.t ,( .' ' -r-rrwtjj"! 1J?!l TTawvxKrTwrc " ! fOTHKSIWV. ' "W ..!' . jHWiM' I ' evening public ledger Philadelphia; Tuesday, febhuaky 25, 1910 " ,i 15 . WV - I lv I t h$ PRESIDENT DECLARES HUMANITY HAS IMPLICIT CONFIDENCE IN U. S. Wilson, in His Address at Boston, Challenges the Critics of Society of Nations Plan to Determine Sentiment of Americans Invites No 'Sweeter Conflict Than the Issue Made of U. S. Purpose in World War Boston, Feb. 25. The text of Presi dent Wtiitn's tpeecli in Mechanics Pall yttteriay, follow: I wonder If you are half as glad to tee mo as I am to see you. It warms my heart to c a great body of my fellow cttltens again, because in om reiptcts during the recent months I have been very lonely ln deed -without your comradeship and counsel, nnd I tried at every step ot th work which fell to mo to re call what I was sure would b your couniel with retard to the great matters which were under con sideration. I do not want y6u to think that I hare not been appreciative of the . .extraordinarily generous reception which was given to me on the other aide, In saying that It makes mo very happy to ge homo again. I do not mean to say that I was not Very deeply touched by tho cries that came from the great crowds on the other side. Hut t want to say to you in all honesty that I felt them to be a call of greeting to ou rattier than to me. Welcome Call of Comrade 1 did, not feel that the greeting r,as personal. I had In my heart tho overcrownlng pride of being your representative and of receiving the plaudits of men everywhere, who felt th,at your hearts beat with theirs In the cause of liberty. There was no mistaking tho lone In tho voices , of those great crowds. It was not a tone of mero generous welcome. It was the calling of comrade to com rade, the cry that comes from men who say "Wo 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." I can't tell you tho Inspiration that came from the sentiments that came out of thoso simple voices of the crowd. And the proudest thing .1 have to report to you Is that this great country of ours Is trusted throughout the world. Council Servant of People I havo not come to report tho ptocecdlngs or tho results of the proceedings of the Peace Confer ence; that would bo premature. I ran say that I havo received very happy Impressions from this con ferenco; tho Impression that while there are many differences of Judg ment, while there oro some diver gencies, there Is nevertheless a com mon spirit and a common realiza tion of the necessity of setting up new standards of right in tho world. Becauso the men wfio are In con ference in Paris reallie as keenly as any American can realize that they are not the masters ot their people; that they are the serrants ot their people, and that the spirit of their people has awakened to a new purpose and a new conception of their power to realize that pur pose and that no man dare get homo from that conference and report anything less noble than was ex pected of It. Task a Complex One The conferenco seems to you to go slowly; from day to day In Paris It seems to go slowly: but I wonder It you realize the complexity of the task which It has undertaken. It eemi as If tho settlements ot this war affect, and affect directly, every great, and I sometimes think, every small netion in the world, and no one decision can prudently bo made which is not properly linked In with the great series ot other decisions which must accompany It and it must be reckoned In with tho final result, If the real quality and char acter of that result Is to be properly Judged. What we are doing Is to hear the whole case; hear It from the mouths of tho men most Interested; hear It from those who are oftlclally commissioned to state it; hear the ilval claims; hear the claims that affect new nationalities, that af fect new areas of the world, that affect new commercial and economic connections that havo 'been estab lished by the great world war through which we have gone. Xo Gleam of Passion And I havo been struck by the moderateness of those who have represented national claims. I can testify that I have nowhere seen the gleam ot pastloru I have seen earnestness. I have