Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-24
America Hope Of the World, President Declares
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH

Governor Coolidge. Mr.. Mayor,
Fellow Citizens:
II wonder II you are half as glad
to see me as I am to see you.
(Applause.) "a voice, You bet.)
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 counsel, and
tried at every step Of the work
which fell to me to recall what
was sure 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 appreciatiye Of
the extraordinarily generous re-
ception which was given to me on
the other side, in saying that 1t
makes me very happy to get home
again.
MEANT FOR AMERICA.
~ 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 ! felt them to be a call Of
greeting to you, rather than to me.
Il did not feel that the greeting
was personal. had In my heart
the over crowning pride of being
your representative, and of receiv-
ing the plaudits Of men every
where who felt that your hearts
beat with their in the cause of
liberty. There was no mistaking
the tone in the voices of those
great crowds. 1t was not tone
of mere greeting, 1t was not tone
of mere generous welcome; 1t was
the calling of comrade to COM
rade, 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 q
new world was constructed upon a
new basis and foundation of Jus
tlce and right / can't tell you
the inspiration that came from the
sentiments that came out of those
simple voices in the crowds. And
the proudest thing I have to re-
port to you is that this great coun-
try of ours is trusted throughout
the world.
NOT OF CONFERENCE
~ have not come to speak Of the
proceedings or the results of the
peace conference; that would be
premature. ! can say that ! have
received very happy impressions
from this conferences; the impress
sion that while there are many diff
ferenees Of judgment, while there
are some divergencies of objects,
there is, nevertheless, common
spirit and a common realization of
the necessity of setting up new
standards Of support in the world.
Because the men who are in
conference realize as keenly as any
American 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 a new pur-
pose and new conception of their
power to realize that purpose and
that no man dare go home from
that conference and reort anything
less noble than was exected of it.
ALL WORLD AFFECTED
: "The conference seems to you to
go slowly; from day to day in Parts
1t seems to go slowly; but wonder
If you realize the complexity Of the
task which 1t has undertaken. 1t
seems as IL the settlements Of this
war affect, and affect directly, ev-
cry great, and 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 1t, and 1t must be
reckoned on with the final result,
If the real quality and character Of
that result Is to be properly Judged.
What we are doing is to hear
the whole case; hear 1t from the
mouths Of the men most Interest,",
ed; hear it from the Sc who are Of
ficially commissioned to state It:
hear the rival claims; hear the
claims that affect new nationals
ties, that affect new areas of the
world, that affect new commercial
and economic connections that
have been established by the great
world war through which we have
gone. And I have been struck by
the moderateness of those who
have represented national claims.
~ can testify that bsiievs 1
have nowhere seen the slsap Of
passion. ! have seen sarnsstness.
have soon tears come to the
eyes Of mon who plead for down.
trodden peoples whom they were
privileged to speak for, but they
wore not the tears Of anger; they>
were the tears Of ardent hope.
v. 8. MOTIVES CLEAN.
don't see how any man can fail
to have been subdued by these
pleas, subdued to this feeling, that
he was not there to assert an indi-
vidual Judgment OF his own, but to
try to assist the cause OF human
ity.
And in the midst OF 1t all, every