Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-01-10
WILSON AND PARTY
IN CITY OF ROME
Immense Crowds Welcome the
US. President.
VISITORS ARE MET By KING
American Executive Speaks in italian
Chamber of Deputies-DecIares
There Should Be No "Balance
of Power"-Motives Must
Be Pure.

Rome, Jan. 4.-President Wilson's
special train arrived in Rome punctu-
ally at 10 80 in the morning.
A tremendous cheer went up as the
train stopped in front of the royai
waiting room. which had been trans
formed into a gaily decorated parlOr,
carpeted with rich tapestries and re-
plete with rare flowers.
The president alighted on the rug
covered platform and was heartily
greeted by King Victor Emmanuel,
Queen Elena and the Duchess d'AOsta.
Mrs. Wilson was cordially received by
the royal couple and their retinue.
American Band Plays.
Contingents of war veterans saluted
and an American military band played
'"The Star-Spangled Banner as Off
GERS stood at attention and civilians
barred their heads.
As the train, decorated with the
Stars and Stripes, passed through each
village the inhabitants, waiting beside
the tracks, gave the president many
cheers. These receptions had been
growing in fervor since daybreak.
Inspect Guard of Honor.
When the presentation had been
made at the station the president and
the king, chatting merrily, walked to
the edge of the platform and inspected
the troops lined up there. They were
accompanied by the Prince of Udine,
American Ambassador Page and Ital-
ian Ambassador Cellere.
The American embassy staff, the
British and Japanese ambassadors
and American military officers stood
grouped around the threshold of the
waiting room under decorations of
American and allied flags, which also
covered every smoke-blackened pillar
in the station.
After the inspection of the guard Of
honor the president and his party
spent ten minutes shaking hands with
this second group of officials. They
then entered the royal carriages.
Greeted by Huge Crowds.
AS the carriages rolled out of the
station the president was given a rOus-
ing greeting by British and American
officers, American Red Cross and Y. M.
G. A. workers and representatives Of
every American military mission in
Rome. who were grouped about the
exit.
At the same time the commander of
the Rome garrison gave sharp order,
which hundreds of officers repeated,
and more than 5000 soldiers presented
arms while one of the largest crowds
Rome has ever seen, maSSed behind the
troops, gaze the president the city's
popular welcome.
The large square appeared to be a
soldid mass of waving flags. Crowds
thronged the streets and adorned the
windows of every building, especially
the windows of the Hotel Continental
and the Prince Massimo's callege
The president, deeply touched by the
demonstration, remained with hat in
hand for several minutes.
No Balance of Power.
Speaking in the Italian parliament
I'm the presence of King Victor, the
entire cabinet and all the members,
Mr.. Wilson again vowed the removal
forever of the old system of alliances,
secret influence, intrigue and military
force.
ave know that there cannot be an
other balance of power" he said,
for it "a thoroughly united league of
nations"
Friendship and good will alone, he
said, can in the future be the true
and permanent cement of peace, for
on that basis alone can peace be
durable. .,
Therefore" continued the preSi-
dent, "our task at Paris is to organize
the friendship of the world to see to
1t that all the moral forces that make
for right and justice and liberty are
united and are given vital organiza-
ton to which the peoples of the world
will readily and gladly respond"
Denies Plan Is ChimericaI.
Again the president averred that
the league of nations is not a chimer-
zeal, an academic proposition or an
unrealizable ideal.
what men once considered theo-
retical and idealistic turns out to be
practical and necessary" he said.
States such as those of the Balkans,
hitherto held together by brute force.
must now be Independent, Mr.. Wilson
declared.
President Wilson, King Victor En-
manuel, Premier Orlando and Baron
Sonnino, Italy's foreign minister, had
their first political discussion after a
luncheon in the Villa Savois, the pres
ident's residence while in Rome. The
conference lasted an hour. Upon
leaving, Premier Orlando and Baron
Sonnino intimated 10 newspaper cor
respondents that the discussion was