seen tears come to the eyes of men who plead for downtrodden people whom they were privileged to speak for; but they were not the tears ot anger, they were the tears ot ardent hope. I don't see how any man can fall to have been subdued by these pleas, subdued to this feeling that he' was not there to assert an indi vidual Judgment ot his own, but to try to assist the cause of humanity. And In the midst ot it all every Interest seeks out, first of all, when It reaches Paris, the representatives of the United Slates. Why? lie cause and I think I am stating the most wonderful fact In history be rauie there Is no nation In Europe that suspects the motives of the United States. High Tribute to Nation wu there ever so wonderful a thing seen beforeT Was there ever so moving a thing? Was there '' h, ver ftny 'ttCt Ilat 80 J0Und '" Ci"V ni nation that Kad won that, esteem that the gveat men who represent the other nations there In conference are dlsestccmed by thoso who know them. Quito the contrary. But you understand that tho nations of Eu rope havo again nnd again clashed with one another In competitive In terest. It Is Impossible for men to forget those sharp Issues that were drawn between them In tlmo past. It Is Impossible for men to be lieve that all ambltloiiH have all of a sudden been forgone. They remember territory that was coveted; they remember rights that It was attempted to extort; they remember political ambitions which it was attempted to realize and, while they believe that men havo como into a Afferent temper, they cannot forget these things, and so they do not resort to one another for a dispassionate view ot tho mat ters In controverKj. They resort to, that nation which has won the enviable distinction of being re garded as the friend of mankind. Grounds tor National Pride Whenever it Is desired to send a fcmnll force of soldiers to occupy ft piece of territory whcie it Is thought' nobody else will be -welcome, they ask for American soldiers. And where other soldiers would be look ed upon with suspicion and perhaps met with resistance, tho American soldier Is welcomed with ncclatm. And it has been an Infinite pleas uro to me to see those gallant sol diers of ours, of whom tho Constitu tion of tho United States made me the proud commander. You may be proud of tho Twenty-sl-cth Division, but I commanded tho Twenty-sixth Division and see what they did under my direction I -And every body pralecs the American soldier with the feeling that In praising him ho Is substractlng from the credit of no one else. V. S. Actions Drought Belief I have been searching for the fundamental fact that converted Europo to bellovo In us. Betero this war Europo did not believe In us as she does now. She did not bellovo In us throughout tho first threo years of the war. She seems really to havo believed that we wcro hold ing off because wo thought we could mal:o more by staying out than by coming In. And all ot a sudden, In a short eighteen months, the whole verdict Is reversed. ' Thero can be but one explanation for It. They saw what we did that without making a elnglo claim we put all our men and alt our means nt the disposal ot thoso who were fighting for their homes, In tho first Instance, but .for a cause, the cause of human right and justice, and we went in, not to support their national claims, but to support the great cause which they h61d In common. Idealists Now Upheld And when, they saw that America not only held ideals, but acted Ideals, they were converted to America and became firm partisans of thou Ideals, i I met a group of scholars when I was In Paris. Borne gentlemen from mo of tho Greek universities, who had como to see mo and In whose presence, or rather in tho presence of whoso traditions ot learning, I felt very young Indeed. I told them that I had had one of tho delight ful revenges that sometimes comes to a man. All my llfo I havo heard men Epealc with a sort of condescen sion of Idealists, and particularly of those separated, cnclolstcred per sons whom they choose to term academic, who were In the habit of uttering Ideals In the free atmos phere when they clash with nobody In particular. round Danger Worth While