Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-05

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 T lift up my glass, Mir. President | in your honor and in the honor of Mrs 1 Wilson whose gentle presence adds charm to your visits; 1 drink to the prosperity and to the continued and increasing prestige of the great Amer 1 ican nation"
 In reply, President Wilson said "Your Majesty: I have been very much touched by the generous terms of the address you have just read. feel it would be difficult for me to make worthy reply and yet if could speak simply the things that are in my heart ] am sure they could constitute an adequate reply.
 "I had occasion at the parliament this afternoon to speak of the strong sympathy that had sprung up between the United States and Italy during the terrible wars, but perhaps here l can speak more intimately and saw how sincerely the people of the United States had admired your own courl< and your own constant association with the armies of Italy, and the grac- ious and generous and serving asso- citation of her majesty, the Queen.
 ''It has been a matter of pride with us that so many Italians, so many men of Italian origin were in our own armies and associated with their brethren in Italy itself in the great enterprise of freedom. These are no small nations and they complete that process of the welding together of the sympathies of naions which has been on so long between our peoples.
 "rhe Italians ins the United, States have excited a particular degree of admiration They, I believe, are only people of given nationality who have been careful to organize them selves to see that their compatriots coming to America were from month to month and from year to year guid- ed to places in industries most suit able to their previous habits. No oth- CT nationality has taken such pains as that and in serving their fellow countrymen they have served the Uni ted States because these people have found places where they would be most useful and would most imme- diately earn their own living and add to the prosperity of the country itself
 "In every way we have been happy in our association at home and abroad with the people of this great State. was saying playfully to Premier Orlando and Baron Sonnino this after noon that in trying to put the peo- gmen, to the voation and appeared ple of the world under their proper sovereignties, we would not be willing to part with the Italians in the United States because we too much value the contributions that they have made. not only to the industry of the United States, but to it's thought and to many clements of it's life.
 ! "This is, therefore, a very welcome occasion upon which to express feel ing that goes very deep. l was touch ed the other day to have an Italian, very plain man, say to me that we had helped to feed Italy during the war, and it went to my heart, because we had been able to do so little. It was | necessary for us to use our tonnage s' exclusively for the handling of troops and of the supplies that had to folio. them from the United States, that we could not do half as much as 1t Wa' , our desire to do to supply grain tt , this country, or coal, or any of the l supplies which it so much needed dur