Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-05-13
WILSON DENIES AMERICANS ARE
 MATERIAL|STS
Are Always Ready to Fight When Cause of Liberty
 is Imperiled.

IaflS, OdCuTudy, way IV.-T IcSi- dent Wilson, in his address today to the French Academy of Moral and Politicail Sciences, entered strong disclaimer of the idea that the Ameri- can people were largely materialists or dollar worshippers.
 "I have had in recent months one very deep sense of privelege," the president said. 'I have been keenly aware that there have been times when the peoples of Europe have not understood the people of the United States. We have been too often sup posed to have been devoted chiefly if not entirely to material enterprises. We have been supposed, in the com mon phrases, to worship the almighty dollar.
 "We have accumulated wealth, sir, we have devoted ourselves to mater ial enterprises with extraordinary success, but there has underlaih all of that, all the time, a common sense of humanity and common sympathy with the high principles of justice which has never grown dim in the field even of enterprise; and it has been my very great joy in these re- cent months to interpret the people of the United States to the people of the world.
 Spoke For People.
 "I have not done more, sir. have not uttered in my public capacity my own private thoughts.
 II have uttered what ] have known to be the thoughts of the great peo- pie whom represent. l have uttered the things that have been stored up in, their hearts and purpose from the time of our birth as nation."
 It was at this point that the presi- dent made his declaration that the American people who came into the world consecrated to liberty, were ready to cast in their lot in common with the lot of those whose liberty is threatened whenever the cause of liberty was seen to be imperilled.
 "This is the spirit of the people of the United States," he continued, land they have been privileged to send 100000 men over here to tell you so. It has been the great privilege not merely to tell you so in words, but to tell you in men and material. the pouring of their wealth and the of their blood"
 President Wilson alluded to his studies in the field of political science and of the attempts he had made Ito put into the words of learning the thought of nation, the attitude of people toward public affairs" He 
 Have Studied German.
 "A great many of my colleagues in American university life got their training, even in political science, as so many men in civil circles dd, in German universities. l have been ob- liged at various times to read d great deal of bad German, difffficult Ger man, awkward German, and l have been aware that the thought was awkward as the phrase, that the thought was rooted in a fundamental misconception of the state and of the political life of peoples. And it has been portion of my effort to disengagc the thought of American teachers from the mis- guided instruction which they had re- ceived on this side of the sea. Their American spirit anticipated most of them, as a matter of course, but the form of thought sometimes misled them. They speak too often of state as thing which would ignore the as thing which was pri- vileged to dominate the fortune of men by sort of inherent and sacred authority.
 "Now as an utter democrat, I have never been able to accept that view of the state. My view of the state is that it must stop and listen to what l have to say, no matter how humble 1 am, and that each has the right to have his voice heard and his counsel needed, insofar as it is worthy of him.
 Believes In Free Speech.
 "I have always been among these who believe that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, be-