The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-07-18
PRESIDENT WILSON
BACK IN CAPITAL
Thousands Greet Him In New
York and Washington
SPEAKS AT CARNEGIE HALL
Brilliant Scene In Harbor As The
George Washington steans In
Through A Lane Formed BY
Decorated Vessels.

george washington StedmS IN
Through A Lane Formed BY
Decorated Vessels.
New York. - President Wilson
stepped from the gangplank of the
transport George Washington, which
brought him home from France, upon
American soil on the Hamburg
lean line pier at Hoboken at 1922 p.
M. He was preceded by Mrs. Wilson
and Miss Margaret Wilson, who
crossed with him. as well as by his
aboard the ship to greet him.
There was brilliant scene in the
harbor when the Presidents ship en-
tered. AS the transport passed Fort
Hancock the guns doomed presi-
Dental salute, echoed 10 minutes later
by Fort Hamilton and Fort Wads-
worth The shrill whistles of harbor
craft took up the din.
Washington.-Pres Wilson, re-
turning to Washington at midnight aft
er an absence of four months at the
Paris Peace Conference, told throng
of many thousand Washington citi-
zens who greeted him at the Union
Station that he came home confident
that the people of the United States
were for the league Of nations" The
welcome he received here, he said,
was particularly pleasing, because it
was Immediate assurance" of his feel
Ing.
Despite the late hour of arrival due
to delay in docking the Presidential
transport George Washington at New
York, crowd estimated by Major
Pullman, chief of police, and other Off
Gals at 100000 greeted the President
at the station. 1t included District of
Columbia officials, members Of Con-
gress and representatives of the army
and navy. Immediately after the vel
coming ceremonies President and Mrs.
Wilson went to the White House. AS
they passed down Pennsylvania ave-
nue. they were welcomed by thousands
and large throng greeted them in
front of the White House.
New York.--Following is the com
pletes text of the Presidents speech
at Carnegie Hall:
Fellow Countrymen-I am not going
to try to make you real speech.
/ am bit alarmed to find how
many speeches have in my sys-
tenn undelivered, but they are all
speeches that come from the mind,
and want to say to you this aft
ernoon only a few words from the
heart.
You have made me deeply happy
by the generous welcome you have
extended to me, but l do not believe
that the welcome you extend to me
is half as great as that which extend
to you. Why, Jerseyman though am,
this is the first. time I ever thought
that Hoboken was beautiful.
/ have really, though l have tried
on the other side of the water to
conceal it, been the most homesick
man in the American Expeditionary
Forces, and it is with feelings that
it would be vain for me to try to
express that I find myself in this
beloved country again. I do not say
that because | lack in admiration of
other countries. There have been
many things that softened my home
sickness. One OF the chief things that
softened it was the very generous well
come that they extended to me as
your representative on the other side
of the water. And it was still more
softened by the pride that / had in
discovering that America had at last
convinced the world of her true char
acter. I was welcome because they
had seen with their own eyes what
America had done for the world They
deemed her selfish. They had deemed
her devoted to material interests and
they had seen her boys come across
the water with vision even more
beautiful than that which they con-
ceived when they had entertained
dreams of liberty and peace.
Pride In The Army.
And then had the added pride of
finding out by personal observation
the kind of men we had sent over.
l had crossed the seas with the kind
of men who had taken them over,
without whom they could not have
got to Europe, and then when / got
there l saw that army of men, that
army of clean men, that army of men
devoted to the high interests of hui
mainly, that army that one was glad