The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-14

and deep Indignation that they stir in
the hearss of the men of France and Bel
gum, and | appreciate, as you do, sir,
the necessity of such action in the final
settlement of the issues of the war as
viii not only rebuke such acts of terror
and spoilation, but make men every
where aware that they cannot be ven
tured upon without the certainty of lust
punishment.
Il know with what ardor and enthu-
slasm the soldiers and sailors of the
United States have given the best that
was IN them to this war of redemption.
They have expressed the true spirit of
America. They believe their ideals TO be
acceptable TO free peoples everywhere
and are reloiced TO have PLAYED the part
they have played in giving reality to
those ideals IN cooperation with the
armies Of the allies. We are proud Of
the part they have played and we are
happy that they should have been asso-
ciated with such comrades in common
cause
1t is with pleasant feeling, Mr.. Presi-
dent, that ! find myself in France Joining
you in rejoicing over the victory that has
been won. The ties that bind France and
the United States are peculiarly close.
do not know in what other comradeship
we could have fought with more zest or
enthusiasm. 1t will daily be a matter of
pleasure with me TO be brought into con
sultation 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 and freedom in its life
as can be secured only by the constant
association and cooperation Of friends.
4 greet you, not only with deep per
sonal respect, but as the representative
of the great people of France, and beg to
bring you the greetings of another great
people to whom the fortunes of France
are OF profound and lasting interest
Il raise my glass to the health of the |
president Of the French republic and to
Madame Poincare and the prosperity of
France"
What Poincare Said to Wilson.
In his address to President Wilson.
President Poincare said:
'Mr President: Paris and France
awaited you with impatience. They were
eager to acclaim in you the illustrious
democrat whose words and deeds were
inspired by exalted thought, the philos-
opher delighting in the solution of uni
versal laws from particular events, the
statesman who had found way
TO express the highest political and moral
truths in formulas which bear the stamp
Of immortality.
They had also a passionate desire to
offer thanks, in your person, to the great
republic of which you are the chief, for
me invaluable assistance which had been
gwen spontaneously, during this war, to
.he defenders of right and liberty.
Even before America had resolved to
intervene in the struggle she had shown
20 the wounded and the orphans of
France a solicitude and a generosity, the
memory of which win always be en-
ihrined in eur hearts. The liberality of
Jour Red Cross, the countless gifts of
,our ow.citizens, the inspiring initia-
I've OF American women, anticipated
your military and naval action, and
howed the world to which side your
inclined. And on the day
when You flung yourselves into the bat
le, with what determination your great
'eople and yourself prepared for united
uccess" I,
Some months ago you cabled to me
hat the United States would send ever
forces, until the day should be
cached on which the allied armies were [
BILE TO submerge the enemy under an {
overwhelming flow of new divisions, and, |
n effect, for more than year steady I
tream of youth and energy has been ]
CURED out upon the shores of France. s
No sooner had they landed than your t
allant battalions, fred by their chief.
.eneral Pershing, flung themselves into
he combat with such manly contempt :
danger, such a smiling disregard Of
cath, that our longer experience of this
errible war often moved us to counsel
rudence. They brought with them the d
nthusiasm of crusaders leaving for the 9
oily land i
1T is their right to-day to look with !
ride upon the work accomplished and d