Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-03

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fecting such fresh ALLEGATIONS of la
Dor and industry as the circum-
stances may make necessary"
Peace Delegates Servants
Touching upon the Peace Confer
ence, he said the conferees at Paris
| regarded themselves only as servants
of about 7OO,OOO,000 people of the
, world, and not as their masters.
Consequently, said the President,
the conferees are anxious to keep in
close sympathy with the peoples
whom they represent. ito find out
how we can best assist in making
their lives what they wish them to
be by giving them the opportunity
that they ought to have"
Wilson Speaks Briefly
The President spoke briefly, con-
| fining himself largely to welcoming
| the visitors and promising complete
| Federal cooperation. He explained
that the demands upon his time dur
ing the day and a half he could re-
main in Washington made it impos
! sble for him to participate in the
I conference.
The President said: "I wish that
I I could promise myself the pleasure
and the profit of taking part in your
deliberations. 1 find that nothing
| deliberate is permitted me since my
return. | have been trying under
! the guidance of my secretary, Mr..
| Tumulty, to do a months work in a
week, and l a mhoping that not all
of 1t has bee ndone badly, but mas
much as there is necessary pres
sure upon my time, know that you
will excuse me from taking a part
in your conference, much as 1 should
be proffted by doing so.
My pleasant duty is to bid you q
| hearty welcome and to express my
| qualification so many executives of
cities and of states have found the
time and the inclination to come
| together on the very important mat
ter we have to discuss.
| Primary Duty For States
THE primary duty of caring for
! our people nthe intimate matters
\ that we want to discuss here. of
! course, falls on the states and upon
/ the municipalities. and the function
! of the federal government, and is
| TO do what it is trying to do in a
! conference of this sort--draw the
! executive minds of the country to-
| gether so that they may profit by
each Qthers suggestions and plans
| and so that we may offer our serv-
ices TO coordinate their efforts in
any way that they may deem it wise
| to coordinate In other words, it is
! the provilege of the federal govern
! ment i nmatters of this srot to be
! the servants of the executives of the
states and municipalities and counr
ties, and we shall perform that duty
| with the greatest pleasure if you will
| guide us with your suggestions.
Hopes For Wide Discussion
Il hope that the discussions of
! this conference will take as wide "a
scope as you think necessary. We
are not met to discuss any single or
narrow subject. We are met to dis
Gus sthe proper method of restoring
/ all the labor conditions of the coun-
| try to normal basis as soon as pos
sible, and to effect such fresh allo-
cations of labor and industry as the
! circumstances may make necessary.
| think / can testify from what I
| have seen on the other side of the
! water, that we are more fortunate
| than other nations in respect to
| these great problems. Our indus
tries have been disturbed and dis
rganiZed-disorgani as compared
| with peace basis, very seriously
indeed, by the war, but not so ser-
ously as the industries of other coun-
| tries; and it seems to me. therefore
that we should approach these prob
| lens that we are about to discuss
| with a good deal OF confidence
confidence that if we have a common
purpose without serious or insur-
mountable difficulties.
| THE thing that has i'm pressed me
most gentlemen, not only in the
recent weeks when / have been in
! conference on the other side of the
water, but. for many months before
| | went across the water was this:
We are at last learning that
the business of government is
to take counsel for the average
man. We are at last learning
that the whole matter of the
| Nprosperity of peoples runs down
INTO the great body of the men
and women who do the work of
] the world, and that the process
OF guidance Is not completed by
Tie mere success of great enter
priscs-it is completed only by
the standard of the benefit that
1t confcrs upon those who i'm the
obscure ranks of life contribute
to the success of those enter
I, prises.
The hearts of the men and women
and children of the world are stirred
now in a way that has never been
known before. They are not only
stirred by their individual circum-
stances. but they are beginning TO
get vision of what the general cir
cumstances of the world are and
there is for the first time in history
an international sympathy which is
quick and vital-which does not dis
play itself merely in the contact of
governments, but displays itself in
the silent intercourse of sympathy
between great bodies that constitute
great nations; and the significance
of conference like this is that we
are expressing in it, and will, be-
lieve, express in the results of this
conference, our consciousness that
we are servants of this great silent
mass of people who constitute the
! United States and that as theif serv-