Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-12-19
President in Paris Speech Claims
Full Fellowship of America
With All Liberty Lovers.
TO SPEED PEACE PACT
Has Indicated to Allied Leaders His
Earnest Desire to Get Down to
Work OF Conference as Soon az
Possible.

Paris, Dec. lin an address at
the city hall, where ceremonies had
been arranged, President Wilson re-
piled to the greeting extended him.
"Your greeting has raised many
emotions within me-" the president
began.
1T IL with no ordinary sympathy
that the people OF the United States,
for whom l have the privilege of
speaking, have viewed the sufferings
of the people of France Many Of our
own people have been themselves wit
nesses of those sufferings. We were
the more deeply moved by the wrongs
Of the war because we knew the man.
ner in which they were perpetrated.
America an Eyewitness"
II beg that you will not suppose that
because a wide ocean separated US in
space we were not in effect eyewit-
nesses of the shameful ruin that was
wrought and the cruel and unneces-
sary sufferings that were brought upon
you. These sufferings have filled our
hearts with Indignation. We know
what they were. not only, but we knew
what they signified, and our hearts
we're touched to the quick by them;
our imaginations filed with the whole
picture Of what France and Belgium
in particular had experienced.
country's Heart Moved.
When the United States entered the
war, therefore. they entered it not only
because they were moved by a convic-
ton that the purposes of the Central
Empires were 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 practises which shocked
our hearts as much as they offended
our principles.
Our resolution was formed because
we knew how profoundly great princi-
pies Of right were affected. but our
hearts moved also with our resolution.
Nation Rightly Interpreted.
"You have been exceedingly gener-
Gus 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 l exercise, whatever authority /
speak with, l derive from them. I
know what they have thought, know
what they have desired, and when I
have spoken what know was in their
minds it has been delightful to see
how the conscience and purposes of
free men everywhere responded.
u. S. Right to Fellowship.
I'VE have merely established our
right to the full fellowship of those
people here and throughout the world
who reverence the right of genuine
liberty and Justice"
Eager to Get to Work.
President Wilson has indicated to
the Allied leaders his desire to get
down to work as soon as possible.
The president and Premier Clemen.
ceau exchanged ideas on the course of
procedure In conference yesterday.
1t Is understood the American dele
gates are in favor Of the preliminaries
being conducted by President Wilson
and one representative each from
France, Italy and Great Britain.
This body would formulate a series
OF proposals which would be submitted
to open conference of full delegates OF
all the Entente belligerents for de-
bate, prior to drafting the final treaty.