Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-03-05
NATIONS LEAGUE
Or REVOLUTION,
SAYS PRESIDENT
Wilson in Boston Speech Says
Rulers All Must Yield.
AMERICA is HOPE OF WORLD
Declares Peoples Know What They
Want and viii Have lt-Chal-
Ienges His Critics to Test
Proud of u. S. Soldiers.

here on landing from France, invited
the critics of the league of nations
plan to "test the sentiment of Amer
ica"
Men, he declared, who would have
America fail the world in its hopes,
saw only beyond the nearest horizon.
"They do not know the sentiment of
America" he said.
Speaking of hopes and aspirations
of the people of Europe for a lasting
peace which he said were pinned to
the United States as the friend Of
mankind" the president said he had
no more doubt of "the verdict of
America in this matter than have of
the blood that is in me-"
1.-THE nations of the world have set
their heads now to do a great thing,
and they are not going to stop short
Of their purpose" he said. II do not
speak Of the governments, but of the
peoples who will see that if their pres
ent governments do not do their will
some others will. And the secret is
out and the present governments
know it.
Finds Heart of America.
81 have come hack for an attempt
to transact business for little While
in America, but l say in all sOberness
that l have been trying to speak your
thoughts. Probing deep in my heart
and trying to see the things that are
right rather than the things that are
expedient, am finding the heart of
America.
81 find that in loving America l have
Joined the majority of my fellow men
throughout the world"
AS the president concluded, Mayor
Peters called for three cheers, which
were given, the audience standing.
Immediately after the presidential
party left the hall and drove to the
South station for the train which
awaited them for Washington.
President Wilson left for Washing
ton by special train at 4 20 p. m.
AS Mr.. Wilson rose to speak the
and bowed repeatedly.
The president began by asking his
audience if they could understand he
was as glad to see them as they were
to see him, and went on to express
mis- appreciation of his reception.
His reception in Europe, he said,
he considered as not a tribute to him
self, but a welcome to the American
people He regarded it as welcome
to "the friends of liberty" coming
across the sea to see that a new world
was to be consecrated on the basis of
justice and right.
America Trusted Throughout World.
1.-The greatest thing have to report
to yOu," said he, ''is that this great
country of ours is trusted throughout
the world.
81 have not come to report on the
progress of the peace conference.
That would be premature.
1.-The men who are in conference in
Paris realize they are not masters Of
their people, but servants of their pep
pie, and that no man will dare go home
from that conference and report any,
thing less than is expected"
Speaking of the slow progress of the
conference, the president reminded his
audience of the complexity of the
problems affecting nearly every coun-
try in the world.
"What we are doing" he said, ''is to
hear the whole case from those most
interested. / have been struck by the
moderation of those representing na-
tional claims. l have seen tears in
the eyes of men there pleading for
a national ambition, but they We're
not tears of anguish, but they were
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?
Il would not have you understand
that the men who represent the other
nations there are diSesteemed. Quite
the contrary"
The European statesmen, he said
when unable TO agree. were accus-
toned to resort to the nation known
as "the friend of mankind"
To illustrate his point the president
related that American soldiers were
welcomed in all the European cou1l-
tries.
IF ] were to regard the pride l feel
a personal pride. would be the most
stuek-up man in the world.
ST have been searching for the
fundamental 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 staying out
than going in.
.'Then suddenly the whole verdict
was reversed. 1t was when they saw
that America not only held ideals, bur
acted ideals that they became the COO
firmed partisans of America and be-
came converted to those ideas.
Europe Sees New Day Dawning.
Now" said the president, this con-
ference we have established calls for