The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-12-19
BY United Press.

officially welcomed to France today as
I h great European Interrogation"
The expression was employed by
Adrion Mithouard. president Of the
municipal court, while, addressing the
president In behalf of the city and ma
ton. 1t was accepted as meaning that
Wilson is regarded by Europe as the
enigma at the peace conference.-the
man around whom the Interpretation of
the various principles at issue will be
centered.
M~ithouard's speech was on occasion
or the official reception to the president
at the city hall. The French official
paid a high compliment to Mrs. Wilson
for her decision to accompany the
president.
Wilson In a brief address thanked
Paris and France for the reception &C
corded him and paid tribute to Frances
part In the war.
Throws Crowd Boquet.
Wilson. Poincare n their wives
appeared on the balcony of the city
hall. Thousands of persons packed In
the square gave them an enthusiastic
ovation. AS the cheering continued
Mrs, Wilson threw down a boquet.
There was a great scramble for the
pieces.
The President Replies.
The president, speaking at the Hotel
DeVille today, said:
Your greeting has raised many emo
lions within me. 1t Is with no ordinary
sympathy that the people Of the United
States. for whom 1 have the privilege
OF speaking, have viewed the suffer-
fnSs OF the peoples of France. Many
of our own people have been them
selves 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 perpe-
gtrated.
II beg that you will not suppose that
because n wide ocean separated us in
sEDace we were not in effect eyewit-
nesses of the shameful ruin that was
wrought and the cruel and unnecessary
suffer!ngs that were brought upon you.
These sufferings have filled our hearts
with Indignation. We know what they
were. not only. but we know what
they signified and our hearts were
touched to the quick by them. our
imaginations filled with the whole pic
ture OF what France and Belgium, in
particular, had experienced. When the
United States entered the war, there
fore, they entered 1t not only because
they were moved by a conviction hat
the purposes of the central empires
were wrong and must be resisted by
men everywhere who loved liberty and
tlie right, but also because the Illicit
ambitions which they were entertain
ipg and attempting to realize had led
TO the practices which shocked our
hearts as much as they offended our
prIuciples.
Hearts in War.
"Our resolution was formed because
we knew how profoundly great princi-
pies Of right were effected, but our
hearts moved also with our resolu-
tons.
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 in
terpreted with real insight the motives
hnd resolution of the people OF the
United States.
Whatever influence / exercise. what
ever authority l speak with, / derive
from them. 1 know what they have
thought, l know what they have de-
sired, and When l have spoken what l
know was in their minds, it has been
delightful TO see how the consciences
and purposes of free men everywhere
responded. We have merely established
our right to the full fellowship of these
peoples here n throughout the world
who reverence the right of genuine lib
erty and Justice.
Community of Thought.
'"You have made me feel very much
~ home here. not merely by the de-
lightful warmth of your welcome, but
also by the manner in which you have
made me realize to the utmost the init
mate community Of thought and ideals
which characterizes our people and
the great nation which / have the hon
or for the time to represent.
Your welcome to Paris | shall al
ways remember as one of the unique
and inspiring experiences Of my life,
and while ] feel that you are honoring
the people Of the United States in my
person. / shall nevertheless carry
away with me a very keen personal
4 qualification in looking back upon these
memorable days. Permit me TO thank
you from a full heart"
Mithouard's Address.
Adrion Mithouard. president of the
municipal council Of Paris. addressing
President Wilson, said:
nave Nv oio III tue DTeSeHCS
of the president of the republic TO pre-
sent TO you the municipal council of
Paris. whose interpreter l am in well
coming the chief of the great nation
whose aid arriving sc opportunely
brought US victory. and the upright
Imam whose conscience fashioned his
policy and whose diplomacy was made
3of loyalty
Turning IN Mrs Wilson MithOIlard
3said:
Madame Paris is infinitely happy
hnd is touched that you who have &C
Icompanied the president, nave been
good enough TO add to this occasion
he charm and the grace of your pres
%ence. We have long been aware OF
Your devotion and OF the wise and
~beneficient activity you have shown
by the side OF your iliustrious husband,
yet. nothing strikes so much at the
heart Of the people Of Paris as to be