Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-28
Welcomed to Ancestors Home.

I'VE welcome you to the country
whence came your ancestors, and
where stand the homes of those from
whom sprang Washington and Lin
coin. We welcome you for yourself.
as one whose insight, calmness and
dignity in the discharge of hts high
duties we have watched with adplira-
ton. We see in you the happy Union
of the gifts of a scholar with those
of a statesman. You came from a
studious, academic quiet into the full
stream of an arduous public life. and
your deliverances have combined
breadth of view and grasp of world
problems with the mastery of a lofty
diction recalling that of your great
orators of the past and of our own.
you come as the official head and
spokesman of mighty common
ties. Its people speak the tongue
erature is yours, as yours is also
ours, and men of letters in both
countries have Joined in maintain
ing its incompatible glories.
ITO you, not less than to US, belong
the memories Of our national heroes,
of Philip Sidney and Drake, of
Raleigh and Blake and Hampden.
and the days when political life of
the English stock in America was
Just beginning. You share with us
the traditions of enforcement as
Old as the Magma Charta.
1--WE recognize the bond of still
deeper significance in the common
ideals which our people cherish.
First among those ideals you value,
and we value. freedom. and peace.
Privileged as we have been to be the
tional life of the principles of popu-
lar se1f-government based upon equal
laws. it now falls to both of US alike
to see how these principles can be
applied beyond our own borders for
the good of the world.
ut was the love of liberty. respect
for law. good faith and the sacred
rights Of humanity that brought you
to the old world to help in saving /,
from the dangers that were threat
ening around and that arraigned
those soldier citizens of yours, whose
ga1lantry we have admired, side by
side with ours in the war.
"You have now come to help In
building up new states amid the ruins
of those that the war has shattered
and in laying the solid foundations
of a settlement that may stand firm,
because it will rest upon the con-
sent of the emancipated nationalities
You have eloquently expressed the
hope of the American people, as ii
is our hope, that some plan may be
devised to attain the end you have
done SO much to promote by which
the risk of future wars may, if pos
sib1e, be averted, relieving the ma
lions of the intolerable burden which
fear of war has laid upon them.
Extends Nations Wishes.
'"The British nation wishes all sue
cess to the deliberations on which you
and we and the great free nations
allied with US are now to enter
moved by dis1nterested good will and
q sense OF duty commensurate with
the power which we hold as a SOL
emn trust
The American and British people
have been brothers in arms, and their
arms have been crowned with vic
tory. We thank with all our hearts
your valiant soldiers and sailors for
their splendid part in that victory, as
we thank the American people for
their noble response to the call of
civilization and humanity. May the
same brotherly spirit inspire and
guide our united efforts to secure for
the world the blessings of an ordered
freedom and an enduring peace.
In asking you 10 join with me in
drinking the health of the President.
I wish to say with what pleasure we
welcome Mrs. Wilson this country
81 drink to the health of the Presi-
dent of the United States and Mrs
Wilson. and to the happiness and
prosperity Of the great American ma
ton