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WILSON Makes.
PEACE PLEA
Gets q Splendid Reception in
|. Rome.
ADDRESSES The PARLIAMENT
Ranouets With King Victor EN-
manuel and is Made a Citizen OF
the Eternal City.

the Eternal City.
! Rome, Jan. 4.-President Wilson ar
! rived in Rome from Paris and was re-
ceived cordially by the king and queen
and people and was guest at Sc eral
| important functions.
| He delivered two addresses, one 10
parliament, the other at stale dinner.
King Victor Emmanuel, Queen Hell
ena and the Duchess dAoSta weicom-
ed President and Mrs. Wilson at the
station. There was guard OF honor
Of war veterans. Allied ambassadors
and Italian dignitaries We're present.
After formal greetings were ended
President and Mrs. Wilson, with the
king and queen, were driven through
| the streets, where an enormous throng
was gathered. The crowd cheered all
along the route to the Quirinal.
After a visit to the municipal palace,
where he was made a citizen of Rome,
the president went to parliament,
where he delivered the following adj
| dress:
L..
are beStOwing upon me an unprece-
dented honor which l accept because
believe that it is extended to me as
representative of the great people
for whom | speak, and l am going 20
take this first opportunity to say now
entirely the heart of the American pe0-
pie has been with the great people OF
Italy.
we have seemed, no doubt, indiffer-
To n
lance, but our hearts have never been
far away.
All sorts of ties have long bound
the people of America to the people
of Italy and when the people of the
United States knowing this people,
have witnessed its sufferinSs, its sac
rifices, its heroic action upon the bar
tlefield and it's steadfast endurance al
home touching us more nearly to the
quick even than its heroic action on
the battlefield, we have been bound
by a new tie of profound admiration.
And so F welcome this opportunity
of conveying to you the heartfelt
greetings of the people, of the United
States.
But we cannot stand in the shadow
of this war without knowing there are
things awaiting us which are. in some
senses more difficult than those we
easy to speak of right and justice, 1t
is sometimes difficult to work them
out in practice, and they viii. require
purity of motive and diSintereSted-
ness of object which the world Mas
never witnessed before in the cOunqls
of nations
1t is for that reason that it seems
to me. that you will forgive me IT l
Law some of the elements of the new
hnf
The distinguishing fact of this war
IS that great empires have gone to
pieces and the characteristics OF these
empires was that they held different
peoples reluctantly together under the
coercion of force and the guidance OF
intrigue.
states rs those of the Balkans has
been that they were always accessible
to secret influence. that they werex
IWays bri1Tg TefIe ted by in gu
some sort or another, and that n6Fth
of them tssfbea pepulat i0ns.
which were held together, not by
sympathy and friendship, but by the
coercive effect of military power.
Now the intrigue is checked and the
bands are broken, and what are we
! going to provide as new cement to
hold these peoples together?
They have now become accustomed
to being independent, they must now
I am sure that you recognize the
principles as do. that it is. not our
privilege to say what sort of govern
ment they should set up. But we are
duty as their friends to see to it that
some kind of protection is thrown
around them, something supplied
which will hold them together.
There is only one thing that holds
nations together, IL you exclude force,
and that IS friendship and good will.
The only thing that binds men to-
gether is friendship, and by the same
token the only thing that binds nations
together is friendship.
Therefore, our task at Paris is to
organize the friendship of the world
to see TO it that all the moral forces
that make for right and justice and
liberty are united and are given a
vital organization to which the peoples
of the world will readily and gladly
respond.
" other words, our task is no less
colossal than this: To set up. a new
International psychology, to have a
new atmosphere.
I am happy to say that in my deal
ings with the distinguished gentlemen
who lead your nation and those who
lead France and England feel that
atmosphere gathering, that desire to
do Justice, that desire to establish
fri ndliness, that desire to make peace
resting upon right, and with this COM
mon purpose no obstacles need be for
midable.
The only use of an obstacle Is that
It IS to be overcome. All that an OBJ
stacle does with brave men is not to
brighten them, but to challenge them,
SO that it ought to be our pride to
overcome everything that stands ip
the way.
We know that there cannot be an
other balance Of power. That has
been tried and found wanting fol- the
best Of all reasons that it does not
stay balanced inside itself and a
weight which does not hold together
cannot constitute a makeweight III the
affairs of men.
Therefore, there must be something
substituted for the balance of pbwer,
and am happy to find everywhere in
the air of these great nations the con-
ception that that thing must he a
thOroly united league of nations.
IL What men once considered theDreti-
cal and idealistic turns out to be sprac-
teal and necessary.
We stand Mt the opening of 81 new
age, in which new statesmanship
will, I am confident, lift mankind to
new levels of endeavor and achieve.
ment.
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