Evening star., 1918-12-16
HEARTOFU.
PRINCIPLES OFFENDED.
SAYS PRESIDENT WILSON
y. S. Purpose
in War Told
by President

PARIS, December 1G (by the As;
s"cIated Press S).-PreSident Wilson
delivered an address today 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. 1t is with no
ordinary sympathy that the people
of the United States. for whom I
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 manner in which they
were perpetrated.
"Hearts Touched to Quick"
Il beg that you will not suppose
that because a wide ocean sepa-
effect eyewitnesses of the shame
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cruel and 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 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 expert
enced.
when the United States enter
ed the war, therefore, they entered
it not only because they were
moved by conviction that the
purposes of the central empires
were wrong and must be resisted
by men everywhere who loved lib
erty and the right, but also be-
cause the illicit ambitions which
they were entertaining and at
tempting to realize had led to the
practices which shocked our hearts
as much as they offended our prin-
cip,es.
Our resolution was formed be-
cause we knew how profoundly
great principles of right were af-
fected, but our hearts moved also
with our resolution.
Spokesman for q. S. People.
You have been exceedingly gen.
erous in what you have been graz
cious enough to say about me-gen-
erous far beyond my personal de-
serts-but you have interpreted
with real insight the motives and
resolution of the people of the
United States. Whatever influence
I exercise. whatever authority I
speak with, I derive from them.
know what they have thought.
know what they have desired, and
when I have spoken what know
was in their minds it has been de-
lightful to see how the consciences
and purposes of free men every
where responded.
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.
You have made me feel very
much at home here, not merely by
the delightful warmth of your
welcome, but also by the manner
in which you have made me realize
to the utmost the intimate COM
munity of thought and ideal which
characterizes your people and the
great nation which 1 have the
honor for the time to represent.
Expresses His Qualification.
"Your welcome to Paris I shall
always remember as one of the
unique and inspiring experiences
of my life, and, while feel that
you are honoring the people of the
United States in my person, 1 shall,
nevertheless, carry away with me
a very keen personal qualification
in looking back upon these mem
orable days.
Permit m to. thank you from a
full heart"