Republican farmer., 1918-12-20
Established Our Right to Full Fellowship With Peo- ples Throughout World. MAKES ADDRESS AT
 PARIS CITY HALL, Adrien Mithouard Delivers Welcome in Name of the
 Municipal Council.

Paris, Dec. 16 - President Wilson delivered an address to- day at the City Hall, where ceremonies had been arranged for. The President replied to the greeting extended him.
 "Your greeting has raised many emotions within me- the President began. "It is with no ordinary sympathy that the people of the United States, for whom l have the privilege of speaking, have viewed the suf- ferings of the people of France. Many oS our own people have been themselves witnesses of these sui ferings, We were the more deeply moved by the wrongs of the war be- cause we knew the manner ip which they were perpetrateG.
 I beg you will not suppose that be-
 
 space we were not in effect eye wit nesses of the shameful ruin that was wrought and the cruel unnecessary sufferings that were brought upon you. These sufferings have filled our hearts with indignation. We know what they were not only, but We know what they signifed, and our hearts were touched to the quick by them, our imaginations filled with the whole picture of what France and Belgium in particular had eX- Nperienced.
 When the United States entered , the war, therefore, they entered it not only because they were moved by a conviction that the purposes of the Central Empires were wrong and must be resisted by men everywhere who loved liberty and the right but also becaus the illicit ambitions which they were entertaining and attempting to realize had led to the practices which shocked our hearts as much as they offended our principles.
 "Our resolution was formed because we knew how profoundly great prin- ciples of right were affected, but our hearts moved also with our resolution. You have been exceedingly gen. 2, erous in what you have been gracious enough to say about me, generous far beyond my personal deserts, but you have interpreted with real insight the motives and resolution of the people of the United States Whatever influ- ence I exercise, whatever authority l speak with, I deriye from them. 1 know what tEey have thought, T when have spoken what I know was in their minds it has been delightful to see how the conscience and pur- poses of free men everywhere re- sponded. We have merely established our right to the full fellowship of those peoples here and throughout the world who reverence the right of gen. uine liberty and justice.
 ''You have me feel very much at home here, not merely by the delight ful warmth of your welcome, but also by the manner in which you have made me realize to the utmost the in timate community of thought and ideal which characterizes your people and the great nation which I have the honor for the time to represent. Your welcome to Paris I shall always remember as one of the unique and inspiring experiences of my life, and while I feel that you are honoring the people of the United States in my person, I shall nevertheless carry away with me a very keen personal eradication in looking back upon these memorable days.
 Permit me to thank you from a full heart"
 In addressing President Wilson at -ths city hall ceremonies, Adrien Mi thouarG, president of the municipal council of Paris, said:
 T have the honor, in the presence of the president of the republic, to present to you the municipal counci of Paris. whose interpreter I am ir welcoming tha chief of the great ma tior whose aid, arriving so oppor. tupely. brought us victory, and the upright man whose conscience fash toned his policy and whose diplomacy was made of loyalty"
 Turning to Mrs. Wilson, M. Mithou ard said:
 Madame: Paris is infinitely happy and is touched, that you who have ac companied the President have beel good erough to add to this occasion the charm and the grace of you presence. We have long been awar of your devotion and of the wise an benefcent activity you have shown b. the side of your illustrious husband Yet nothing touches so much tn heart of the people of Paris as to b permitted to. know those who have al ready conquered by their goodnes: Thus Paris. by my voice, acclaims vol and lays at your feet madame tn home of It's gratitude and its respect.
 Finally, speaking again to Presiden Wilson. M. AIlthuard said:
 ''AIr. sPresident: It is with dee emotion that the capital welcomes tc day the first President of the Unite States who has crossed the ocean, an our City Hall, the cradle of Frenc liberty. will mark in its annals tn day on which it was permitted to re ceive the eminent statesman of tn union, the citizen of the world-dar we say the great European ?-who os voice, heard before the coming victory, called to life the oppresse among the nations.
 During weary months our soldier have fought with s-oic resolution defense of the soil of their forbeal and the land of their children. $ vast was the field of battle, so gre; was the issue at stake. so bitter and : hard was the struggle that only aft the passage of time did it seem poss ble that the grandeur of their a complishment could clearly sho forth. Yet your distance from Il fhaStre of war has allowed you to SC wkile yet they lived, the greatness