Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-03-01
PRESIDENT BRINGS
MESSAGE TO PEOPLE
WILSON DECLARES THAT UNITED
STATES is NOW TRUSTED
BY WHOLE WORLD.
Regarded as Friends of Liberty, Com
ing Across the Sea to See That New
World is Consecrated on Basis
of Justice and Right.

Boston.--In an address at Mechan-
les Hall Monday afternoon, February
"A, President Woodrow Wilson, who
had just returned from his European
rip, made the declaration that the
United States Is trusted by the world.
The presidential party reached the
hall at 2 80. and as the party reached
the outer doors battery of guns In
the railway yards at the rear of the
hall fired presidential salute of
twenty-One guns, while inside the hall
the band struck up Hail to the Chief"
Mccormack sang THE Star Spangled
Banner" Mayor Peters welcomed the
president In the name of the city; and
Governor Coolidge extended the greet
ings of the commonwealth.
The president began by asking his
audience IL they could understand he
was as glad to see them as they were
to see him and expressed apprecIa-
ton of his reception.
His reception In Europe. he said he
of liberty" coming across the sea to
see that new world was to be con-
secrated on the basis of justice ana
right.
Nation Trusted by World
1.-The greatest thing l have to re-
port to YOU" said he, ''is that this
great country of ours is trusted
throughout the world. have not
come to report on the Ir0gress of the
peace conference. That would be pre-
mature
1.-THE men who are in conference in
Paris realize they are not masters OF
their people but servants of their
people, and that no man will dare go
home from that conference and re-
port anything less than 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, sis to
hear the whole case from those most
interested. / have been struck by the
moderation of those representing ma
tional claims.
II have seen tears in the eyes of
men there pleading for national
ambition, but they were not the tears
of anguish, they were the tears of
ardent hope.
fe In,
suspects the course of the United
States. Was there ever such Won
derful thing before?
II would not have you understand
that the men who represent the other
nations there are dlsesteemed Quite
the contrary"
The European statesmen, he said.
when unable 10 agree, were to resort
to the nation known as the friend of
mankind.
The president related that American
soldiers We're welcomed in all the
European countries.
u have been searching for the fun
damental 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 stay
ing out than going in. Then sudden
ly the whole verdict was reversed, II
was when they saw that America NOT
only held ideas, but acted ideas, they
became the confirmed partisans of
America and became converted to
those ideas.
Europe is Hopeful
mo- said the president, "this con-
ference we have established calls for
something. The Europe l left was full
of hope. The Europe of the third year
of the war was sinking to a stubborn
desperation. They thought the end or
the war would eventually be a resump-
ton of the old o,der. They never
dreamed 1t would be Europe of set
tied peace.
"Now all the peoples of Europe are
buoyed up in the hope that all the
nations of the world shall unite their
moral and physical forces that right
shall prevail. What would happen II
America should fail the world of Its
hope; all nations will be set up as
hostile camps again and the men at
the peace conference will go home with
their heads upon their breasts because
they will have failed. We would leave
on the peace table nothing but moe
ern scrap of paper"