Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-07-15
PRESIDENT BRINGS
MESSAGE TO u. S.
Speaks at Carnegie Hall; Alludes
to Political Foes.
GETS A GREAT RECEPTION
Declares Peace Treaty Is Just, but
Says Sets New Task for the
United States-WiII Save World
Bloodshed.


United States-WiII Save World
Bloodshed.
New York, July 9.-President Will
son returned to the United States and,
in his first speech delivered on Amerl-
can soil since the peace treaty was
signed, declared that the peace con-
Guided at Paris was "a just peace
which, if it can be preserved, will safe
guard the world from unnecessary
blOOdshed."
The only reference the president
made to his political opponents was
when, i'm referring to the negotiations
at Paris, he said:
81 am afraid some people, some per-
sons, do not understand that vision.
They do not see it. They have looked
too much upon the ground. They have
thought too much of the interests that
were near them, and they have not
listened TO the voices of their neigh
borS. / have never had a moments
doubt as to where the heart and pur-
pOSe VI IIllS peOple ldy.
Great WELCOME for Wilson.
The army transport George Wash
ington, on which he sailed from Brest,
was escorted up the bay by the battle
ship Pennsylvania, and more than a
score of destroyers and smaller naval
craft.
On the New Jersey shore, the state
which first honOred Mr.. Wilson with
political Office, were massed 10000
school children, who welcomed the
chief executive of the nation with the
strains of the national anthem.
Through the lines of the children, all
dressed in white, the president passed
to the ferry, which carried him to the
Manhattan side of the river, where he
was greeted by the official reception
committee, headed by Governor Smith
and Mayor Hylan.
From the ferry terminal to Carnegie
hall, distance of about three miles,
the presidential party passed through
streets lined with cheering thousands
of men, women and children, who
thronged the sidewalks and filled every
available space.
The president finished his speech
shortly after six o'clock and immedi-
ateiy departed for Washington. A train
had been held in waiting for him at
the Pennsylvania station.
The president was enthusiastically
greeted at the hall and his speech was
int
plause. PandemOnium reigned for ten
minutes upon his entrance into the
building, the huge audience waving
everything at hand in the air. Many
small American flags were noticeable.
Wilson's Speech.
The text of President Wilson's
speech at Carnegie hall in part, fol-
lows:
Fellow countrymen: l am not go
ing to try this afternoon to make you
a real speech. l am bit alarmed to
find how many speeches l have in my
system undelivered, but they are all
speeches that come from the mind and
want to say to you this afternoon
only a few words from the heart.
you have made me deeply happy
by the generous welcome you have ex-
tended to me, but do not believe that
the, welcome you extended to me is
half as great as that which / extend to
you. Why, Jerseyman though 1 am.
this is the first time l ever thought
that Hoboken was beautiful.
Admits He Was Homesick.
=" 81 have really, though have tried
on the other side of the water to con-
ceal it, been the most homesick man in
the American expeditionary force, and
1t is with feelings that it would be
vain for me to try to express that l
find myself in this beloved country
again. l do not say that because /
lack admiration of other countries.
There have been many things that
sOftened my inconsistencies. One of the
chief things that softened it was the
very generous welcome that they ex-
tended to me as your representative on
the other side of the water.
And ii was still more softened by
the pride that had i'm discovering that
America had at last convinced the
world of her true character.
Found U. S. unseIfish.
II was welcome because they had
seen with their own eyes what Amer
lea had done for the world. They had
deemde 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 which they conceived
when they had entertained dreams of
liberty and peace.
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 gone to Eu-
rope. and then when got there saw
that army of men, that army o. clean
men, that army of men devoted TO the
high interests of humanity. that army
that one was glad TO poitn out and
say: These are my fellow country
men.
Representatives of Free Men.
ut softenS the inconsistencies d good
deal to have 50 much of home along
with you, and these boys were con-
stantly reminding me of home. They
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