Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-03-06
PRESIDENT MAKES NOTABLE Ap-
DRESS TO TREMENDOUS
CROWD IN BOSTON.
a HAVE FIGHTING BLOOD"
Cheers Of Great Throng Encourages
Executive to HurI Gauntlet in
Face Of Reealeitrant and Re
bellious Statesmen.

address after returning from France
hurled defiance at the critics of the
constitution Of the league of nations.
His speech follows:
Gov. Coolidge, MI. Mayor, Fellow.
Citizens:
I wonder if you are half as glad to
@ me as l am to e you. 1t warns
my heart to see a great body of my
fellow-citizens again, because in some
respects during the recent months /
have been very lonely indeed for your
comradeship and counsel, and l tried
at every step of the work which fell
to me to recall what l was sure would
be your counsel with regard to the
great matters which were under con-
sideration.
l do not want you to think that /
have not been appreciative of the ex-
t~raordinary generous reception which
was given me ON the other side, in
saying that it makes me very happy
to get home again. I do not mean to
say that l was not very deeply touch
ed by the cries that came from the
great crowds on the other side. But
I want to say to you in all honesty
that l felt them to be a call of greet
ing to you, rather than to me.
Comrade to Conrade.
r IiI MT Fool Shnf fho nNnafsor rya *
personal. l had in my heart the over
browning pride of being your repre-
sentative and receiving the plaudits
of me everywhere who felt that your
hearts beat with theirs in the cause of
liberty. There was no mistaking the
tone in the voices of those great
crowds. 1t was not a tone of mere
greeting, it was not a tone of mere
generous welcome; it was the calling
of comrade to comrade, the cries that
come from men who say, "We have
waited for this day when the friends
of liberty should come across the sea
and shake hands with us, to see that
a new world was constructed upon a
new basis"
/ can't tell you the inspiration that
came from the sentiments that come
out of those simple voices Of the
crowd And the proudest thing I
have to report to you is that this
great country of ours g trusted
throughout the world.
l have not come to report the pro-
ceedings or the result of the proceed
ings Of the Peace Conference; that
would be premature. 1 can say that I
have received very happy impressions
from this conference; the impression
that, while there are many differences
of judgment, while there are some
Emergencies of object, there is never
theless a spirit and a common realiz-
alton of the necessity of setting up
new standards of right in the world,
because the men who are in confer
ence in Paris realize as keenly as any
American can realize 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 real
ize that purpose, and that no man
dare go home from that conference
and report anything less noble than
was expected of it.
Task a Complex One.
The conference seems to you to go
slowly; from day to day in Paris it
seems to go slowly, but l wonder if
you realize the completely of the task
which it has undertaken. 1t seems as
If. the settlements of this wal affect,
and affect directly, every great-and
| sometimes think every small-na-
ton in the world, and no n decision
can prudently be made which is not
properly linked in the great series of
other decisions which aust accom-
pany it.
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 the rival
claims that affect new nationalities.
that affect new areas of the world,
that affect new commercial and eco
nomic connections that have been es-
tablished by the great world war
through which we have gone. And /
have been struck by the moderate
ness Of those who have represented
national claims. I can testify that |
have nowhere seen the CLEAN of pas
sion. l have seen earnestness. / have
seen tears come to the eyes Of men
who plead for downtrodden people
whom they we're privileged to speak
for, but they were not the tears of
anguish. They were the tears Of ar
dent hope.
And l 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 indi-
vidual judgment of his own, but try
to assist the case OF humanity.
And IN the midst OF It all every In