Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-15
GRANOfsT OVATION : GIVEN WILSON IN PARIS HISTORY
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 :. highest political and moral truths .no o,orm,,las which bear the stamp of immortality.
 "They had also passionated desire offer thanks ill your person, the .o, republic of which you are the ssIs sssiss for the invaluable assistance Thich had been given spontaneously s,r,np this war to the defenders of r;eht and liberty.
 sEven before America had resolved .o intervene in the struggle she had sSown to the wounded and the or 'hons of France a sol1citude and a ppamerosity p. the memory of which will s s,mavs he enshrined in our hearts.
 "The liberality of your Red Cross, tho countless gifts of your fellow a;tzens. the inspiring initiative of Smarcan women, anticipated your ,n;litary and naval action and showed ,he M world to which side your sympath- ias inclined. And on the day when you m flung yourselves into the battle vith with what determination your great naonle and yourself prepared for uni fed success.
 asome months ago you cabled to me thot the United States would send sver-increasing forces until the day should be reached on which the allied armies were able to submerge the enemy under an overwhelming flow of new divisions and in effect for more than a year steady stream of youth and energy has been poured out mon the shores of France. , "No sooner had they landed than your gallant battalions fired by their chief. General Pershing, flung them- selves into the combat with such a manly contempt, of danger, such a smiling disregard of death that our hnper experience of this terrible war often moved us to counsel prud- .ence. They brought with them in ar irving here the enthusiasm of crusad- CTS leaving for the Holy land.
 Ut is their right today to look with pride upon the work accomplished and to feel assured that they have power fully aided by their courage and their faith"
 Eager as they were to meet the enemy. they did not know when they arrived, the enormity of his crimes. That they might know how the Ger man armies make war, 1t has been necessary that they see towns system atically burned down, mines flooded. factories reduced to ashes, orchards devastated, cathedrals shelled and < fired all that deliberated savagely aimed to destroy, national wealth, na- ture and beauty, which the, imagina- tion could not conceive at distance from the men and things that have en- dured it and today bear witness to it.
 "You, Mir. President, will Joe able to measure with your owne eyes the extent of the disasters and the gFrench government will make known sto you the authentic documents in which the German general staff de- ycloped with astounding cynicism in program of pillage and industrial an- nihilation Your noble conscience will pronounce verdict on these facts
 Should this guilt remain unpunish-- ed, could it be renewed, the most splendid victories would be ill vain.
 MT. President, France has strus- gled, has endured and has suffered during four long, years; she has bled at every vein; she has lost the finest of children; she mourns for her youths She yearns now even as you do, for a peace of justice and