Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-16
RECEPTION
TO WILSON TODAY At
CITY HALL OF PARIS
Mithouard President OF Municipal Council Calls Pres-
dent Great European Interrogation Wilson Re-
spends To Welcome With Speech Showing His Pleas
ure AT Understanding Exhibited By French People.


We have long been aware Of your de-
voton and Of the wise and beneficent
activity you have shown BY the side of
Your illustrious husband. Yet, nothing
strikes so much at the heart OF the peo-
PIE OF faris as to be permitted to-
Know those who have already conquer
ed by their goodness. Thus Paris by my
voice acciaims you and lays at your
ieet. Madame, the homage of its graft
tude and its respect.
with Deep Emotion
Finally. sneaking aoa;n 10 p,es;dont
Wilson. 80
"Mr. President N Il with desn ann
tion. that the canital welcomed toaav
the first president of tha In;tad sta ~.
who has crossed the ocean and onr
hotel do VILE cradle no Franch Ehartv
will mark in its annals thp AN Il, ~
which it was permitted "a yeeeivo M
eminent statesman of tha mn;on tbe
citizen of the world-dara we say the
great European interrogation - whose
voice. before the coming AZ victorv
called Ia life the oppressed amono tse
nations
"During weary months our soldiers
nave rought with stoic resolution IN
oeiense oi ene SOU OF .nea' IoreDears
ana 'nc iana OF their eniidfen' 30 vast
IVA was tne fleld Of battle, SO great was
sne ISSUE ~ s'ahe 80 uat'ef anu SO
naru W. 'he s.'usgic 'na' ohiy M.er
sp tha. a. ~, w - ooen p.ss.D,o
nan. na 'ao o.fa haa a,aasi,, w sa~.h sSsp'sSn Wn.
vonr d;stanee % fro,, ths | thootar % war
Sas oi,nwad 30, 30 sao ,ah;,o 90, Yssv
i;wed M "'a tho araotness on @ ~ ~ % ,,,a,ant ~
thev wore bn;lding Trnm ,hs otber
siae ,ofafhe world you have snokeu II
advance Of the judgement az history.
What source of STRENGTH was II FOR
these fighters. SUDDENLY TO hear your
voice, in its distant authority resembl-
ing the voice of posterity. what 10y TO
welcome those new brothers in arms
hastening with ardor to claim at the
critical hour their place upon the field
of battle, what comfort fer them to
seel that they were henceforth arrayed
with the glorious army OF General Per-
shing, the victor or the Afgonnel
Eager to See Wilson
"Thus Paris. eager 10 see in the flesh
the man it had known only by ms wrlt-
ten word and by his image TODAY lives
over again with poignant intensity the
history of America Is decision as il was
unfolded in your conscience before the
ewes Of the world.
Uprofonndly moved bv the magnifi-
cent ocnerositv with which ouy GONNA.
triots had set themselves to relieve our
suffcrines. with what anxious yet con-
fident expectation did we follow tAe
progress Of your thought and Of your
foefincs. Beneath the deliberately
measured tone of your notes and mes
sopes we felt little the mounting of a
righteous anger. What was then our
1l,ed admiration when there burst
unor Ne the message of April ?, Iyt.,
which gave the questioninQs OF the AM
erican conscience their supreme conclu-
sion. in pascal,s words. brought to-
ootbo. iust;co aud force to decade rot
iono centuries tbe fate of all human
Iity'7
Proud 70 Welcome Him.
nyyo ore nroud Mr. President. "a Of.
eor vou woIcomo in the name Of this
aon;;J InfeIloctuol tradition hfts is
otarnoIl,, to,yard tho tyutbs of n ne,v
a. ~. conntrv l. moi alone that well
,ngoa Iard Gov whose liberation the
hIaod 70 sono ~ tha pn;on il minoled
y,;th % tHat of tbo sons Of France Our
ennn4rv - us means also right Of hcri
toaa iost;eo GOOD scnse and honor:
arJ - hecanse yoe come to us IN The na.ns
90 those nobIe thinos today we dare 10
eaIl von citizen ~ Paris.
nsTake tbeu. Mr.. President, the good
,onnaeo m,,neo % 30 & the Rsyt5as and tho Gothas.