The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-01-01

7 Atn INDEPENDENT Ire uuu htW hOI tnt
first time president of the United
States Is our guest in England. We
welcome you TO the country whence
came your ancestors where stand the
home Of those from whom sprang
Washington and Lincoln. We welcome
you for yourself as one whose insight
and calmness and dignity in the dis
charge Of his high duties we have
watched with admiration.
1--WE see IN you a happy union Of the
gifts of the scholar with those of the
statesman.
Ideals Are Common.
"You share with us the traditions of
free self-government as old as the
Magma Charta. We recognize bond
Of still deeper significance in the COM
mon ideals which our peoples cherish.
First among those ideals you value and
we value freeddihe nI NE. l,givsIeged
as we have been to ~. ents and
examples in national ne OF the prin-
clples of popular self-government
based upon equal laws. it now falls to
both of us alike to see how these prin-
ciples can be applied beyond our own
borders for the good of the world.
at was love of liberty, respect for
the law, good faith and the sacred
rights of humanity that brought you
to the old world TO Join in saving it
from the dangers that were thicken-
ing around and that arranged those
citizen-soldlers of yours whose gallan-
try we have admired side by side with
| ours in war.
"The British nation wishes all sue
cess to all the deliberations.so ION which
you and we and the great free nations
allied with us are now to enter moved
by disinterested good will and sense
of duty commensurate with the power
which we hold as a solemn trust.
Thanks v. S. Soldiers.
'"The American and British peoples
have been, brothers in arms and their
arms have been crowned with victory.
We thank with all our hearts your
valiant soldiers and sailors for their
splendid part in that victory and we
thank the American host for their
noble response to the call of civilian
ton and humanity. May the same
brotherly spirit inspire and guide our
united efforts to secure for the world
the blessings of order. freedom and
enduring peace.
Asking you to join with me in
| drinking the health of the president.
l wish to say also with what pleasure
we welcome Mrs. Wilson to this coun-
! try.
II drink to the health of the preSi-
dent of the United States and to Mrs.
| Wilson and to the happiness and pros
perity of the great American nation
Wilson's Reply.
Following is the text of President
Wilson's reply to King Georges adj
dress of welcome at the state banquet
in Buckingham Palace:
81 am deeply compimented by the
| gracious words which you have ut
tered. The welcome which you have
given me and Mrs. Wilson has been
so warm, so natural, so evidently from
the heart, that we have been more
than pleased, we have been touched
by it, and believe that correctly in
terpret that welcome as embodying not
only your own generous spirit towards
us personally, but also as expressing
for yourself and the great nation over
which you preside, that same feeling
for my people, for the people of the
United States.
For you and l. sir-I temporarily
embOdy the spirit of two great nations
and whatever strength ] have and
whatever authority, possess only as
long and so far as / express the spirit
and purpose of the American people.
"Any influence tnat the American
people have over the affairs of the
world is measured by their sympathy
with the aspirations of free men ev-
erywhere.
81 have had the privilege, sir, of con-
ferring with the leaders of your gov
eminent and with the spokesman OF
the governments OF France and Italy,
and am glad TO say that have the
same conceptions that they have of
the significance and scope of the duty
upon which we have met.
There is great tide running In
the hearts of men. The hearts OF
men have never beaten so singularly
in unison before. Men have never
been so conscious of their brotherhood.
Men have never realized how little diff
ference there was between right and
justice In one latitude and in anoth-
er, under one sovereignty and under
another, and II will be our high priv
, ilege, believe, sir. not only to apply
the moral judgment of the world to
! the particular settlement which we
shall attempt. but also to organize the
moral force of the world to preserve
those settlements TO steady the force
4 of mankind and to make the right and
Justice to which great nations like our
own have resolved themselves, the