Arizona republican., 1919-02-25
COMPLETE TEXT OF PRESIDENT
 WILSON'S BOSTON ADDRESS

I It warns my heart to see a great body of my fellow citizens again. because in some respect during the recent months 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 I was sure would be your counsel with regard to the great matters which were under consideration.
 l do not want you to think that I have not been appreciative of the ex- traordinarily generous reception which was given to me on the other side. in saying that it makes me very happy to get home again. l do not mean to say that I 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 l felt them to be a call of greet ing to you rather than to me.
 T did not feel that the greeting was personal l had in my heart the over crowding pride of being your repre- sentative and of receiving the plaudits of men everywhere who felt that vour hearts beat with theirs in the cause of liberty. There was no mistaking the tone in the voices of those great
 
 greeting; it was not a tone of mere generous welcome; it was the calling of comrade to comrade, 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 a new world Wos constructed upon a new basis and foundation of justice and right
 T can't tell you the inspiration that came from the sentiments that come out of those simple voices of the crowd And the proudest thing I have to re port 10 you is that this great country Of ours is trusted throughout the world ! nave not come to report the proceed ings or the results of the proceedine Of the peace conference. That womb be premature. [ can say that I have recelFed very happy impressions from this conference; the impression that while there are many differences of judgment; while there are some dj Nergences of object there is neverthe- less. a common spirit and a common reali@ation or the necessity of setting up new standards of right in the world
 Because the men who are in con ference in Paris realize as keenlv as
 +teAA Nfiii ifdAtLt, lildI IlpN are not the masters of their people. that they are the servants of their peo- pie and that the spirit of their people mas awakened to new purpose and 4 new conception Of their power, to re ailze that purpose and that no man oare go home from that conference and report anything less noble than was expected of it.
 The conference seems to you to so slowly; from day to day in Paris if seems to go slowly: but I wonder of You realize the complexity of the task which 1t has undertaken. II seems as t the settlements of this war affect and affect directly. every great and I sometimes think, everp small nation in the world, and no one decision can prudently be made which is not prop erly linked in with the great series of other decisions which must accompanv IT, Ahd It must be reckoned in with the ilnal result, If the real quality and erly judged. P''p-
 What we arc doing is to hear tbo whole cause. Hear if from tba n,o,tbs oI the men most interested. hear ii rom those who are officially commits stoned to state it: hear the rival clalms; hear the claims that affect new hatlonalities; that affect new areas of the world: that affect new commercial anu economic connections: that have peen established by the great world war through which We have gone. And nave been struck by the moderateness or those who have represented national cislns. l can testify that l have mo- Hhere seen the gleam of passion. T. nave seen earnestness; l have seen tears come to the eyes of men who pleaded for downtrodden people whom they were privileged to speak for. but they were not the tears of anguish. they were the tears of ardent hone
 Ana l don't see how any man can ISl 10 have been subdued by these pieaS, supdued to this feeling, that he was not there to assert an indiyiduaI ss.e inehl or ms own, but to try to as- sist the cause of humanity.
 And in the midst of if all evar,, interest seeks out first of all wben i, reaches Paris, the representatives of lhe United States. Why? Because ana l think l am stating the most won uerIul fact in histOry-because tbera l IS no nation in Europe that sIsnects {. .iie motives CT the United States.
 vas there ever so wonderful a lhlhg seen before? Was there ever an | moving thing? Was there eyer anv | ldct that so bound the nation that had | Non that esteem forever to deserve is |
 | would not have you understand | lnat the great men who represent tba ouler nations there in conference ara olsesteemed by those who know then quite the contrary. But you under | stand that the nations of Europe have ! again and again clashed with one an other in competitive interest. It is i'm. possible for men to forget those sharn issues that were drawn between them | m the past. It is impossible for men | 10 believe that all ambitions have ali ! pr sudden been foregone. They re- nember territory that was coveted lhey remember rights that it was af- t tempted 10 extort; they remember nol- 'lcal ambitions which it was attempt- eu 10 reallze-and while they believe t -hSt men nave come into a different .eniper' they cannot forget these things anu so tney do not resort to one anoth- sr TOT olspassionate view of the mat CTS Tn controversy. They resort to hat nation which has won the enviablo distinction of being regarded as the friend Of mankind.
 Whenever it is desired to send i. mai iorce of soldiers to occupy a piece T territory Where it is thought nobody ,ise VIII be welcome, they ask for Aineflcan soldiers. And where other 'oidiers would be looked upon with mad perhaps met with resist lnce. the American soldier is welcomaa with acclaim
 have had so many grounds for ,ride on the other side of the water nat l am very thankful that they arc ,ot grounds for personal pride. I'd be he most stuck up man in the world 'nd It has been an infinite pleasure to ne 10 see those gallant soldiers of ours 2 whom the constitution of the United ,tates made me the proud commander, OH may be proud of the 26th division ut commanded the 2gth division arS