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Show .11 IS PAID AriELQQUEHT IfllBOIE Prefect of Seine Deliver Addrest at Hotel DeVille. By Associated Prsss. TAUIS. I-c. I7.--M. Aulrand, fi-fet fi-fet iff the f5rln. speaking at th Hotel D.VIU. tcdny tu rresidpnt Wllmm, aid: "Mr. Presirlont. a (lay memorable be-- vond all la that on which for the first time ohior or the (rrent Amertmn republic re-public cni.w8"lhe threshhold : our Hotel DeVlllf. . "Nono amonic your Illustrious prede-aftT prede-aftT ceasors. not even those most deeply venerated for their itenius and their r virtues, came ti-sit for an Instant in the hearts of the leop!e of Puns. Thu in mourning the death of tieorffe Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Lin-coln, our fathers had felt a deep rearet that they could render only a posthumous posthu-mous homaae to the (treat men who had been the object at their enthusiastic enthusias-tic veneration. 'Tiie Joy which this visit gives us Is 1 " ARBITER OF FATE. "Our have been most serious pre-occup pre-occup itiona to seek to know, in an hour of need, what Judgment America would pronounce upon our cause, to recognize recog-nize tha face snd to understand the intimate thoughts of the man whom destiny had chi iaen to be t he arbiter rf the fate of civilisation. "Today wo nfed no lunger seek to mm cine your features, for w-e see them; nor the sound of your voice, for we hear It. It is given to us to express ex-press In your very presence our gratitude, grati-tude, and our admiration. "As the terrible drama has dragged j its bloody way over land and sea your! eenerous heart has!eat In uniBon with the misery suffered and hf taxfd itself it-self to find succor for unluipplness. "Yet. while you have giv-n yourself passionately to the task of assin-min: . the Ills of war, your noblest till.- t.. glory will yet be that you stood up as the champion of the cause of Justice. WORLD OF BOOKS. "Hour mnny thlnps seemed to Vi ld' ou apart froiu frie'lTreYidful coriTrr-Tt " Your intellectual training as law y r. , historian and thinker; that p n 'mI life of study In which, to use your vi phrase, you had known no other liii- i -atory than the world of books, the traditions tra-ditions of the country which had elected elect-ed you to guide and direct It; the admirable ad-mirable farewell mesiwge of Washington, Washing-ton, warning1 bi successors in v ' t llljlL L i I ... t,. . ,t - fhcts as m:ht brak out In Kurope. "Well miht (;-rmnny behve th;it ou wouhl remain the prisoner of th si- nolde formulae. Hut her lawless mil.t:irism, multiplying Its crimes against the rights of man. was to force the nation preeminently pacifist to a draw the sword from the scabbard. DEVOURING PLAMES. "In redoubling the blows rf h!s arro-khM arro-khM swoid upon the ruck of your patience, pa-tience, the b.irh.iri.iii c:illcd forth the devouring flame in which he has been Irredeemably consumed. "When the m -asure of b'ack deeds ran full you sounded the ca'l to nrnm. And by the miracle of your burning ' upeeph, by tb" atiMn.t ""T "f in (TTgnant oiisi-ii tu and your sovereign philosophy you drew on millions of ni n to devoie thent.selves, soul and, body, to th triumph of liberty over i tyranny and of jusitco over error and Iniquity. Today we tasfe the deep Joy of aa-luttt.g aa-luttt.g in tii person of lJrt widen t Wilson Wil-son thr- nation whose valient arms have contributed so brilliantly to the mont magnificent of ictorle. BULWARK OF LIBERTY. "Paris feels htirtf dniwn irn slstitdy toward you by the fori of all her af finities .and all her conviction. As a city of workers she inclines ret pectful-ly pectful-ly before your life of austere labor. "As a center of Intellectual life she admires in you the- sage and the thinker think-er wuom works hav enriched the human hu-man spirit. As a hearth of ardent patriotism pa-triotism she expresses hvr dep gratitude grati-tude to the great friend of France. As the historic bulwark of liberty and of justice she acclaims In you the disinterested disin-terested servitor of these great moral ideas, the ekwjMnt and inflexible a pot- i tie of the rights of humanity." |