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Show WILSON DELIVERS ! STIRRINGMECH Declares Peace Concluded at Paris Just Peace That Will Safeguard World. XKW YORK, July g.- President Wil-ison Wil-ison returned to the United States today to-day and, in his first speech delivered ion American soil since the peace treaty was signed, declared that the peace ! concluded at Paris was "a Just peac ; which, if it can be preserved, will safe-; guard the world from unnecessary bloodshed." The presidential party with Vice President Marshall, cabinet officers (and a distinguished committee of welcome wel-come left the pier at 3 45 p m. The procession of automobiles moved j through streets cleared of traffic bc-i tween lines of police lo the Lacks ; wanna ferr where they boarded the ferryboat Ithaca and were brought to the Manhattan side of the river where President Wilson is to deliver an ad - I A mo a "j I CnpTi.ioU Kill ,t'i.-., o t -i t-'i ( r. ' up Fifth a renue President Wilson reached (lie wet ,23rd street ferry landing in M.inbat-; M.inbat-; tan at 4:15 p. m. Hundreds of ma-irines ma-irines and sailors, their rifles at pre-, pre-, sent arms, formed a lane through which he passed as he started for Carnegie Car-negie hall, preceded by an escort of mounted policemen The only reference 'he president ruade, to his political opponents was when, in referring to the negotiations ;at Paris, he said: "I am afraid some people some persons, per-sons, do not understand that vision They do not e. n They have looked too much upon the- ground. They have thought loo much of the interests that, were near them, and they have not , listened to the voices of their neigh- uors I har never had a moment's doubt as to where the heart and pui-I pui-I pose of this people lay " The president arrived at the Ho- boken army pier shortly before 3 J o'clock. The army transport George ' Washington, on which he sailed from Brest, was escorted up the bay by th0 battleship Pennsylvania and more than ja score of destroyers and smaller naval j craft. On the New Jersey shore, the state which first honored Mr Wilson" with a political offic e, were massed ten thousand school children who welcomed wel-comed 'he chief executive of the na j tion with the strains of th- national i anthem. Through the lines of the children, all dressed in white, the- president passed to the ferry which carried him to the Manhattan side of the river. He arrived in New York at 4 15 p. m , where he was greeted by the official reception committee, headed by Co lernor Smith and Mayor Hylan From the ferrj terminal to Carnegie Hall, a distance of about three miles, the presidential presi-dential party passed through streets lined with cheering thousands of men, women and children who thronged the s'de walks and filled every available window and roof top. From the upper windows of the business busi-ness Bkyscrapers great showers of con-fettl con-fettl rained upon the president and Mrs Wilson, literally millions of scraps of paper floating through the air, carrying this motto "Evorvbodv's business Tn cin-l by our government To help the soldier sol-dier gel a job To help crush Bolshev- if ni ' , i Soldiers and Marines. The head of the procession w;.-formed w;.-formed by several companies of sol i jdiers and marine s, lolloued by sout-' ! hundreds of sailors. Immediately , preceding the presidential car a- i n , automobile filled with secret - ri(.. men, and the ;u n.eit v as guarded K I the president s personal bodyguard of : four picked men. President's Independence Day Address The text of President Wilson's : Fourth ot July address to. soldiers and sailors aboard the George Washington. I in which the president declared that, "if it had not been for America, the war would not have been won," was i obtained on the arrival of the presidential presi-dential ship Asserting "we have successfully maintained the liberties of a great nation,' the president said in part I "We told our fellow men throughout I the world when he sot up the free state of America that we wanted lo serve liberty everywhere and be t ho friends of men in even part of the (world who wanted to throw off the un-just un-just shackles of arbitrary governmen1 Now we have kept our pledge to bu inanity, as well as our pledge to our-selves, our-selves, for we have thrown everything I we possessed, all the gifts thai nature j had showered upon us, and our own lives, into the scale to show that we J ; meant to be the servants of humanity and of free men everywhere I "America at first did not see the full meaning of (he war that ha.