Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-17

CTS ill arms hastening with ardor to claim at the critical hour their place upon the field Of battle; what com fort for them to feel that they were henceforth .arrayed with the glori- ous army of General Pershing, the victor of the Argonne.
 Thus Paris. eager to see in the flesh the man it had known only in his written word and toy his name, today lives over again with poignant | intensity, the history of Americas s decision, as it was unfolded in your conference before the eyes of the world.
 Profoundly moved by the magni- l ficient generosity with which compa- triots had set themselves to relieve our sufferings, with what anxious, yet confident expectation did we | follow the progress of your thought and of your feelings.
 Beneath the deliberately measur- l ed tone of your notes and messages we felt little the mounting of a righteous anger. What was then our l dazzled admiral ticn when there burst ] upon us the message of April ?, 1917, which gave to the questioning of the l American conscience their supreme 1 conclusion, and in Pascal's words | brought together justice and force to decide for long centuries the fate of all humanity.
 | "We are proud, Mr. President to offer you welcome in the name of the capital.
 Our country is not Glone, that we'll loved land for whose liberation 1 the blood of sons of the union is 1 mingled with that of the sons of l France; our country to us means also and by right of heritage, justice, good sense. and honor; and ty you come to us in the name of these noble things today we dare to call ycu a citizen of Paaris.
 "Take then, MT. President, the sincere good wishes of our city, yes terday under the menace of the Ber- thas and the Gothas, a citadel of tht liberties of the world, but today open 1 to all noble and generous ideas, and enthusiastically acclaiming in the l great citizen she has the honor to receive the embodiment of a new i ideal which comes to her" l Paris, Dec. 16-M Autrand, ore. feet of the Seine, speaking at the Hotel de Vile, said:
 "The joy which this visit gives us is of rare and precious sort. After an interval of four centuries ths new world now emulates Christopher Columbus, whose hardy. pioneers sought to penetrate the mystery o1 an uneXplOred continet. Ours have been preoccupations more serious to seek to know, in an hour of need what judgment America would pro- nounce upon our cause, to recognize the face and to understand the inti- mate thoughts of the man whom des- tiny had chosen to be the arbiter o1 the fate of civilization
 "As the terrible drama has drag l ged it's bloody way over land and sea, your generous heart has beat ill unison vlth the misery suffered, and has taxed itself to find succor for un. happiness.
 "How can we count over the in l numerable benefits of American char. ity, so vigilant, so methodical and so wise? Through the charity, the suffering of our prisoners have been alleviated and the spectre of fam. inc has '5een turned back from the invaded regions of Belgium ane France.
 "Yet while you have given yourself passionately to the task of assuag ing the ills of war, your noblest title to glory will yet be that you stood up as the champion of the cause o1 justice. How many things seemed tc hold you apart from the dreadful conflict Your intellectual trainlns as lawyer, historian and thinker; tha
 peaceful life of study in which tt use your own phrase, you had known no other laboratory than the world of books, the traditions of the coun try which had elected you to guid, and direct it; the admirable farewell message of Washington, warning hi.
 successors in power against any par
 ticipatiOn in such conflicts as migh
 break o\t in Europe.
 Well might Germany believe tha
 you would remain the prisoner o
 these noble formulae. But her law
 less militarism, multiplying it,
 crimes against the rights of man
 was to force the nation pre-eminent
 ly pacifist, to draw the sword iron 1 the scabbard.
 "ln redoubling the blows of hi
 arrogant sword upon the rock 0
 your patience, the barbarian calle, ] forth the devouring flame in whic]
 he has been irredeemably consum ed.
 When the measure of black deed
 ran full you sounded the call t.
 arms. And by. tho miracle of you
 Turning speech, by the ascendency o
 your indignant conscience and you
 sovereign philosophy you drew on
 hundred million men to devote them
 selves. soul and body, to the triump]
 of liberty over tyranny and of jus
 tice over error and iniquity." T The reception at the City Hal while not aatended by the huge crowd which welcomed President Wilson. o