Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-01-07
FRIENDSHIP OF THE WORLD
President Makes Address Before The
Italian Parliament
NO MORE BALANCE OF POWER


Must Get Back to France. q
In parliament house at Rome last
Friday, joint r. ption was given ito
President Wilson by the members3of
the senate and chamber Of deputies.
The function was an impressive one.
The large and distinguished gathering
gave the president an ovation. \
During his speech the president con
stantly was interrupted by outbursts
of applause and when he ended he was
accorded an ovation which lasted until
he passed through the exit Of the
building Outside the throngs in the
Istreet took up the demonstration which
continued until the doors Of the Quiri-
nal closed behind Mr.. Wilson. Y
The weather was warmer and more
balmy than the presidential party had
experienced in France and England
and there was feeling Of relief on
their part. The president met with
really the first touch Of sustained sun
shine he had seen since coming to Eu
rope, and he made the remark during
the day that the weather reminded
him Of that at home.
During the day King Victor Emman-
uel presented General Diaz to Presi-
dent Wilson, who complimented the
Italian chief on the
magnificent achievements Of his army.
The president expressed regret that
he would be unable to visit the Italian
battlefront owing to lack Of time and
the necessity Of returning to Paris as
soon as possible for the work Of the
peace conference.
Text of Wilson's Address.
The president spoke as follows:
Your majesty and Mr.. President sf
the chamber:
You are bestowing upon me an uh-
precedented honor, which accept be-
cause believe that it is extended to
me as the representative Of the great
people for whom I speak. And I am
going to take this first opportunity TO
say how entirely the heart Of the
American people has been with the
great people of Italy.
I'VE have seemed no doubt indiffer-
ent at times, to look from great dis
tance, but our hearts have never been
far away. All sorts Of ties have long
bound the people Of our America to
the people of Italy, and when the peo-
pie Of the United States, knowing this
people, have witnessed its sufferings,'
it's sacrifices, its heroic actions upon
tie battlefelds and its heroic endur-
ance at home-its steadfast enduranee
at home touching us more nearly to
the quick even than its heroic action
on the ba!tlefield-we have been bound
by new tie Of profound admiration.
"The Golden Thread"
Then, back Of it all and through 1t
all, running like the golden thread that
wove 1t together, was our knowledge
that the people Of Italy had gone into
this war for the same exalted principle
of right and justice that. moved our
own people. And so I welcome this
opportunity of conveying to you the
heartfelt greetings of the people of the
United States.
But we cannot stand in the shadow
Of this war without knowing there are
things which are in some senses more
difficult than those we have undertak-
en-; while it is easy to speak Of right
and justice, it is sometimes difficult to
work them out in practice, and there
will be required a purity Of motives
and disinterestedness Of object which
the world has never witnessed before
in the councils ofnations.
It is for that reason that it seems to
me you will forgive me if I lay some
Of the elements Of the new situations
before you for a moment. The distin-
gushing fact of this war is that great
empires have gone to pieces. And the
characteristics of those empires are
that they held different peoples reluct-
antly together under the coercion Of
force and the guidance of intrigue.
The Balkan Problem.
THE great difficulty among such
states as those of the Balkans have
been that they were always accessible
to secret influence; and they were al
ways being penetrated by intrigue Of
some sort or another; that north Of
them lay disturbed populations which
were held together not by sympathy
and friendship, but by the coercive
force Of military power.
Now the intrigue is checked and the
bands are broken and what we are go
ing to provide is anew cement to hold
the people together. They have not
yet been accustomed to being inde-
pendent. They must now be inde-
pendent.
II am sure that you recognize the
principle as 1 do-that it is not our
privilege to say what sort Of govern
ment they should set up. But we are
friends Of these people and it is our
duty as their friends to see to 1t that
some kind Of protection is thrown
around them-something supplied
| WHICH Will HOlu lllcIll lO6SSiSA'
Friendship the Strong Tie.
There is only one thing that holds
nations together, if you exclude force
and that is friendship and good will.
The only thing that binds men togeth-
er is friendship, and by the same token
the only thing that binds nations to-
gether is friendship. Therefore, our
task at Paris is to organize the friend
ship of the world-to see to 1t that all
the moral forces that make for right
and justice and liberty are united and
arc given a vital organization to which
the peoples Of the world will readily
and gladly respond.
I'm other words our task is no less
colossal than this: To set up new
international psychology; to have a
new real atmosphere. I am happy to
say that in my dealings with the dis
tinguished gentlemen who lead your
nations and those who lead France
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