The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-12-13
MUST RESTORE LANDS
Says Peace for World Never Can
Be Negotiated with Present
Masters Of Germany.
FIGHTING 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 6.-President vii
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:
Eight months have elapsed since
last had the honor of addressing you
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
events.
The practical particulars of the part
we have played in them will be laid
before you In the reports OF the ex
ecutive departments. shall discuss
only our present outlook upon these
vast affairs, our present duties and
tne immediate means OF accomplish
ing tne op3scts we snail noid Always
In view.
l shall not 60 back to debate the
causes OF tne war, Inc intoleraoie
wrongs cone ana planned against us
oy tne sinister masters OF Germany
nave long since become 100 grossly
ousious anu ooious 10 every True Am
er,can 70 need 10 De rehearsed.
put ! snaa ask you 10 consider
ssain aho WIN very grave scrutiny
oul ooIectives ana the measures py
"n'on We mean 70 attain them iol
tne purpose OF discussion mere ID TINS
p'ace Is actioh, ana our action must
,nose s'la'sht 'owards deiinite enas
Oul oo!ec' H. Ut course, 70 win tne
s anu we snaii no. siacAen Ut SUI
.ei ourselves 20 DC oivertea until y
- "on nu. II 10 worth WINE asking
anu answering tne question. wnen
"nn re oensioe, the war won!
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,sa So FL, IN ,n ap.un, u's.oya.y asains'
ton hear men debate peace who
understand neither its nature nor the
way in which we may attain 1t with
uplifted and unbroken spirits. But
know that none OF these speaks fol
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 1t 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
Element Of its searching issues We
are the spokesmen of the American
people and thew have a right To know
whether their purpose ia ours They
desire peace nv the overcoming n
evil. bv the defeat once for ali ~ the
sinister forces that interrunt naace
and render n imnossihle and thev
wish To know bow closelv onr tbonuh,
-uns with theirs and wbo, aotion me-
nronose
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IVY race mus' DC erusneo'
Tley 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 l speak for them when
I say two things: First, that this in
SN ~ thing Of which the masters
NSfnAny have shown US the ugly
Wthis menace of combined intrigue
az force which we now see 30 clear.
ly as the German power, a thing with
out conscience or honor or capacity