Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-01-10

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precedented honor which l accept be-
cause 1 believe that it is extended TO
me as representative of the great
people for whom speak, and am go
| ing to take this first opportunity TO
say how entirely the heart OF the
American people has been with the
great people of Italy.
"We have seemed, no doubt, indiffer-
ent at times, to look from a great dis
lance, but our hearts have never been
far away.
Tells of Ties With Italy.
"Al sorts of ties have long bound
| the people of America to the people
of Italy and when the people of the
United States, knowing this people,
have witnessed her sufferings, its sac
rifices, it's heroic action upon the bat
tlefield and it's steadfast endurance at
home. touching us more nearly to the
quick even than it's heroic action on
the battlefield, we have been bound by
a new tie of profound admiration.
Thin back of it all and through 1t
all, running like the golden thread
that wove it together, was our knowi-
edge that the people Of Italy had
gone into this war for the same eX-
allied principles of right and justice
that moved our own people.
'And SO 1 welcome this opportunity
of conveying to you the heartfelt
greetings of the people Of the United
States
Purity of Motive Vital.
"But we cannot stand in the shadow
of this war without knowing there are
things awaiting us which are in some
senses more difficult than those we
have undertaken, because, while 1t is
easy to speak of right and justice, 1T is
sometimes difficult to work them out
in practice, and they will require
purity of motive and disinterestedness
of object which the world has never
witnessed before In a council Of ma
tons.
at is for that reason that it seems
to me that you will forgive me If l
lay some of the elements of the new
situation before you for moment
Balkan Intrigue Checked.
1.-THE distinguishing fact of this war
is that great empires have gone to
pieces and the characteristic of those
empires was that they held different
peoples reluctantly together under the
coercion of force and the guidance Of
intrigue.
1.-THE great difficulty among such
states as those of the Balkans has
been that they We're. always accessi-
BILE to secret influence; that they were
always being penetrated by intrigue
Of some sort or another, and that
north of them lay disturbed pOpula-
tons which were held together, not
by sympathy and friendship, but by
the cOercive force of a military pow
err; now the intrigue is checked and
the bands are broken and what are
we going to provide as a new cement
to hold these peoples together?
Must Be Independent.
"They have not been accustomed to
being independent; they must now be
independent.
II am sure that you recognize the
principle as / do, that it is not our
privilege to say what sort of govern
ment they should set up. But we are
friends of those people and it 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.
1.-THE only thing that binds men to-
gether is friendship, and by the same
token the only thing that binds ma
tons together is friendship.
therefore 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
liberty are united and are given a
vital organization to which the peo-
plies of the world will readily and
gladly respond.
A New World Psychology.
"In other words. our task is no less
colossal than this: To set up a new
international psychology, to have a
new, real atmosphere.
81 am happy to say that in my deal
ings with the distinguished gentleman
who leads your nation and those who
lead France and England, l feel that
atmosphere gathering, that desire to
do justice. that desire to make
peace resting upon right, and with
this common purpose no obstacles
need be formidable.
1.-The only use of an obstacle is that
it is to be overcome. All that an OBJ
stacle does with brave men is not to
brighten them but to challenge. them,
so that it ought to be our pride to
overcome everything that stands in
the way.
1--WE know that there cannot be. an
other 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 weight which does not