The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1918-12-26
SPIRIT Of FREEDOM
lDOM|NATES WORLD
wills SON DECLARES GREAT MORAL
M FORCE WILL DISGRACE
ITS OPPONENTS.
WILL PROTECT THE WORLD
8earchng Light of Conscience Should
Be Turned on All Wrong-Presi-
dents Speech Accepting Degree
From University of Paris.

Il X&E#X fiSHi OHiNCio olty Ol
( IL %Paris.-The presidents fret work
n France finds the preliminary situa-
h don surrounding the peace conference
fairly we'll developed toward the point
h where, according to the president 8
IN Tiew, it will be worth while for the
An United States to participate. The
bm lpresident's conferences with French
Be md Italian statesmen have served to
led Emphasize that he considers a treaty
u ~ peace not enough, but that the gen.
LIE raj agreement to be made among the
W6kions must include satisfactory set
|auI 4ment of the question of the freedom
for The seas and league OF nations.
|ns The president left for England to
laid ntinue the discussions there along
|ag (e same lines as those he had with
les e Representatives of France and
de &ly, which the presidents advisers
l0scribe as having been satisfactory
SPresidene Wilson, in acknowledging
lta, he honor bestowed upon him by the
oa University of Paris in the form of a
FarmsSctor's degree, said:
ms III feel very keenly the distinguished
/ nv anor which has been conferred upon
agrics BY the great5(University of Paris
lit is very delightful to me also to
down fe the honor of being introduced
who N the great company of scholars
|he ouaIse life ard fame have made the
likely t5ry of the University Of Paris a
tibe full ! admirable among men of cultiva-
of hi in all parts of the world
Eeologicd y what you have said, sir, of the
|e. Tims v of education which has been
been suR red in France, and which 1 have
lief that to promote in the United States,
bly, would .empted to venture upon favor
hat water me. ] have always believed that
! unfit for lief object of education was TO
|sump haan the spirit, and that inasmuch
b but I literature whenever it has
near tied its great and higher notes.
It cut anan expression of the spirit of
bitter thaYud, the best induction into edu-
thlckness'was to feel the pulses of human
rata OF the lch had beaten from age to age
obtained IN the universities Of men who
i the lanu letrated to the secrets of the
|he Vegeta- Aspirit
eyldencesNI agree with the intimation
las been conveyed today that
|orked VIII ible war through which we
pr Locating 1t passed has not been only a
p De sun ween nations, but that it has
(out ipen war between systems of
lex artis s,s-the one system, the aggres-
PDserVatio.stem using science without con-
|iv are pe Stripping learning of its moral
|ropaoiiiuos IS and using every faculty of
|he "e-ue ian mind to do wrong to the
oo ace; the other system reminis-
Fhu eei," the high tradition of men, re-
Ter snt of all their struggles, some
|e poaSa a obscure, but others closely ret
~ to history, of men of indomit-
et"eo ,,Dfrit everywhere struggling to-
sllonse de right and seeking above all
u else to be free.
triumph of freedom in this
cans that that spirit shall now
R BEES ate the world. There is a great
sof moral force making through
| IN box- 1rld and every man who opposes
,nnro6t- If to that wave will go down in
ices need bee.
b crop Ofhe task OF those who are gath
Xiv If the here, or will present be gathered
mine the, to make the settlements of this
(l,o conhle is greatly simplied by the fact
ithey are the masters of no one;
. oil by are the servants of mankind. And
|tos are I'VE do not heed the mandates of
oplnkind we shall make ourselves the
i. ofsuost Conspicuous and deserved fail
- propks III the history of the world.
y depsf MY conception of the league of ma
has ptns Is just this-that it shall operate
o,in athe organized moral force of men
MOifoughout the world and that when
tnods pr wrong and aggression are planned
rhicb contemplated, this searching light
4, oonet Conscience will be turned upon them
T., for h men will ask: What are the pur'
- nrOses that you hold in your heart
ainst the fortunes of the world?
nrOpkJust a little exposure will settle
+beSst questions. If the central powers
rnoyd dared to discuss the purposes OF
.oouIrss war for single fortnight it never
- wd I'D have happened And if, as
n' Lid be, they were forced to have
g Mssed it for year the war would
- tbk been inconceivable.
- 6l feel that this war is, as has
"a said more than once today. init,
/ TE4$ plated with the university
le university spirit is intoler-
lMs things that pA, the human
"a br restraint. 1t is intoler-