New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-04-04
LITTLE CHANCE
SEEN FOR PEACE
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can armed guards are treated as pirates
upon the high seas. Armed neutrality,
he says, is Intellectually it is likely to
create what it was once intended to
prevent.
Cannot See Rights Tramp4ed-
There is one choice. we cannot make,
we are incapable Of making. We will
not choose the path of submission and
suffer the most sacred rights of our
nation and our people to be ignored or
violated.
''The wrongs against which we now
array ourselves are not common wrongs;
they cut to the very roots of human life.
with a profound sense of the solemn
and even tragical character of the step
I am taking and Of the grave response
bilities which it involves, but in un-
hesitating obedience to what I deem my
constitutional duty, I advise that the
Congress declare the recent course of the
imperial German government to be in
fact nothing less than war against the
government and people of the United
States; that it formally accept the status
of a belligerent which has thus been
thrust upon it and that it take immediate
steps not only to put the country in a
more thorough state of defense, but also
to exert all it's power and employ all it's
resources to bring the government OF the
German empire to tennis and end the war.
Involves Financial Aid to Allies.
! What this will involve is clear. 1t
will involve the utmost practicable CO.
operation in counsel and action with the
governments now at war with Germany,
and. as incident to that, the extension to
! those. governments Of the most liberal
! financial credits, in order that our re-
sources may, so far as possible, be added
to theirs. >..
Must Mobilize All Resources.
1T will involve the organization and
| mobilization of all the material resources
| OF the country to supply the materials of
war and serve the incidental neeGs of the
nation in the most abundant, and yet
the most economical and efficient way
possible. " Z: s-.s.2=.E =. -
"It will involve the immediate full
/ equipment of the navy in all respects, but
particularly in supplying it with the best
means Of dealing with the .enemy's sub
marines. =. ~.. ~. .-......, K ,.. ri.
[ Need At Least $1,000 Men.
| ut will involve the immediate addition
to the armed forces of the United States
! already provided for by law in case of war,
at least 100000 men, who should, in
my opinion, be chosen upon the principle
OF universal liability to service; and also
the authorization of subsequent addi-
tlonal increments of equal force as soon
as they may be needed and can be handl-
ed in training. ~.... e.. ID. :
No Quarrel With German People
President Wilson emphasizes the state
ment that this country has no quarrel
with the German people. r.,
Patience Now Is Exhausted.
I'VE have borne with their present
government through all these bitter
months because of that friendship
exercising patience and forsearance
which would otherwise have been i'm
possible.
! We shall, happily, still have an OPP
portunity to prove that friendship in our
daily attitude and actions towards the
millions of men and women of German
birth and native sympathy who live
amongst us and share our life, and we
shall be proud to prove it towards all
who are in fact loyal to their neighbors
and to the government in the hour of
test
Sees Aliens Standing BY u. S.
They are, most of them, as true and
loyal Americans as if they had never
known any other fealty or allegiance.
They will be prompt to stand with us in
rebuking and restraining the few who
may be OF different mind and purpose.
Stern Repression For Disloyal.
Ii there should be disloyalty, it will
be dealt with with firm hand of stern
repression; but, if it lifts it's head at all.
It will lift itonly here and there and with
0 it countenance except; from a lawless
a I'd malignant few.
1T is distressing and oppressive
duty, gentlemen Of the Congress, which
| have performed in thus addressing you.
There are, it may be, many months of
hery trial and sacrifice ahead of us.
1t IS fearful thing to lead this great
peaceful country into war, into the most
te rlble and disastrous Of all wars, eiviliz-1
: tlonltself seeming to be inahe balance.
Right More Precious Than Peace.
But the right is more precious than