Show PRESIDENT challenges CHAL LENCES CRITICS TO TEST AM ERIGAN SENTIMENT I 1 Indica indicates tet in his boston address 1 eagerness agedness to battle for league of nations wilton wilson declares that americans americana who would have their Cou countey ritty fall the world are lacking in broad vision ll boston oston woodrow 1 son lion just back front from Iu Im europ rop ropo delivered nn an address in ball monday after afternoon nooh february 21 in which ho t throw rov down don tit the to those who distrust distrust tile proposed concert conceit of govi gov based lie declared on tile american ideals which illi have won the war for justice and humanity tito complete ut text of tile presidents address follows fol loHa I 1 wonder ondri if yon ion tire me half liula it glad to see rno me am I 1 gitil te ie st mi ti youa ou it warms my hobirt henrt to see BC it great body of 0 illy follow citizens cIt fzens araan because lit in respects during file alio recent I 1 lino have been very ly lonely indeed without your sour cou ship nod coil asel filid I 1 tried nt at every step ol 01 it ilia work fell to tile ino to I what I 1 was n suro sure I 1 would mould bo be your bour counsel with rega rd to tile tho great matters which under consideration I 1 do not want you ou to think that I 1 have not been appreciative ot of tile extraordinarily c tra ordInarily generous cne ious reception which was ns given to ilia 1110 on oil ilia other side lit in saying abat it me ino wy very emppy to got get hoano again I 1 do not nican to 0 o say that lint I 1 was iia not very deeply deep touched by I 1 the cries clips that calne from the alio great crowds on oil lite other side but I 1 to say hii to you in fix nil fill bA honesty nesty that hint I 1 frit felt thein to tio be tt it anil of if greeting to vou rather than linn to nip lite I 1 did not feol feel that lint lip ilia greeting was mas personal poison nl I 1 lind had in ili my lily limit heart the over crowding pride or of being your conr depre senta tivo an and ot of receiving ilia plaudits pl audits of nun men everywhere who felt that your sour arth bent beat with theirs in the cause of be alberty thoro was no mistaking tile tono lit in tile voice of those knot great crevda it was an nut not a tono tone of were greeting it wnm nf not it n one of more indio generous wel cl collie it wits na tile lio calling of to 0 o coin rildo tile cries that lint collie from fi men inen wl who 0 my may wo we lino havo for this day when the ilia friends ot of liberty should collie moss ilia lio on oil and shako shake hands with us its to two tio that a now new world wits constructed uron upon it now new basis and foundation of justice find right light I 1 cant toll tell you ion tile ho that antiuk front tile sentiments 1 lint caina f mit auty ot 41 t I 1 api e R v olcan otee alot 8 alie carowil and ilia ho proudest thing I 1 have it to report to you sou Is that hint tills this great country of ours ouis Is trusted throughout tile tho world orld I 1 laivo lie not t tome coma to r airport V port the pro or tile the results of the proceedings of tile peace conference that would bo be premature I 1 crin any that I 1 have fe received very ry happy impression ginipro 9 froni from this confor bilco the lio impression that amt while there niu are many differences of judgment while kllc thero lipin fire some homo divergences of object there Is nevertheless it 11 coin coil moll spirit and li it common nii inon realization of tile necessity of setting betting up till now 4 of right in fit lite iho world not masters but servants lie cause tile inen who w fire lit in con coil forence lit in paris rt utilize ns as keenly ns its tiny american call realize that thay nio fire not lot tho anast inns hrs rs of their people that they tire the servants of their 1 people c ople nud and that lite spirit of their people lins lina awakened nod to n R now new purpose nud it new conception of their power to realize flint lint purpose ana no lie inan dal liin dale e RO go gioino ionic from that conference find report anything urn tiling losi 1034 boblo tanil was is of 0 it tito iho Fon conference ference faim it to you sou to RO go slowly lowly front alny lily z to lay lit in iorli tt it seeing to go slowly but I 1 wander it you sou realize ilia complo of t tile task which it t lina has under undertaken it seems ns if tile set M vt of tile the war ur affect and affect directly dl overy or rient great find I 1 think every ocr sui till nation in tho world and no no ono ilia decision call lisl prudently dently ile bo nindo ninda which la iri not lot giop arly linked in with tl tile series of outer other decisions which alch must accompany it and it inett lio ila reckoned lit in with tile final result if tilt tho rent quality mid character of result la 13 to bo be properly pio perly judged what we u tire itro I 1 joing Is to hoar hear the wll liol 14 ewe ense henr it from thu the mouths of the inan most interested hear it from those who anro airo jonad tion pil it to state it i hear liona tho rival cla ilits hear tile thu claims that tie new w t alg of the world old th alint at JIL hu W 0 and economic colla collach cC O truit lifto been by tho great erent world horld war nr through which hecl we e have gone claims of nations moderate I 1 lino have been struck by