Evening journal., 1919-07-09
PRESIDENT WANTS
PEACE PRESERVED
Says Critics of Treaty Can't
Understand the
Vision"
GLAD TO BE BACK;
LONESOME ABROAD

NEW YORK. July president VII
son. on his arrival in this city yester-
day. delivered a homecoming address
10 a capacity audience at Carnegie Han
The address, in full, follows:
"Fcllow Countrymen:
II am not going to try this afternoon
90 make YOU a real speech. | am
alarmed to md how many speeches /
have IN my system undellyered, but
they -Hrp an speeches that come from
me mind and J. 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 10 me, but ! do not De
lieve that the welcome you extend to
me as great as that which ! extend to
you
why. Jerseyman though I am, this
Is the first time I ever thought Hobo
ken was beautiful. have. really,
though have tried on The other side
Of The water 20 conceal It, been the
most homeslck man In the American
Expeditionary Force. and II Is with
feelings that 70 would be vain for me
10 try To express That ] md myself IN
this beloved country again.
~ do moi say that because / lack In
admiration Of other countries. There
have been many things that softened
my homesickness. ono Of The chief
things that softened % was the very
generous welcome they extended 10
me as your representative on the other
side Of The water. and 70 was sim more
soltened by the pride That ! had IN dis
covering that America had at last CON
Ninced the world of her true character
Americas sincerity Recognized.
~ was welcome because they had |
seen with their own eyes what Amer /
lea had done for the world. They had |
deemed her selfish they had deemed /
her devoted 90 material interests, and /
they had seen her boys come across
the water with vision even more
beautiful than that which they con-
ccived when they had entertained
dreams of liberty and Of peace.
and then had the added pride Of
finding ont by personal observation tho
kind OF men we had sent over. I had
crossed the seas with the kind Of men
who had taken them over without {
whom they could not have got TO Eu-
rope. and then when got there ! saw
that army OF men, that army OF clean
men, that army OF men devoted to the L
high interests of humanity, that army
That one WAS glad 10 point out and L
ray. These are my fellow-countrymen
III soflens the homesickness a good
deal TO have so much OF home along /
with YOU, and these boys were con
stantly reminding me of home. They
did not walk the streets like anybody |
else. I do not mean that they walked |
.ho street self-assertively they did not /
they walked the streets as II they /
knew that they belonged wherever |
Tree men lived, that they were welcome /
IN the great republic of France and |
were comrades with the other armies /
that had helped 10 win the great battle
md 20 show the great sacrifice.
Non Universal Affection.
"It is a wonderful thing for this ma
ion. hitherto Isolated from the large
Inairs OF the world 90 win not only
ne universal confidence of the people
u the world. but their universal ar
ectl0n And that. and nothing less than
hal. is what has happened. Wherever
!. was suggested that troops should be
emf and it WAS desired that troops OF
should excite no prejudice,
% une3siness on the part OF those TO
.hola fhey were sent The men who
eprcsentcd the other nations came 20
be and asked me 90 send American sol
iers They not only implied, but they
aid, that the presence OF American sol
iers would be known not Co megn any
hing except friendly protection and
ssistance 10 you wonder that 10 made
ur hearts swell with pride 90 realize
lese things2
u wonder if at this distance YOU can
ave got any conception of lhe tragic
licnsity of the feeling OF those pco-
les I'm Europe who haYe just had yokes
brown or them. Have YOU reckoned
% in your mind how many peoples,
ow many nations. were held unwill-
ngly under The yoke Of the Auslro-
hungarian Empire. under the yoke OF
turkey under the yoke OF Germany?
These yokes have been thrown on
'hee peoples breathe the air and look
rpund 90 see day dawn about them
N ROhuV0A