The Ordway new era., 1919-03-07
OPINION OF ALL AMERICA WILL
BE HEARD IN DECISION
ON PEACE LEAGUE.
ALL FRIENDLY TO U. S.
WILSON DELIVERS SPEECH AT
MECHANICS HALL IN BOSTON
TO BIG CROWD.
Western Newspaper Union News Service

Boston, Feb. 24.-Presidcnt Wilson
made the following speech at Mechan-
les Hall in Boston, after landing from
his trip back from Europe.
Governor Coolidge. Mr.. Mayor. Fell
low Citizens'
II wonder If you are half as glad to
see me us 1 am to see you. 1t warns
my heart to see IA great body Of my fel-
low citizens again. because in some re-
spects during the recent months l have
been lonely indeed without your com
and counsel and ! tried at cN-
-ry step of the work which fell to me
} recall what l was sure would be
our counsel with regard to the great
,atters which were under considera-
on.
"I do not want you to to think that
have not been apprcCiative of the eN-
'aordinary generous reception which
as given to me on the other side. in
wing that it makes me very happy to
ct home again. do not mean to say
lat / was not very deeply touched by
he cries that came from the great
'owds on the other side. But l want
say to you in all honesty that / felt
icm to be call Of greeting to you.
.ther than to mo.
81 did not feel that the greeting was
,rsoHal. had in my heart the over
owning pride Of being your repre-
intative. and of receiving the plaudits
men everywhere who felt that your
berty.
There was no mistaltinG the tone in
ie voices of those great crowds. 1t
as not a tone Of mere greeting, 1t was
1t tone of mere generous welcome.
was the calling Of Cumrade to COM
de, the cry that comes from mon who
y, 'Wo have wnItgd Tor this day when
friends OF liberty should come
ross the sea and shake hands with
l. to see that new world was con
ructed upon "a now basis and iuunua-
On Of Justice aud right
Il can't tell you the Inspiration that
me from the sentiments that came
Il of those slmpl" voices in the
owds. And the pTuudrst thing huve
report to you Is that this great
untry of ours is trusted throughout
world.
'I have not come to report the pro-
edlngs or the results of the proceed
1uld be premature. ] can say that
We received very happy Impressions
ON this conference.-the Impression
at while ther" are many differences
Judgment, while there are some d.
rgencies of object, there is, never
cless, common spirit and common
alization of tho necessity of setting
new standards of right in the world.
because the men who are in con-
renee realize ae keenly as any Amer
IN can realize that they are not the
lsters Of their people, that they are
G servants OF their people. and that
spirit of their people has awakened
ne" purpose ana n new
their power to realize that purpose.
that no man dare go home from
ut conference and report anything
IS noble than was expected of 1t.
"The conference seems to you to go
,wly. from day to day in Paris it
Ems to go slowly; but / wonder II
II realize the complexity of the task
itch it has undertaken. 1t seems as
the settlements of this war affect
affect directly, every great-and
ometmes think. every small-nation
.U1 a s.Ht zion IN
made which is not properly linked
with the great series Of other deci-
ms which must accompany 1t, and it
Ist be reckoned on with the final re-
I, If the real quality and character
that result is to be properly Judged.
What We are doing is to hear tn"
the men most interested; hear it
m those who are officially commits
ned to state it; hear the rival
tionalitics. that affect new areas
the world that affect new com
rcial and economic connections that
se been established by the great
rid war through which we have
And ! have been struck by the mod
teness OF those who have presented
.ional claims. ] can testify that |
icve ! have nowhere seen the CLEAN
passion. I have seen carnestness.
ave seen tears come To the eyes of
who Piled for down -trodden peo-
whom they We're, privileged to
nix for, but they were not the tears
anger they We're the tears of ar
don't see how any man can fail
have been subdued by these pleas.
dued to this feeling. that he was
there to assert an individual judS-
At Of his own, but to try to assist
cause Of humanity.
And in the midst of II all every in
,st seeks out. first Of all, when II
ghes Paris. the representatives of
United States. Why R"cause-
thini, am stating the most won
10 nation in Europe that suspects
motives Of the United States.
Was there ever go wonderful
~ seen before? Was there ever
movinr thing? Was there ever
fact That so bound the nation that
won that esteem forever to de-
re III
would not have you understand
that the great men who represent the
other nations there in conference are
by those who know them.
quite the contrary But you under
stand the countries of Europe have
again and again "lash"d with one an
other in competitive interests. II is
Impossible for men to forget the sharp
issues that We're drawn between them
in pnst times.
1T is impossible for men to believe
that all ambitions have all of a sud
den been fnreEone. They remember
territory that was coveted: they re-
member rights TINT It was attempted
to cNtort. they remember political nm
billions which II was attempted to real
ize and while they believe that mon
have come into different temper, they
cannot forget these things and so they
do rot resort to one another for n DIS
passionate view of the matters in con-
troversy. They resort to that nation
which has won the enviable distinction
Prince Leopold Held for Crime.
Geneva. - Prince leopold, former