Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-12-24
SAYS j. S. FOUGHT
TO FREE WORLD
Hun Crimes Reused America, De-
cIares President Wilson.
FOES SINS FULLY REALIZED
Yank Executive Tells France German
Brutality Forced Americans Into
Battle for Right-To Attend
Banquet Given by Presi-
dent Poincare.

Paris, Dec. 17.-President Wilson
delivered an address at the city hall,
where ceremonies had been arranged
for. The president replied TO the
greeting extended him.
Your greeting has raised many emo
tons within me-" the president began.
1T is with no ordinary sympathy
that the people of the United States,
for whom l have the privilege or
speaking, have viewed the sutferings
of the people of France. Many OF our
own people have been themselves wit
nesses of these sufferings. We were
the more deeply moved by the wrongs
of the war because we knew tie man
ner in which they were perpetrated.
Il beg that you will not suppose that
because a wide ocean separated us in
space we were not in effect eyeWit-
nesscs to the shameful ruin that was
wrought and the cruel and unnecessary
sufferings that were brought upon you
These sufferings have filled our hearts
with Indignation. We know what they
signified, 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
experienced.
Hearts Are Shocked"
when the United States entered the
war, therefore, they entere'. it not only
because they were moved by convic-
ton that the purposes of the central
empires was wrong and must be re-
sisted by men everywhere who loved
liberty and the right, but also because
the Illicit ambitions which they were
entertaining and attempting to realize
had led to the practicesswhichs shocked
our hearts as much as they offended
our principles.
Our resolution was formed because
we knew how profoundly great prin-
ciE!es of right were affected, but our
hearts moved also with our resolution
You have been exceedingly gener-
Gus in what you have been gracious
enough to say about me, generous far
y
have interpreted with real insight the
motives and resolutions of the people
of the United States. We have mere
ly established our right to the full fell
lOwship of those peoples here and
throughout the world who reverence
Pleased by Welcome.
You have made me feel very much
at home here, not merely by the de-
! Iightful warmth of your welcome, but
also by the manner in which you have
made me realize to the utmost the iii
| innate community of thought and de al
which characterizes your people and
| the great nation which l have the hon
or for the time to represent. Your
welcome to Paris I shall always re-
member as one of the unique and in
| spring experiences Of my life, and
while l feel that you are hOnoring the
people of the United States in my per-
son, l shall nevertheless carry away
with me very personal qualification
in looking back upon these memorable
! days.
Permit me to thank you from a full
heart"
Pleased With Premier.
President Wilson and Premier Glenn
enceau touched in only the most gen
eral manner the problems of the peace
conference in the course of a CONVEX
sation they had at the Murat residence,
according to Marcel Hutin of the Echo
! de Paris.
| Mr.. Wilson was most impressed with
the premiers personality and is report
ed to have expressed himself in the
most fiattering terms, remarking: "He
is most prepossessing man."
Mr.. Wilson accompanied the premier
to the door, shook hands long and
heartily with him and said: THANK
you; thank you. Good-by till tomor-
row."
Wilson to Give Banquet.
President Wilson on Thursday will
attend a reception given in his honor
| by the France-America committee. He
will give a banquet to President Poin-
care and eminent politicians and dip
Iomats on Saturday evening. Covers
will be laid for seventy.
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