Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-11-16
WILSON APPEALS
FOR LABOR'S. AID.
CONVENTION CHEERS RINGING
4 STATEMENTS or PRESIDENT
ss ~ BUFFALO ADDRESS.
10 Opposed to Peace Until the War
Against Germany Has Been Won,
W." Declaring Victory Only Road
to Permanent Peace.

Baffalo, n. Y.-President Wilson, in
forceful address here on November
~ before the American Federation OF
Labor, appealed to the working men
of the CIiited States for cooperation
in the conduct of the war, and made it
CLEAR that he opposes peace until the
war against Germany has been won.
The president declared that his
heart was with ..'the feeling of the
pacifists," but that s'my mind has
contempt for them"
II want peace, but know how to
get 1t and they do not" he declared.
Col. u. M. House, head of the Amerl-
can delegation to the allied war con-
ference, the president said, had been
sent to take part in conference as to
how the war. was t. be won, "and he
knows, as I know, that that is the
way to get peace If you want it for
more than a few minutes"
War Statements AppIauded. /
The 450 delegates to the convention
and the several thousand persons adj
mitted to the hall to hear the presi.
dent speak arose and applauded this
declaration with a tremendous burst
of cheers. Another demonstration of
approval came when he said:
I'VE must stand together, night and
day, until this job is finished"
The pres lent while devoting his
address to problems for the people Of
the United States, laid emphasis upon
the broader phases Of the world con-
Hfnf in a hot 30 In a.
that his speech was possibly intended
as message to the people of Ger
many, of Austria and of Russia, as
well asRof the United States. He de-
clared his belief that were it not for
the pan-Germans, the spirit of free
dom would find "as fine welcome in
the hearts of Germans as it can find
in any other heart"
"Power," he said, cannot be used
with concentrated force against free
peoples, If it is to be used by free
people"
!. Speaking, probably of Austria, Mr..
Wilson referred to the intimations of
anxiety for peace that had come ''from
one of the central powers" and de
clared that it means @that the people
in that central power know that If the
war ends as it stands, they will, in
effect, themselves. be vassals OF Ger
many. Notwithstanding y that
they do not wish in their pride. and
proper spirit of nationality to be alb
sorbed and dominated"
OF Russia, he said that he was
amazed that some groups in that coun-
try could suppose that "any reform
plans In the interest Of the people can
live in the presence of q Germany pow
erful enough to undermine or over
throw them by intrigue or force"
Pacifists Are Fatuous.
s'FatuOus as the dreamers of Rus
sia;" were those persons in this coun-
try, he declared emphatically, who
suppose that 'the free industry and
enterprise OF che world can continue
If the pan. German plan is achieved
and tie German power fastened upon
the world"
The president directly asserted that
Germany had started the war and said
he would leave confirmation of this
statement to the verdict of history
He referred to Germany's growth to
""place in the SUM-" and asked why she
was not satisfied when she gained that
position. In answer he described the
German governments methods of con-
trolling the competition of It's indus
tries and asserted that "all the while
there was lying behind its thought, in
its dreams for the future, political
control which would enable 1t in the
long run to dominate the labor and In
dustry of the world"
Through r. r. Force Threat
Mr.. Wilson cited In this connection
the archaeological railway which,
he said, twas constructed to run the
threat of force down the flank of the
industrial undertakings of half dozen
other countries, so that when German
competition came in it would not be
resisted too far because
there was always the possibility Of
getting German armies into the heart
OF that country quicker than any other
armies could get there"
Summing It up, he said that Ger
many Is determined that the political ]
power of the world shall belong to
her, and that; never before had such
ambitions been based upon so exact
and precise and scientific plan of
domination.
The president voiced in terms of
eulogy his approval of the conduct of
Samuel Gompers, president of the