Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-02-28
THE PRESIDENT
HOME AGAIN
Greeted by Half Million People
ut Boston and Makes Address
Telling How America is Re-
garded in Europe.


sound. The uncertainties of oce.r
voyages, the possibility of bodily harm
from cranks of which Europe is con-
stantly infested, and liability To- sick
ness and all, renders his safe arrival
nome, also Mrs. Wilson's, cause of
gratitude and assurance on the part
OF the American people particularly,
and the people of the world gcnornl-
iy. So much seems to depend upon
him ut this stage, thut the bare nos
sioility OF his becoming in any man
nef or from any source, incapacitnt-
en-, was II decidedly unwelcomc
thought
Following are extracts from the
Presidents speech in Boston:
l wonder if you are half MS plnd
TO see me as | am to see you. II
warns my heart to see great body
OF my follow citizens again, because
III some respects, during the recent
months | have been lonely indeed
without your comradeship and coun-
sci; and tried at every step of the
work which fell to mo to recall what
was sure would be your counsel
with regard to the great matters that
were under consideration.
do not wnnt you to think TINT
have not been appreciativc of the cx-
traordinary generous reception which
was given to me on the other side.
But want to say to you in all hon
esty that l felt them to be call of
greeting TO you rather thnn to me.
did not feel that the greeting wns
personal. ! had in my heart the over
crowning pride of being your repre-
sentative and of receiving the plau-
dts of men everywhere who felt that
your hearts beat with theirs in the
cause of liberty.
we have waited for this day, when
the friends of liberty should come
across the sen and shake hands with
us, TO see that II new world was con-
structcd."
l can't tell you the inspiration that
came from the sentiments that cumc
out Of those simple voices of the
crowd. And the proudest thing have
to report TO you is that this great
country of ours is trusted through
out the world
,
have had no many grounds for
pride on the other side of the w,ter
that | am very thankful that they
are not grounds for personal pride,
but for national pride. If they were
grounds for personal pride, would
be the most stuck-up man in all the
world.
The People in the Saddle.
And 80 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 ar cnot going to slncicn 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 Govern
monts do not do their will, some 9TH
er Governments shall. And the Sc
SiSb - ohb hiIti Llc picScHJ hONcTH-
ments know it,
The conference seems 10 you To go
slowly; from day to day in Paris it
seems to go slowly; but ] wonder it'll
you realize the complexity Of the task
which il hrs 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
prudently be made which is not prop |
erly linked in with tn great series
OF other decisions which must ac-
company it, and it must be reckoned
in with the final result If the real
quality and character Of that result
is to DO 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 tho rival
claims; hear tho claims that affect |
now natipnalitles, that effect new
areas of the world, that affect new
commercial and economic connections
that have been established by the
great world war through which we
have gone. And l have been struck
by the moderatcness OF those who
have represented national claims. !
can testify that have nowhere seen
the CLEAN Of passion.
/ don't see how any man can fail
to have been subdued by these pleas,
subdued to this feeling, that he was
not there to assert an individual judg-
ment of his own but TO try to assist
the cause OF humanity.
And in the midst Of it all, every
interest seeks out, first OF all, when
it reaches Paris, the representatives
of the United States. Why? Because
and | think / am stating the most
wonderful fact in history because
there Is no nation in Europe that sus-
poets the motives of the United
States.