The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1919-02-28
WORLD HAS FAITH
IN UNITED STATES
President Defends League Of
Nations Before Large Aud.
fence at Boston.
WANTS THE PEOPLE TO DECIDE
Executive Challenges Opponents Of
Plan to Test American Sentiment
America Must Not Fail.

Boston, Feb. 25.-President Wilson
was the guest OF Boston yesterday.
The city was not alone, however. in
extending to the chief executive a vel
come home from his labors at the
peace conference in Paris, for thou
sands Of persons, from all parts OF
New England, arrived on early trains
TO swell the throng In the streets
through which he passed on his way
from Commonwealth Pier to his hotel
in the Back Bay District.
President Wilson in his address at
Mechanics Hall spoke as follows:
Governor Coolidge, Mr.. Mayor, Eel.
low Citizens: wonder If you are half
as glad to see me as l am to see you.
1t warns my heart to see a great body
Of my fellow citizens again, because in
some respects during the recent
months have been very lonely indeed
without your comradeship and cOun.
sci, and / tried at every step of the
work which fell to me to recall what
l was SURF would be your counsel with
regard to the great matters which
were under consideration.
Il do not want you to think that |
have not been appreciative of the eI-
traordinarily generous reception which
was given to me on the other side, in
saying that it makes me very happy
TO get home again. | do not lea to
say that | was not very deeply touched
by the cries hat come from the great
crowds on the other side. But | want
to say to you in all honesty that felt
them to be a call Of greeting to you
rather than to me,
81 did not feel that the greeting was
personal. ! had in my heart the over
browning pride OF being your repre-
sentative and\of receiving the plaudits
OF men everywhere who felt that your
hearts beat with theirs in the III OF
liberty. There was no mistaking the
tone in the voices Of those great
crowds. 1t was not a tone Of mere
greeting, it was not a tone Of mere
generous welcome; 1t was the calling
Of comrade to conrade, the cries that
come from men who say, we have
waited for this day when the friends
OF liberty should come across the sea
and shake hands with us, to see that
Il new world was constructed upon a
new basis and foundation OF justice
and right
81 cant tell you the inspiration that
came from the sentiments that come
out OF those simple voices of the
crowd. And the proudest thing | have
TO report to you il that this great coun-
try Of ours is trusted throughout the
world.
People the Masters.
81 have not come to report the re-
suits OF the proceedings Of the peace
conference: that would be premature.
| can say that / have received very
happy impressions from this confer,
ence; the impression that while there
are many differences Of judgment,
while there are some d~ivergences Of
object, there is nevertheless a spirit
and a common realization Of the ne
cessity of setting up new standards
Of right in the world.
Because the men who are in con-
ference in Paris realize as keenly as
any American can realize that they
are not the masters of their people;
that they are the servants Of their peo.
pie and that the spirit OF their people
has awakened 10 a new purpose and a
new conception OF their power to real
ize that purpose, and that no man dare
20 home from that conference and re-
port anything less noble than was eI-
pected of it.
The conference seems to you to go
slowly; from day to day in Paris 1t
seems to go slowly; but | wonder II
you realize the cCmpleIity OF the task
which it has undertaken. It seems as
If the settlements Of this war affect,
and affect directly, every great, and
sometimes think every small nation
in the world, and no one decision can
p~rudently be made which is not prop.
erly linked in with the great series OF
other decisions which must accom-
pany il, and il must be reckoned in
with the final result il the real quality
and character OF that result is to be
properly Judged.
Hearing Whole Case.
What we are doing is to hear the
whole case; hear it from the mouths
Of The men most interested; hear il
from those who are officially commits,
stoned to state IT,; hear the rival
claims: hear the claims that affect
new natloualities, that affect new
arcs Of the world, that affect new
com- ercial and economic connections
that have been established by the
great world war through which we
have gone. And ! have been struck
BY the moderateness Of those who
have represented national claims.
can testify that ! have nowhere seen
the CLEAN OF passion. have seen
earnestpess. have seen tears come
to the ewes Of men who plead for
downtrodden people whom they were
privileged to speak for; but they we're
not tina tears OF anguish, they were