The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-02-25

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Governor Coolidge, Mr Mayor Eel
ldw Citizens
] wonder II you are half as glad
10 see me as ] am 10 see you?
IL warns my heart 10 see a great
BODY OF my fellow citizens again, be
rsuse, in some respects during the re-
cent months | have been very lonely
Indeed wiihou, your comradeship and
counsel. and ! tried AZ every step Of
the work which fell to me to recall
what | was sure Will be your counsel
with regard 20 the great matters
which were under consideration.
Happy to BE Home Again.
I do not want you ,o think that ]
have not been apprcclallyc Of The cS-
lraordinatly generous reception
which was given 90 me- ON The other
side in saving that II makes ur very
happy 90 get home again.
do not mean 90 say hat was
not very deeply touched hy the
cries that came from the great
crowds on the other side
Bu, | want to say 20 YOU m all
honesty that I felt them 10 he \
call OF greeting TO you rather than
20 me.
did not feel tina, the greeting was
personal.
had in my heart the oycrcroSu'ng
pride OF being your representative and
Of receiving the plaudl,S OF men
everywhere who ielt that your hearts
beat with theirs in tho cause OF lih-
efN.
There was no mis,alinC The tone
In the voices oi those great crowds
Call Of Comrade TO Comrade.
II was not a tone of mere greeting
Il was not tone Of mere generous
welcome il was the calling Of com
rade to c1mrlIc the cries that come
from men who say
"We have waited for thi, day when
the friends ol liberty should come
ncfosS the sea and shake hands with
us, 10 see that new world was con-
struo,ed upon \ new basis and ioun
da,ion Of justice and right"
I can't tell YOU me inspiration
that came from the sentiments
tina, Come out Of those simple
voices oi the crowd Md the
proudest thing I have TO report
e. you is that this grca, country
OF ours IS trusted ihrouchou, the
g world
have not come 10 report 'hc pro
ceedings or the results Of the pro-
ceedings OF the peace conference, that
would he premature.
I can say that ! have received very
happy Impressions from this confer
cnce. the imnreSsion that while there
are many differences Of judgment;
while there are many divcrgcnce' Of
object, there is nevertheless spirit
and a common realization OF the neceS-
siy OF setting m new standards OF
Iigh, in the world
Servants OF Their People.
Because the men who arc in CON
ference in Paris realize as keenly as
any American can realize that they
are not the masters oi their peoplc
that thev are the servants OF their
people and that the spirit OF their peo-
pie has new conception Of their power
20 realize that purpose and that no
man dare go home from the confer
ence and rcnor, ANYTHING less noble
than was expected OF IT,
This seem, TO YOU to 20 slowly
from day to day in Paris ~ seems +,
90 slowly. hu ! wonder T YOU realiz,
the complex.fv Of the task which i
has undertaken.
Affects Every Person.
II seems as II the settlements az
this war affect, and affect direct
w. every great and ! sometimes
think every small nation in the
world. and no one decision can
pruden'ly he made which is not
properly linked in with the great
series OF other decisions which
must accompany IT,
And i, might he reckoned in wit
the final result il the real quality an
character Of that is properly TO /
JUDGED.
Wha, we are doing Is to hear m
whole case; hear il from the mouth
of the men most interested: hear
from thoSes who are officially con
missiohed to state Il; hear the tiv;
claims hear the claims that afiet
new na,ionali,ic' tha, affect ne
commercial and economic connection
that have been established by III
great world war through which W
have gone.
Tears Of Ardent Hope
And ! have been struck hv the mod
era,eness Of those who have rcpr,
sen,ed national claims
can testify that J have nowhe'
seen the gleam Of passion
j have seen earneS,ncSs, ! have see
tears come 10 the eyes OF men vii
plead for downtrodden people who
they were the tears ot ardent hope
they were not the tears of angus
they were the tears of arden thope.
And I don't see how any man
can fail TO have been suhducd by
the pleas, subdued to this feeling
that he was not there 10 assert an
Individual judgment Of his own.
but to try TO assis, the cause of
humanity
e Seek Americans First
h And in the midst of il all every i
tSreh seeks out first Of all when
r(aehes Paris, The representatives
FIN lhe United States.
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