The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28
WILSON URGES A
CLOSE UNION Of
ALL AMERICANS
PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES IN
CONGRATULATORY SPEECH TO
DIR. PESSOA OF BRAZIL
PLANNED BEFO RE WAR
Nations Head in Paris Address Tells of
Ills Efforts 10 Bring English and
Latin Speaking Peoples Together in II
Precedent for Present League of Na.
tions Covenant Plan.

Paris, May 27.-"It is very delightful,
for one thing. if | may say so, to know
that my presidency is not ahead of me
and that his presdenc yis ahead of
him." said President Wilson i'm referring
TO DR.. Epitacio Pessoa president.elect
of Brazil. at the dinner given Or. Pes
soa by the Pan.American peace delega-
ton last night
The honor has been accorded me-
President Wilson said in beginning his
speech. "of making the first speech to-
night and | am very glad to avail my
self of that privilege. | want TO say that
l feel very much at home in this com
pany, though after all l suppose no one
OF us feels thoroughly at home except
on the other side of the water. We all
feel in "a very real sense that we have
u common home because we live in the
atmosphere of the same conceptions and
l think with the same political ambitions
and principles.
IL am particularly glad to have the
opportunity Of paying my respects 10
Mir. pcssoa. 1t is very delightful, for
one thing, if l may say so, TO know
that my presidency is not ahead of me
and that his presidency is ahead of him. l
wish him every happiness and every
success with the greatest earnestness
and yet | cannot. if ! may judge by my
own experience, expect for him a very
great eXhilaration in the performance
of the duties of his office, because after
all, to be the head of an American state
is a task of unreleved responsibility.
American constitutions as ru'e pu'
so many uuties ol the hls"eS' soi upon
the president ana so hiuch ol .Ae re-
sponslplilly oI affairs VI S'''e
tered upon him. mat ms years Oh oilloe
are apt to De years NIUE "ti5 nte' .'
with anxiety, little purueheu win the
sense Oh tHe op'!s"'io" Oi -, ~
his people speaking what 'ley ien'l;
think ana ellleaVoii"S 10 ''Voi''t t'''''
what they feally ueSle'
u suppose no more uellc''le '"SN -
given any man lhah ~ iil'eiP Piet 'i't
IeeHnsS anu '"' Pun -,
people, NM" ''''' a., t.,,', IL.
l nav il''t i'''9 ,,,t,i, ,,.,'ros,;,e,
tei Vi q ,.,. i,,t t,,,
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+"s
i''''"4i ,.;... ,,oi., +o t., nreeidant
.. a. t,,'t. a,,d tI,o cour,deshin of an
-, ~, ,l,i. doa., not consist mere.
~ - +i,,' so,,. of raipbhorhood. We
a,., ,aiyl,b,rs we have alwavs been
rr,and, put that is all old. Something
now has happened. am not sure that
can mt it into words, but there has
been added to the common principles
which have united the Americans tlfhe
out ol iil'u iee'i,i7 ''''' ,,;,,ai,i,.. +l,ot
ioi ~ i'''' .tJ,, ~ ,,l,,,o o,,d Of
'''eie ''',' .i,,.',,,rtl,,t .bo notions of
,.'';ql, ,.o,,,ol,o,,, saems to
h., t... ,o,,,.na and fountain i'm the
,si,,,, ,,.o oIy,a,.e believed in If is as
20 ,ho n,,,o waters of the fountains we
1,od o,t,.o,.s drink from had now been
nu+ to the Inns of all people. and they
Lo,,a d,.unl. and were refreshed.
"And II is n delightful thought to be
1ieva that these fountains sprang up
out of the soil of the Americans. l
am rot of course. suggesting or believ-
inc that political liberty had its birth
in tha American hemisphere, for of
co,,.se if had not. but the peculiar eX-