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fflESlOENT WILSON MOLD OPPBSEJJ Prondest ThiMr to ReDort is Th; ^ 9 A ed Throughout the World. Purpose of the THE WORLD WAR WAS WON 81 Critics Invited to Test the Sent] 4 4 We Set Out to Make Men I Them Free, and Sustain 1 # Mechanics Hall, Boston. Feb. 24.? The text of President Wilson's address here is as follows: Governor Coolidge, Mr. Mayor, Fellow Citizens: I wonder if you are half as glad to see me as I am to see you. It warms my heart to see a great body of my fellow citizens again, because in some respects during the recent months I have been very lonely indeed without your comradeship and counsel, and I tried at every gtep of the work which fell to me to recall what 1 was sure would be your counsel with regard to the great matters which were under consideration. I do not want you to think that I have not been appreciative of the extraordinary reception which was given to me on the other side,' in saying A *A V* n f a opa! mat 11 ma&es uie tcj; w home again. I do not meaij t0 that I was not very deeply5 touched by the cries that came from the great ' crowds on the other side. But I want to say to you in all honesty that I felt them to be a call of greeting to you ^rather than to me. I did not feel that the greeting was personal. I had in my heart the over-crowning pride of being your representative and of receiving the* ' plaudits of men everywhere who felt that your hearts beat with theirs in those xreat crowds. It was not a tone of mere greeting; It was not a tone at mere generous welcome;, it was the calling of comrade to comrade, the cries that come from men who say, i ~We have waited for this day when the friends of liberty should come across the sea and shake hands with us, to see that a new world was constructed upon a new basis and * foundation of justice and right." Inspired by Crowd's Voice*. I can't tell you the inspiration that came from the sentiments that come oat of those simple voices* 01 tne crowd. And the proudest thing I hare to report to you is that this great country of ours is trusted throughout ) the world. I have not come to report the proceedings or the results of the pro. ceedings of the peace conference; that would be premature. I can say that I have received very happy imi pressions from this conference ;the impression that while there are many differences of judgment, while there are some divergences of object, there Is nevertheless a common spirit md a common realization of the necessity of setting up new standards of right in the world. Because the men who are in conference in Paris realize as keenly as any American can realize that they are not the masters of their people; that they are the servants of their people, and that the spirit of their Deonle has awakened to a new pur pose and a new conception of thei? power to realize that purpose, and that no man dare go home from that conference and report anything less noble than was expect/d of it. Why Conference "Goes Slowly." The conference seems to you to go slowly; from day to day in Paris it geems to go slowly; but I wonder If you realize the complexity of the task WU1U11 il lias uuuci uiacu. xv - ^uvm-i as if the settlements of this war affect, and affect directly, every great, and I sometimes think every small, nation in the world, and no one de* cision can prudently be made which is not properly linked with the great series of other decisions .which must accompany it. And it must be reckoned in with the final result if the ; real quality and character of that re-1 ( suit is to be properly judged. What we are doing is to hear the whole case; hear it from the mouths of the men most interested; hear it from those who are officially commissioned to state it; hear the rival i claims; he?r the claims that affect j new nationalities, that affect new j areas of the world, that affect new j commercial and economic connections i that have been established by the great world war through which we have gone. And I have been struck bv the moderateness of those who have represented national claims. I can testify that I have nowhere seen the gleam of passion. I have seen earnestness. I have seen tears come to. the eyes of men who pleaded for down-trodden people whom they were privileged to speak for; but they were not the tears of angnish; they were the tears of ardent hope. And I don't see how any man can fail to have been subdued by these pleas, subdued to the feeling that be was not there to assert an individual judgment of his own, but to try assist the cause of humanity. Art Look to America. Anu *a the midst of it all. every interest seeks out. first of all. when it reaches Paris, the representatives wes those 10 flat oe minis at. This firAAt Country is Trust ?No Nation Distrusts the United States. r THE INSPIRATION OF lOEJILS ments of the American Nation: ree, and Now "We Will Make ?hem in Their Freedom." of the United States. Why? Because ?and I think I am stating the most wonderful fact in history?because there is no nation in Europe that suspects the motives of the United Qtotoe KJ Was there ever so wonderful a thing seen before? Was