The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-12-04

cesses which would assuredly set in
motion the wrongs OF the very deep
wrongs, committed in this war will
have to be righted. That of course.
But they cannot and must not be
righted by the commission of similar
wrongs against Germany and her al
lies.
THE world will not permit the
commission of similar wrongs as a
means of reparation and settlement
Statesmen must die and they have
learned that the opinion of the world
has everywhere a wideawake and full
ly comprehends the issues involved.
No representative of any self govern
ed nation will dare disregard it by
attempting any such covenants of sell
fishness and compromise as went in
to the congress of Vienna. The thought
Of the plain people here and every
where throughout the world the peo-
pie who enjoy no privileges and have
very simple and unsophisticated stan
dards of right and wrong, is the air
all governments must henceforth
breathe if they would live 1t is in the
full disclosing light of that thought
that all policies must be conceived
and executed in this midday hour of
the worlds life German rulers have
been able to and must seek them can
didly and fearlessly. AS always, the
right will prove to be expedient
What shall we do. then, to push
this great war of freedom and JUS
tice to its righteous conclusion? We
must clear away with a thorough hand
all impediments to success and we
must make every adjustment of law
that will facilitate the fullest and free
use of our whole capacity and forces
as a fighting unit.
"One very embarrassing obstacle
that stands in our way is that we are
at war with Germany but not with her
allies. I therefore very early recon-
mend that the congress Immediately
declare the United States in a state of
war with Austria Hungary. Does it
seem strange to you that this should
be the conclusion of the argument I
have just addressed to you? 1t is
not. 1t is in fact the inevitable logic
of what l have said. Austria Hungary
is for the time being not her own
mistress but simply the vasal of the
German government. We must face
the facts as they are and act upon
them without sentiment in this stern
business The government of Austria
Hungary is not acting upon its own
initiative or in response to the wishes
and feelings of it's own people, but as
the instrument of another nation. We
must meet it's force with our own and
regard the central powers as but one.
The war can be successfully con-
Quoted in no other way. The same
logic would lead also to a declara-
ton of war against Turkey and Bull
garia. They also are the tools of Ger
many. But they are mere tools and
do not yet stand in the direct path of
our necessary action. We shall go
wherever the necessities of this war
carry us, but it seems to me that we
should go only where immediate and
practical consideration lead us and
not heed any others.
1.-THE financial and military meas
ures which must be adopted will sug-
gest themselves as the war and its
undertakings develop, but I will take
the liberty of proposing to you GER
tain other acts of legislation which
seem to me to be needed for the sup
port Of the war for the release of our
whole force and energy"
The president further recommends
further legislation regarding alien en-
emies; extension on price-fixing pow
ers; laws looking to the systematic
and economical development of natur-
al resources under the control of the
federal government; new laws permit
ting regulated combination combines
among exporters; additional railroad
legislation, of which more will be said
later.
In conclusion President Wilson said:
at is because it is for us a war of
high. disinterested purpose, in which
all the free peoples of the world are
banded together for the vindicatiOn of
right, a war for the preservation of
our nation and of all that it has held
dear of principle and of purpose, that
we felt ourselves doubly constrained
to propose for its outcome only that
which is righteous and of irreproach-
able intention, for our foes as we'll as
for orr friends. The cause being Just
and holy we must he of like motive
and quality. For this we can fight
but for nothing less noble or less
worthy of our traditions. For this
cause we entered the war and for this
cause will we battle until the last
gun is fired.
Il have spoken plainly because this
seems to me the time when it is most
necessary to speak plainly, in order
that all the world may know that even
in the heat and ardor of the struggle
and when our whole thought is of
carrying the war through to its end
we have not forgotten any ideal or
principle for which the name of Am
erica has been held in honor among