- just ended. At first it looked like a natural I raking out of the pentup -jealousies and rivalries of the, complicated poii-! poii-! tics of Europe. Nobody who really' knew anything about history supposed I that Germany could build up a great i military machine like she did and not. refrain from using it. They were eon-Btantlj eon-Btantlj talking about it a- a guarantee ot peace, but every man in his seue: i i knew that it was a threat of war. and I the threat was finally fulfilled and the war began. We at the distance of) America looked on at first without a full comprehension of what the plot was getting into, and then at last we realized that there was here nothing jlcss than a threat against ihe freedom of free men everywhere. America Saved the Day. "Then America went in and if it had not been for America the war would not have been won. My heart bwells with a pride that I cannot express ex-press when 1 Hunk of the men who j (crossed the seas from America to fight ion these battlefields. I "I was proud of them when I could see them, and now thai 1 have lived with them and seen them, 1 am prouder proud-er of them still, for they are men to the core, and I am glad to have h.id Kurope sec this specimen of our manhood. man-hood. Europe Trusts America. And yiu know wnai nas nappeneu. Haying sampled America that Way, Europe believes in and trusts Ainene i. Is not thai your own personal experience experi-ence and observation? I "Am 1 not, therefore, justified in say-ing say-ing that we have fulfilled our pledge to humanity, we have proved that we were the champions of liberty through ut the world, that we did not wish j to keep it as a selfish and private possession pos-session of our own, but wanted to , share it with men oerywhere and of every kind When you look forward to the future, do you not see what a I compul.-ion ihat puts upon us? "You cannot earn a reputation like 'that and then not live up to it You j cannot reach a standard like that and jthen lay it down by ever so little. America to Serve Mankind. ' YVc must continue to put America at the service of mankind, not lor any I profit we shall get out of it, not for any private benefit we shall renp from lr, but because we believe in the rierat and mean to serve it wherever we jhave a chance to serve it. I "I was thinking today that a new freedom has come to the peoples of the world out of this war It has no date, j It has no fourth of July. There has I nowhere been written a declaration of i independence The only date I can j think of for if is the eleventh of last November when the central powers admitted they were beaten and accepted accept-ed an armistice From that lime they knew they had to submit to the terms of liberty, and perhaps some of these days we shall dare the freedom of the peoples from the eleventh of November, Novem-ber, 191S. "And yet if that be not the date of it, it interests my thought to think (that as it had not date for beginning, we should see to it that It had no date ifor ending, that as it began without I term it should end w ithout term and thai In every counsel we enter into, in every force we contribute to, we shall make it a condition that the labor of men throughout the world shall bo served and that America shall continue to redeem her pledge to humanity and I to mankind." i Welcoming the chief execulhe were I representath es of the non partisan league of nations, the war camp com munity service, and the central labor union and a committee of Washington citizens, headed by Commissioner Crownlow, who extended greetings on! behalf of the citj . As the president and Mrs Wilson left the train shed they walked beneath a bower of flowers and passed on to a waiting automobile between long lines of girls representing herals while the mir.rine band played Plans to strew roses in front of the presidential party at the station were disapproved by the police. I At ihe city postoffice, adjoining the I union station, a tableau of Columbia welcoming the president was Illuminated Illumin-ated by searchlights. A battalion of yeowomen in white uniforms also were present to greet their commander in-chief in-chief The full text of ihe President's speech at Carnegie Hall follows: Fellow countrymen: 'I am nol going to try this after- noon to make you a real speech. I lam a bit alarmed to find how many speeches I have in my system undeliv-jered, undeliv-jered, but they are all speeches that come from th- mind and 1 want lo say to you this afternoon only a few words j from the heart "You have made me deeply happy by the generous welcome you have expended ex-pended to me but I do not believe that I (he welcome you extend to me is half as great as that which I extend to you Why, Jerseyman though I am. this Is the, first time 1 ever thought that Ho boken was beautiful. "I have really, though I have tried nn ihe other side of the water to Conceal Con-ceal it, been the most homesick man in tho American expeditionary fort and it is with feelings that it would be rain for me to try to express that I find myself in this beloved country again I do not say that because I lack in admiration of other countries. Generous Welcome Across Water. "There have been many things that softened my homesickness. One of the thler things thai softened it was the vers generous welcome that they tended to me as sour representative n the other side of tho water. And it was still more softened by the prld that. I had in discovering that Anu-ric i had at last convinced the world of her true t haracter. "I was welcome because they had seen with their own eye? what America had done for the world. Thei bad deemed her selfish They had deemed her devoted to material interests. And they have seen her boys come across the water with a vision even more beautiful than that, which thev conceived con-ceived when they had entertained dream of liberty and peace. "And then I had the added pride of iiiiiiaiiBiiwniiMm finding out by personal observation the kind of men we had sent