Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-02-28
PRESIDENT BRINGS !.
MESSAGE TO PEOPLE
WILSON DECLARES THAT UNITED
STATES is NOW TRUSTED
BY WHOLE WORLD.
Regarded as Friends Of Liberty, Com
ing Across the Sea to See That New
World is cOnseerated on Basis
Of Justice and Right

BOstOn.-In an address at Mechan-
les Hall Monday afternoon, February
"a, President Woodrow Wilson, who
had just returned from his European
rip. made the declaration that the
United States is trusted by the world
The presidential party reached the
hall at 2 80, and as the party reached
the outer doors battery of guns In
the railway yards at the rear of the
hall fired a presidential salute of
twenty-One guns, while inside the hall
the band struck up Hail to the Chief"
The preliminaries were brief. John
Mccormack sang 1.-The Star Spangled
Banner" Mayor Peters welcomed the
president In the name of the city; and
Governor Coolidge extended the greet
ings of the commonwealth.
The president began by asking his
audience IL they could understand he
was as glad to see them as they were
TO see him and expressed apprecia-
ton of his reception.
His reception in Europe, he said, he
regarded as a welcome to 1.-The friends
of liberty" coming across the sea TO
see that new world was to be con-
secrated on the basis of justice ana
right.
Nation Trusted by World
1.-THE greatest thing I have to re-
port to yOu," said he, rs that this
great country of ours is trusted
throughout the world. have not
come to report on the l>rogress of the
peace conference. That would be pre-
mature.
1.-THE men who are In conference In
Paris realize they are not masters or
their people but servants of their
| people, and that no man will dare go
home from that conference and re-
port anything less than expected"
Speaking of the slow progress OF
the conference, the president reminded
his audience of the completely of the
problems affecting nearly every coun-
try In the world
what we are doing" he said, lis to
hear the whole case from those most
interested. I have heen struck by the
moderation of those representing ma
tional claims.
II have seen tears in the eyes of
men there pleading for a national
ambition, but they were not the tears
of anguish, they were the tears OF
ardent hope.
There is no nation In Europe that
suspects the course of the United
States. Was there ever such Won
derful thing before?
| tuo,tIA R4nt haxa x,naR n
that the men who represent the other
nations there are disesteemed. Quite
the contrary
The European statesmen, he said,
when unable to agree, were to resort
TO the nation known as the friend of
mankind.
The president related that American
soldiers were welcomed in all the
European countries.
II have been searching for the fun
damental fact that has brought Eu-
rope to believe in us. She seemed
for the first three years to believe
we felt we could make more by stay
ing out than going in. Then sudden
ly the whole verdict was reversed. II
was when they saw that America not
only held ideas, but acted Ideas, they
became the confirmed partlsans of
America and became converted TO
those ideas.
Europe ls Hopeful
NO" said the president, "this con
ference we have established calls for
something. The Europe left was full
Of hope. The Europe of the third year
of the war was sinking to a stubborn
desperation. They thought the end OF
the war would eventually be a resump
tion of the old 0sder. They never
dreamed 1t would be Europe OF set
tied peace.
.NOw all the peoples of Europe ara
buoyed up In the hope that all the
nations of the world shall unite theil
moral and physical forces that RICH
shall prevail. What would happen 4
America should fall the world of III
hope; all nations will be set up II:
hostile camps again and the men a
the peace conference will go home with
their heads upon their breasts because
they will haNe failed. We would leave
on the peace table nothing but moo
ern scrap of paper"
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American Army Deaths 1o7,444.