Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-03
President Wilson
 Calls On Congress
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 plished we should keep constantly in
 mind the wisdom of interfering as lit tie as possible in our preparation and
 in the equipment of our. own military forces with the duty-for it will be very practical duty-of supplying the with the materials which they obtain only from us or by our assistance. They are in the field and we should help them in every way to be effec- tive there.
 T shall take the liberty of suggest ing, through the several executive de-
 partments of the government for the consideration of your committee. measures for the accomplishment of the several objects I have mentioned. I 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
 Must Make Motives and Objects Clear
 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 it's habitual and normal course by th3 unhappy events of the last two months, and I do not
 believe that the thought of the nation
 has been altered or clouded by them.
 Against Autocratic Power.
 T have exactly the same things in mind now that I had in mind when I addressed the senate on the 22nd of January last: the same that I had in mind when I addressed the congress
 on the third of February and the
 26th of February. Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of
 peace and the justice in the life of the world as against selfish and auto
 cratic power and to set up amongst
 the really free and self-governed peo- pies of the world such a concert of forth insure the observance of those principles.
 Not the Will of the German People. Neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable where the peace of the world is involved and the freedom of it's peo ples, and the menace to that peace and freedom lies in the existence of autocratic governments backed by or ganized force which is controlled 1 wholly by their will. not by the will last of neutrality in such circum- stances.
 swe are at the beginning of an age | in which it will be insisted that the | sponsibility for wrong done shall be | observed among nations and their 1 governments that are observed among | the individual citizens of civilized l states.
 No Quarrel With German People. We have. no quarrel with the Ger man people. We have no feeling to- wards them,. but one. of sympathy and l friendship. It was not upon their inn | pulse that their government acted In | their previous knowledge or approval. Days of Dynasties Gone. 'Tt was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in f the old. unhappy days when peoples
 were nowhere consulted by their rui- CTS and wars were provoked and | waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who i were accustomed to use their fellow | men as payns and tools.
 i No Intrigue in Self Governed Nations. | "Self-eoverned nations do not fill | their neighbor states with spies or set the course of intrigue to bring | about some critical posture of affairs which. will give them an opportunity
 to strike and make conquest such l only under cover and where no one | has the right to ask questions. CunningIy Contrived Deceptions. | ''Cunningly contrived plans of de- l ception or aggression, carried, 1t may | be worked out and kept from the light | only within the privacy of courts or
 behind the carefully guarded conn, | denceS or a narrow ana pT1VlleSSo l class. They are happily impossible where public opinion commands and insists upon full information concern | fng all the nations affairs.
 League of Nations for Peace. "A steadfast concert for peace can
 never be maintained except by a part
 nership of democratic nations. No | lautocratic government could be trusted | to keep faith within it or observe it's covenants. It must be a league of l honor, a partnership of opinion. In