Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-14
WILSON DEMANDS
WAR ON AUSTRIA
President Declares Our Sole OBJ
iect Now Is to Win
the War.
UNITED TO GAIN VICTORY
Every Resource Of the Nation Must
BE co-ordnated in the One Object
TO Pursue the War to Ultimate
and Complete Victory.

Washington, Dec. 4.-President Will
son In his message to congress pledged
America to war to victory and asked
that Austria Hungary be listed among
Americas enemies to remove this "em-
barrassing obstacle that stands in our
way" The message follows:
Gentlemen Of the Congress--Eight
months have elapsed since 1 last had
the honor Of addressing you. They
have been months crowded with events
of immense and grave significance for
us. / shall undertake to detail or even
to summarize these events. The prac-
tical particulars of the part we have
played in them will be laid before you
in the reports of the executive depart
ments. shall discuss only our pres
ent outlook upon these vast affairs,
our present duties, and the immediate
means of accomplishing the objects
we shall hold always in view.
"I 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
obvious and odious to every true Amer.
lean to need to be rehearsed. But
shall ask you to consider again and
with a very grave scrutiny our objec'
y tives and the measures by which we
mean to attain them; for the purpose
of discussion here in this place is ac
tion, and our action must move
straight towards definite ends.
Must Win tho War.
"Our object is, of course, to win the
war; and we shall not slacken or suf
fer ourselves to be diverted until it /:
won. But 1t is worth while asking ant
answering the question: When shall
we consider the war won?
From one point of view it is no
necessary to broach this Fundamental
matter. / do not doubt that the Amer
scan people know what the war Il
>bout and what sort of an outcom,
shey will regard as a realization O
their purpose in it. AS q nation W,
are united in spirit and intention.
pay little heed to those who tell m,
otherwise. l hear the voices Of dis
sent--who does not? hear the criti
cism and the Glamour Of the noisy
thoughtless and troublesome. ais,
see men here and there fling them
selves In impotent disloyalty agains
the calm, indomitable power of the ma
tion. hear men debate peace VIII
understand neither its nature nor tn
,f.I, Oh No4r
ed eyes and unbroken spirits. But
known that none Of these speaks 70
the nation. They do not touch tn
heart Of anything. They may safel
be left to strut their uneasy hour an
be forgotten.
No Peace by Compromise.
"But from another point of view
believe that 1t is necessary to sa
plainly what we here at the seat of aC
ton consider the war to be for an
what part we mean to play in the SCI
tlement of its searching Issues.
"We are the spokesmen of the Amel
lean people, and they have a right {
know whether their purpose is our
They desire peace by the overcomin
of evil by the defeat once for all {
the sinister forces that interruT
peace and render it impossible, an
they wish to know how closely OF
thought runs with theirs, and what a.
ton we propose. They are impatier
with those who desire peace by an
sort of ompromise-deeply and indi
nantly impatient-but they will I
equally impatient with us if we do n,
make IL plain to them what our o.
jectives are and what we are plannir
for in seeking to make conquest
peace by arms.
Menace Must Be Crushed.
"I believe that l speak for the
when / say two things: First, tn
this intolerable thing Of which Il
masters of Germany have shown
the ugly face, this menace of col
bined intrigue and force which we nc
see so clearly as the German powC
a Thing without conscience or hon
or capacity for covenanted peace, mu
be crushed and, if it is not utter
brought to an end, at least shut o
from the friendly intercourse of {
nations; and, second, when this Thi
and its power are indeed defeated a
the time comes that we can discu
peace-when the German people ha
spokesmen whose words we can |
lieve and when those spokesman O
ready in the name of their people
accept the common judgment
the nations as to what shall hen,
forth be the bases of law and of CT