there ever so moving a thing? Was there ever any fact that so bound the nation that had won that esteem forever to it' I would not hare you understand that the great men who represent the other nations there in conference are disesteemed by thc?e who know them. Quit the contrary. But you understand that the nations of Europe have again and again clashed with one another in competitive interest It is impossible for men to forget those sharp issues that were drav/n between them in times past. It is impossible for men to believe that all ambitions have all of a sudden been foregone. They remember territory that was coveted; they remember rights that it was attempted to extort; they re member political ambitions which it was attempted to realize?and while they believe that men hare come into a different temper, they cannot forget these things, and so they do not resort to one another for a dispassionate view of the matters in controversy. They resort to that nation which has won the enviable distinc tion of being regarded as the friend of mankind. Whenever it is desired to send a small force of soldiers to occupy a piece of territory where it is thought nobody else will be welcome, they ask for American soldiers. And where other soldiers would be looked upon with suspicion, and perhaps meet wtih resistance, the American soldier is welcomed with acclaim. many urounas Tor rnac. I have had so many grounds for pride on the other side of the water that I am very thankful that they are not grounds for personal pride. I'd be the most stuck-up man in the world. And it has been an infinite pleasure to me to see those gallant soldiers of ours, of whom the constitution of the United States made ma flift nrsrnirt mmmflndor Vrvil mAT be proud of the Twenty-sixth division, but I commanded the Twenty-sixth division, and see what they did under my direction, and everybody praises the American soldier with the feeling that in praising him he is subtracting from the credit of no one else. I have been searching for the fundamental fact that* converted Europe to believe in us. Before this war Europe did not believe in us as she does now. She did not believe in us throughout the first three years of the war. She seems really to have believed that we were holding off because we thought we could make more by staying out than by going in. And all of a sudden, in a short 18 months, the whole verdict Is reversed. There can be but one explanation for it. TVi a\r c-o rt* orhat wo dirt?that wHhftllt making a single claim we put all our men and all our means at the disposal of those who were fighting for their homes, in the first instance, hut for a cause, the cause of human rights and justice, and that we went In, not to support their national claims, but to support the great cause which they held in common. And when they saw that America not only held ideal*, but acted ideals, they were converted to America and li/uinmn nor+icone nf tJlASO ucvamc ill Ui [/Ul Wii^UUO \JA. *UVM*V. Met Greek Scholars. I met a group of scholars when I was in Paris?some gentlemen from one of the Greek universities who had come to see. and in whose presence, or rather in the presence of those traditions of learning. I felt very young indeed. I told them that I had one of the delightful revenges that sometimes comes to a man. All my life I had heard men speak with a sort of con descension of idea!? and of idealists, and particularly those separated, encloistered horizons whom they choose to term academic, who were in the habit of uttering ideals in the free atmosphere when they clash with nobody in part-ciular. And I said T have had this sweet revenge. Speaking with perfect frankness. in the name of the people of the United States, I have uttered as the objects of this great war ideals, and nothing but ideals, and the war has been won by that inspiration. Men were fighting with tense muscle and lowered head until they came to realize those things, feeling they were fighting for their lives and their country. and when these accents of what ifv was al1 about reached them from America they lifted their heads, ?hey raised their eyes to heaven. when they saw men in khaki coming across the sea in the spirit of crusaders. and they found that these were strange men, reckless of danger not only, but reckle?*s because they seemed to see something, that made that danger worth while. Men have tesj tified to me in Europe that our men were possessed by something that ftnlw rail a rHininus fer i vor. They were not like any of the 1 other soldiers. They had a vision, | they had a dream, and. fighting in the I dream ,they turped the whole tide of I battle and it never came back. Tribute of a Humorist. One of our American humorists meeting the criticism that American 1 soldiers were not trained long enough, ! said: ! "It takes only half as long to train en American soldier as any other, be| cause you only have to train him one way, and he did only go one way, I and he never came back until he could 1 do it when he pleased." 