Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-04
PRESIDENT TO HAVE ROMAN
 CITIZENSHIP

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 are going to provide is new cement to hold the people together. They have not been accustomed to being ln- dependent. They must now be lnde- pendent.
 'I am sure that you recognize the principle as 1 do-that it is not our privilege to say what sort of gov ernment they should set up. But we are friends of those people and 1t IS our duty as their friends to see to It that some kind of protection IS thrown around them--something supplied which will hold them together.
 "There is only one thing that holds nations together, if you exclude force, and that is friendship and good will The only thing that binds men to- gether is friendship, and by 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--to see to it that all the moral forces that make for right and justice and liber- ty are united and are given vital organization to which the peoples of the world will readily and gladly re- spond.
 < "In other words, our task is no less colossal than this; to set up a new International physiology to have new real atmosphere. l am happy to say that in my dealings with the dis tinguished gentlemen who lead your nation, and those who lead France and England, feel that atmosphere gathering, that desire to do justice, that desire to establish friendliness, that desire to make peace rest upon no obstacle need be formidable.
 "The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is not to frighten them, but to challenge them. So that it ought to be our pride to overcome everything that stands in the way.
 We know that there cannot be another balance of power. That has been tried and found wanting. for the best of all reasons that it does not stay balanced inside itself, and a weight which does not balance does not hold together cannot constitute a make-wei9ht in the affairs of men. Therefore there must be something substituted for the balance of power and l am happy to find everywhere in the air of these great nations the conception that that thing must be a Thoroughly united League of Nations. ". What men once considered theoret- ical and .id)elistic turns out to be practical and necessary. We stand at the opening of new age in which a new statesmanship will, l am cOnti- dent. lift mankind to new levels of endeavor and achievement"
 During his speech tine presid mt constantly was interrupted by out bursts of applause. and when he ended fl'e was accorded an ovation which lasted until he passed through the exit of the building. Outside the thfcngs in the street took tip the demonstration., which continued un- til the doors of the Juirinal closed behind MT. Wilson.
 The weather was warmer and mare balmy than the presidentia party had experienced in France and England, and there was feeling ol Aslef on the party. The president met With reallyss the first touch oi sustained sunshine hegsii had seen sllice coming to Europe, and te made the remark during the day that the weather reminded him oi that at home.
 During tho day, King Victor Em