The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-01-23
HIGH TRIBUTE S
PAID PRESIDENT
Guest of Honor at Luncheon
Given By French Senate
Address Praises
Purpose.
BY Associated Press.

Paris, Jan. 21.-President Wilson was
the guest Of the French senate at Z
luncheon today. He-was greeted by
Antonin Dubost. the president, who
made an eulogistic address in which
he said that the senate welcomed the
president and his ideas.
M. Dubost said:
Mr.. President: My colleagues and
myself thank you for having been so
good as to accept out invitation and to
give us some hours of your time which
we know to be devoted to the high
mediations and the negotiations upon
. which h fate of the people depends.
From your first steps on the land of
France, and since your entry into
Paris, the French people have sponta-
neously given their hearts to you and
they perceived at once in your frank
smile and your loyal and open phYsiog-
nomy, that you, too, were spontaneous
ly giving yourself to them.
w welcome here, Mr.. President, you
ard your. ideas. Nowhere could your
splendid ambition to substitute for the
periodically broken. equilibrium of ma
terial forces, the deft award Of moral
forces. elicit more enthusiasm than in
France, and nowhere more than in the
senate. since the statute Of interna-
tional peace has been first of all and
for a longe time prepared by some OF
it's most eminent members.
The Exposed Sentinel.
Our national problem, consistent.
therefore, in combining our European
past and our actual material security
with the conditions of the new order
for which you have given so noble a
formula. because his new order will
ever have to lean on some force for
which france will, When all is told,
stand the most advanced and exposed
sentinel. We firmly believe with you,
Mr.. President, and allow me to add,
sincere and great friend, that a new
world order and perhaps, a world har-
mony are possible. For this 1,4O0, 900
men Of France has just given their
lives.
Gigantic Problems.
ut is with such a hope that we shall
be willing to participate in the sublime
cause which you nave Ii to under
take on the devastated soil of old
Europe, where hatred and discord still
howl after the guns have become silent,
and where anarchy causes a vast part
of mankind to stagger. The task is a
gigantic one, but it is worthy of your
country accustomed to great under
takings, and of our, the ancient artisan
of western civilization. Mr.. President,
we salute your great heart and your
high intelligence with a joyful hope
and a fervent acclamation.'
Wilson in Reply.
President Wilson delivered an adj
dress in reply to the gketing extended
him in the name of the Senate by An
tonin Dubost, its president.
President Wilson began by express
sing his pleasure at the cordially OF
the welcome.
He drove directly from the foreign
office, where he had been attending the
Injecting OF the supreme council to the
Luxemburb palace, where he luncheon
took place. He was accompanied by
Premier Clemenceau.
j, "a new world is coming into life"
president Wilso nsaid at the luncheon
given him in the Senate today, adding
that the world has awakened TO its
community of interest and 1t knows its
future depends on this community OF
interest"
The future of free Institutions and
Of civilization, he added. depend upon
it.
President Poincare wSs one Of the
guests, as were all the French cabinet
members, the members of the senate
Paul Deschanel, the president of the
chamber Of deputies and Marshal Foch.
President Wilson as he arrived at Lux
emburg palace was received with great
ceremony. The republican guard in
dress uniform, was drawn up in the
court Of honor. A fanfare of drums
and trumpets marked the presidents
appearance. This was followed by the
playing of the American national an
them.