the ilia moderate of those who 10 lo lino have represented tint lonal claims I 1 inn can testify that I 1 I 1 luio have nowhere noi cro seen aften tile the gleim of haq slon glon I 1 hao ell earnestness I 1 ino seen been tears towo collie to olt eyes of at inon who pleaded for downtrodden down don trodden people leoin I 1 ehdy were oro privileged to tor for but abey berc not tin the tamia of u i anguish they were cro tho of 0 ardent liopo hope and I 1 ilont dont sop see linw how till anny nuiji call nn to have been btty titi balled ly by ti 1 plena pleas su balled to tills this feeling lie ho ans na not thore to ast art tilt nil judgment jials of ili hla own an but to try to assist lite iho enciso of himl anItY lit in tho ilia midst of it nil all every interest seeks books out first of till nil when tm it reaches arla tile tho ives ot of tile I 1 cd ad states vt lezium leui UM itt find I 1 think I 1 aill stat filk tile tho most inot wonder fill filet fact lit in there Is i 0 lie o nation ili li B hirome that bmw 1 facts the motive of tile tho united santes hard to forget es it la Is for men to belleve tit that tit lit nil I 1 ambitions have nil all oc at a sul sud ion den been foregone they remember ten teril I 1 tori tory alint was coveted they rei I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 v member rights that it was attempted to extort they aliey remember bItI which it was attempted attempt ea to real izen izo and nil while they believe that men havo collie into n different temper they cannot forget these things and ana so BO they do not resort ro ort to ono one lit iother for it 11 view of tl ra lit in controversy they to hair nation netlon which lina ins won the ho viiva I 1 able distinction of it being tin ile ho friend of whenever it was desired to abend it a small force of soldiers sok llera to occupy a aleca of territory where it Is though elso will tio be welcome they for AmerIc tin soldiers and where other r soldiers would tie be looked upon with find perhaps meet will resistance tile lie american soldier sold lerIs Is wel with acclaim I 1 have sq so lually grounds for pride on the other side of the lie water ut tat I 1 nm am very thankful that lint they hoy tire not grounds for personal pi ide and tt it hns bas bi en nn an infinite pleasure to ilia to seo cur those gallant soldiers or of ours of whom the constitution of tile united states made ine file ilia proud commander r you may be proud of tile twenty sixth division hut but I 1 command tile twenty sixth division aind fill see neo what they did under my direction I 1 and every body praises tile american sol nol adlor with the iho it feeling clug that lit in praising him blin lie Is a subtracting from ohp credit of no onu one olea cles america acted her ideals I 1 have been si searching for foi the tun full filet fact that lint converted 1 lurono drope to believe lit in us its before tile the war lu bit rope opo did not bellove bel loo in ili us us 08 slie does docs now nou she did not believe in us throughout tile first abree years enia of ali war ni sho boons really to have hao be llovet that me worn were holding ore err because wo we thought wo we could make more by staying liiK out than by going in and till nil of a i sudden in ili it short eighteen months the whole verdict Is there cnn be but onu oil explanation for foi it they hit saw what wo did that with out making a single oneill wo put all men kilell aind nil fill our oui means nt the disposal of oe those who lighting fighting for their bonus lit in ilia first instance but tor for a cause tho ilia causo cause 0 of huguin rights und find justice find that 0 we o eilt in not to up their national claims but to support tho the great causo cause which they liula in common and when wn they saw that america not nor only held hut but acted ideals they were meio coin converted cited to america find and became biffin partisans of those ideals fighting for lives and country mm alen were fighting with tense muscle and lowered levad until they amo to realize those things feeling they were veru lighting fighting for their lles lives find their country and when hen these accents of what it ann kg nil about from america iffie their fiends they malsed their eyes to heaven when they saw raw men in ili chahl coming across the sea in fit ila spirit of crusaders crus adois and they found that these were strange met men reckless of danger not only hut but reer less lic cause they seemed to see hw that lint mado hint flint danger worth bortl while fell aien hilve testified to lite 1110 in europe that our wen were cio possessed by something that they could only call a roll rell grous aurver they vere cie tint not like any 0 f tho alio othor other soldiers they hud bull it islon they had a brenin li ionin and they were lighting lit in tho the and hilgh jn ing lit in tho ilia alny they turned tile the cholo tide of battlo battle and it novel never enold alic a anil and now do you realize that this confidence we I 1 have throughout tile alio world imposes a burden upon I us if yet ion to call it it burden it Is ono of those burdens which tiny nation ought to bo be proud to curry carry any man who resist s the present tides that flint run inn lit in ho fie world will mill find himself thrown thion upon n so ho high find barren ban en that it