Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1917-12-13
MUST RESTORE LANDS
Says Peace for World Never Can
Be Negotiated with Present
Masters of Germany.
F|GHTING TO FREE PEOPLE
War Not Upon Industry and En-
terprise Of Teutons But on
Autocratic Rulers.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, Dec. 5.-President VIII
son delivered to Congress an address
Tuesday considered, so important in
Its relation to international affairs,
that it had been transmitted in ad-
vance by the government to practical
ly every capital in the world.
The President spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress:
'e"sEsght months have elapsed since
hast had .the honor Of addressing you.
s!They have been months crowded with
events of immense and grave signifi-
canoe for US. / shall not undertake
to detail or even to summarize those
svents.
The practical particulars Of the part
We have played in them will be laid
bsfore you in the reports Of the ex-
scutive departments. I shall discuss
only our present outlook upon these
vast affairs, our present duties and
the immediate means Of accomplish
tng the objects we shall hold always
In view. ~ =
shall not 60 back to debate the
causes Of The war. The intolerable
wrongs done and planned against US
by the sinister masters Of Germany
have long since become too grossly
obvious and odtous to every true Am
sr1can to need to be rehearsed.
But shell ask you to consider
again and with q very grave scrutiny
our objectives and the measures by
the purpose of discussion here in this
place is action, and our action must
move straight towards definite ends.
Our. object is, of course, to win the.
war, and we shall not. slacken or suf-
fer ourselves to be diverted until it
is won. But it is worth while asking
and answering the question, when
shall we consider the war won?
From one point of view it is not
. necessary to broachsthi fundamental
! matter. / do not doubt that the Am
/ erican people know what the war is
about and what sort rof an outcome
they will regard !. as. realization OIL
their purpose in it. AS nation we
are united in spirit and intention.
Il pay little heed to those who tell
me otherwise. I hear the voices OF
dissent-who does not? l hear the
criticism and the clamor of the noisy,
thoughtless and troublesome. l also
see men here and there fling them
selves In impotent disloyalty against
the calm, indomitable power of the ma
ton. l hear men debate peace who
understand neither its nature nor the
way in which we may attain it with
uplifted and unbroken spirits. But l
know that none of these speaks for
the nation. They do not touch the
heart of anything. They may be safe
ly left to strut their uneasy hour and
be forgotten.
But from another point of view,
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
tlement of its searching issues. We
are the spokesmen 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 1t impossible, and they
wish to know how closely our thought
runs with theirs and what action we
propose.
"usIy Face" Must BE Crushed.
They are impatient with those who
desire peace by any sort of comprom-
ise-deeply and Indignantly impatient,
but they will be equally impatient with
us II we do not make 1t plain to them
what our detectives are and what we
are planning for In seeking to make
conquest of peace by arms.
/ believe that speak for them when
] say two things: First, that this in
tolerable thing of which the masters
Sf Germany have shown ussthG ugly