The Alaska daily empire., 1918-01-17
Speaker Introduced

The speaker was introduced b, President Marshall, who, in hi: peech of welcome concluded as fol lows:
 For centuries the dream of tho 'eal world has been that some time somehow, the spirit to rule alieI nations, the ambition to lord it over conquered provinces, the arrogant de sire to fatten and grow great upor lpon the broken and bruised bodie: f the weak and helpless would bt hrottled, throttled to their undoinf inc comes, as come it must, the Serb will be as free as the ail hat soothes to sleep his babe or he Balkan mountain side.
 Senators, you are not what you pretend to be if it be not hats off nd voices in unison with these oul riends as they sing:
 On our sepulcher of ages,
 Breaks the resurrection morn,
 From the slough of direst slavery
 Serbia anew is born;
 Through 300 years of durance
 We have knelt before Thy face
 All our kin, o God, deliver
 Thus entreats the Serbian race (Applause)
 We should be traitors and for worn to our own glorious traditions f we did not gladly greet and joy )usly acclaim the representatives O people who. through the long cen uries have never failed to put theil packs to the wall of Europe fighting o die in the defense of their rights md their liberties. So, Senators. i ,leases we to present to you Dr Milenko Vesnitch, the head of tho Serbian mission, whom the wings o lestiny have waited to our shores (Applause.)
 Address by Dr. vesnitch
 MT. President and gentlemen o he Senate, destiny wills that we ar i've in the United States just be ore Chrisctmas Eve, and having leard in Europe of the historic an ,ouncements made in your Congress turing the past year, like the Mag rom the East, we were anxious td 'nuuire and to testify to their truth The same good destiny wills, thanks your gracious invitation, that we appear before you on the eve o1 )ur Christmas, and, like the shep herds of the Gospel, we are no" going about in the splendid capita If your country singing in our hearts md reciting to ourselves the magic words which President Wilson has addressed to mankind, We believe in peace, but we believe also 1T justice and righteousness and fiber ty." More than anybody we believe that peace can not subsist without justice. without liberty and right eousness.
 From over the ocean we have anx iousIy listened to the epochal dec ,arations of the eminent leader O he greatest and purest democrac! hat history has even known, ant we have been happy to understand hat this Congress was in complete harmony with the ideas of the digni fled successor of Washington and o Lincoln.
 With golden characters in thei hearts and souls, all liberty-lovini nations will inscribe forever his am your program, following which Amer ica stands first of all for the righ of men to determine whom the will obey and whom they shall serve for the right of political freedom and a peoples sovereignty; for tn equality of nations, which means tn equality of rights. neither recognil ing nor implying difference Dc tween big nations and small. be tween those who are powerful an those that are weak; for no peac can last or ought to last whic does not recognize~and accept tn principle that governments deriv all their just powers from the COT sent of the governed (applause). an that no right anywhere exists t