Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-05
DR. WILSON
 |S GUEST OF :
 KING VICTOR
Italy Does Herself Proud in Honorjng the First Citizen of America.

Rome, Jan. 4.-(By the Associated Press. )-President Wilson left Rome for Paris shortly after nine o'clock to- night witi, the cheers of the Roman throng that had gathered to witness his depar+ure. ringing in his ears. His visit to the Italian Capital had prov cd the busiest of his European trip, as it was the most demonstrative.
 The presidential party is not ex- pected to reach Paris until Tuesday morning, as the itinerary provides for stons at Genoa, Milan and Turin. The President is reported as ex- pecting, on his return to the French capital. to find the peace delegates up to the point of deciding upon the first principles of the proposed legue of nations, thus paving the way to the disposal of what he regards as the necessary preliminaries to the peace !'ofore his return to the United States, about the middle of February.
 Rome. Friday. Jan. 3.-President Wilson was the quest of honor at an
 
 tonioht. There we've onlv two ad- dresses. bv King Victor, Emmanuel and hv MT. Wilson. The king said: "Fon. voursnlf MT. Prasident, have hecome our welcome and pleasing onest on'v today. but in the con- science of our peonle vo,,r personal i itv a'rnadv for a long time has in- e"'''had i+salf in an ineffcahle wav IT. is that which in itself oathnrs, all tho ',ownrs which % to stimulate 9 will hort on 1ihartv and insti"n and pives insniratinn toward the hiohost ooncention of the destinies of human itv
 "Fhe anthneia e+io saln+a+inns whioh hnvn recommended. vo,,~ passace +hror~h tho s+rnnts of Rone today o++nn+io~s Of snr+;r, or+s of ad- r,,iratio and reooonition that your own rar,e ard lahor and the name and l"bor of the United States stir in the Italian peonle. The principles in which YOU in maonifcent svnthesis have summed up the ideal reasons of the war for liberty find resonance in Italian hearts.
 "The best traditions of Italian cul- ture, the Gveliest currents of our na- tional thoughts, have constantly aim- ed at the same ideal goal, toward the establishment of : the international peace for which you have with tena- cious faith stood. Already, before the vicissitures of war and the fraternity of armies had established today's ad- mirable communion of intentions and purposes between our two countries, legions. of our workers had emigrated to your great republic. They hac knitted America and Italy togethe: with strong cords of relationship ant hthese became reinforced by the spir- itual affinity between peoples wha had common faith in the virtue oi free political government.
 "When Italy entered the war, a breath, precursor of the American coul, penetrated into the rank and ! file of our army through the means of our workers who returned to the into Italy an echo of their second pa- 1 fatherland from America and brought tria. So correspondingly. the Italian soul vibrated in the hearts of our emigrants enrolled under your ban ners when the American nation under your guidance threw itself into the 1 fight against the common enemy.
 "It was natural that your visit, awaited with a most earnest desire, should now give form and expression almost tangible to this fervid agree ment of spirits, to this happy com munion of intentions and of ideals, forming themselves between the two peoples. and which are employed in a union always more intimate and a cooperation always more cordial in the face of the grave duties imposed by the common victory. Italy, having now gathered to her own bosom those brothers. 50 long sorrOwing under op. pression, and having recOnquered the confines which alone can give her SC. curity and true independence, is pre-
 pairing herself to cooperate with yor
 in the most cordial manner to reacf
 the most practical means for draw.
 ing into single circle the civilized nations, for the purpose of creating ir
 the supreme form of league of na
 tions the conditions most fitted t safeguard and protect each one: rights.
 -- "Italy and America entered together into the war through rare act o will; they were moved by the pur pose to concur with all their energies in an effort to prevent the domfna tion of the cult of force in the world they were moved by the purpose to re affirm in the scale of human value the principles of Liberty and Justice They entered into war to conquer tn, powers of war. Their accomplish ment is still unfinished and the com mon work must still be developed witt firm faith and with tenacious con stancy for the purpose of effecting tn (Continued on page twol