Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-25


united forces of the civilized world.
And if we do not guarantee them,
cannot you not see the pictured
Your hearts have instructed you
where the burden of this war fell.
It did not fall upon the national
treasures, it did not fall upon the
instruments of administration; il did
not fall upon the resources of the
nations; it fell upon the victims
homes everywhere, where women
were toiling in hope that their men
would come back.
when / think of the homes upon
which dull despair would settle were
this great hope disappointed, ]
should wish for my part never to
! have had America play any part
whatever in this attempt to enamel
pate the world. But / talk as il
there were any question. have no
more doubt of the verdict of Amer
lea in this matter than ! have doubt
OF the. blood that is in me.
"And so, my fellow citizens, / have
come back to report progress, and
do not believe that the progress is
going to stop short of the goal. The
nations of the world have set their
heads now to do great thing, and
they are not going to slacken their
purpose. And when / speak of the
nations of the world ! do not speak
of the governments of the world.
speak of the peoples who constitute
the nations of the world. They are
in the saddle and they are going to
see to it that if their present gov
ernments do not do their will, some
other governments shall. And the
secret is out and the present govern
ments know it. -..
Harmony in knowledge.
"There is great deal of harmony
to BE got out of common knowledge,
There is a great deal of sympathy to
be got out of living in the same at
mosphere and except for the differ
ences of languages. which puzzled
my American ear very sadly.
could have believed / was at home
in France or in Italy or in England
when / was on the streets, when ]
was in presence of the crowds, when
/ was in great halls where men were
gathered together irrespective OF
class. / did not feel quite as much
at home there as l do here, but ]
felt that now at any rate, after this
storm of war had cleared the air
men were seeing eye to eye every
where and that these were the kind
of folks who would understand what
the kind Of folks at home would TN
derstand and that they were think
ing the same things.
Il feel about you as l am re-
minded of a story of that excellent
wit and good artist, Oliver Herford
who one day, sitting at luncheon
at his club, was slapped vigorously
! on the back by man whom he did
not know very we'll. He said;
| "Oliver, old boy, how are your" He
| looked at him rather coldly. He
said, Il don't know your name, ]
don't know your face, but your man
ners are very familiar" And ]
must say that your manners are
very familiar, and, let me add, very
delightful.
at is a great comfort, for one
thing, to realize that you all under
stand the language I am speaking
| A friend of mine said that to talk
through an interpreter was like
witnessing the compound fracture
of an idea. But the beauty of it is
that, whatever the impediments Of
the channel of communication, the
idea is the same; that it gets regis.
tered, and it gets registered in re-
sponsive hearts and receptive pur-
poses.
Il have come back for a strenuous
attempt to transact business for {
little while in America, but 1 have
really come back to say to you, il
all soberness and honesty, that
have been trying my best TO speal
your thoughts.
when l sample myself, / thinl
/ find am a typical American, anc
if sample deep enough and ge
down to what is probably the trut
stuff of man, then / have hope thai
it is part of the stuff that is Xix,
the other fellows at home.
And, therefore, probing deep il
my heart and trying to see, tht
things that are right without re
gard to the things that may be de
bated as expedient, feel that l an
interpreting the purpose and thu
thnuphf of America. and in fnvirt
America I find l have joined thC
great majority of my fellowmer
throughout the world"
AS the president concluded
Mayor Peters called for thre,
cheers, which were given, the audi
ence standing.
Immediately after the presidential
party left the hall and drove to thC
south station for the tran which