1 And now do you realize that thh confidence we have established throughout the world imposes a burden nnon us?if vou choose to call it a burden. It is one of those burdens which any nation onght to be proud to carry. Any man who resists the present tide? that run in the world will find himself thrown upon a snore so nign ana Darren inai n will seem as if he had been separated from his human kind forever. : The Europe that I left the othei : day was full of something that it had never felt fill its heart so full before. ' It was full df hope. The Europe ol th esecond year of the war. the Europe of the third year of the war, was : sinking to a sort of stubborn desper ation. They did not see any greaJ j thing to be achieved even when the : war should be won. They hoped ! there would be some salvage; the? i hoped that they could clear their ter | ritories of invading armies; they ' hoped they could set up their homes ( and start their industries afresh. But I they thought it would simply be th* ! resumption of the old life that Eui rope had?led in fear, led in anxiety, i led in constant susnicious watchful | Bess. T". 37 never dreamed that il ! would be a Europe of settled peace and of justified hope. j All Peoples Buoyed Up. And now these ideals have wrought j this new magic, that all the peoples ; of Europe are buoyed .up and confl ! dent in the spirit of hope, because 1 they believe that we are at the eve of a new age in the world when na , tiuug wxu imui^i&au wc oavtu^ii j when nations will support one ancth| er in every Just cause, when nations , will unite every moral and every phy ' sical strength to see that the righl '-\all preraiL If America were at this juncture to fail the world, what would come of it? I do not mean any disrespect to any other great people when I say that America is the hope of the .world, and if she does not justify that hope the results are unthinkable. Men will be thrown back upon the bitterness of disappointment not only, but the bitterness of despair. All nations will be set up as hostile camps again; the men at the peace conference will go home with their heads upon their breasts, knowing that they have failed?for they were bidden not to come home from there until they did some! thing more than sign a treaty of I peace. | ! Suppose *e sign the treaty of peace and that it is the most satisfactory treaty of peace that the confusing elei ments of the modern world will afj ford and go home and think about our j labors; we will know that we have j left written upon the historic table at I Versailles, upon which Vergeness and I Benjamin Franklin wrote their names, j nothing but a modern scrap of paper. j No nations united to defend, no great forces combined to make it good, no assurance given to the downtrodden and fearful people of the world that they shall be safe. Any man who thinks that America will take part in giving the world any such rebuff and disappointment that does not1 know America. Challenge to Critics. * * 1- it i invite aim iu test me bcuuwquk . of the nation. We set this up to make men free, and we did not confine our conception and purpose to America, and now we will make men free. If j we did not do that, the fame of Amer- j ica would be gone and all her powers would be dissipated. She then would have to keep her power for ffcbse narrow, selfish, provincial purposes which seem so dear to some minds that have j j no sweep beyond the nearest horizon, j j I should welcome no sweeter chal- j j lenge than that. I have fighting blood j j in me and it is sometimes a delight j j to let it have scope, but if it is a I j challenge on this occasion it will be | an indulgence. Think of the picture.j i think of the utter blackness that: j would fall on the world?America has j ' failed. America made a little essay i j at generosity and then withdrew, j America said: "We are your friends," j j but it was only for today, not for to- j ! morrow. America said: "Here is our ; j power to vindicate right" and then i ! the next day said: "Let right take j care of itself and we will take care! of ourselves." America said: "We set up a light to lead men along the paths i nf libertv but we have lowered it, it is j intended only to light our own path." We set up a great deal of liberty, and then we said: "Liberty is a thing that you must win for yourself, do not call upon us." And think of the world that we rwould leave. Do you realize how many new nations are going to be set up in the presence of old and powerful nations in Europe and left there, if left by us, without a disinteresirj friend? What of the Helpless? Do you believe in the Polish cause. SIMPKINS' IDEAL PROLIFIC COT-, | TON. : One of the best and most productive ! early cottons; grown ninety days from J planting to boll. It has produced as j much as three bales per acre averag- t ing 40 per cent, lint and in tests made j ai ine Aruansas juxpenmenL siauon u | ^veraged first out of twenty-eight varieties tried. This cotton also took first premiums at the North Carolina State Fair for j several years. j The advantage of planting an early 'maturing cotton like the Simpkins well understood by all cotton growers, particularly where danger of bool weevil exists. 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