New-York tribune., 1919-01-08


your Excellency and fellow citi-
zens: You show your welcome in
many delightful ways and in TO
more delightful way than in which
you have shown it to-day. The
words which the Mayor has uttered
have touched me very much and l
have been both touched and stimu-
lated by the words which the signor
has SO kindly uttered in behalf of
the government of tt.is great king
dom.
1T is very delightful to feel my
association with that government
and with this city and ! know how
much and with what vitality Italian
effort comes out of this great CEN
tre of industry and thought. As I
passed through your streets I had
this sensation, a sensation which I
have often had in my own dear coun-
try at home, a sensation of friend
ship and of close, sympathetic con-
tact. could have believed myself
III an american city.
Felt People Were Real
Il felt more than that | felt what
have also felt at home, that the
real blood of the republic flowed in
the streets in the veins of these
plain people who more than some Of
the rest of us have borne the stress
and burden of war.
"Think of the price at which you
and at which | have purchased the
victory which we have won. Think
of the price of blood and treasure
not only, but the price Of tears and
the price of hunger on the part of
little children, of the hopes delayed
or The dismaycd prospects that bore
heavy upon the homes Those Of us
who plan battles and those of us
who conceive political movements do
not bear the burden of it.
we direct and the others exc
cute. We plan and others perform,
and the conquest of spirit is greater
than the conquest Of arms.
These arc the people that never
let go. They say nothing. They
live merely from day to day, deter
mined that the glory of Italy or that
the glory of the United States shall
not depart from her.
Tribute to Cavour
81 have been thinking as ! passed
through your streets and stood here
that this was the place Of the labors
Of the great Cavour. and | thought
how impossible would have been
many of the things which have hap
pencd in Italy since his day and how
impossible the great achievements of
Italy in the last three years would
have been without the work of
Cavour. Ever since I was a boy ono
Of my favorite portraits has been
the portrait of Cavour, because |
have read of him and of the way in
which his mind took in the nations,
and of the national scope of his
: strong, determined and patriotic en-
dcavor that never allowed obstacles
to dismay and always stood at the
side of the King and planned the
great things which the King was
enabled to accomplish
"And / had another thought, This
is a great industrial city. Perhaps
you gentlemen think Of the members
of your government and the men,
bers of other governments who are
going to confer in the city Of Paris
as the real makers of war and peace.
but we are not. You are the max
crs Of war and of peace. The pulse
of the modern world beats on the
farms and in the mines and in the
factories. The plans of the modern
world are made in the counting
house. The men who do the
business of the world now shape the
destinies Of the world and peace or
war is now in large measure in
the hands Of those who conduct the
commerce of the world.
"That is one reason why unless we
establish friendships, unless we cs-
tahlish sympathies, we clog all the
processes of modern life. I have
several times said that you cannot
trade with man who does not trust
you and you will not trade with a
man whom you do not trust. Trust
is the very vital life and breath of
business, and suspicion and unjust
national rivalries stand in the way
of trade and stand in the way of in
dustry.
Capital Precedes Conquest
"a country is owned and domi
mated by the capital that is invested
in it. do not need to instruct YOU
gentlemen in that fundamental idea.
IN proportion as foreign capital
comes in among you and takes it's
hold in that proportion does foreign
influence come in and take it's hold
and, therefore, the processes of
capital are in an actual sense the
processes of conquest
Il have only this suggestion be-
fore we go to Paris to conclude a