The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-04
SAID KING TO WILSON
1--WE Are Glad To Welcome You to
Our Country Now"

night. There were only two addresses,
by King Victor Emmanuel and by Mr..
Wilson. The king said:
you, yourself, Mr.. President, are
become our welcome and pleasing
guest only today, but in the conscience
of our people your personality already
for a long time has inscribed itself in
an ineffaeeab BILE way. 1t is that which
in itself gathers all the powers which
go to stimulate will bent on liberty
and justice and gives inspiration to-
ward the highest conception of the
destinies of humanity.
1.-THE enthusiastic salutations which
have accompanied your passage thru
the streets of Rome today are attesta-
tions of sentiments of admiration and
recognition that your, own name and
labor and the name and labor of the
United States stir in the italian peo-
pie. The principles in which you in
magnificent synthesis have summed
up the ideal reasons of the war for
liberty find resonance in Italian
hearts.
Toward Same Ideal.
'"The best traditions of italian cu1-
ture, the liveliest currents of our ma
tional thoughts, have constantly aimed
at the same ideal goal, toward the
establishment of the international
peace for which you have with teTa-
cious faith stood. Already before the,
of armies had established tedays ad-
fnirable communication of intentions
and purposes between our two coun-
tries, legions of our workers had emf
grated to your great republic. They
had knitted America and Italy togeth-
er with strong cords of relationship
and these became reinforced by the
spiritual affinity between peoples who
had a common faith in the virtue of
free political government. When
italy entered the war, a breath, a
precursor of the American soul, pehe-
trated into the rank and file of our
army thru the means of our workers
who returned to the fatherland from
America and brought into Italy an
echo of their second patria. SO
eorrespondingly, the italian soul vi
brated in the hearts of our emigrants
enrolled under your banners when the
American nation under your guidance
threw itself into the fight against the
Common enemy.
A Union OF Nations.
SIT was natural that your visit,
awaited with a most earnest desire,
should now give form and expression
almost tangible to this fervid agree
ment of spirits, to this happy COM
munion of intentions and of ideals,
forming themselves between the two
peoples and which are employed in
union almost more intimate and a CO.
operation always more cordial in the
face of the grave duties imposed by
the common victory. Italy having
now gathered to her own bosom those
brothers SO long Borrowing under op-
preston and having reconquered the
confined which alone can give her
security, and true independence, is pre-
pairing herself to cooperate with you
in the most cordial manner to reach
the most practical means for drawing
into single circle the civilized ma
tons for the purpose of creating in
| the supreme form Of a league of ma
tions the conditions most fitted to
safeguard and protect each ones
rights.
Italy and America entered together
into the war thru rare act of will
they were moved by the purpose to
concur with all their energies in an
effort to prevent the domination of
cult of force in the world; they were
moved by the purpose to reaffirm in
the scale of human values the prin-
ciples of liberty and justice They
entered into war to conquer the pow
ers of war. Their accomplishment
is still unfinished and the common
work must still be developed with
firm faith and with tenacious COM
stancy for the purpose of effecting the
security of peace.
ST lift up my glass, Mr.. President,
in your honor and in the honor of
Mrs. Wilson whose gentle presence
adds charm to your visits; / drink to
the prosperity and to the continued
American nation
Reply of President.
In reply President Wilson said: e
Your majesty: I have been very
much touched by the generous terms
of the address you have just read. I
feel it, would be difficult for me to
make worthy reply and yet IL I
could speak simply the things that
are in my heart, 1 am sure they could
constitute an adequate reply.
Il had occasion at the parliament
this afternoon to speak of the strong
lsympathy that had sprung up be-
tween the United States ahd italy dur
ing the terrible years of the war, but
perhaps here 1 can speak more in
timately, and say how sincerely the
people OF the United States had ad-
mired your own course and your own
constant association with the armies
of Italy and the gracious and generous
| and serving association of her majesty
the queen.
A Matter of Pride.
att has been matter of pride with
US that SO many Italians, so many
men of Italian origin were in our
/ own armies and associated with their
| brethren in Italy itself in the great
enterprise of freedom. These are no
small matters, and they complete that
| process OF the welding together of
the sympathies of nations which has
| oeen going on so long between our
peoples. The Italians in the United
States have excited a particular de-
gree of admiration. They, believe
are only people of a given nationality
who have been careful to organize
themselves to see that their compa-
triots coming to America were from
month to month and from year to
year guided to places in industries
most suitable to their previous habits.
No other nationality has taken such