Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-10
PRESIDENT GIVES
NEARLY WHOLE DAY
OVER TO TRAVELLING
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best that was possible in the presence
of those understandings and then
make no more secret understandings.
| The representatives of every great
nation in the world assented without
demur. without the slightest difficulty
L do not think you realize what a
change of mind has come over the
world. AS we used to say in the old
days, some men that never got it be-
fore, have got religion"
Returns to st. Paul.
The President returned to st. Paul
and spoke last evening at a public
meeting at. the st. Paul Auditorium.
Mayor L. c: Hodgson, republican,
! introduced Mr.. Wilson as "a great
racy;' whose. power was written lin
| the hearts of his people" :.
An absolute. unclouded confidence"
| that the treaty would be rati-
and he asked the people to assert
their influence.
Il know what you want" he said.
SAY it and get it. Tell me you don't
want to do what I'm urging and III
go home"
There were cries of mo-" and GO to
it, and the crowd cheered.
After the President sat down Mayor
| Hodgson asked the crowd to signify
by saying aye" if they were in favor
! tremendous chorus of ayes" was the
response.
i The President dwelt at length on
| the mixed origin of the American
people. He said:
Text of Speech.
1T is based upon long experience
that in every part of the world ! can
recognize an American the minute l
see him. And yet that is not because
we are all of one stock. We have more
people of various origin of stock than
any people in the world. We come
from all the great Caucasian races.
We are made up out of all the nations
of people who have stood from time
to time in the center of civilization.
I'm this part of the country 1t is
doubtful whether in some of our great
from parents born in America.
THE memory of America does not
go very far back as measured by the
distances of history. A great many
hearts the traditions of other people.
the traditions of races never bred in
America, and yet we are all unmis-
takably and even in appearance
American and nothing else. And there
is only one possible explanation for
that, my fellow citizens. and that is
that there is in the practice and in
the tradition of this country set of
principles which, however imperfect
ly, get into the conscience of every
man who lives in this country.
Americans Makeup.
"One of the chief elements that
make an American is that in almost
every other country there is some
class that dominates or some govern
mental authority that determines the
course of policy. or some ancient sys-
tenn of land laws that limits the free
dom of land tenure, or some ancient
system which puts a man into a par
ticular groove in the land in. which
he lives, and there is none of that in
America. We do not have to square
ourselves with standards that have
been followed ever since our great
grandfathers. We are very much more
interested in becoming great-grand
fathers than in having had great
grandfathers, because our view is to
the future.
I'VE are the predestined mediators
Of mankind. Really, then, when ] hear
gentlemen saying we must keep out
of this thing and take care of our
selves, 1 ask where did we come from?
Is there nobody else in the world that
we care for?