The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1919-01-23
HIGH TRIBUTE IS
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 a
luncheon today. He was greeted by
Antonin Dubost. the president, who
made an ~eulogistic address in which
be said that the senate welcomed the
president and his ideas.
M. Dubost said:
Mr.. President. My colleagues and
myself thank you for having been 30
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 the fate of the people depends.
From your first steps on the land OF
France, and since our entry into
Paris, the French people have sponta-
neously given their hearts to you and
they perceived at nee in your frank
smile and your loyal and open physiog-
nomy, that you, too, were spontaneous
ly giving yourself to them.
I'VE 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 7deft award Of moral
forces, elicit more enthusiasm than In
Il cEdUCc, III WhCEC nlOIG lIdu IN Ine
senate, since the statute Of interna-
tional peace has been first of all and
Tor a longe time prepared by some Of
its 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 this 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 1,409, 900
men of France has just given their
lives.
Gigantic Problems.
at is with such a hope that we shall
be willing to participate in the sublime
cause which you have come 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 hear and your
high intelligence with a joyful hope
and a feryent reclamation"
Wilson In Reply.
President Wilson delivered an ad-
dress In reply to the gkeeting 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
meeting of the supreme council to the
Luxemburb palace. where the luncheon
took place. He was accompanied BY
Premier Clemenceau.
"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 ito Its
community of interest and 1t knows its
/ future depends on this community OF
| interest" N r"
The future of free institutions and
of civilization, he added, depend upon
IL.
President Poincare was one Of tn,
guests, as were all the French cabine'
members, the members of the senate
{ Paul D~eschanel, the president of thu
chamber of deputies and Marshal Focll
!, President Wilson as he arrived at Lux
! emburg palace was received with grea
ceremony. The republican guard II
|, dress uniform, was drawn UP in thu
) court of honor. A fanfare of drum.
and trumpets marked the p~resident'i
, appearance. This was followed by thu
playing of the American national an
them. e