New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-03
Tolls Diners at Statue Ban
ouet Republics Must
Be Cemented
QUESTIONS EFFECT
UPON IMMIGRANT
I 200. Including Diplomats
and Other Notables,
Hear Unity Appeal

President Wilson, speaking last nigh
81, twelve hundred men and womei
..ssred at the dinner rendered hin
= y. Mayors committee Of two hun
20 celebrate the illumination O.
-. Statue Of Liberty, brought s thun
s.- ~ applause from his audience wher
=. declared his belief that world peace
I'D come only with world liberty.
throughout tho last two years there
$50 .onc more and more into my
- ,be conviction that peace IS
- % come to the world only with
' 49, TIE President said. with all
5~s and sincere respect for those VINO
.-.,,nt other forms Of government
~, ours. perhaps may be permitted
.,v that peace cannot come so long
-. se.,laies Of men are determines
~ small groups who make se'"'n
,5o;ess Of their own"
The President paid beautiful trb-
80 % the friendship that endures be-
80, America and France, when he
JARED that zone republic must love
..o.h.r rerubuc, just as one body o.
80 50 beings must understand ana
-.---.s,hize with another body OF Au-
nan beings
President Wilson'S Sentiment
,r,e President said in part:
.r would certainly be lacking in feel
re n did not express some OF tne
sings ttat have come into my thousnIS
4. have taken part IN these 'sie-
.~or;es There are many moving CIR
'. --sto,ces connected with this day
.--es.s5 with the things IL recalls
s .o~-ec.e5 with the things II sugge Is
.-as rejecting. IS we saw the hsh'
-, mon that beautiful statue
-. its source was outside the statue
-. /, Aid not proceed from Liberty
.a, rroroeded from the light We were
tbrowing upon Liberty. and II occurred
IN mo that after all, 70 was pIopei
s,.-,bol of our life. because We can
~ - ourselves the dignity OF LID,
,-tv onlv as we illustrate the fsct ana
.be tine spirit Of Liberty, and the onIy
fgh. ,bat we can contribute to the
illumination Of the world IS me IlEh'
Rat will shine out Of our NE as a
alton upon that conception ana upon
@Tbere IS great responsibility in
having adopted liberty as our loeal'
because we must illustrate Il IN what
10 y =
we DO. / vas struck by the eios,ns
rtrase % Mr.. Puli'zer's admirable ilO,
,ie snseeb. He said that there would
come 3 day when % was perceived that
The Goddess Of Liberty was also the
CoSdess Of Peace. and throughout the
last two years there has come more
and more into my heart the CONVICTION
that peace is going 70 come 10 Ihe
world only with liberty.
"With al due and sincere respect
for those who represent other forms
NJ government than ours, perhaps /
NAV be permitted 20 say that peace
cannot come so long as the destinies
Il men are determined by small groups
who make selfish choices OF their own
Republics Must Link
aTt Is very true. as more than one OF
The speakers this evening have said or
minated. that our long standing and
delightful friendship with the people Of
France has come from q community OF
deals and Identity Of purpose. One
republic must love another republic
lust as one body Of human beings must
understand and sympathize with an
other body o. human beings.
nThere IL 4 common pulse In US all;
here is a common contact with life;
here is common body Of hope; there
hG common stock OF resolution. All the
world over the life Of the individual
means the same thing 70 him. II means
opportunity not only, but II also means
his relationship 20 others, and he