The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-04
TREMENDOUS OVATION
GIVEN BY PEOPLE
Mayor of Rome Welcomed
the President to the City
and Told of the Gratitude
of Italy to America.

Rome, Jan. 4. President Wilson was
the guest of honor at an official dinner
given at the Quirinal last night. There
were only two addresses, By King Vic
tor Emmanuel and by Mf. wilson. The
king said
you, yourself, Mr.. president, are be-
come our welcome and pleasing guest
only to-day, but in the conscience of our
people your personality already for a
long time has inscribed itself in an in
effaeeable way.
The enthusiastic receptions which
have accompanied your passage through
The streets Of Rome to-day are attssta-
tions OF the sentiments Of admiration
and recognition that your own name and
labor and the name and labor OF the
United States stir in the Italian people.
''The best traditions Of Italian culture,
the Iiveliest currents of our national
thoughts, have constantly aimed at the
same ideal goal, toward the establish
mont Of tho international peace for
which you have with tenacious faith
stood. Already before the yieissitudes of
war and the fraternity of armies had
established to-dayis admirable commun-
ion OF intentions and purpose between
our two countries, legions of our work
ers had emigrated TO your great repnb-
lie They had knitted America and Italy
together with strong cords of relation
ship. and these became reinforced by the
spiritual affinity between both peoples
who had common faith in the virtue of
free political government.
ssWheu Italy entered into the war,
: breath, precursor of the American soul,
penetrated into the rank and file of our
army through the means of our workers
who returned to the fatherland from
America and brought into Italy an echo
Of their second patria So, correspond
5nriv the Italian soul vibrated in the
hearts of our emigrants enrolled under
vour banners when the American nation
under your guidance threw itself into the
fight against the common enemy.
"Italy, having now gathered to her
own bosom those brothers so long sor-
rowing under foreign oppression, and
having reconquered the confidence which
alone can give her security and true m
dependence, is preparing herself to CO.
operate with you in the most cordial
manner to reach the most practical
means for drawing into single circle
the civilized nations, for the purpose OF
creating in the supreme form Of q league
of nations the conditions most fitted to
safeguard and protect each ones rights.
italy and America entered together into
the war through rare act of will; they
were moved by the purpose to concur
with all their energies in an effort to
prevent the domination OF the cult Of
i. -aH bty
the purpose to reaffirm IN the circle of
human value the conscripts OF liberty
and justice They entered into war to
conquer the powers of war. Their ac-
complishment is still unfinished, and the
common work must still be developed
with firm faith and with tenacious con-
stancy for the purpose of effecting the
security of peace.
II lift up my glass, Mr.. President, in
Your honor and in the honor Of Mrs.
Wilson, whose gentle presence adds
charm to your visit; drink to the
prosperity and to the continued and in
creasing prestige of the great American
nation
Pres. Wilson's Reply.
In reply, President Wilson said:
lOul uihlNob1 \ iidfG bbtu Nbl
much touched by the generous terms
of the address you have just read. feel
st would be difficult for me to make a
worthy reply, and yet if could speak
simply the things that are in my heart
] am sure they could constitute an ade-
quate reply
Il had occasion at the Parliament this
afternoon to speak Of the strong sym
pathy that had sprung up between the
United States and Italy during The ter
rible years Of the war but perhaps here
] can speak more intimately and say
how sincerely the people of the United
States had admired your own course
and your constant association with the
armies of Italy and the gracious and
generous association of her majesty, the
queen.
1T has been matter Of pride with
us that so many men of Italian origin
were in our own armies and associated
with their brethren in Italy itself in the
greatest enterprise of freedom. These
are no small matters, and they complete
that process Of the Welding together Of
the sympathies of nations which has
been going on 50 long between our peo-
peoples.
The Italians in the United States