Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-04-03

plished, we should keep constantly in
mind the wisdom Of interfering as lit
tie as possible In our own preparation
and in the equipment of our own mill
tary forces with the duty--for II will
be a very practical duty-of supplying
the nations already at war with Ger
many with the materials which they
can obtain only from US or by our as
sistance They are in the field and
we should help them in every way to
be effective there.
TO MAKE OBJECTS CLEAR.
II shall take the liberty Of suggest
ing, through the several executive de-
partments OF the government for the
consideration Of your committees,
measures for the accomplishment of
the several objects I have mentioned.
hope that It will be your pleasure to
deal with them as having been framed
after very careful thought by the
branch of the government upon which
the responsibility of conducting the
war and safeguarding the nation will
most directly fall.
while we do these things, these
deeply momentous things, let us be
very clear and make very clear to all
the world what our motives and our
objects are. My own thought has not
been driven from its habitual and nor
NAL course by the unhappy events Of
the last two months, and do not be-
lieve that the thought of the nation has
been altered by them.
II have exactly the same things in
mind now that I had in mind when
I addressed the senate on the 2znd OF
January last; the same that I had IN
mind when addressed the congress
on the Bird of February and on the
2sth of February.
Our object now, as then, is to vim.
dictate the principles of peace and Jus
tice in the life of tho world as against
selfish autocratic power and to set w
amongst the really free and self-gov-
erned peoples of the world such a con.
cert of purpose and of action as will
henceworth insure the observance O.
those principles.
PEACE OF WORLD INVOLVED.
! Neutrality Is no longer feasible o.
desirable where the peace Of the worlC
Is involved and the freedom of 1T
peoples, and the menace to that peao
and freedom lies in the existence o
autocratic governments backed by tn
organized force which is controlle,
wholly by their will, not by the will
Of their people. We have seen tn
last of neutrality in such circum
stances.
I'VE are at the beginning Of an az
in which It will be insisted that tn
same standards Of conduct and of re
sponsibility for wrong done shall b
observed among nations and thei
governments that are observed anon
the individual citizens of civilize
states.
NO QUARREL WITH PEOPLE.
I'VE have no quarrel with the
German people. We have no feel
| ing towards then but one Of sym
patty and friendship. II was not
upon their impulse that their gov
| eminent acted in entering this
, war. It was not with their pre-
, vious knowledge or approval.
? "It was q war determined upon
40 wars used to be determined on
In tho old, unhappy days whom
peoples were nowhere consulted
by their rulers and wars were
provoked and waged In the in
terest Of dynastiss or Of little
groups Of ambitious men who
were4 accustomed to use their
fellow mon AZ pawns and tools.
"SeIf- governed nations do not
fill their neiehbor states with
spies, or SGT the course Of intrigue
to bring about some critical pos
turs Of affairs which will give
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make conquest. Such designs can
be successfully worked only under
cover and where no one has the
right TO ask questions.
"Cunningly contrived OF deceptic
or aggression, carried, It may be, fro
generation to generation, can
worked out and kept from the ligl
only within the privacy Of courts
behind the carefully guarded conf
dences of a narrow and privileg,
class. They are happily impossib
where public opinion commands al
insists upon full information concerl
ing all the nations affairs.
PARTNERSHIP OF DEMocRAc
"a steadfast concert for peace
can never be maintained except by
n partnership Of democratic ma
lions. No autoeratio government
could be trusted to keep faith
within IL or observe its covsn-
ante.
"It must be q league Of honor,
q partnership Of opinion. Intrigue
would eat lee vitaIs away; the
plottines Of inner circles who
could plan what they would and
render account TO no one would
be a corruption seated at its very
heart.
"only free peoples can hold
their purpose and their honor
steady to q common end and pre-
fer the interests Of mankind 10
any narrow interest Of their own.
THE RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY.
D. does not every American feel tn
assurance has been added to our no
for the future peace of the world
the wonderful and heartening thin
that have been happening within t
last few weeks in Russia?