over I had crossed thceas with the kind of men vho had talten them over, without whom they could not have gotten to Europe and then when I got there 1 saw that army of men, that army of clean men, that army that one was I glad to point out and say 'These are my fellow countrymen.' "It softens the homesickness a good deal to have so much of home alon'j .with you and these boys were constantly con-stantly reminding me of home, They lld not walk the streets like anybody else, f do nnt mean that they walked ihe ::ire. ; self-assertively. They did 'nnt. They walked the streets as if 'they knew ihat they belonced wher ever free men lived, that the were ; welcome in the great republic of France ; and were comrades with the other .irmie that had helped to win the ii .it battle and to show the jrreat sacrifice. sac-rifice. Because it is a wonderful thinr for this nation, hitherto isolated from the large affairs of the world to win I not only the universal confidence of J the people of the world, but their universal uni-versal affections. American Soldiers Beloved "And that, inil nothing Less than that, is what has happened. Wherever Wher-ever it was suggested that troop? should be sent and it was desired that troops of occupation should excite no iDreiudice no uneasiness on the nar: of those to whom they were sent, tbe j men w ho represented i hr- other nations 'came to me and asked me to send American soldiers They not only Implied Im-plied but they said that the presence of American BOldiers would be known not to mean anything except friendly protection and assistance Do JfOU : wonder that it marie our hearts BWell with pride to realize these ihine:' I "But while those things in some de-igree de-igree softened my homesickness, they I made me all the more eager to got .home, where the rest of the folks lie; to gel home where the great dynamo I of national energy' was situated, to gel home where the great purposes of national na-tional action were formed and to be allowed to take part in the counsels and in the actions which were formed, i and to be taken by this great nation i w hich from first to last has followed I the vision of the men who set it up land created it. We have had our eyes ijc-ry close upon our tasks at times aul whenever we lifted them, as we werej j accustomed to lift them to a distant" I horizon, we were aware that all the ; peoples of the earth had turned their laces toward us as those who were the friends of freedom and of right, and whenever we thought of national policy and of its relation upon the affairs of the world, we knew we were under bonds to do the large thing and ithe right thing. "It is a privilege, therefore, beyond all computation, for a man. whether j in a great capacity or a small capacity, to Lake part In the counsels and in tbe j resolutions of a people like ibi.- 1 am , afraid some people, some persons do not understand that vision. They do 'not see it They hae looked too much upon the ground. They hae thought I too much of the Interests that were jnear them, and they have not listened to the voices of their neighbors. Heart of the People. "I have never had a momen's doubt as to where the heart and purpose of 'this people lay. When any one on the other side of the water has raised the , question, 'Will America come in and help' I have said. Of course, America will come in and help.' She cannot do anything else. She will not disappoint any high hope tint has been formed 1 'of her. Least nl" nil will she in thtaJ day of new born liberty all over the j world, fail to extend her hand of sup-' port and assistance to those who have been made free, "I wonder if at this distance you can have any conception of the tragic in-J tensity of the feeling of those peoples in Europe who bao just had yokes .throw off them. Have you reckoned up in your mind how many peoples, jhow many nations, were held unwill-i unwill-i ngly under the yoke of the Austrd-I Austrd-I Hungarian empire, under the yoke of Turkey, under the yoke of Germany? Yokes Thrown Off "These yokes have beeu thrown off. These peoples breathe the air an ! look around to see a new day about j them, and whenever they think of i what js going to fill that day with action, ac-tion, they think first of us. They think j first of the friends who throughout (the long years' have spoken for them, j who were prhileged to declare that they came into the war to release I Ithem, who said they' would not make peace upon any other terms than their j liberty and they have known that j America's presence in the war and in the conference was the guarantee of the result. "The governor ha -poken of a great task ended. Yes, the formulation of j tho peace is ended, but it creates onlv 1 new task just begun I believe that if mi will study the peace, you will see that it is a just peace and a peace which, if it can be preserved, will' Bave the world from unnecessary' blood- ihed. J "And now the great task is to preserve pre-serve it I have come back with ruv heart full of enthusiasm lor throwing everything that I can, by waj of in-1 fluence or action, in with you to see' that the peace is preserved, thai when the long reckoning comes men may look back upon this generation 'i America and sa , They were true to ; tho vision which ihey saw at then birth.' " |