Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1918 — PUNISH GUILTY, SAYS PRESIDENT IN PARIS SPEECH [ARTICLE]

PUNISH GUILTY, SAYS PRESIDENT IN PARIS SPEECH

Wilson Tells France That There Must Be No More Wars. MRS. WILSON GIVEN BROOCH Executive Greeted by Poincare, Clemenceau and Other High Officials Route to Presidential Residence Lined With ©tops of French Republic. Parts, Dec. 16. —President Wilson made his entrance into Paris at 10.15 o’clock this morning. The president’s arrival at the capital was greeted with a salvo of artillery in salute. The dense throngs gathered to greet the American executive hailed his coming with volleys of cheering. Huge crowds were massed around the Bois de Boulogne station awaiting the president’s coming. As he alighted from his train a roar of welcome went up that left no doubt of the cordiality of the welcome given by Paris to its latest guest ' Poincare Greets Wilson. President Wilson was greeted by President 'and Madame Poincare, Premier Clemenceau, Andre TardleH, French high commissioner to the United States, and other high officials. The formalities of the greeting over, the president entered a carriage with President Poincare. Mrs. Wilson, with Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of the president, followed In another carriage, accompanied by Mme. Poincare. The party drove immediately to the residence of Prince Mura in the Rue de Monceau, where the president will reside while In the French capital. The route to the presidential residence was lined with French troops in solid array along its entire length. The welcome given by the crowds as the president drove by was voclierous and hearty.

President Makes Address. President and Mme. Poincare gave a dinner at the Palace de la Elysee in honor of President and Mrs. Wilson. President Wilson on this occasion spoke as folloxys, in replying to an address by President Poincare: “Mr. President: I am deeply indebted to you for your gracious greeting. It is very delightful to find myself in France and to feel the quick contact of sympathy and unaffected friendship between the representatives of the United States and the representatives of France. “You have been very generous in what you were pleased to say about myself, but I feel that what I have said and what I have tried to do has been said and done only in an attempt to speak the thought of the people of the Vnited States truly, and to carry that thought out in action. Must Insure Future Peace. “From the first the thought of the people of the United States turned toward something more than the mere winning of this war.. It turned to the establishment of eternal principles of right and justice. It realized that merely to win the war was not enough; that it must be won in such a way and the questions raised by it settled in such a way as to Insure the future peace of the world, and lay the foundations for the'freedom and happiness of its many peoples and nations. Favors Stern Punishment. “Never before has war worn so terrible a visage or exhibited more grossly the debasing influence of illicit ambitions. I am sure that I shall look upon the ruin wrought by the armies of the central empires with the same repulsion and deep Indignation that they stir in the hearts of the men of France and Belgium, and I appreciate, as you do, sir, the necessity of such action in the final settlement of the issue of the war as will not only rebuke such acts of terror and spoliation, but make men everywhere aware that they eannot be ventured upon without the certainty of just punishment. Believes Ideas Acceptable. “I know with what ardor and enthusiasm the soldiers and sailors of the 11 United States have given the best that was in them in this war of redemption. They htjve expressed the true spirit of America. They believe their Ideals to be acceptable to free peoples everifwhere, and are rejoiced to have flayed the part they have played in giving reality to those Ideals in co-operation with the armies of the allies. “We are proud of the part they have played and we are happy that they should have been associated with such comrades in a common cause. “It is with peculiar feeling, Mr. President, that I find myself in France, joining with you tn rejoicing over the victory that has been won. The ties that bind France and the United States are peculiarly close. "Co-operation of Friends." "I do not know what other comradeship we could have fought with more zest or enthusiasm. “It will daily be a matter of pleasure with me to be brought Into consultation with the statesmen of France and her allies in concerting the measures by which we may secure permanence for these happy relations of friendship and co-operation, and secure for the world at large such safety