The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-28
King Georges Toast TO The
american People And The
Reply Of The President

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London, Dec. 2S.--In his speech at
the state banquet TO President VIII
son at Buckingham Palace last
night, King George said:
This is an historic moment and
your visit marks an historic epoch.
Nearly $50 years have passed since
your republic began its Independent
life and now, for the first time, a
president of the. United States is our
guest in England.
I'VE welcome you to the country
whence came your ancestors and
where stands the homes OF those
from whom sprang Washington ana
Lincoln. We welcome you for your
self, as one whose insight, calmness
and dignity in the discharge of his
high duties we have watched with
admiration. 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 yor deliverances have
combined breadth OF view and grasp
OF world problems with the mastery
Of a lofty diction recalling that of
yor great orators OF the past and of
our own.
"You came as the official heed and
spokesman Of a mighty common
wealth bound to us by the closest
ties. It's people speak the tongue OF
Shakespeare and Milton. Our lit
ours, and men Of letters in both coun-
tries have joined in maintaining its
Incompatible glories.
Share Our Traditions.
ITO you, not less than to us, belong
the memories Of our national heroes
from King Alfred down to the days
of Phillip Sidney and Drake, OF.
Raleigh and Blake and Hampden.
and the days when the political life
of the English stock in America was
just beginning. You share with us
the traditions Of free self government
as old as the Magma Charta.
I'VE recognize the bond of still
deeper signicance 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 opponents and the examples of
national life of the principles of
popular self 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 goor of the world.
1T was 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 it from
the dangers that were threatening
and that arrayed those soldier citi-
zens of yours, whose gallantry we
have admired, side by side with ours
in the war.
Brtain's Hope Also.
you have now come to help in
building up new states amid the
ruins of those that the war has shat
tered and in laying the solid founda-
tions of a settlement that may stand
firm becauseit will rest upon the con-
sent of the emancipated nationalities.
You have eloquently expressed the
hope of the American people, as it is
our hope, that some plan may be de-
vised to attain the end you have done
so much to promote by which the
risk Of future wars may, If possible,
be averted, relieving the nations of
the intolerable burden which fear of
war has laid upon them.
'The British nation wishes all
success to the deliberations on
which you and we and the great free
nations allied with us are now to
enter moved by disinterested good
1
rate with the power which we hold !
as q solemn trust.
1.-THE American and British peo-
pies have been brothers in arms, and |
their arms have been crowned with |
victory. We thank with all our
hearts your valiant soldiers and sail |
ors 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 se-
cure for the world the blessings OF
an ordered freedom and an enduring |
peace.
ain asking you to join with me in
drinking to the health Of the Presi-
dent I wish to say with what pleas
ure we welcome Mrs. Wilson to this
country
'I drink to the health Of the Presi-
dent of the United States and Mrs.
and to the happiness and
prosperity of the great American ma
tion." i