Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-07-10
United State. Exeeutiive v VEL
coined BY Mammoth Crowd
at World. Metropolis, De-
liver. Addres. Replete With
High Ideals.

s mlQQ1gQC aIt0r an absence OI AOuI
months at the Paris peace confer
ence. He was accompanied by Mrs
Wilson, Miss Margaret Wilson, and
by Vice President Marshall, and
most of the members of his cabinet
who greeted him on his arrival today
at New York.
The senate made ready today to
receive the peace treaty from Presi.
dent Wilson and to take up without
delay and in the open the question
OF its ratification.
New York, July 8-.President Will.
son returned to the United States to-
day and in his first speech delivered
on American soil since the peace
treaty was signed. declared that the
! peace concluded at Paris was "just
!. peace, which, If it can be preserved,
will safeguard the world from unnec-
essary bloodshed.''
Arrived at 8 p. M.
The president arrived at the Hobo
ken army pier shortly before
o'clock. The transport, George
Washington, was escorted up the bay
by the battleship, Pennsylvania, and
more than q score of destroyers and
4maller craft. On the New Jersey
shore were maased 10000 school
secutiveao sshe nationswith-the strains
children, who welcomsds the chief +ex-
OF the national anthem.
Text Of Speech.
The full text of President Wilson's s
speech at Carnegie hall follows:
Fellow Countrymen:
II am not going to try this after
noon to make you real speech. I
am q bit alarmed to find how many
speeches I have in my system unde-
livered. 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
extended to me, but do not believe
that the welcome you extend to me Is
half as great as that which I extend
to you. Why, Jerseyman tho I am,
this is the first time I ever thot that
Hoboken was beautiful.
President Homesick.
st have really, tho have tried on
the other side of the water to con-
ceal it, been the most homesick man
in the American Expeditionary force.
and it Is with feelings that 1t would
be violation for me to try to express
that I ind myself in this beloved
country again. do not say that be
cause I lack in admiration Of other.
countries. a I. Z: !. ss3 35y$ ,;s555
There have been many things
that softened my homesickness:: One
Of the chief things that softened it
was the very generous welcome that
they extended to me as your repre-
sentative on the other side Of the,
water. And 1t was still more soften
ed by the pride that ! had In discov-
ering that America had at last con-
vinced the world Of her true charac-i
ter. 25.s
81 was welcome because they had
seen with their own eyes what Amer
lea had Gone for the world. They
had deemed her selfish. They had
deemed her devoted to material in
terests and they had seen her boys,
come across the water with q vision
even more beautiful than that which
they. conceived when they had enter
tanned dreams of liberty and peace.
And then I had the added pride
of finding out BY personal oDserva-5
tton the kind 81 men We had sent
2oyer. had crossed the seas with
The kind ;of men who had e. ken them
over, without whom they could not.
have got To- Europe and then 4 saw
that army Sc men, that army of clean =
men, that army 81 men devoted To-
the high interests 81 humanity, that
army that one Was glad x. point out
and III hese are my fellow coun.a
strymen. 5At9
Conid eco / Slss n.
t softens the E homesic sickness 81
soosd deals have soI much of home