The Carlisle independent., 1917-12-06
u S. WILL FIGHT UNTIL GERMAN
AUToCRACY is UTTERLY
USHED-PEOPLE MUST
BE REAL POWER.
URGES THAT DECLARATION
Be MADE ON AUS RIA
Vassai State OF Emperor Wilhelm Is
as Much an Enemy as Fatherland-
Same Logic Would Apply to Turkey
and Bulgaria, out Time is Not Yet
Propitious-No Selfish Allowances
to Victors.

Washington, Dec. 4.-President Viii
son appeared IN person before JOINT
SESSION Oh congress anu delivered the
following annual address:
Gentlemen OF the Congress:
Elgnt months nave elapsed since /
lasJ mad tne nonor OF ADDRESSING you
They have been months crowded. wIth
events OF immense and grave SIgnlIl
canoe Tor US. snall not UNDERTAKE -
aetaIl or even TO summarize those
events.
The practical particulars of the part
we nave prayed in them viii De laid
before you In the reports or the ex-
ecutWe departments. / shall discuss
only our present outlook upon these
vast aIlaIfs, ouf present duties ana
the immediate Inea1S oil accomplish
ing the objects We shall hold always
in view.
l shall not go back to debate the
causes of the war. The intolerable
wrongs done and planned against US
by me sinister masters OF Germany
have long since become too grossly
obvious and odious TO every true
American to need TO be rehearsea
6ut / shall ask you TO consider again
ana with a very grave scrutiny our
detectives and the measures by Which
we mean TO attain them; Tor the pur-
pose OF discussion here IN this place
is action and our action must move
sJrd1gnt toward definite ends. Our
object is, OF course, TO win the war,
and we shall not slacken OF suffer
ourselves to be diverted until it Is
Won But it is worth while asking
ana answering the question when shall
We consider the war won?
Do Not Understand Peace.
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 nation we
are united in spirit and intention. l
pay little heed to those who tell me
otherwise. | hear the voices of dis
sent-who does not? | hear the criti-
cisTn and the clamor of the noislly
thoughtless and troublesome. | also
see men here and there fling them
selves in impotent disloyalty against
the calm, indomitable power of the
nation. | hear men debate peace who
understand neither its nature nor the
xxyni ab in, ttoi h
upiiited eyes and unbroken spirits.
But l know that none of these speaks
for the nation. They do not touch
the heart of anything. They may
saIeiy be left to strut their uneasy
hour and be forgotten.
But from another point of view l
believe that it is necessary to say
plainly what We here at the seat OF
action consider the war to be for and
what part We mean to play in the set
Element of its searching issues. We
are the spokesman of the American
people and they have right to 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 compromise-deeply and indignant
ay impatient-but they will be equally
impatient 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.
l believe that l 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 COM
bined intrigue and force which We
now see so clearly as the German
power, Thing without conscience or
honor or capacity for covenanted
peace, must be crushed, and if 1t be
not utterly brought to an end at least
shut out from the friendly intercourse
of nations, and, second, that when this,
Thing and its power are indeed de
feated 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 0,
their people to accept the common
judgment of the nations as to what
shall henceforth be the basis 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- 1t will be full. impair
tial justice-iustice done at eyexy