New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-02-28
MUST LET The
PEOPLE DECIDE
OPINION OF ALL AMERICA WILL
BE HEARD IN DECISION
ON PEACE LEAGUE.
ALL FRIENDLY TO u. S.
WILSON DELIVERS SPEECH At
MECHANICS HALL IN BOSTON
TO BIG CROWD.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Boston, Feb. 24.-President Wilson
made the following speech at Mechnn-
les Hall in Boston, after landing from
his trip back from Europe.
"Governor Coolidge, Mr.. Mayor. Fell
low Citizens:
Il wonder If you are half as glad To
see me AS l am to see you. II WARNS
my heart to zee II great body OF my EEL
low citizens again. because in some re-
spects during the recent months ! nave
been lonely indeed without your com
radeship and counsel and ! tried at "N-
cry step of the work which fell to me
to recall what / was sure would b.
your counsel with regard to tho great
matters which were under consldera-
tiOn.
Il do not want you to to think that
i have not been a~ppr"ciativ" OF the ex-
traordinary generous reception whlch
was given to m" on the ether side, in
saying that it makes n" very happy to
get home again. I do not mean to say
hat ] was not very deeply touched by
the cries TINT came from th" great
crowds on the Other sld". But want
to say to You in all honesty that felt
Them to b" a call Of greeting to you,
rather than to mo.
Il did not feel that the greeting was
personal. had in my heart tn" "N"I-
crow nlnE Irli' bi hrlllE your repre-
sentative. and of receiving the plauditS
ui mon "v"ryw her" " ho felt that your
hearts beat with theirs in the cause of
liberty.
Their was no mistaking tn" tone in
tn. voices of thuS, great crowds. 1t
was not u tone Of NOR" greeting, 1t was
not a ton" of mrI' generous welcome,
II was the calling Of conrad" +" com
Tadc, tn" cry that comes from men WIN"
shy, w have Wnit"d for this day when
rho friends of hhErtN ghnHlI come.
across tn" sea and shak" hands with
as, to So" that a new world was con
struct"d upon "A new basis and tounda-
tlpn of inStic" ana right.
Il can't tell YOU the inspiration that
came" from the sentiments that cam"
out Of thus" Simpl" voices in tn"
crowds. And tn" %proud"st thinE have"
t" report to you is that this great
country of ours is trusted throuEhout
the world.
Il hay" not come to report the pro-
c""dings or tn" results of tn" proceed
INKS Of tn" pcaC" conference; that
have received very happy impressions
from this conference tn" impression
that, Will" Their" ar" many differences
of judGmcnt. Will" Their" ar" som" dl-
vcrGcnci"s of object, there is, never
th"l"ss, a common spirit and IA common
realization of the necessity of setting
up new standards of right in the world.
"H"caus" tn" men VIII" ar" in CON
VI 'tllS as h''IlA a. III Nv
lean can r"aliz" that they are not the
masters of their people, that they are
the servants of their people, and that
the spirit of their people has awakened
to a new purpose and "A new conception
of their power to realize that purpose.
and that no man dare go home from
that conference and r"por anything
less noble than was expected of it.
'The conference seems to you to go
slowly, from day to day in Paris it
seems to go slowly; but ! wonder IF
you realize the completely of tina task
which it has undertaken. 1t seems as
if the settlements of this war affect.
and affect directly, every great-and,
! sometimes think, every small-nation
in the world, and no one decision can
be mad" which is not properly linked
in with the great series of other deci-
sions which must accompany 1t. and il
must be reckoned on with the final re-
suit. If the real quality and character
of that result is to be properly judged.
What We are doing is TO hear the
whole case; hear IT from the mouths
of the men most Interested; hear it
from those who are officially commits
stoned to state it: hear III" rival
claims: hear tn" claims that affect new
natipnalities that affect new areas
of the world. that affect new com
mercial and economic connections that
have been established by the great
world war through which we have
gone
And have been struck by the mod
erateness of those who have presented
national claims. can testify that
believe I have nowhere seen the CLEAN
Of. passion. have seen "arnestness.
have seen tears come to the eyes of
men who Piled for down-trodden peo-
plies whom they wer" privileged to
speak for. but they were not the tears
Of anger, they were the tears Of ar
dent hope.
Il don't see how any man can fail
to have been subdued by these pleas.
subdued to this feeling, that h" was
not there to assert an individual judy
ment Of his own but to try to assist
the cause Of humanity:
And in the midst of it all every in
terest seeks out, first of all. when 1t
reaches Paris. the representatives of
the United States. Why? Because
and | think I am stating the most won
,derful fact in history-bccaus" there.
IL n" nation in Europe thst suspects
the motives OF the United States.
Was there ever :" wonderful a
seen before Was there ever
so moving a thing? Was there ever
any fac, that so bound the nation that
had won that esteem forever to de-
serve il?
Il would not have you understand
the great men who represent the
other nations there in conference are
dis"stcemed by those who know them.
Quit" the contrary. But You under
tn" countries of Eur"p" have
again and again FLASHED with one an
other in competitive interests. 1t is
impossible for men to forget the sharp
issues that w"r" drawn between them
In past times.
1T is impossible for men to believe
all ambitions have all of "A sud
been f%orcronc. They remember
territory that was coveted: they re-
member rights that il was Tempt
to %"XtOrt: they remember political am
which IL was attempted to real
.ze, and while they believe that men
come into a different temper. they
forget these things and So they
10 not resort TO one another for n dis
pa ssionate view - the matters in con-
They resort to that nation
which has won the enviable distinction