The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-01-03
WILSON SAYS j. 5.
WILL NOT join A
POWER ALLIANCE
Must Be League for All, a World
Partnership.
NOT INTERESTED IN POLITICS
Declares America Is Concerned in an
Agreement of Right Between the
United States and Europe
That Is World Peace.

Manchester, Dec 31.-America is not
interested in European politics, but she
vs. interested in a partnership of right
Between America and Europe, declared
president Wilson in receiving the free
dom of the city of Manchester at the
free Trade hall here.
America is not interested merely in
the peace Of Europe, but in the peace
CT the world, he added
eff the future had nothing for us but
new attempt to keep the world at the
6ght pOise by balance of power" the
president added, 1.-THE United States
would take no interest in it, because
she will join no combination of powers
which is not combination of us ALL"
There was feeling of cordial fra
ternity and friendship between Amer
lea and Great Britain, declared the
president, which was based on the prin-
9ple of friendship and patriotism that
led men to give more than was de-
manded.
The partnership of interests which
had attempted the government of the
EOrld had broken down, he said, as
interest did not bind men together
but separated them. Common devotion
20 the right was the only thing, he in
sisted, that could bind men together.
In the settlement which is just ahead
something more difficult than was ever
attempted before had to be accom-
Rlished-a genuine concert of mind
and purpose, the president said, but
keen international conscientiOusness
would make it easy.
Mandate of Humanity.
There is a great voice of humanity
abroad in the world (which he who
cannot hear is deaf" he added.
eve are not obeying the mandate
Of parties or politics." the president
continued 1--WE are obeying the man
date of humanity"
If the world is to remain a body of
friends, he said, there must be an easy
and constant method of conference so
that troubles could be taken when
they were little and not allowed to
Living Symbol of Friendship.
In presenting the freedom of the city
to President Wilson the lord mayor
said it afforded the city of Manchester
supreme satisfaction to have on it's roll
the chief citizen of the American re-
public, foremost of all Americans who
have ever visited England and one
whose clear utterances and earnest
acts had been proof of the real union
of sentiment This man, said the lord
mayor, now stood before the audience
as a living type and symbol of the
friendship of the English-speaking
races.
The bonds between England and
America, the lord mayor added, had
been riveted with great strength and
made indestructible.
"When the complete history of the
war is written" he declared, ''the
world will comprehend more fully than
1t can today the stupendous character
of the effort which the United States
made to insure right decision. The
president has come among us equally
resolved that the world shall hence
forth be better and happier for a we'll
ordered peace"
The president, the lord mayor went
on, was not a vain dreamer, as his
dreams had been fulfilled. This was a
fact which needed no further argument
to support it, he declared when it was
remembered how President Wilson's
fourteen points had become within
peace settlement. and had been accept
ed by the enemies of the allies as the
preliminary for the permanent peace.
1--WE welcome him." the speaker
added, "as president of the United
States, as a helper in the battles and
as worker in the business of peace"
The lord mayor is self-made man.
His home, where Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson
were guests, is in a section of the city
hall, where the mayors live during
their terms of Office 1t is a typical
English home.
Free Trade Hall Speech.
The text of the presidents address
to the Free Trade hall audience is as
follows:
"Mr. Lord Mayor, Ladies and Gen.
tlemen:
Perhaps l may be permitted to add,
my fellow citizens.
'You have made me feel in a way
that is deeply delightful the generous
welcome which you have accorded me,
and back of it 1 know there lies the
same sort of feeling for the great peO-
pie whom have the privilege of rep
resenting
There is a feeling of cOrdiality, fra
ternity and friendship between the two
great nations, and as l have gone
from place to place and made every
where to feel the pulse of sympathy
that is now beating between us, have
been led to some very serious thoughts
as to what the basis of it all is.