The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-20
PRES. WILSON
EULOGIZED
By Pres. Antonin Dubost Of
the French Senate
To-day
LATTER WELCOMED
WILSON AND HIS IDEAS
Declared the Task of Peace
Was Gigantic but Worthy
of the United States

Paris, Jan. 20.-President Wilson was
the guest of the French Senate at a
luncheon to-day. He was greeted by An
tonin Dubost, the president, who made
eulogistic address in which he said the
Senate welcomed the president and his
ideas. NJ Dubost said
"Mr. President: MY colleagues and
myself thank you for having been so
good as to accept our invitation and to
give us some hours OF yorr time, which
we know TO be devoted to the high medi-
tations and the important negotiations
upon which the fate Of the peoples de-
pends, From your first steps on the land
Of France and since your entry into Paris
the French people have spontaneously
given their hearts to you, and they per
ceived at once in your frank smile and in
your so loyal and open physioguomy that
you too were spontaneously giving your
self to them.
"You are to-day in an old palace of
France, and it is among these grand re-
minders of past times that with thoughts
reiusenated by republican ardor, yet with
patriotism, the French Senate shapes a
history which already counts Is cen
turies. We welcome here, Mr. President,
you and your ideas. Nowhere could your
splendid ambition to substitute for the
periodically broken equilibrium of mate
rial forces the definite award of moral
forces elicit more enthusiasm than in
France, and nowhere more than in the
Senate, since the statute of international
peace has been first of all and for long
time prepared by some of its most emf
nent members.
Our national problem consists, there
fore, in combining our European past
and our actual material security with
the conditions of the new order for which
You have given so noble formula, be-
cause this new order will ever have to
lean on some force, for which France
will, when all is told, stand the most ad,
yaneed and exposed sentinel. We firmly
believe with you, Mr. President, and al
low me to add, sincere and great friend,
that new world order and perhaps a
world harmony are possible. For this
! 100000 men OF France have just given
their lives.
"It is with such hope that we shall
most willingly participate IN the sublime
cause which you have come to undertake
on the devastated soil Of old Europe,
where hatred and discurd still howl after
the guns have become silent and where
anarchy causes vast part of mankind to
stagger The task is a gigantic one, but
it is worthy Of your country, accustomed
to great undertakings, and of ours, the
ancient artisan of western civilization,
Mr., President, we salute your great heart
and your high intelligence with a joyful
hope and fervent acclamation."
President Wilson drove directly from
the war office, where he had been at
tending the meeting Of the supreme coun-
ell, TO the Luxembourg palace, where the
luncheon took place He was aecompa
MED by Premier Clemenceau.
President Poincare was one OF the
guests at the luncheon, as were all the
French cabinet members, the members Of
the Senate, Paul Deschanel, the president
of the chamber Of deputies, and Marshal
Foch.