The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04
FOR IMMEDIATE
ACTION AGAINST
GERMANS ALLY
Presidents Message to Congress
Rings With War Spirit.
Repeats, U. S. Won't Accept
Kaiser's Word in Treaty.
GERMAN PEOPLE ARE MISLED
Masters Tell Them They Are
Fighting for Very Existence.
Z. $. Victory To Remove Their
Fear as Wen as Our Own.
REVIEWS WRONGS OF GERMANY
Nation Must Make ReparatiOn
for Her Rulers Atrocities.
Mnst rel ase Domination Over
- 0.r European Nations.
Nation Must Make ReparatiOn
for Her Rulers Atrocities.
Mn al ase Domination Over
naer European Nations.
DISCUSSES OTHER PROBLEMS
Suggests Laws To Remedy Rail-
road and Food Price Situation.
Nat'ou lust Use Natural Re-
source and Water Power.

Washington. Dec 4.-Declaration of
war w'+h Austria Hungary was rec
commended to congress today by Pres
ident Wilson.
Immediate war with Turkey and
Bulgaria. Germanys other allies, the
president told congress he did not be-
! eve necessary at this time because
they do not yet stand in the direct
path of necessary action.
Immediate war against Austria.
even tho she only be Germanys vas
sal and not her own mistress, the
president declared was necessary be-
cause the central powers must be con-
sidered as one and because the war
can be conducted successfully in no
other way.
Giving plain warning, however, that
he would not hesitate to ask for de-
claration of war on Turkey and Bull
garia when he considered it necessary,
the president said:
1--WE shall go wherever the neces-
sites of this war carry US but it
seems to be that we shall go only
where immediate and practical con-
others"
Not Until MiIitarism Is Beaten.
Peace, the president told congress,
can come only when the Prussian
military autocracy is beaten down;
when the German people make peace
can trust, when they make repara-
ton for the wrongs their present rul-
ers have done and when the enslaved
people of Belgium, Northern France
and the Balkans have been set free.
Germany's declaration that she is
fighting a war of self-defense against
deliberate aggression, the president "
ringing words declared 'wantonly
false" and he reiterated anew that
no one is threatening the existence of
the independence of the peaceful en-
terprise of Germany.
OF those who speak of peace with
out the overthrow of Germany mill
tary autocracy. the president declared:
Il hear men debate peace who un-
derstand neither its nature nor the
way in which we may attain it with
uplifted eyes and unbroken spirits.
But I know that none of these speaks
for the nation. They do not touch the
heart # anything. They may safely
be left to strut their uneasy hour and
be forgotten"
Defines Our War Aims.
Declaring anew that the United
States has no war on Germany's skill,
enterprise or commercial achieve
ments, the president declared that the
United States became Germany's enc
my only when she started out to domi-
nate the world by force of arms. Stat
ing again the war objects of the Uni
states and those which he be-
lieved to be those of the allies. the
president declared:
IT believe tat 1 speak for thessa
when l 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
now see so clearly as the German
power; thing without conscience or
honor or capacity for covenanted
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