Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-12-05

washington, Dec. "A uellnite
statement to the world of Americas
war aims and of the basis upon which
peace will be considered was made
today by President Wilson in an ad-
dress to congress in which he urged
immediate declaration of a state of
war between the United States and
Austria Hungary-Germany's vassal
and tool AS to Turkey and Bulgaria
also tools of the enemy--he counsel
ed delay because "they do not yet
stand in the direct path of our neces-
sary action"
To win the war, the president de-
clared in emphatic and ringing tones,
Ia the Immediate and unalterable task
ahead. !, He urged congress, Just be-
ginning its second war session, to con-
centrate itself upon it,
The president sharply dismissed the
possibility of premature peace, sought
by German intrigue and debated here
by men who understand neither its
nature nor the way 1t may be attained.
With victory an accomplished fact. he
said, peace will be evolved based upon
mercy and justice"--to enemy and
friend-with hope of partnership of
nations TO guarantee future world
peace.
The war will be deemed won, he
declared, when the German people
say to us, through properly accredited
representatives, that they are ready
to agree to a settlement based upon
Justice and reparations of the wrongs
their rulers have done" Terms of
peace, he added, would not include
dismem berment. robbery or punish
ment of the enemy. but would be
based on justice, defined briefly as
follows
,"Freedom of nations and their peo
pies from autocratic domination,
reparation to Belgium, REIMBURSEMENT
o. German power over the peoples of
Austria, Turkey, the free Balkan
states as we'll as evacuation OF Prus-
sian territorial conquests in Belgium
and northern France"
Emphasizing the purpose of the
United States not to interfere in the
internal affairs of any nation, the
president asserted that no wrong
against the German empire was in
tended and that there was no desire
to rearrange the Austro- Hungarian
empire. He said wren he spoke eight
months ago of the right of nations to
free access to the seas, he had Aus
tria as well as the small nations in
mind
Demonstration of Approval.
Speaking before congress in joint
session for the first time since he ask
ed for a war declaration against Ger
many last April, his address was
more than enthusiastically received
and the applause grew tumultous
when he reached the recommendation
as to Austria. Diplomats. justices of
the supreme court and other high Of
ficials assembled on the floor joined in
the demonstration.
The definition of war aims and
peace terms, the most explicit ever
voiced by the head Of any of the great
warning powers, was accepted as the
more significant because since his re-
ply to the pope's peace note the pres
ident has come to be regarded more
and more as a spokesman for all the
nations fighting Germany.
VIII Go to Germans.
BY advance arrangement the ad-
dress was made available for publica-
ton today in nearly every corner of
the globe. 1t probably will not appear
in full in the Teutonic press but the
papers of neutral countries and the
work of allied aviators will get it to
many Germans in unmutilated form.
The request for declaration of
war with Austria met with virtually
unanimous approval and congress to-