The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-12-19
YEAR
LASTING PEACE,
AMERICAS aim
DECLARES PRES.
Says Enemy Must Be Punished, Vic.
tory Alone insufficient

Paris, Dec. 14.-President Wilson
n the first address ever made by an
american executive on foreign soil
oday declared that the peace confer
nee must take such action as ITO re-
Ike Germany's acts of terror and
collation."
The president further stated the
'orld must be made aware that such
Is cannot be ventured upon with
t the certainty OF just punishment
President Wilson's address was
ade in response to one of welcome
President Poincare, following an
lprecented demonstration for the
sident and his party when they
lived from Brest at 1918 a. m. to-
Countless thousands participat-
&C cheering as cannon doomed a
rty welcome.
ne American leaders speech, fol-
ving a luncheon given in honor of
n and Mrs. Wilson by President and
me. Poincare at the Palace de la
lysee, was as follows:
mr.. President am deeply indebt-
d to you for your gracious greeting.
u is very delightful to find myself in
rance and to feel the quick contact
Of sympathy and unaffected friendship
between the representatives of the
United States and the representatives
OF France.
You have been very generous in
what you were pleased to say about
myself, but / feel that what | have
Raid and what / have tried to do has
1een said and done only in an attempt
0 speak the thought of the people Of
he United States truly and to carry
that thought out in action.
From the first the thought of the
people of the United States turned
coward something more than the mere
winning of this war. 1t turned to the
establishment of eternal principles of
right and justice. 1t realized that
merely to win the war was not enough
that it must be won in such q way and
the questions raised by it settled in
such a way as to insure the future
peace of the world and lay the found
atoms for the freedom and happiness
of It's many peoples and nations.
"Never before has war worn so ter
rible a visage or exhibited more gross
iy the debasing influence OF illicit am
billions. / am sure<that l shall look
upon the ruin wrought by the armies
Of the Central Empires with the same
repulsion and deep indignation that
hey stir in the hearts of the men OF
france and Belgium, and ] appreciate
s you do, sir, the necessity of such
action in the final settlement Of the
ssues of the war as will not only re-
uke such acts of terror and spolia-
on, but make men everywhere aware
rat they cannot be ventured upon
.ithout the certainty of just punish
tent.
II know with what ardor and enthu-
asm the soldiers and sailors of the
nited States have given the best that
as in them in this wal of redemption.
hey have expressed the true spirit of
merica. They believe their ideals to
: acceptable to free peoples every
here and are rejoiced to have played
9 part they have played In giving
lity to those ideals in cooperation
til the armies of the Allies.
I'VE are proud Of the part they have
!. yed and we are happy they should
e been associated with such COM
IS in a common cause.
T is with peculiar feeling, Mr..
ident, that l find myself in France
ing with you in rejoicing over the
tory that has been won. The ties
,at bind France and the United
tates were peculiarly close. l do
!, OF know in what other comradeship
e could have fought with more zest
: enthusiasm. 1t will daily be a mat
n of pleasure with me to be brought
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