The Green Forest tribune., 1917-12-14
WILSON DEMANDS
 WAR CN AUSTRIA
President Declares Our Sole Ob- ieCt Now Is to Win
 the War.
UNITED TO GAIN VICTORY
Every Resource of the Nation Must Be Co-ordinated in the One Object to Pursue the War to Ultimate
 and Complete Victory.

Washington, Dec. 4.-President Will Son in his message to congress pledged America to war to victory and asked that Austria-Hungary be listed among America's enemies to remove this "em- barrassing obstacle that stands in our way" The message follows:
 "Gentemen of the Congress-Eight months have elapsed since I last had the honor of addressing you They have been months crowded with events of immense and grave significance for us. 1 shall undertake to detail or even to summarize these events. The prac- hcal particulars of the part we have played in them will be laid before you in the reports of the executive depart ments. l shall discuss only our pres ent outlook upon these vast affairs, our present duties, and the immediate means of accomplishing 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 the sinister masters of Germany have long since become too grossly obvious and odious to every true Amer 1can to need to be rehearsed. But shan ask you to consider again and with very grave scrutiny our objec- tives and the measures by which we mean to attain them; for the purpose of discussion here in this place is ac- tion, and our action must move straight towards definite ends.
 Must Win the War.
 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 broach this fundamental matter l do not doubt that the Amer ican people know what the war is about and what sort of an outcome they will regard as realization of their purpose in it. AS nation we are united in spirit and intention. pay little heed to those who tell me otherwise. I hear the voices of dis sent-who does not? I hear the criti- cism and the glamour of the noisy, thoughtleSS and troublesome I also see men here and there fling them selves in impotent disloyalty against the calm. indomitable power of the na- lnhn -I, understand neither it's nature nor the way in which we obtain it with uplift- ed eyes and unbroken spirits. But known that none of these speaks for the nation. They do not touch the heart of anything. They may safely be forgotten
 No Peace by Compromise.
 'But from another point of view I believe that it is necessary to say plainly what we here at the seat of ac- tion consider the war to be for and what part we mean to play in the set tlement of it's searching issues.
 "We are the spokesmen of the Amer ican 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 ac- tion we propose. They are impatient with those who desire peace by any sort of compromise-deeply and indig- nantly impatient-but they will be equally impatient with us if we do not make it plain to them what our ob- jectives are and what we are planning for in seeking to make conquest of peace by arms.
 Menace Must Be Crushed.
 'I believe that 1 speak for them when I say two things: First. that this intolerable thing of which the masters of Germany have shown us the ugly face, this menace of con- bined intrigue and force which we now see so clearly as the German power g Thing without conscience or honor or capacity for covenanted peace. must be crushed and, if it is not utterly brought to an end, at least shut out from the friendly intercourse of the nations; and second, when this Thing and it's power are indeed defeated and the time comes that we can discuss peace-when the German people have spokesmen whose words we can be- neve and when those spokesmen are ready in the name of their people to accent the common judgment of the nations as to what shall hence forth be the bases of law and of GOV ~~~~~~~-~~~~o~c ~-o~~o0~~"-ooo-"~oo~