The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-12-19

ready conquered by their goodness
Thus Paris by my voice acclaims you,
and lays at your feet Madame. ths
homage Of it's gratitude and Its re-
spect.
Tribute to Soldiers.
Finally, speaking again to President
Wilson:
MIR. President. 1t is with deem
emotion that the capital welcomes to-
day the first president Of the United
States who has crossed the ocean, and
our hotel De Vile. creator of French
liberty, will mark In its annals the day
IN which 1t was permitted to receive
the eminent statesmen Of the union
whose voice. heard before the coming
Of victory, called to life the oppressed
among the nations.
During weary months our soldiers
have fought with stole resolutions in
defense Of the soil of their forebearers
and the land of their children. So vast
was the field of battle, so great was
the issues at stake, so bitter and so
hard was the struggle, that only after
the passage of time did it seem pos
sible that the grandeur of their ac-
complishment could clearly show forth.
Yet our distance from the theater of
war has allowed you to see, while yet
they lived. the greatness of the monu-
ment they were building. From the
other side Of the world you have
spoken in advance Of the judgment of
history. What a source Of strength
vas it for these fighters suddenly to
hear your voice, in its distant authority
of assembling the voice of posterity,
what joy to welcome those new broth
ers in arms Fastening with ardor to
claim al the critical hour their place
upon the field OF battle, what comfort
for them to feel that they were hence
forth arrayed with the glorious army
of General Pershing, the victor Of the
Argonne.
Profoundly Moved.
Thus Paris, eager to see in the flesh
the man it had known only by his
written word and by his image, today
lives over again with poignant in
tensity the history Of Americas deci-
sion as 1t was unfolded in your con
science before the eyes of the world.
Profoundly moved by the magnifi-
a n generosity with which Il COM
patriots 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
measured zone Of your notes and mes
sages we feel little the mounting OF a
righteous anger. What was then our
dazzled admiration when there burst
upon us the message of April 2, 1917,
t..h;,h ~ ~ 70 tho ruoStinpinra nf the
American conscience their supreme
conclusion and, in Pascal's words,
brought together justice and force to
decide for long centuries the Tate or
oil humanity
Citizen Of Paris.
I'VE are proud. Mr.. President. to Of
fer you welcome in the name of this
capital. Intellectual tradition lifts US
eternally toward the truth OF a new
day. Our country is not alone that
well loved land for whose liberation the
blood Of some of the union is mingled
with tina OF the sons of France. Our
country to us seems also right OF heri-
tage, justice, good sense and honor
and because you come to US / II the
name of these noble things today we
dare to call you citizen of Paris.
Take then, MI. President. the sin
cere good wishes of our city, yesterday
under the menace of the Berthas and
the Gothas, a citadel Of the liberties or
the world, but today open to all noble
and generous ideas, and enthusiastic
ally acclaiming in the great citizen
she has the honor to receive the en-
bodiment of a new ideal which comes
to her" Q
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WELCOMES WILSON.