The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-30
WILSON SAYS
WORLD union
MEANS PEACE
Reaffirms His Principle That
There Must Be No Bal
anCe of Power.
GuIlDHALL FETE Splendid
Pomp and Ceremony, Old Time Uni
forms Await Him-President and
Party Received at Entrance
by Lord Mayor Horace
Marshall.

London, Dec. 3O.-Speaktng In the
historic Guildhall at the ceremonious
gathering of Great Britain's most dis
tinguished statesmen, President Will
son reaffirmed his principle that there
must no longer be balance of power
which might unsettle the peace of the
world. but that the future must pro-
duce a concert of power which would
preserve it.
In the Guildhall an address of well
come was presented to the president
on behalf of the city in the pres
ence Of q company of more than a
thousand representatives Of the gov
ernment and Of finance and Of COM
merce. Afterward the president was
entertained at luncheon by the lord
mayor and the corporation of the city
"a function which was attended by
800 guests, with the business element
predominating.
lures as that on the occasion of the
presidents entrance into London.
There was the same escort of house
hold cavalry, outriders in scarlet liv-
cry, but there were only three semi
state landaus instead of five as be-
fore.
The presidential party was received
at the entrance by the lord mayor, Sir
Horace Marshall, the lady mayoress,
and the sheriff and members Of the
reception committee.
The Guildhall yard was transformed
into a gorgeous bower of pennants
and flags of the associated govern
ments, among which the Stars and
Stripes predominated. From the spire
floated the great white and red flag
of the city of London.
Every royal formality which had at.
tended occasions at the palace for two
or three hundred years was carried
out before and during the banquet.
Formalties Carried Out.
London, Dec. 3O-The text of Pres
ident Wilson's speech at the Guildhal
is as follows:
"Mr. Lord Mayor: We have come up
on times when ceremonies like this
have a new significance which mos1
profoundly impresses me as I stan6
here. The address which I have just
heard is most generously and gracious
ly conceived, and the delightful accent
OF sincerity in it seems like a part Of
that voice of counsel which is now
everywhere to be heard.
ho icfi i'm III ch
has been conferred upon me by this
reception, and l beg to assure you, sir
and your associates, of my very pro
found appreciation, but 1 know tha
/ am only part Of what l may call {
great body of circumstances.
One People to Another.
II do not believe that it was fancy
ON my part that l heard in the voice
!. of welcome uttered in the streets OF
this great city and in the streets Of
Paris something more than persona
welcome. 1t seemed to me that | hear(
the voice Of one people speaking tt
another people, and it was a voice il
which one could distinguish a singu
lar combination of emotions.
There was surely there the deel
gratefulness that the fighting wa
over. There was the pride that tn,
fighting had had such a elimination
There was that sort of gratitude tina
the nation engaged had produced sucl
men as the soldiers of Great Britain
and Of the United States and O
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ess and achievements they had wit
messed with rising admiration as the,
moved from elimination to culmina
ton.
''But there was something more in
the consciousness that the buSineS
Is not yet done, the consciousness tha
1T now rests upon others to see tha
those lives were not lost in vain.
'I have not yet been to the actua
battlefield, but have been with man
of the men who have fought the ba,
ties, and the other day had the pleas
ure of being present at q session O
the French Academy when they admit
ted Marshal Joffre to their member
ship. That sturdy, serene soldier stoo
and uttered, not the words of triumph
but summed up in a sentence which
will not try accurately to quote, blu
reproduce IN spirit.
1T was that France must always n
member that the small and the wea
could never live free In the world III
less the strong and the great alway
nut their power and their strength 1