Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-01-03


It's Independent life and now for the
first time a president of the United
States Is our guest in England. We
welcome you to the country whence
came your ancestors, where stand the
home of those from whom sprane
Washington and Lincoln. We welcome
you for yourself as one whose insight
and calmness and dignity in the dis
charge of his high duties we have
watched with admiration.
we see in you happy union of the
gifts of the scholar with those of the
statesman.
Ideals Are Common.
''You share with us the traditions of
free government as old as the
Magma Charta. We recognize a bond
of still deeper significance in the com.
mon ideals which our peoples cherish
First among those ideals you value and
we value freedom and peace. Privileged
as we have been to be exponents and
examples in national life of the prin. |
ciples Of popular self-government |
based upon equal laws, it now falls to
both of us alike to see how these prin.
cipIes Can be applied beyond our own
borders for the good of the world.
'It was love of liberty, respect for
the law, good faith and the sacred
rights of humanity that brought you
to the old world to join in saving it
from the dangers that were thicken-
ing around and that arranged those
citfzen-soldiers of yours whose gallan-
try we have admired side by side with
ours in war.
Ihe British nation wishes all sue
cess to all the deliberations on which
you and we and the great free nations
allied with us are now to enter moved
by disinterested good will and a sense
OF duty commensurate with the power
which we hold as a solemn trust.
Thanks U. S. Soldiers.
'"The American and British peoples
have been brothers in arms and their
arms have been crowned with victory.
We thank with all our hearts your
valiant soldiers and sailors for their
splendid part in that victory and we
thank the American host for their
noble response to the call of civiliza-
ton and humanity. May the same
brotherly spirit inspire and guide our
united efforts to secure for the world
the blessings of order, freedom and
enduring peace.
Asking you to join with me in
drinking the health of the president,
wish to say also with what pleasure
we welcome Mrs. Wilson to this cour.
try.
Il drink to the health of the presi-
dent of the United States and to Mrs.
wilson and to the happiness and pros
perity of the great American nation"
Wilson's Reply.
Following is the text of President
Wilson's reply to King Georges ad-
dress of welcome at the state banquet
in Buckingham Palace:
Il am deeply complimented by the
gracious words which you have ut
tered. The welcome which you have
given me and Mrs. Wilson has been
so warm, so natural, so evidently from
the heart, that we have been more
than pleased, we have been touched
by it, and believe that / correctly in
terpret that welcome as embodying not
only your own generous spirit towards
US personally, but also as expressing
for yourself and the great nation over
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for my people, for the people of the
United States.
For you and I, sir-I temporarily
embody the spirit Of two great nations
and whatever strength ] have and
whatever authority, I possess only as
long and so far as express the spirit
and purpose of the American people.
"Any influence that the American
people have over the affairs of the
world is measured 'by their sympathy
with the aspirations of free men ev
erywhere.
II have had the privilege, sir, of con
ferring with the leaders of your gov
; ernment and with the spokesmen o.
, the governments of France and Italy
and 1 am glad to say that have tht
+ same conceptions that they have O.
! the significance and scope of the dut.
upon which we have met.
"There is a great tide running il
the hearts of men. The hearts O
9 men have never beaten so singularl,
= in unison before. Men have neve
q been so conscious of their brotherhood
j, Men have never realized how little diff
= ference there was between right an,
: Justice in one latitude and in anoth
= another, and it will be our high priv
ilege, I believe, sir, not only to appl
the moral judgment of the world t
the particular settlement which W
shall attempt, but also to organize tn
moral force of the world to preserv
those settlements to steady the fore
of mankind and to make the right an
> Justice to which great nations like on
own have resolved themselves, tn
nredominant and controlling force O
y the world.
i .aThere is something inspiring /
knowing that this is the errand tha
u we have come on. Nothing less tha
s. this would have justified me in lea,
l. ing the important tasks which ia
II upon me upon the other side of til
Ie sea: nothing but the consciousness
that nothing else compares with thj
n in dignity and Importance.
c. therefore, it is more delightful t
d find myself in the company of a bod
sc of men united in ideal and in purpos
'r and to feel that I am privileged t
is unite my thought with yours in ca
,r rying forward these standards whic
e. we are so proud to hold high and t
le defend.
ii seMay 1 not, sir, with a feeling q
profound sincerity and friendship an
n sympathy, propose your own healt
and the health Of the queen, and th
ID prosperity of Great Britainl' l''
r show arrow heads. Nearly every OF