New Britain herald., 1919-02-25

Hday follows:
3 t5overnor Coolidge, Mr. Mayor,
Fellow Citizens: ] wonder if you
Are half as glad to see me as am
No sec you. 1t warns my heart 10
Nsee a great body of my felloW-clu-
Fzens again, because, in some rcSpec's'
ssduring the recent months l have been
livery lonely indeed without your COM
/ radeship 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 con-
/ sidera ton.
| do not want YOU to think that l
| have not been apprcciativc Of the ex-
| traordinariIy generous reception
| which was given to nc on the other
side In saying that it makes me
very happy TO get home again, I do
! not mean to say that I was not very
! deeIlv touched by the cries that
| came from the great crowds on the
| other side. But I want TO say to you
| in all honesty that l felt them to be
| a call Of greeting to YOU rather than
| to me.
I did not feel that the greeting was
| personal. l had in my heart the
! over-croWning pride Of being your
| representative and of receiving the
| plaudits of men everywhere who felt
| that your hearts beat with theirs in
! the cause Of liberty. There was no
| mista king the tone in the voices Of
| those great crowds. 1t was not
! tone Of mere greeting, it was not
| tone of mere generous welcome: it
was the calling of comrade to COM
| rade the cries that come from mon
who say. We have waited for this
| Il Erie
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"
/ can't tell you the inspiration that
| came from the sentiments that came
| out of those simple voices of the
crowd. And the proudest thing [
| have to report to you is that this
| great country of ours is trusted
| throughout the world.
Servants Of Their Peoples.
have not come to report the pro-
ccedings or the results Of the proceed
| ings of the Peace Conference; that
| would be premature. | can say that
| ! have received very happy impress
| sions from this conference; the i'm
| preston that, while there are many
differences of judgment, while there
are some EMERGENCIES of object, there
is, nevertheless, a common spirit aud
a common realization of the necessity
of setting up new standards of right
in the world.
Because the men who are in confer
! ence in Paris realize as keenly as any
/ American can realize that they are not
the master Of their people: that the,
are the servants Of their. people, and
that the spirit Of their people has
awakened to a new purpose and Il
new conception of their power to rca-
lie that purpose. and that no man
dare 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 it
| seems to go slowly: but I wonder if
YOU realize the completely of the task
which il has undertaken. It seems as
if the settlements of this war affect
and affect directly, every. great, and
I sometimes think every small. nation
in the world, and no one decision can
pludently be made which is not pro-
perly linked in with the great series
| of other decisions which must ac-
| company it, and it must oc reCkoned
in with the final result If the real
quality and character of that result is
/ TO he properly judged.
| 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 ma
| tiona!ties, that affect new areas Of
! the world, that affect new commercial
| and economic connections that have
| been cSta blished by the great world
| war through which we have gone
| And | have been struck by the moder-
| atcness of those who have represented
! national claims. I can testify that |
| have nowhere seen the gleam of pas
/ sion. I have seen earncstnes | have
| seen tears come to the eyes of men
who plead for downtrodden people
whom they we're privileged to speak
for; but they were not the tears of
| anguish. the we're the tears of ardent
| hope.
And ! 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 individual
| judgment of his own but to try to
! assist the cause of humanity
None Suspects United States.
And in the midst of it ali, every in
terest seeks out, first of all, when it
aches Paris, the representative of
the United States. Why? Because
and I think I am stating the most
wonderful fact in history-because
there is no nation il Europe that
suspects the motives of the United
States.
| Was II :,
| thing seen before? Was there ever so
| me Eino- NV