And I have said t have had this sweet revenge. Speaking with per fect frankness, In tho name of the United States, t havo uttered as the objects of this great war Ideals and nothing but Ideals, and the war has been vton by that Inspiration. Men were fighting with tense muscle and lowered head until they camo to reallzo those things, feel ing they wero fighting for their lives and their country, and when these accents or what It was all about reached them from America they lifted their heads; they raised tlrelr eyes to Heaven; then 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 reckless because they seemed to see something that made this danger worth while. United States Soldiers Had Vision Men have testified to mo In Europe that our men were possessed by Bomethlng that they could only call a religious fervor. They were not like any of the soldiers. They had a lUlon; they had a dream, and they were fighting In the dream, and fighting In the dream they turned BELLA VICTROLA SONORA PHONOGRAPHS Ninos --Players HZICktttiitStrMt the whole tide of baltle and It never canto hack. One of our American humorists, meeting the criticism that American soldiers were not tralnod long enough, said: "It takes only halt ni long to train an American soldier us any other, because you only havo to train him to go one nayl" And he did only go one nay, and ho i ever camo back until lie could do U nhen ho pleased. And now do jou reallzo that this confidence we have established throughout tho world Imposes a. burden upon us if you choose to call It a burden? It Is ono of those burdens which any nation ought to be proud to cany. Heady Kor Fight Any man nho resists tho pieient tides that run In the woild 1U find himself tin own upon a shore so high and barren that It will seem as It he had been separated fiom his human kind forever. Tho Kutopo that I left the other day was full of something that it had never felt nil Its heart so full before. It was full of hope. Tho IJuropo of the second year of the r, or, the Kuropo of tho third . ear uf tho uar, was sinking to a sort of stubborn desperation. They did not see any great thing to be achieved, oven when tho war should bo von. They hoped thorowould be somo calvage; they hoped that they could clear their territories of ln'adlng armies; they hoped they could set up their homes and start their Indus tries afresh. But they thought It would simply bo the resumption of the old llfo that Europe had led led In fear, led In anxiety, led In constant suspicious watchfulness. They never dreamed that It would bo a JSuropo ot settled peace and of Justified hope. And now these Ideals have wrought this new magic, that ull tho peoples of Kuropo are buojed up and confident In tho spirit of hope, Uccauso they bcllevo that wo arc at the evo of a new ago In tho world, when nations will understand ono another, when nations will support one another In every Just cnufo, when nations will unlto every moral and every physical strength to see that tho right shall prevail. Dlro Results It Peace Fa Hi If America were at this Juncture to fall tho world, what would come of it? I do not mean any disrespect to any other great people when I say that America Is the hopo of the world; Mid If sho docs not justify that hope, the results are unthink able Men will be throw n baok upon the bitterness of disappointment not only, but the bitterness of despair. All nations will bo set up as hostile camps again; the men at the Peace Conference v. Ill go homo with thelt heads upon their breasts, knowing that they have failed for they were bidden not to come home from there until they did something more than sign a treaty of peace. Supposo wo sign tho treaty of peaco and that It Is the most satis factory treaty of peace that the con fusing elements of tho modern world will afford, and go homo and think about our labors, we will know that wo havo left written upon the his toric table at Versailles, upon which A'ergennes and BonJamln franklin wroto their names, nothing but a modern scrap of paper; no nations united to defend It, no great forces combined to make It good, no assur ance given to the downtrodden and fearful people of the world