Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-04-02
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it is practically certain to draw US into
the war without the rights or the ef.
fectiveness Of belligerents. There is
one choice we cannot make. We are in
capable Of making. we viii not choose
the path Of submission and suffer the
most sacred rights Of our nation and
our people TO be ignored or violated.
The wrongs against which we now ar
ray ourselves are no common wrongs;
they cut to the very roots of human
life.
Says Germany Wars Upon Us.
With a profound sense of the solemn
and even tragical character of the step
I am taking and of the grave response
bilities which it involves, but in un-l
hesitating obedience TO what ] deem
my constitutional duty, I advise that
the congress declare the recent course
of the Imperial German government to
be in fact nothing less than war
against the government and people of
the United States; that it formally ae-
cept the status of belligerent which has
thus been thrust upon it; and that it
take immediate steps not only to put
the country in more thorough state of
defense, but also to exert all its power
and employ all its resources to bring
the government of the German empire
to terms and emu the war.
Measures To Be Taken.
What this win involve is clear. it
viii involve the utmost practicable CO.
operation in counsel and action with
the governments now at war with Ger
many, and, as incident to that, the ex-
I, tension to those governments of the
most liberal financial credits in order
that our resources may so far as pos
sible be added to theirs. 1t will in
volve the organization and mobilization
of all the material resources of the
country to supply the materials Of war
and serve the incidental needs of the
nation in the most abundant and yet
the most. economical and efficient way
possible. 1t viii involve the immediate
full equipment of the navy in all re-
spects, but practically in supplying 1t
with the NEST means of dealing >with
the enemy S submarines. 1t will in
volve the immediate addition to the
armed forces of the United States al
ready provided for by law in. case OF
war at least five hundred thousand
men who should, in my opinion, be
| chosen upon the principle of universal
/ liability to serve and also the author
ization of subsequent additional in
erements of equal force as soon as they
NAV be needed and can be handled III
training.
I, ADEQUATE Credits Needed.
Tt will involve, also, of course, the
/. | granting of adequate credits to the
government, sustained, | hope so fal
as they can equitably be sustained, by
the present generation, by well con
ceived taxation.
/ saw sustained so far as may b'
t equitable by taxation because it seem
| to me that it would be most unwlse t
j base the credits which will now b.
t necessary entirely on money borrowed
1t is our duty, most respectfully urge
to protect our people as far as we ma.
: against the very serious hardships AM
S evils which would be likely to aris
+ out of the initiation which would b.
: produced by vast loans.
In carrying out the measures b,
, , which these things are to be accom-
u y plished, we should keep constantly il
! mind the wisdom of interfering as lit
tie as possible in our own preparation
: and in the equipment Of our militar,
! forces with the duty-for it will be
! very practical duty-of supplying tn
4 nations already at war with German
- with the materials which they can OF
tain only from us or by our assistance
They are in the field and we shoul
help them in every way to be effectiv
l. there.
i / shall take the liberty of suggest
d ihg, Through the several executive dc
e partments of the government for tn
d consideration of your committees
Il measures for the accomplishment 0
ie the several objects l have mentionet
n 1 hope that it viii be your pleasure t
h deal with them as having been frame
it after careful thought by the branch Q
the government upon which the respoI
IS sibility of conducting the war and saft
If guarding the nation will most directt
3 fall .
II To vindicate Peace and Justice.
< While we do these things, thes
Il deeply momentous things, let US b
r very clear and make very clear to a
a. the world what our motives and ou
t, objects are. My own thought has nc
" been driven from its habitual an
normal course by the unhappy event
of the last two months and ! do nc
N believe that the thought of the natio
j has been altered or clouded by then
rt have exactly the same things in min
1T now that | had in mind when | az
r dressed the senate on the twent.
le second of January last; the same thf
1T | had in mind when | addressed the COZ
is qress on the third of February and Q
re the twenty-sixth of February. Our ol
le iect now as then is to vindicate u
d principles of peace and justice IN tn
s. life Of the world as against selfish an
t. autocratie power and to set up among'
$ the really free and self-governed PEI
ID ples of the world such a concert
s. purpose and Of action as will henc
le forth insure the observance or the'
in principles. Neutrality is no long
n feasible or desirable where the pea
e. of the world is involved and the ire
n dom of its peoples and the menace
)n that peaee and freedom lies IN the 9