The courier-index., 1917-12-07
Wilson Tells Why United States
 Is In the War

Il shall not go back to debate the of the war The inolerable wrongs done and planned against by the sinister masters of Germany have long since become too grossly obvious and odious every true American to need to be rehearsed"
 " hear debate peace who understand neither Its nature nor the way in which may attain it with ese pess sSe or amd e But b know of be left to strut their uneasy hour and be forgotten
 
 This intoerable thing of which the masters of Ger many have shown us the ugly face, this menace of blned intrigue and force which clearly as the German power thing without conscience or honor capacity for covenancd peace must be crushed and Il be not utterly brought to end at least shut out rom te fhrlendly intercourse of the nations : : When the German people hav spokesmen whose words can be believed and when those spokesmen ready of the as to what henceforh shall be the basis of law and of covenant for the life of the word and 0 py e nom m pFes Se % price of peace will be- It will be full impartial justice Justice done at every point and every nation the friends"
 Let there be misunderstanding Our present and immediate part is to win the war; and nothing shall turn us aside from it until it is accomplished" They have done wrong to Belgium which must lands and peoples than their the great empire of Austria Hungary over hitherto free Balkan States osbed ovfs and bs wn must be ren wrong. It deliver the once fair lands and the happy peoples Of Belgium and Northern France from the Prssian conquest and the Prussan menace, but it must also deliver the peoples of Austria Hungary the peoples of the Balkans and the peoples of Turkey alike Tn Europe and Asia, from the impudent and alien dom nation of the Prussian military and commercial auoc racy"
 We shall hope to secure for the peoples of the Balkan peninsula and the people of the Turkish empire the right and opportunity to make their lives safe telr fortunes against oppression injustice ana rom the dctaIon of foreign courts parties"
 people of hain toId bx, whom they permit to deceive them and act as their masters that they fighting for the very life and ex- lstence o tnelr empre of desperate self defense against deliberate aggression Nothing could be more grossly wanony false : We are in fact fipht- ing Tor their emancipation from fear along with our own from the fear as we'll from the fact of unjust atGick Dy our neIghbors rivals schemers after the independence the peaceful enterprise the Ger man empre.
 The wrongs, the very deep wrongs committed in tns war will have to be righted. That of course But mey cannot and must not be righed by the commission world will not permit the commission of similar wrongs as a means of reparation and settlement"
 Legislation should be enacted defining as n criu- mai oensc every wiful violation of the presidential proclamation relating to enemies promulgated under seton lUo of the revised statutes providing apDro- priate punlshmens; and women as well as men should De included under the terms of the placing restraints upon alien enemies It is likely that as time goes on many allen enemies will be willing to be fed and housed at the expense of the government in the detention camps ana would be the purpose of the legislation have slp- gesed to coninc offenders among them penitentiares and similar institutions where they could be made to work other criminals do