Republican farmer., 1918-12-20
FUTURE PEACE OF WORLD WILL
 BE GUARDED. President Wilson Replies to Speech of President
 Poincare. TO REBUKE ACTS
 OF SPOILATION To Secure For World at Large Safety and Free
 dom In Its Life.

Madame Poincare gave a luncheon at. the Palace de la Elysee in honor of President and Mrs. Wilson. President Wilson, on this occasion, spoke as follows in replying to an ad- dress by President Poincarc:
 MT. President-I am deeply indebted to you for your gra- cious greeting. It is very de- lightful to find myself in France and to feel the quick contact of sympathy and unaf- fected friendship between the representatives of the United States and the representatives of France.
 You have been very generous in what you were pleased 10 say about myself, but I feel that what I have said and what I have tried to do has been said and done only in an attempt l to speak the thought of the people of the United States truly, and to | carry that thought out in action.
 From the first, the thought of the people of the United States turned | toward something more than the mere winning of the war. It turned to the establishment of eternal principles of right and justice. I realized that l +n enough; that it must be won in such a way and the questions raised by it settled in such way as to insure the | future peace of the world and lay the foundations for the freedom and rap- piness of it's many peoples and na- | tions.
 Never before has war worn so terrible a visage or exhibited more grossly the debasing influence of i illicit ambitions. I am sure that I shall look upon the ruin wrought by the armies of the Central Empires with the same repulsion and deep in- dlgnation that they stir in the hearts of the men of France and Belgium, and I appreciate, as you do sir the necessity of such action in the final settlement of the issues of the war as will not only rebuke such acts ot terror and spoliation, but make men everywhere aware that they cannot be ventured upon without the cer- tainty of just punishment
 T know with what ardor and en
 thusiasm the soldiers and sailors O.
 the United States have given the bes
 that was in them to this war of re
 demption. They have expressed thu
 true spirit of America. They believ. their ideals to be acceptable to ire,
 peoples everywhere and are rejoicat
 to have played the part they hay,
 played in giving reality to thos
 ideals in cooperation with the arm
 ies of the allies. We are proud o
 the part they have played and we ar
 happy that they should have beel
 associated with such comrades in
 common cause.
 Tt is with peculiar feeling MT President, that ind myself il France joining with you in rejoic
 ing over the victory that has beel
 won. The ties that bind Franc
 and the United States are peculiarl
 close.
 I do not know in what other com . radeship we could have fought wit, = more zest or enthusiasm. It wi daily be a matter of pleasure wit me to be brought into consultatio with the statesmen of France an
 her allies in concerting the measur5
 by which we may secure permanenc
 for these happy relations of friend |. ship and cooperation, and secur
 for the world at large such safet S and freedom in it's life as can be se < cured only by the constant associa '. tion and cooperation of friends.
 'l greet you, not only with dee il | personal respect, but as the represer
 tative of the great people of Franc h and beg to bring you the greeting i. of another great people to whom tn o fortunes of France are of profoun q and lasting interest.
 T raise my glass to the health ( Q the President of the French republ n and to Madame Poincare and tt h prosperity of France"
 ; Paris, Dec. 14.---In his address 1 ,. President Wilson, President Poincar
 said:
 MT. President: Paris and Franc = awaited you with impatience. The
 were eager to acclaim in you illustr
 ous democrat whose words and deed were inspired by exalted thought, th oI philosopher delighting in the solutio g. of universal laws from particule l, events. the eminent statesman WI
 had found a way to express the higf d est political and moral truths in fol ts mulas which bear the stamp of in T. mortality.
 u "They had also a passionate desil il to offe rthanks, in your person. to tE 10 great republic of which you are Il n- chief, for the invaluable assistant le which had been given spontaneousl ed during this war, to the defenders or right and liberty.
 ,v Even before America had resolve T? to intervene in the struggle she ha lr shown to the wounded and the O F. phans of France a solicitude and
 generosity the memory of which wi
 always be enshrined in our heart
 The liberality of your Red Cross, u N counties gifts of your fellow citizen ;" the inspiring initiative of America
 women, anticipated your military al
 naval action, and showed the world to which side your sympathies incline ia And on the day when you flung you
 selves into the battle, with what q
 termination your great people al
 yourself prepared for united succes
 Some months ago you cabled ne me that the United States would SCI ,ol ver-increasing forces, until the q to should be reached on which the Ali A armies were able to submerge the e as emy under an overwhelming flow nd new divisions, and. in effect, for mo
 than a year steady stream of you