Republican farmer., 1919-02-28
TEXT OF THE PRESIDENTS
 SPEECH AT BOSTON

 you. It warns heart great body of fellow-ctzens again, because, in some respects, indeed without your comradeship and counsel; and tried at step of the work which fell to me to recall what l would be counsel with regard to the great matters which were under con
 I do not want you to think that have not been appreciave of the extraordinarily generous recep- ton which given the other side. In saying that it makes me very happy get home again. I do not mean to say that l was not very deeply touched by the cries that came from the great in all honesty that felt them to be call of greet ing to you rather to m
 did feel that the greeting was personal. I had in heart the over-crowning pride of being your representative and of receiving the plaudts Of everywhere who felt that your hearts beat with ing the tone in the voices of those great crowds IL not a tone. of mere greeting, 1t was not tone of mere generous welcome; it was the calling of comrade comrade, the cries that come from men who say, We have waited for this day, when the shake hands with us, to see that new world was constructed upon new basis and foundation of jus
 I can't tell you the inspiration that came from the sentiments that come out of those simple of the crowd. And the proudost thing I have to port is that this great country of ours is
 servants of Their Peoples
 have not come to report the proceedings or the results of the proceedings of the Peace Conference; that would be premature. can say that have received very happy impressions from this confer enee the impression that while there are many olI- ferences of judgment, while there some diver gences of object, there is, nevertheless, a common spirit and common realization or the necessity or setting standards of right in the world
  realize keenIy any American realize that they the masters of their people; that they of their people has awakened a purpose and conception of their power to realize that pur- pose, and that dare home from that con ference and report anything less noble than was ex
 The conference seems to you to go slowly; day day in Paris it seems to slowly but won der if you realize the compeNty of the task which undertaken. It if the settlements of affect and affect directly, great, and sometimes think every small. nation in the world
 
 properly linked in with the series of other reckoned in with the final result if the real quality and character of that result is to be properly judged
 What we are doing Is to near the whole case the mouths of the most interest ed hear it from those who officially commIs- stoned to state H. hear the rival calIls' near the claims that affect natiouaites, that affect 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 have been struck by the noderateness of those who have represented national claims. l testify that have nowhere seen the gleam of passion. have earnestness. have seen tears to the whom tbey were privileged to speak for; but thev were not the tears of anguish, they were the tears
 And don't see how any fail been subdued by these pleas subdued this feeling. that he not there to assert an individual judg- ment of his but assist the cause of hu-
 None Suspects United States
 And, in the midst of it all, every interest seeks out first of aI when it reaches Paris the represen tatives of the United Why? Because-and think am stating the most wonderful fact in his tory-because there is no nation in Europe that
 
 Was there ever so wonderful a thing seen be- fore? Was there ever moving thing? Was there ever any fact that so bound the nation that had won that esteem forever to deserve it?
 I would have you understand that the great who represent the other nations there ference dsesteemed by those who know them. Quite the contrary But you understand that the tions of Europe have again and again clashed with another in competitive interest It is impossible for forget those sharp issues that drawn between times past impossible for men to believe that all ambitions have all of a sudden been foregone. They remember territory that coveted; they remember rights that it attempted to eHtort; they remember political ambitions which that men have come into different temper, they forget these things, they not resort to one another for dispassionate view of the mat ters in controversy. They resort that nation has won the enviable distinction of being regarded
 whenever it is desired to send a small force of occupy a piece territory, whe t is thought nobody else will be welcome, they ask for be looked upon with suspicion and perTans met Win resistance, the American soldier is welcomed with acclaim
 I have had many grounds for pride on other side of the water that thankful that tonal pride. If they were grounds for personal pride I'd be the most stuck-uD man in the world
 And 1t has been an infinite pleasure to me to see those gallant soldiers of ours, of whom the Consti- tuition of the United States made me the proud I commanded the 26th Division, the American soldier, with the feeling that in prais- him he is subtractng from the credit of
 They Saw America Acted Ideals
 I been searching for the fundamental that converted Europe believe war, Europe did believe a she does did believe in throughout the first three years of the She really have believed that holding off because thought could make by staying out than by going in And, all of a sudden in a short eighteen months whole verdict is reversed There be explanation for it They what did-that without making a single claim put all all the disposal of those who fighting their homes, in the first instance, for a cause, the of human rights and justice went in. not to support their national claims, but to support the great which they held And when they that America not only ideals acted ideals they verted o became firm partsans of those