that they shall bo safe. Any man who thinks that Amer ica will tako part In giving tho world any such rebuff and disappointment as that docs not know America. I Invito him to test tho senti ments of tho nation, We set this up to men and wo did not confine our conception and purpose to America and now we will make men free. If we did not do that, the fame of America would bo gone and all her powers would be dissipated. She then would have to keep her power for those, narrow, selfish, provincial purposes which seem so dear to some minds that have no sweep beyond tho nearest horizon. I should welcome no sweeter chal lenge than that. I have flglitlnc blood In me and it Is sometimes a dellght'to let It hare scope, but If It Is n challenge on this occasion it will bo an Indulgence. Think of the picture, think ot the utter blackness that would fall on tho world. America has failed! America made a little essay at gen erosity and then withdrew. Amer ica said: "We are your friends, but It was only for today, not for to morrow.", America said: "Hern Is our power to vlndlcato right," and then the next day said. ''Let right tako care of Itself and we will tako care of ourselves." America said: "Wn set up a light to lead men along tho paths of liberty, but wo havo lowered it; it Is Intended only to light our own path " Guiding Spirit of liberty We set up a great Ideal of liberty And then v.e said: "Liberty Is a thing that you must win for yourself. Do not call upon us," nnd think of the world that we would lea c. Do you realize how many new nations are going to be set up In the presence of old nnd powerful nations In Kuropo and left there, If left by us, without a disinterested friend? Do you believe In tho Polish cause, as I do? Are you going to set up Poland, Immature, Inexperienced, as yet unorganized, and leave her Tltli a circle of armies around her? Do you believe In the aspiration of tho Czecho-Slovaks nnd tho .lugo-Slavs as I do? Do you know how many powers would be quick to pounce upon them If thero were not the guarantee of the world behind their liberty? Have you thought of tho suffering of A..nenta. You poured out your money to help succor tho Armenians after they suffered? now set your strength so that they Bhall never suffer again. The Arrangements ot tho present peace cannot stand a generation un less they are guaranteed by the united forces ot the clTillrcd world. And If we do not guarantee them, cannot yOu not see the picture? Your hearts havo Instructed you where tho burden ot this war fell. It did not fatl upon tho national treasuries: It did n6t fall upon the Instruments of administration; It did not fall upon the resources ot the nations. It fell upon the victims' homes overywher where women were toiling In hopo that their men would come back, When I think of the homes upon Certified by the Philadelphia Pediatric Sociaty Vhlker- Gordon Just as- it comes from the Cow Nattftl TyfiiHTbr Clcnn fM-y 1 1 i V 11 II 1 1 I W , ri3ej Aii.Jlil.lLU. V Wi 1 '-VsV t. A fjood, hea quality of paraffined paper cap is inserted in the bottle in the usual way and ocr it is put a tinfoil &eal that incloses the entire top of the bottle and keeps the pouring lip clean. This tinfoil is spun on by an electrical machine and shows at a glance if any one lias tampered with the milk. Milked in clean barns, from clean tous, b clean hand and then delhcred under double protection: tin's is Walker- Gordon Milk produced on the Plainsboro (N. J.) farm-, of the Walker-Gordon Laboratorj Company. SUPPLEE-WLLLS-JONES MILK CO. Distributing Agents for Philadelphia, Atlantic City & Vicinitj Winner of Tit five Gold Medals Telephone, Poplar 530 Income Tax Law of 1918 A BOOKLET in convenient form lor ready reference, has.been prepared by this Company containing the full text of the Income Tax. Law of 1018 and a brief explanation of its provisions. , We shall be glad to mail a cojay of this publication to any one upon request. Philadelphia Trust Company 115 Chestnut Street :: 1416 Chestnut Street which dull despair would settle wcro this great hope disappointed, I should wish, for my part, never to havo had America' play any part whatever In this attempt to emanci pate the world. But I talk as If thero wero any question; I have no more doubt of Hie verdict of Amer ica In this matter than I have doubt of the blood that Is In me. And so, my fellow cltlzcn I have como back to report progress, nnd I do not bcllevo that tho progress Is going to stop short of tho goal. The nations of the world havo set their heads now to do a great thing, and they nro not going to slacken their purpose. And when I speak ot tho nations of tho world I do not speak ot tho governments of tho world, r speak of tho peoples who constitute tho nations of tho world. 