will seem as it lio lie had been separated from his human kind forever foru vor europe continent of hope tito tho that I 1 loft left ilia other dai day was full of something that it hall had never felt jill 1111 its heart so BO full before it wits was full of hope tito Bair of the second benr of if ilia war tile europe of the third yeav w of tile tho war was ft us banking to a sort boit of sl at aborn desperation dla did not seo any great thing to lie ile achieved even con when the war should li no DO won some rome vage they hoped that they could clear their territories ol 01 0 armies aboy hoped they could set hot up tip their hoines lioi iio end and their industries afresh aut they til thought ought it would boull simply bo be the resumption of the old life alint europe lind hall led ltd led in fear led lit in anxiety led in cons constant trint suspicious watchfulness they never dreamed that it would bo be it i of settled ponce pence find and of justified hope and now these ideals have wrought tills this magic that nil the ho peo peoples liles or europe tire buoyed up and confident th in tile alio spirit of hope bove because they believe that wo we tire arc at tile the ovo eve of nf it a new ago age in tile ho world when blell nations will understand ono one another when nations vill mill support ono one another lit in every just cause when nations will unito every hioram nud and every physical strength to see that the right shull shall pr prevail evall wo we must not fall the world it if america were wera at this ji juncture picture to rall tile the world what would come of it r to do I 1 not ikenn any mare pact to 0 o any I 1 other ar 1 11 poopoo when I 1 say that diat Api ierio erla la the hope of tho world nil and if allo does docs not justify that hopa holle tile lip results are unthinkable men will to fu I 1 n back upon thu the bitterness or not wy only but 1110 It erness of despair all nations avla ivla ho he sift set up tip its as hostile camps again tile ho well men at tho ilia pence conference will go go homo with jhc thc their lr eoala upon br breasts easta knowing that alint they bavo failed ifor i for they were bladen not to boino homo boino frow thorn aultia they ilia did so thing moru titan than sign a areat anif t pc aup posio we sign the treaty of at penca peace and chilt it Is 18 tile most FRAtis satisfactory factory t treaty reaty st panco that tho the confusing ele the modern world will alcord find and go hopia and hank think abo nebout u t our in ia t bors wp will knoy know that wo loft left written yr itten tillon upon tile tho historic table fit at ver A 1 V I 1 I 1 I 1 r it tallies ailles upon which vergennes Veri ennes and benjamin franklin wrote their names nothing but a modern scrap ernp ot of paper no eions un united I 1 to defend fell it ut nu gr biear forces combi combined tied to annice it good fit no assurance given to tho the down trodden and fearful people of tho the world blint hoy khall ito bo safe ante any ally ninn an who thinks 14 that hat abuel ICIL will take part in ili giving pit ins tho ilia world any such ind and nt us is that eliut does 1008 not know america invited to test sentiment I 1 invite liliu to 0 o test tile tho sentiments of nt tile aliu nation we vo set this up tip to malco men freo fico and wo we did not confine our conception ana purpose to america ind now wo we will mako make men inon free fice if wo we did not do tile fame faine of america would mould bo be gone and i nil fill her powers would ho be dissipated silo then would lime have to ke kep keep p tier her power for tile elioso s a vel figh provincial purposes which scein so MI fear dear to fonie minds that havu tie no sweep beyond be ond the ilia nearest horizon I 1 should welcome vel come no sweeter scooter challenge chal lengo than that I 1 lime have lighting fighting blood in me ino and it Is sometimes it 11 delight to lot it liao hava scope but it if it Is 13 a n challenge on oil this occasion oi caslon it 11 will be 1 nil an indulgence think of the picture think of tho the utter hInch ness that would fall on the worldly america has bulled I 1 america made a little essay nt at getter generosity and then withdrew I 1 america said 0 wo o tire me your frIends but it was only for odny boday not for aoi toi america said hero Is 14 our pow power to vindicate right und then alien tho ilia net daiy diy said bald let right take care caie of itself and wo ive will take tnie care of ourselves anier america sald aid wo we set up tip u light to lead men n long along lite ho luths of liberty but wo we lave lowered it jt it Is intended only to light our oi own it path wo set fet ill a n great ideal of liberty and t then I 1 ten we said anad liberty Is it thing that lint you ou must win tor for yourself do not call upon us tw and think of tile lie world that wo we would leavel new nations must ho be shielded do ou olt 1 19 how many now new nations are going to he be set up tip lit in tho presence n of f old aria powerful po erful nations in europe and left time there if left by us without a disinterested friend do you ou believe in tho the polish cause as I 1 lio alo are ale you lou going to set up ill poland immature Immo tuio inexperienced ilon cod as ai yet bunor find and leave iter her with a 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