Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-21
FRANCE, ,HAS EARNED
AND Won BROTHERHOOD
OF WORiD,sAYS WILSON
Addressed French Senate In
Response To Message Of
POincare.


senate here yesterday President Wilson
said:
"AIr. President of the senate, Mr.
President Of the republic:
"You have made me feel your well
icome in words as generous as they are
delightful and l feel that you have
graciously called me your friend. May
/ not in turn call this company a COM
pany Of my friends, for everything that
you have 50 finely said today, sir, has
been corroborated in every circumstance
of our visit to this ,ounul. s,vsry-
where we have been welcomed, xos ~.g
but welcomed in the spirit and with rAe
same thought, until it has seemed II tke
spirits Of the two countries came togeth-
er in an unusual and beautiful accord.
Recognize Peril
"We know the long peril through
which France has gone. France thought
us remote in comprehension and sym
pathy and / dare say there were times
when we did not comprehvnu On you
eomprehended the danger in ne pres
ence Of which the world stood. There
was no time when we did moi know
how near it was and 1rsy under
stand, sir, that throughout these try
| ing wears when mankind has waited for
the catastrophe, the anxiety of France
must have been the deepest and most
constant Of all, for she did stand at the
frontier of freedom. She had carved
out her own fortunes through ipns
period Of eager struggles. She has done
great things in building up $3.50. asw
France and just across the border, sep
arated from her only few -or;ifica-
tions and little country whose neu-
trality it has turned out the enemy did
not respect, lay the shadow cast b. rhe
cloud ~which enveloped merit with the
cloud of intrigue, the cloud OF dark
purpose, the cloud of sinister design.
This shadow lay az tip- ~, sv.ders
of France. And yet it is fine to re-
member here, that for France this was
not only peril but challenge. France
did not tremblc. France quietly and IN
her own way prepared rer RS for the
struggle that was coming. She never
took the initiative or did single thing
that was aggressive. ST. Aad pIsgared
herself for defense, not in order to I'M
pose her will upon other people; she
had prepared herself that no other peo
plo might impose its will upon her.
America Always Friend.
GAS I stand with you and mix with
the delightful people. Of tHr- ,..~r:ry,
/ sec this in their though. America
always was your friend Now she un-
derstsnds. Now she eomprehends and
now she has come to bring us this mes
sage that understanding, she viii al
ways be ready to help. And, while, az
you say, sir, this danger may to be a
continuing danger, while it is true that
France will always be nearest this
threat if we cannot turn it from a
threat into a promise, there are many
Ielements that ought to reassure
France. There is new awakening and
Ian awakened world. II is not anead OF
us, but around us. 1t knows that itl
dearest interests are involved in its
standing together for common pur-
lpose. 1t knows that vse peril OF France,
if it continues, will be the peril of the
world. 1t knows that not only France
must organize against this peris 49,.
the world must organize againss 81.
$50 / see in these welcomes not only
hospitality, not only kindness, not only
hope, but purpose; e definite, clearly
defined purpose that men understand
ling one another must now support one
another and that all the sons of free
dom are under a common oath to see
that freedom never suffers this danger
Iagsin. To my mind this is the impress
siye elements of this welcome. l know
how much of it, sir, and know how
little of it to appropriate to myself. |
know that | have the very distinguish
Jed honor to represent nation whose
jheart is in this business aud | am proud
to speak for the people whom / repre-
sent, But ! know that You honor me
in 8 representative capacity and that
my words have validity only. in the
United States. / delight in this wei
come, therefore, as if had brought the
Epeople of the United States with me
and they could see in your faces what
II see in the tokens of welcome and af-
Election.
Earnest Brotherhood
Tie sum of the whole matter is thst