Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1918 — GERMAN CRIMES ROUSED THE U.S. SAYS PRESIDENT [ARTICLE]

GERMAN CRIMES ROUSED THE U.S. SAYS PRESIDENT

Wilson Tells French People Foe's Sins Are Fully Realized In America FLAYS ENEMY FUR WRON6S

Executive Expects* to Visit the American Troops on Christinas and Celebrate Day With Them at Treves. __ —— Paris, Dec. 17.—President Wilson delivered an address at the city hall, where ceremonies had been arranged for. The president replied to the greeting extended him. "Your greeting has raised many emotions within me," tho president began. “It is with no ordinary sympathy; that the people of the United States, for whom 1 have the privilege of spiking, have viewed the sufferings of the people of Franca Many of oui> own people have been themselves witnesses of those sufferings. We were the more deeply moved by the wrongs of the war because we knew the manner In which they were perpetrated. “I beg that you will not suppose that! because a wide ocean separated us In space wo were not In cffAit eyewitnesses to tho shameful ruin that was wrought and tho cruel and unnecessary, sufferings that wero brought upon you. Those sufferings have filled our hearts with Indignation, We know what they signified, and our hearts were touched to the crick by them, our Imaginations filled with tho whole picture of what France and Belgium in particular had experienced. -Hearts Are Shocked." "When the United States entered the war, therefofre, they entered It not only because they were moved by a conviction that the purposes of tho central empires was wrong and must be resisted by men everywhere who loved liberty and the right, but also because the Illicit ambitions which they were entertaining and attempting to realize had led to the practices which shocked our hearts as much as they offendedi our principles. “Our resolution was formed because we knew how profoundly great principles of right were affected, but ous hearts moved also with our resolution. “You have been exceedingly generous in what you have been gracious enough to say about me, generous far beyond my personal deserts, but you have Interpreted with real Insight the; motives and resolutions of the people of the United States. We have merely established our right to the full fellowship of those peoples here and throughout the world who reverence the right of genuine liberty and justice. Pleased by Welcome. “You have made me feel very much nt home here, not merely by the delightful warmth of your welcome, but also by the manner In which you have made me realize to the utmost the Intimate community of thought and Ideal which characterizes your people and the great nation which I have the honor for the time to represent Your welcome t’o Paris I shall always remember as one of the unique and Inspiring experiences of my life, and| while I feel that you are honoring the people of the United States In my person, I shall nevertheless carry away; with me a very personal gratification In looking back upon these memqrablei days. “Permit me to thank you from a full heart" Pleased With Premier. President Wilson and Premier Clemenceau touched In only the most geiw era! manner the problems of the peace conference In the course of a conversation they had at the Murat residence, according to Marcel liutln of the Echo de Paris. Mr. Wilson was most Impressed with i he premier’s personality and Is reported to have expressed himself Un the most flattering terms, remarking: "lie is a most prepossessing man.” Mr. Wilson accompanied the premier o the door, shook hands long and heartily with him and said: “Thank you; thank you. Good-by till tomorI ow.” Wilson to Give Banquet. President Wilson on Thursday will attend a reception given In bls honor by the France-America committee. 0e will glVfe a banquet to President Poincare and eminent politicians and diplomats on Saturday evening. Covers will be laid for seventy.