The Benson signal., 1919-01-11
WILSON SAWS STATESMEN AT
PEACE TABLE WILL Sc
NEW LEVEL.
new TIES THAT BIND
JOINT RECEPTION WAS GIVEN BY
BOTH MEMBERS OF SENATE
AND CHAMBER DEPUTIES.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


Rome, Jan. A big ovation was
given President Wilson at the JOINT
reception of the Italian Parlia lament
and listened with deep interest 10 the
Presidents short speech as follows:
"You are bestowing upon me an un-
precedented honor which accept De-
cause / believe that it is extended to
me as the representative of the great
people for whom l speak. And l am
going to take this first opportunity 10
say how seriously the heart OF the
American people has been WITH the
great people of Italy.
"We have seemed, no doubt, Indll-
ferent at times, but our hearts nave
never been far away. All sorfs Oh
ties have long bound the peOpte OIL
our America to the people of taly'
and when the people of the Uklteo
States have witnessed it's sacri1lces'
it's heroic actions upon the battleflelo
and it's heroic endurance at home
its steadfas endurance at hCme
touching us more nearly to the QUICK
even than it's heroic action on the
battlefield-we have been bound py
a new tie of profound admiration.
"Then back of il all, and through II
all, running like the golden thread
that wove it together, was our kno"l-
edge that the people Of Italy had gone
into this war for the same exalted
principle of right and justice that
moved our own people.
"But we cannot stand in the shau-
ow of this war without knowing there
are things which are in some senses
more difficult than those we have
undertaken, because, 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
purity of motives and disinterested-
ness of object which the world has
never witnessed before in the coun'
ellis of nations.
"It is for that reason that 1t seems
| to me you will forgive me if l lay
some Of the elements of the new stu
| alton before you for a moment. The
distinguished fact of this war is that
great empires have serr tN nincas
| And tbe characteristics of those en-
| nires ORC that thew neId different peo-
pies reluctantly togetner unoer tne
coercion of force and the guidance OF
intrigue.
"Tho great difficulty among Sucn
states as those of the Balkans has
been that they were always accessipie
| to secret Influence, ana tney were
always being penetrated py intrigue
of some sort or anothe CT; thaC north VI
them lay disturbed populatlons winch
were held together not by history and
friendship, but by the coerclVe lOrce
of military power.
"Now +bo. in+r;puo is checked and
tho honds are broke,1, and what we
are going to provide Is ne" celneno
to hold the people Nogelner' Aney
havo NOT been ustomed to being
independent. They naust ho" oe III
dependent.
'I am sure that YOU recosnlze Ino
rrinoin1o as do-thAt it is not our
privilege to say what sort o. gov
ernment they should $et up But we
are friends of those people anu II 10
cur duty as their frieTlos ~ see " IL
that some kind of protfctioh Is thrown
around them.
Friendship and Gooo VIII.
."rbere is on,v one thing that holds
nations together, if YOU eAciuue lorce
ond +hat is friendship and good will
Tborefora our task at Paris is to or.
ganize the friendship pr tne worlu-
to see to it that all the norai lofces
+ba+ maka for right and justice and
liberty are united and are gwen
vital organization to which the peo
pies of the world will reaolly anu
gladly respond.
Desire to Do Justice.
"In other words, our task Is no less
colossal than this: To set up a ne"
international psychology; 10 nave
new real atmosphere. am happy u
say that in my dealings WIFI Ine us
+ino,,+cbad gentlemen who lead youl
nation and those who leau france
ond England T feel that atmosphere
vather,ng that desire 10 do justice
hot dasiro TN establish frtendliness
tbat dasire tn make pebce rest upor
right, and with this com mon purpose
no obstacles need be fOrSSn
I'VE know that there fnot be an
other balance of powef Ano' na'
been tried and found war Ing, 1oi liz
vo+ of oil roosons +baH it does no
stay balanced inside itset
United League of Nae'o"S'
Therefore there must pc Sonie'hln'
subs+i+rtod for the halanIce of power
and on bannv to findl everywher,
:, +ho oi,, of those oreaH nations tn,
conception that that thin| Y nuSt De
thoroughly united league lof hallons.
what men once cons ioereo Ineo
retical and idealistic tur1iS out 10 D'
nractica1 necessity. We stand a
tho ononino of q new agR in which
new craftsmanship will, am conf
dan+ lift mankind to nd levels o