New-York tribune., 1922-01-17
1 ulld Campaign
Opened i1l City
Bv'WilsonH4our'
Enthusiastic Meeting at
Town Hall Answers Call
for 81, 900, 600 TO Honor
Name Of FormerPresident
E"Iogies by Speakers
Stabbed by Hatred, Envy, Ig-
norance.' Cerard's Trib.
nie I" Executives Career

Re Woodrow Wilson Foundation
started its campaign to raise 81 600 600
with 'Wilson Hour" which filled the
own Hall yesterday noon with an en-
thusiastlc audience Of the former
Presidents admirers.
'"e purpose of the meeting was an
"ounced on the program as follows:
10 honor while he is alive the great
H'"eiican VINO during the war stood as
.he leader Of the liberal forces of
''ic world and to pcrpetuate the ideals
OF democracy and freedom which he
championed' ~
ne S''ooo.ooo fund viii be devoted
TO prizes. similar to the Nobel prize.
10 be awarded to individuals or groups
"ho perform distinguished public
Speakers Eulogize Wilson
Mrs Montgomery Hare chairn,a, .of
'ne FOUNDATION in New York City. pre-
SIDED, and the speakers were James ".
Gerard, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait.
Augustus Thomas. Henry Morecnthau
ana Judge Martin T. Manton.
Mr. Gerard said that Woodrow viii
son ma" been stabbed ty hatred. envy
and igrorance."
we cannot restore orr chamnion IN
me llsta but the cause he championod
IS not lost he said.
RS. Natt reviewed the attacks made
upon Washington and Lincoln in their
''me. and declared that it was not the
'"'N. VI ms own generation, but Of
postcrty, that justly rated a prca +
man. 6 'ee'
"What Will tho world saw Of WYso,
III illt Iuturpv = that
s"e SAID "A man is not impressed bv
inc emotions of the men of his own
will say: '''' W. ~
"lmaginc fifty years or more have
PASSED away Either there will have
pcen another great international war
or there viii not. If there snould hc
'h're Will not be an American. nor =
man IN the world anywhere. who viii
not say then, Had Woodrow Wi)snn
not becn prevented from havinp h;,
own WAY this would never have oc-
Cured w
Way TO Permanent Peace
-, HnpPoSc there is no war. What
them Thcn all the world will sav III -
II 'nere had been no League Of Nations
or 'hc Washington conference that
grew out Of it, or was inspired bv if.
ana the conferences which will grow
out OF it, and which removed the
causes of war, then there would have
been war. 1t was Woodrow Wilson
VINO led tho way to permanent peace.
Il am not a Dcmocrat and it is be-
cause am outside of Mr.. Wilson'S
party that am here. want as such
to declare my confidence in his sim
( cerity, my admiration for his in
tcgrity, my appreciation OF the faith
and the vision that were his, aud my
protest. small as it is, against the
denominations which were visited upon
him.
There is no Republican or group of
Republicans, no Democrat or group of
Democrats who would so falsify his
cory or heap infamy so high upon his
name as to make any other verdict of
history. When that time comes, how
ever, Woodrow Wilson will not be
here. Other Americans viii say Let
us build him a monument but it will
not be q monument of gratitude. 1t
Will be the apology of nation
BOSTON, Jan. 16.-Woodrow Wilson
Sayrc, two and onc-half year-old grand
son of the former President. in the arms
Ot' !, bnr n We Ipccp Wilson