'they are In the saddle and they aie going to see to It that It their pros, ent gotcroments do not do their will, some other Governments shall. And the secret Is out and the present goiernmrnts know II. Harmony In Common Knowledge Thero Is a pi cat deal of harmony I lo bo got out of common knowl I edge. There Is a great deal ot sympathy to be got out ot living In the samo atmosphere and, except for 1 tho differences ot languages, which I puzzles my Amtrlcan car very sadly, I I could havo believed 1 was at home ! In France or In Italy or In Unglaml when I was on tho streets, when I was In the prcsenco of tho crowds, when I was In great halls where men wcro gathctcd together trio gpcctlvo of class. t did not ff-et nulte as much nt homo thero as I do here, but I felt that now, at any rate, after this storm of war had cleared the air, men were seeing eye to cyo everyv.heio and that thesu were the kind of folks who would understand what tho kind of folks at homo would undedstand and that they were thinking tho name things. I feel nbout you as I am reminded of a story of that excellent witness nnd good artist, Oliver Hcrford, who ono day, sitting at luncheon at his club, was slapped lgorously on the back by a man whom ho did not know very well. Ho Raid: "01ler, old boj. how are jou?" Ho looked nt litm rather coldly, lie 'aid: "t don't know jour name: I flon't know your Cacc, but jour mannora oro ery familiar!" and I must say that your manners arc very familiar, nnd, let mc ado, very delightful. Speaking Thoughts ot People It Is a great comfort, for one thing, to reallzo that you all understand tho language I nm speaking. A friend of mine said that to talk i Double seal on every bottle Walker - Gordon Milk is cooled, bottled, double-scaled and iced within' twenty min utes after it leaves the cow. through nn interpreter was like v,lt- ' ncsslng tho compound fracture of I kH liUn Itiai it.. I.....1.. . li la I that whatever tho Impediments of me rimnnei or communication, mo ldca Is tho same: that It gets regis tered, nnd It gets registered In re sponslvo hearts nnd'tr-ccpttto pur pocs. I I have como hack for a sttenuous uttempt to tiansuct business for a I llttlo while In America, but I hnvo really come back to say to you, In nil soberness and honesty, that 1 have been trlng my best to speak our thoughts. When I sample myself t think 1 find that I nm u typical American, nnd If I sample deep enough, and get down to what Is probably tho truo stuff of a man, then I have hopo that It Is part of the stuff that Is llko tho other fellow's nt home, And, therefore, probing deep In my heart and trying to see tho things that arc light without re paid to the things that mny be de bated ns opcdlcnt, I feel that I am Interpreting the purpose and the thought of Aineilca; and In loving America T find 1 hao Joined tho great majority of my fellow men thioucliout the world MANUFACTURERS COMBINE Knit Good .M.ikcrs I'lnn I'iplit , Auinet Order CniHclliitions fund for prelecting Knit goods manufacturers against pieixlmnts hcrk- lug to cancel orders or return imrclian dlso w.is established lit a meeting of thn PemiHjh.