Show WILSON ADDRESSES r ENORMOUS GA HERING Ills Initial Speech in Boston Doston After Arrival In in America From Participation Par Par- in lu Peace Conference President Wilson Nilson will fight at home as he has fought abroad for a I league of nations Returning from froni I 1 France ho he had been on American Oil 11 not more than three beI be- be I I for for forto- forto 1 o o- o threw down the gauntlet to tot t those se who ho distrust the proposed concert concert con con- cert of governments based ho he said on the American ideals which had won the war for justice and humanity human human- ity An America confining to her own own territories her conception and purpose purpose pur pur- pose to make men free he said would have to keep her honor for those narrow v. selfish provincial purposes which seem Beem so dear to some minds minda that have no sweep beyond their m I nearest horizon Before Defore a responsive audience that tilled filled the biggest auditorium in the city the president pictured the old I h world fighting with stubborn desperation desperation desper desper- and expecting in the end nothing nothIng nothing noth noth- ing better for the peoples than they had known for centuries He pictured the American nation entering the lists with a new pur pur- purpose pose the pose the freedom of mankind The Theold The Theold Theold old world had caught the vision and any treaty of peace drawn otherwise than in the new spirit would be nothing more he asserted than a modern scrap of paper and the present peace unless guaranteed bythe by bythe bythe the united forces of the civilized world could not stand a generation Bending over the speakers speaker's table his face set in tense lines and Sand his right hand clinched the president exclaimed exclaimed ex ex- claimed and any man who thinks that America will take part in giving the world an any such a and disappointment disappointment dis dis- appointment as that does not know kno America I invite him to test the sentiment of the nation Interrupted by applause the president president dent halted a and d then evoked the greatest demonstration of the afternoon afternoon after after- tI noon when he added that he be would accept no swee sweeter er challenge than the issue of the American purpose in the war I 1 have fighting blood in me me he said sald with apparent feeling and it Is sometimes a delight o o let it have scope but if it is a challenge on this occasion It will be an Indulgence At another point in his leis address tho president said that if the great hope of the world for a league of nations was disappointed he would wish formy for tor formy my mr part never to have had America play any part whatever in this attempt attempt at at- tempt to emancipate the world I have no more doubt of the verdict of or i j America In this matter than I have doubt of the that is in me 1 |