Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
WILSON'S NEW YORK SPEECH

who utter the criticisms have never
felt the great pulse of the heart of
the world.
Critics Appear Blind
And l am amazed-not alarmed.
put amazed that there should be in
some quarters such cemprehen-
stve ignorance of the state of the
world. These gentlemen do not know
What the mind of men is just now.
Everybody else does. l do not know
where they have been closeted; l do
not know by what influences they
have been blinded; but l do know
that they have been separated from
the general currents of the thoughts
of mankind.
And want to utter this solemn
warning. not in the way of a threat;
the forces of the world do not
threaten, they operate. The great
tides of the world do not give notice
that they are going to rise and run;
they rise in their majesty and over
whelming might, and those who
stand in the way are overwhelmed.
Now the heart of the world is awake
and the heart of the world must be
satisfied.
DO not let yourself suppose for a
moment that the uneasiness in the
populations of Europe is due en-
tireiy to economic causes or economic
motives. Something very much deep
er underlies it all than that.
They see that their governments
have never been able to defend them
against intrigue or aggression, and
that there is no force of foresight or
OF prudence in any modern cabinet
to stop war. And therefore they say:
There must be some fundamental
cause for this and the fundamental
cause they are beginning to perceive
to be that nations have stood singly
or in little groups against each other,
fostering prejudice, increasing the
danger of war, rather than concert
ing measures to prevent it; and that
| If there is right in the world, if there
is Justice in the world. there is no
reason why nations should be divid-
ed In the support of justice.
Think of Men and Women
They are therefore saying If you
really believe that there is a right.
If you really believe that wars ought
to be stopped stop thinking about
the rival interests of nations, and
think about men and women and
children throughout the world.
Nations are not made to afford
distinction to their rulers by way of
success in the maneuvers of politics;
nations are meant, If they are meant
for anything, to make the men and
women and children in them secure
and happy and prosperous, and no
nation has the right to set up its
special interests against the inter-
ests and benefits of mankind, least
of all this great nation which we
love.
World Counts OH U. S.
''It was set up for the benefit of
mankind; it was set up to illustrate
the highest ideals and to achieve the
highest aspirations of men who
wanted to be free, and the world
the world of to-day believes that and
counts on us, and would be thrown
back into the blackness of despair
IL we deserted it.
Il have tried once and again, my
fellow citizens, to say to little circles
of friends or to larger bodies, what
seem to be the real hope of the peo-
pies of Europe, and tell you frank
ly I have not been able to do so be-
cause when the thought tries to
crowd itself into speech, the pro-
found emotion of the thing is too
much; speech will not carry. I have
felt the tragedy of the hope of those
suffering peoples.
"It is tragedy because it is a hope
which cannot be realized in its per-
fection, and yet 1 have felt besides
its tragedy, its compulsion, its COM
pulsion upon every living man to ex-