-inla DMston of the National Atiuclatlon of Hosiery and I'nderwear MunufuctureiM held nt Iteadltifr Approximately 100 manufacture n' tended tho mt-etlnp. which a pnstdul oer by Charles i; f.elppp IniinrdlMtely following an outlining of the propoBul, cash patnentH Into tho fund nnd pledges of stipulate, rontrlbu-' tlons begun to pour irr, nnd the How con tinued ns inpldlv as It wax possible for the secretary to leiimt the pu meats ami Pledges, until nearlj cery person pres-, ent uuthortred to speak for his princi pals had committed them Yarn mer chants nxid knit xooils s!llng ngentscon. trlhuted to tho fund, which. It wbh inti mated, JudKlng from the nucleus rivaled at tho meeting, might amount to j:3,oou or moro in a crj short time. URGE AMERICANIZATION ClcrpjmtJii Sajs Doctrine Is Remedy Apainft Social EmU Americanization Is tho onlj tenuity Rualnst an Increasing wae of soclnl evils, said the r.ev. Dr. J Frank Smith moderator of the l'lesbjterlnn ('hutch of America, at the thirtieth annual illti. ner of tho I'reshjtprlan boclal I'nlon, at the ElelleMie-Stratford last nlKht Com mander Thangellnp Booth, of the K.iiva. lion Arm, spoke on "Tho Organisation of th Anns'." t)r. Smith pointed out that blasphemy, Irroieitneo to Cod, prize fighting nnd llipior consumption hao been on Hi Increase nnd must be eradicated by proper Americanization work RIO WK I 1 mum III iSaHflf I HHI llHBi I I Smmmmmr )- -a K2I vaiui fif WEmmmmmmml III mmmWj: m b mm w r Jee . a Hi r- v3 AIT -fill 77 I WJmMMmM I ISlKrislw I fwmW I f WjSwfW I Wmm I MuL. I 7s"Tp I sAkfA I uiSxiBl If i.Rf0 HI I wills I M lT" WAw I I ly"" ft Bf J I If oThe 1 I Flavor iSq' Lasts JF lmSsA WRAPPED mmmmmmwtki ft ADD WIW TitTn AR1i IltADDI YV lOLi UCAjLliMYlM NATIONS LEAGUE SURE - I SilS Partisan Agitation CltnVThe plaln-spokenness, the atncerlta ' -- ... ' an,t l.ltmftll., 111, .t.l.t. iUm ..& Prevent President Achiev ing Purpose The league of nations will be estab lished becauso the American people "will not fall 1'resldent VTIIaon" and will "net bo misled bj personal and partisan nxl-1 tatlou against It on tho part of Hcnatorsl who are thinking In terms of diction day. 192(i, iio ltabbl .Stiphen .S WUo tudiij. Doctor Vi'isi came here to launch! Philadelphia, s cnmpilgn for the restora tion of Palestine i "The President Is In a position to pro,i to tho country that If there Is no Icaguo there will he no peace" saM ' P.abbl Wise. "The opposition to the Piesldcnt Is mostly academic, personal nnd partisan Nm i,risnrp tt (lio Ainerlrto rirntiln. the pressure of the peoples of tho world Mer inursaa,-. is rriy to on r- iiftr..lit ihr.n f, w -JnntiirK wlm nreieepted by the United States Shipping UKalnst these iw .Senators, who nrel d d w. 60n ,nnd t rMCtM. plajlng petty politics while the world ls(phB for her maiden ojge across the diadly In lamest to bo forctr freed j ocean. Eisenlolirt Masterpiece Henrietta! ADMIRALS 1 X 3 JJ ml Perfecto size 1 ( lO straight 11 OTTO EISENLOHR El IV BROS. I I INCORPORATED I ESTABLISHED II Vv 1850 yM ADMIRALS Ions-last ing bars in each package. The biggest value in refreshment you can possibly buy. A BENEFIT to teeth, appetite and diges tion. And the price is 5 cents. 101 j from war' '" be 'ouni1 lrrtaW And President Wilson, as the.mouthple nf itin tm-1,,V rhIhIah w, I 1 1 l. J... n'!Ur not ,0 proud ,0 ngh1' ,f 4.'!,1 dc, io me ucam against tne eiu woman, i with a broom trjlng to sweep back,thtj j n.ivi ..u. kj ,1 .1,1 nmvil l . ft 1 VI CWVflb. I tlvcs of the nations met and workd together at the conference makes rlaleit- lous, to any ono who taw and heaH: them, as I did. a statement that the ', league Is a clique of powerful nations '- A hetrtntitntr rnlllil nnlv lie mfltlrt wl!h ,. those who wuc strong and stable, amf fj-a sufficiently educated to noble purposes '' of the leaguo to become useful members. ; nui nu nations, an mey in inemsene '7rt"1 for It will eentually become pnrt of It J fii "And meanwhile th league of nations stands ns a democratic covenant of peo ples great nnd small. It guarantees j- and perpetuates the fruits of the wan J I'Iia , ntarnaiiiA ln,kula nltmt In flV ? i many; tho league of nations ends PruSj' siatusni cvorywnire, mauing us rcsurrso tlon impossible" t Waubeia Heady for Acceptance Th Waubesa. which left the ard of the Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation for her trial trip uown tne ueiawar BSVI B iLM rr ll llll ' ;C I 'i IIH IIH llll v In - in $ hi rfwSvwV I a M-Sr'. 1, " mi l y .i MJ wl --n V M j . 5- " '! - "a .ft ; frevr U teaerva .It? wmv h. 'wWMt2B8& ,vK'imm m (TlS"( 'wr - : in VftSjAfi t. '"O t
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