Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-07-11
REJOICES IN
HOMECOMING
New Task Now Opening For the
American People to
Perform

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president stepped from his auto
mobile a massed naval and mill
tary band played the "Star
Spangled Banner" while the
military escore presented arms.
MI. Wilson was preceded to the
stage by Vice President and
Mrs. Marshall, Champ Clark
former speaker of the house, and
Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of
Labor, all of whom were recog-
nized and cheered by the crowd.
The presidents appearance on
the platform was the signal for
an ovation which lasted some
minutes, ending when the band
broke into the strains of Cover
There" There was a sudden
pause when an officer in British
uniform unexpectedly appeared
on the platform. Mr.. Wilson
jumped to his feet and crossed
the stage to meet him, and the
cheering broke out in redoubled
volume as the word flashed
through the hall that the strang-
er was Major G. II. Scott, COM
mander of the British transat-
lantic dirigible R-34.
Brief welcoming speeches
were made by Rodman Wanna
maker, Mayor Hylan and Gov
ernor Smith. The governor in
troduced the president as the
bearer of a peace treaty worthy
of the honor, dignity and maj
esty of this great country"
When Mr.. Wilson stepped to
the front of the stage the band
again began playing the national
anthem, but was drowned in the
cheers of the several thousand
men and women in the audience.
Mr.. Wilson was obviously
under the strain of deep emotion
when he began to speak, and his
voice was noticeably hoarse.
Was HOmesick in Paris.
The full text of President
Wilson's speech at Carnegie
Hall follows:
Fellow Countrymen: | am
not going to try this afternoon
to make you a real speech. l am
a 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 word
from the heart.
"YOu have made me deeply
happy by the generous welcome
| you have extended to me, but J
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 / ever
thought that Hoboken was beau
tiful.
81 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 force,
and it is with feelings that it
would be vain for me to try to
express that ! find myself in
this beloved country again. | dc
not say that because l lack in
admiration of other countries
There have been many things
that softened my inconsistencies
One of the chief things that
softened it was the very gener-
GUS welcome that they extended
to me as your representative or
the other side of the water.
America Revealed.
"And it was still more soften.
ed by the pride that l had in
discovering that America had al
last convinced the world of hel
true character.
81 was welcome because they
had seen with their own eyes
what America had done for the
world. They had deemed hel
selfish. They had deemed hel
devoted to material interests
and they had seen, her boys come
across the water with a vision
even more beautiful than that
which they conceived when they
had entertained dreams of liber.
ty and peace.
"And then | had the added
pride of finding out by persona,
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 tc
Europe, and then | saw that
army of men, that army of clear
| mon that army Of man do1,OfoC