of their people has awakened
20 new purpose and new conception
sf their power to realize that purpose.
and that no man dare go home from
that conference and report anything
.sss noble than was expected of it.
The conference seems to you to go
,lowly, from day to day In Paris It
you realize the complexity Of the task
which 1t has undertaken. 1t seems as
" the settlements of this war affect
and affect directly. every great-and.
Ia the world. and no one decision can
De made which is not properly linked
n with the great series Of other deci-
dons which must accompany it, and it
must be reckoned on with the final re
gult, If the real quality and character
II that result is to be properly Judged.
What W" ar" doing is to hear the
Ehole case; hear it from the mouths
y the men most Interested; hear it
from those who arc officially commits
stoned to state it; hear the rival
claims: hear the claims that affect new
1ationaiities. that affect new areas
Of the world. that affect new COM
Eercial and economic connections that
have been established by the great
rorld war through which we have
gone.
And have been struck by the mod
eTatcness of those who have present d
national claims. can testify that |
believe | have nowhere seen the glean
Of passion. ! have seen carnestncss,
: have seen tears come to the eyes of
men who pied for down-troddcn pco-
pies whom they were privileged 70
speak for, but they were not the tears
Of anger. they were the tears of ar
dent hope.
y don't see how any man can fail
20 have been subdued by these pleas
suhausd to this feeling, that he was
not th"rc to assert an individual iudg-
Eent of his own. but to try to assist
she cause of humanity.
And in the midst Of ii all every in
:er"st seeks out. first OF all. when II
reaches Paris. tn" representatives of
khe United States. why? because
teriui fact in history-hecausr there
Is no nation in Europe that suspects
The motives Of the United States.
hn ~een emero Serors ey"r W,s 70 "%ndarfui
moving a thing? Wns there. ever
any fact that SO bound the nation that
mad won that esteem forever to de-
Bcry" it,
Il would not have you undcrptspd
chat the great men who represent tho
other nations thor. in conference arc
d!s"ste.med by those who know them
Quit" the contrary. I;ut you under
stand the countries of Europe have
again and again cIashcd with one an
other IN comp"titiv" interests. 1t is
Impossible for men to forget the shs rr
issues that were drawn between then,
IN past times.
TT is impossible for men to believe
that all ambitions have all Of a sud
den been foreGonc, They remember
territory that was coveted: they re-
member rights that IT was nttcmpted
10 eEtort: they remember political am
otttons which Il WIS attempted to real
ixe and Will" th"y believe that men
have come into different temper, they
cannot forgot these things and so they
DO not resort to one another for n dj is
passionate view OF tn" matters in con
trovorsy. They resort to that nation
which has won tho enviabla distinction
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