The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-08
OVATION GIVEN HIM BY
ENTHUSIASTIC ROMANS.
Solons Told That Heart Of
American People Has Been
With Brothers in Italy
Bound by Ties of All Sorts
and Same Exalted Principle.

CSi > u Lie Sc.ldlG lllc ClldIIlDSA.
The function was an impressive one.
The large and distinguished gathering
save the president an ovation. The
president spoke as follows:
Your Majesty and Mr.. President Of
the Chamber:
You are bestow:ng upon ne an un-
Drecedeated honor, which accept be-
cause believe that it is extended to
II as the representative Of the great
people FOR whom I speak. And 1 am
going 70 take this opportunity to say
how entirely the heart of the Ameri-
can people has been with the great
people OF Italy.
We have seemed no doubt indiffer-
ent e. times, to look from. a great
distance, but our hearts have never
been far away. All sorts Of ties haze
long bound the people Of our Ameri-
| ca to the people Of Ital. and when
the people Of the United States.
knowing this people. have witnessed
its sufferings, its sacrifices, it's heroic
acta.s upon the batt!edelds and its
hercic endurances Ct hoiae-its stead
f2sI endurance at home touching US
more nearly to the quick even than
its heroic action on the Battlefield
we have been bound by- new tie Of
profound admiration.
Then back CT il all, and through i,
al. running like the golden thread
that wcve It together. as our knowl-
edse that the people CT Italy had gone
into this We. for the same exalted
principles OF right and justice that
moved our own people. and so wei
come this opportunity Of conveying tf'
you the heartfelt greetings of the
people OF the United States.
But we can rot stand in the
shadow of this war without knowing
there are things which are in some
senses more difficult than those we
have undertaken because while it is
easy to speak OF right and justice. It
is sometimes difficult to work them
out IN practice, and there will be re-
CURED 9 purity Of motives and d:sln-
terestedress Of object which the world
has never witnessed before in the
councils OF nations
1T is for that reason that it seems
TO me YOU viii forgive me if lay some
of the elements Of the new situation
before you for q moment. The distln-
gushing factor of this war is that
great empires have gone to pieces.
Ana The characteristics Of those en-
Dires ere that they held Giffe-an:
peon!es reluctant together under the
Icoerc:on of force and the guidance Of
intrigue
"Tre great difficulty among such
states as these Of the Balkans has
neen shat thev were a'wavs accessible
70 secret influence: and they were a.
ways being penetrated by intrigue OF
some sort or another: that north OF
them lay disturbed populations which
we're held together not by sympathy
and friendship bit by the coercive
force of military power.
Now the intrigue is checked and
the bands are broken and what we
are going to provide is new cement
to held the peoples together. They
have net been accustomed to beng
independent, They must now be inde-
pendent.
u am sure that you recognize the
principle as I do; that 1t is not our
privilege to say what sort Of q gov
ernl,, ent they should set up. But "e
are friends of those people and 1t IS
or duty as their friends 20 see to Il
that some kind Of protection Is
thrown around then-someth;ns sup
piled which will hold them together.
'.g!1ere is only one thing that ho!cS
nations together, # You exclude force-
end that is friendship ard good VIII.
The Only thing that binds men TO-
eether is friendship. and hy the same
token the only thing that binds na-
tions together is friendship. There
fore. our task at Paris is to organize
the friendship Of the world 20 see 70
it. that all tile moral forces shat
make for right and Justice and liberty
a-e united and are given vital or
rar;zation to which the peoples Of the /
wcrid vii! readily and gladly respond
In othcr words our task IS no less .
colossal than this: To set Q new IN I
ternational physiology; to haze new
real atmosphere. I an naDpy TO say
that in my deal;nss with tne dlstln-
auisheC, gentlemen who lead your ma
ton and those who lead France and
England. feel that atmosphere
gathering. that desire TO- do justice.
that desire 10 establish friendiiness.
that desire 10 make peace resting upon
right and with this common purpose
no ohs1c cles necd be formidable
Tho only use of an obstacle is to !
BE- overcome. All that an obstacle +:
loes with brave men is not to fright
~ them but 10 challenge them. So {
hat It ought TO be our pride TO over +:
,ome everything that stands in the $
way.
We know that there can not be an {
,;har balance Of power That has been :
ried and found wanting. for the best :
If eli reasons that it does not stay :
balanced inside itself. and weight 4
which does not hold together can not '
onstitute make weight in the af 6
airs Of men.
.'Thercfore there must be some {
hing substituted for the balance OF {
ower. and ! anl happy to find every n
,:le..a IN the aii. OF these great ma c