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last had the honor of addressing you.
They have been months crowded with
events of immense and grave signifi-
canoe for us. / shall not undertake to
detail or even to summarize those
events. The practical particulars of
the part We have played in them will
be laid before you in the reports OF
the executive departments. 1 shall
discuss only our present outlook upon
these vast affairs. our present duties
and the immediate means of accomp-
fishing the objects we shall hold al
ways In view.
| shall not go back to debate the
causes of the war. The intolerable
wrongs done and planned against US
by the sinister masters of Germany
have long become too grossly obvious
and o6ious to every true American to
need to be rehearsed. But | shall
ask YOU TO consider again and with
very grave scrutiny our detectives and
the measures by which we mean to
attain them; for the purpose of dis
cussion here in this place is action,
and our action must move straight
towards definite ends. Our object is,
of course, to win the war, and we
shall not slacken or suffer ourselves
to be diverted until it is won. But 1t
is worth while asking and answering
the question when shall we consider
the war won?
Hears Pacifist Talk.
From one point OF view it is not
necessary to breach this fundamental
matter / do not doubt that the Amer
lean people know what the war is
about and what sort of an outcome
they will regard as a realization of
their purpose in ii. AS a nation We
are united in spirit and intention. |
pay little heed to those who tell me
otherwise. | hear the voices of dis
sent-who does not? | hear the criti-
cism and the clamor of the noisy,
thoughtless and troublesome. | also
see men here and there fling them
selves in impotent disloyalty against
the calm, indomitable power of the
nation.
What the War Is For.
hear men debate peace who under
stand neither its nature nor the way
in which we may attain it with uplift-
ed eyes and unbroken spirits. But |
know that none of these speaks for the
nation They do not touch the heart
of anything. They may safely be left
to strut their uneasy hour and be for
gotten. But from another point OF
view | believe that ii is necessary to
say plainly what we here at the seat
of action consider the war to be for
nd hot ~ ~ Mo in a
settlement of its searching issues. We
are the spokesman of the American
people and they have right 10 know
whether their purpose is ours. They
desire peace by the overcoming of
evil. by the defeat once for all OF the
sinister forces that interrupt peace
and render it impossible, and they
wish to know how closely our thought
runs with theirs and what action we
propose. They are impatient with
those who desire peace by any sort of
ompromise-deeply and Indignantly
impatient, but they will be equally I'M
patient with us if we do not make it
plain to them what our detectives are
and what We are planning for in seek
ing to make conquest of peace by
arms.
Neither Honor Nor Honor.
believe that speak for them when
! say two things:
First, that this intolerable thing of
which the masters of Germany have
shown us the ugly face, this menace
of combined intrigue and force which
we now see so clearly as the German
power, a thing without conscience or
honor, or capacity for covenanted
peace, must be crushed and if it be
not utterly brought to an end, at
least shut out from the friendly in
tercourse of the nations; and, second,
that when this thing and its power are
indeed defeated and the time comes
that we can discuss peace when the
German people have spokesman whose
word we can believe and when those
spokesman are ready in the name OF
their people to accept the common
judgment of the nations as to what
shall henceforth be the bases of law
and of covenant for the life of the
world-we shall be willing and glad
to pay the full price for peace and
pay il ungrudgingly. We know what
that price will be. II will be full, i'm
partial justice-justice done at every
point and to every nation the final
settlement must affect, our enemies
as well as our friends.
None Shall Be Robbed.
You catch, with me. the voices of
humanity that are in the air. They
grow daily more audible, more arti-
culate, more persuasive and they
come from the hearts of men every
where They insist that the war shall
not END in vindictiye action of any
kind: that no nation or people shall
be robbed or punished because the ir-
responsible rulers of single country
have themselves done deep and alb
nominable wrong.
II is this thought that has been ex-
pressed in the formula. mo annexa-
tions, no contributions, no punitive in
IDENTITIES" just because this crude
formula expresses the instructive
judgment as to right of plain men ev-
erywhere it has been made diligent
use of by the masters of German In
trigle to lead the people of Russia
astray-and the people of every other
country their agents could reach. in
order that a premature peace might