Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-26
PRESIDENT WlTH
 BOYS AT FRONT

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 which you realized They did not come as strangers in their thoughts They brought with them something that made them feel at home the moment they were at HaTre or at Brest in France.
 ! 50 am very much moved by being thus drawn. as they have been, into your midst and into your condolences and wish to thank you very warmly for them and the people of the United States. l, like them, shall carry away ! with me the most delightful recollect- | ions and in my heart shall always say as now say 'Vive La France" Immediately after the reception at the Hotel de Vile, President Wilson. with General Pershing and party mo- tored to IIumes, where the president reviewed a detachment of the first ar my of the American eSpeditionary for ces. Addressing the troops, General Pershing said:
 1 "NIr. President. and fellow soldiers: We are gathered here today to do hon. or to the commander of our armies and navles, For the first time an Am
 erican president will review an Amer
 ican army on foreign soil--the soil of a sister republic, beside whose gallant troops we have fought to restore peace to the world.
 Speaking for you anl your com- rades, I am proud to declare to tns president that no army has ever more loyalty or more effectively served it's country, and none has ever fought in a nobler cause.
 You. MT. President, by your confi-
 dence and by your support, have made
 the success of our army, and to-. you,
 as our commander ill chief, may-I now
 present the nations victorious army
 In replying. President Wilson said:
 General Pershing and fellow cOlu.
 rades: I wish that 1 could gice tt each one of you the message that I know you are longing to receive from
 those at home who love. you. I can : not do that. but l can tell you how
 everyone has put his heart into it. So
 you have done your duty and some
 thing more. You have done your duty and you have done it with a spirit
 wEich gave it distinction and glory.
 And now we are to hail the fruits of everything. You conquered, when you came over, what you came over
 for? For and you have done what it
 was appointed for you to do. l know
 what you expected of me. Some time
 ago a gentleman from one of the coun. tries with whicG we are associated, vas discussing with me the moral
 aspects of this war and l said if we dix not insist upon the high purpose
 which we have accomplished the end would not be justified.
 In his address to the American sold
 iers today, President Wilson said that he did not find in the hearts of the great leaders with whom he was to- operating any difference of principle of of fundamental purpose.
 "Everybody at home is proud of
 you and has followed every move ment of this great army with confi- dence and affection.
 "The whole people of the United
 States are now waiting to welcome YOU home with an acclaim which
 probably has never greeted any oth- CT diIly, UcSduoe Oul S"uIeIy 10 'iNS this country; we have been so proud of the stand taken (of the purposet) ., for which this war was entered by } the United States. ) You knew what we expected ot
 you and you did it. l know what you and the people at home expect
 ed of me and am happy to say, my !1ellow countrymen, that l do not , find in the hearts of the great lead. / CTS with whom it is my privilege now to cooperate, any difference of prin- . ciple or fundamental purposes. 'N happened that it was the l privilege of America to present the chart for peace and now the process of settlement has been rendered com, : parativcly simple by the fact that al the nations concerned have accept ed that chart. and the application o1 these principles laid down there vii be their application. The world vii now know that the nations that
 fought this war, as well as the sol
 diers who represented them, arc ready to make good, make good moi only in the assertion of their ow1 interests, but make good in the es ) tablishment of peace upon the per mancnt foundation of right and O
 justice. This is not a war in which the sol tdiers of the free nations have obey ed masters. You have commanders but you have no masters. Your. yer. } commanders represent you in rep l rcsenting the nation of which yo' < constitute to distinguished a part. II And everybody concerned in tn settlements knows that it must be peoples peace and that nothing mus [ be done in the settlement of the is