The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-03-26
AMERICA IS HOPE
OF THE WORLD
PRESIDENT WILSON TELLS OF
HARMONY IN PEACE
AIMS.
COMPLETELY Of PEACE TASK
"We Set This Nation to Make Men
Free, and Now We Will Make Men
Free" Said President Wilson in His
Boston Speech.

SSeo' SpSSSh.
BOston.-"We set this nation up to
make men free, and now we will make
men free" said President Wilson in
Mechanics Hall here i'm his address
since his return from Europe.
The president did not give any de-
tails of the peace conference in Paris,
but confined his speech to an explana-
ton and defense of the League of Ma
TONS
The presidents speech follows:
81 wonder if you are half as glad
to see me as l am to see you? Cap
plause. A voice, You betr)
1T warns my heart to see a great
body of my fellow-citizens again, be-
cause in some respects during the re-
cent months l have been very lonely
indeed without your cOmradeship and
counsel, and l tried at every step of
the work which fell to me to recall
what | was sure would be your coun-
sci with regard to the great matters
which were under consideration
81 do not want you to think that l
have not been appreciative of the ex-
traOrdinarily generous reception which
was given to me on the other side, i'm
saying that it makes me very happy to
get home again.
Il do not mean to say that l was
not very deeply touched by the cries
that came from the great crowds on
the other side, but / want to say to
you, in all honesty, that / felt them to
be call of greeting to you rather
than to me.
Pride In Representing America.
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 cause
of liberty.
"There was no installing the tone
In the voices of those great crowds. II
was not tone of mere greeting. Il
was not tone of mere generous well
come; 1t was the calling of cOmrade
to cOmrade, the cry that comes 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 a new world was
constructed upon new basis and
foundation of justice and right
II can't tell you the inspiration that
came from the sentiments that came
N fhnCn cir IL, h.
crowd And the proudest thing / have
to report to you is that this great coun-
try of ours is trusted throughout the
world.
No Report on Conference.
II have not come to report the pro-
ceedngs or the results of the pro-
ceedings of the peace conference
that would be premature.
Il 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 divergences of |
object, there Is, nevertheless, COM
mon spirit and a common realization |
OF the necessity of setting up new
standards of right in the world
Because the 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 |
the servants of their people, and that |
the spirit of their people has awakened |
to new purpose and new cOncep- |
tiOn of their power to realize that pur- |
pose and that no man dare 20 home |
from that conference and report any
thing less noble than was expected of |
It.
Completely of Peace Talk.
"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 complexlty Of the task
which IL has undertaken.
ut seems as II 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 be made which is
not properly linked in with the great
series of other decisions which must
accompany IL, and Ii must be reckoned
on the final result II the real quality
and character Of that result is to be