Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-25
DECLARES PEOPLES
OF WORLD DEMAND
HOPE Be FULFILLED
President Challenges Any
Man to Test Sentiment
Of America.
THOSE WHO RESIST TIDES
WILL GO DOWN, HE SAYS
Present Peace Cannot Stand Gen
Grafton Unless Guaranteed
by United Force.
SEES NO CLEAN OF AyARICE
Asserts Men at Peace Conference
Make Moderate Claims and
Passion Mover Noted.
SEES NO CLEAN OF AvAR1cr
Asserts Men at Peace Conference
Make Moderate Claims and
Passion Mover Noted.
fBy Associated Prcss

ST.
MECHANICS HALL, BOSTON. Feb.
24-Thc text of President Wilson's ad-
dress is as follows:
Governor Coolidge Mr.. Mayor. Eel,
low-Citizens: l wonder ii you are half
as glad to see me as 1 am TO see YOU.
1t warns my heart to see great body
OF my fellow citizens again. because.
IN some respects, during the recent
months I have been very lonely, in
deed. without your comradeship and
counsel. and l tried at every stem OF
inc work which fell TO me TO recall
via @ was sure would be your counsel
with regard to the great ma tiers which
were under consideration.
do not want you to think that, l
nave ,r,n,lH not i,s. neen appreciaiive Of the eS
was given to me on the other side, in
saying that 1t makes me very happy TO
get home again. l do not mean to
ty the cries. that came from the great
Groves on the other side. But want
,6y 20 say to YOU In al honesty that I,feit
yather than7t me. : :
DID NOT TAKE EURoPB,S
GREETING AS Personal
did not feel that the greeting was
crownins nrdo OF bsirs nsass xoan ine repse epse-
sentative and of receiving the Dlaudits
6a 6a men eSerywherG who felt. that your
crowds 1t was not a t. tone 0oS Of Inere mere
greeting; IL was not Il tone OF mere
generous welcome: it was the calling
come from men who say. I'VE have
waited for this day when the frfcnds
OF liberty should como across the sea
ana snake hands with US, to see that
new world was constructed upon a
and right"
can't tell you the inspiration tba,
came from the sentiments that come
out OF those simple voices of the
crowd or And the proudes; thing have
tho world.
HAS RECEIVED HAPPY
IMPRESSION FROM CONFERENCE
:. l have not come to report the pro-
ceedings OF the peace conferences; thar
would be premature. ] can say that
NAY nave received very happy Impressions
from mis- conference; the impression
mat. while there are many differences
or Judgment. while there are some di-
tyhorIRencies thaI.e OF object. there is never
realization OF the necessity OF setting
up new standa rds OF right in the world.
enes because az Sc the tn men who are in confer
American can realize that they are moi
masters ma . OF their people: that they arc
the the serirahts snirIi IS OF their people, and that
cned TO a new purpose and n new con
cept!on or their power to realiIe that
purpose, and that 10 man dare 60 hone
from that conference and irenort anw
thing less noble than was expected
CONFERENCE SEEMS
TO BE MOVING SLOWLY
The conference seems to you to go
slowly. From day to day in Paris il
seems TO go, slowly, but wonder if
whi you realize r. @ the sompiexity of the task
whicn IL mas undertaken. 1t seems as
II the settlements of this war affect.
and affect directly. every great. and
n s1hmet,mes PM mne;a think. every small, nation
prudcntly be made which is not pron
eriy linked in with the great series OF
i. And it must be reckoned in With
the final result If the real quality and
CHARACTER char. Of that result is TO be prop
What we are doing is to hear the
whole case: hear it from the mouths OF
the men most interested: hear it from
hear he ,io,dli, ths ,os claims that affect new
naaoni''iea; mereai aad 'sst afest new som
that have been established by the great
world war through which we have gone.
STRUCK ny MODERATIoN
OF CLAIMANTS GENERALLY
And have been struck by the mod
erateness or those who have represent
ed national claims. | can testify th:rt
have nowhere seen the CLEAN Of pas.
seen seen tears come TO the eyes Of men
who pleaded for downtroddcn people
whom they were privileged to speak
for, but they were not the tears of
anguish. they were the tears OF ardent
hope.
And I don't see how any man can
rail- tc have been. surrounded by these
pleas. subdued to this feeling that he
was not there to assert an Individual
judgment of his own. but to try 20 as
sist the case of humanity
And In the midst or IL all every in
terest seeks out first OF all. when it
reaches Paris. the representatives. OF
the United States. Why! Because. and
! think am stating the most wonder
full fact In history-kccause there
Is no nation In Europe that sus-
poets the motives OF the United States.
States.
WORLD HAS NEVER nEFORE
SEEN SUCH wONnERFUI. THING;
Was there ever SO wonderful alhinr
seen before? Was there ever so NOV
Ing thing? Was there ever any fact
that so hound the nation that had won
that esteem forever TO deserve II?
would not have you understand
that the great men who represent tho
other nations there in conferences are
diSestecmed BY those who know them.
Quite tho contrary But you under
stand that the nations OF Europe have
again and again clashed with one an