The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-12-06
NO PEACE POSSIBLE
TILL WORLD WRONG
R|GHTEO BY GERMANY

Washington, Dec. 3-Declaration of
war with Austria Hungary was recon-
mended to Congress today by Presi-
dent Wilson. Immediate war with Bull
garia and Turkey, Germany's other al
lies, the president told Congress he be-
lieved unnecessary at this time be-
cause they did not yet stand in the di-
rect path of necessary action.
Immediate war against Austria,
even though she be Germany's vassal
and not her own mistress, the presi-
dent declared, was necessary because
the central powers must be considered
as one because the war can be conduct
ed successfully in no other way. Civ
ing "a plain warning, however, that he
would not hesitate TO ask for deciara-
ton Of war on Turkey and Bulgaria
when he considered it necessary, the
president said:
eve shall go wherever the necessi-
to me that we should go only where
immediate and practical considerations
lead US and not heed any Others"
Peace, the president told Congress,
could come only when the Prussian
military autocracy is beaten down;
when the German people make peace
with the world through rulers the
world can trust, when they make rep
aration for The wrongs their present
rulers have done and when the enslav-
ed people of Belgium, northern France
and the Balkans have been set free.
Germany's declarations that she is
fighting a war of elf-defense against
deliberate aggression the president in
ringing words, declared were only
false" and he reiterated anew that no
one is threatening the existence of the
independence of the peaceful enter
ests of Germany.
81 hear men debate peace who un-
lderstand neither its nature nor the way
in which we may attain it with uplift-
ed eyes and broken spirits. But | also
know that none Of these speak for the
nation. They do not touch the heart
of any one. They can safely be left
to strut their uneasy hour and be for
gotten"
| Declaring anew that the United
States makes no war on Germany's
skill, enterprise or commercial achieve
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United States became Germany's en-
emy only when she started out to dom
mate the world by force of arms.
Stating again the war objects of
the United States and those which he
believed to be those of the allies, the
president declared:
IL believe that | speak for them
when say two things:
THAT this intolerable thing of which
the masters of Germany have shown
US the ugly face, this menace of COM
bined intrigue and force which we now
see so clearly as the German power a
thing without conscience or honor or
capacity for covenanted peace, must
be crushed and, if it be not utterly
brought TO an end, at least shut out
from the friendly intercourse of the
nations; and, that when this thing and
its power are indeed defeated and the
times comes that we can discuss peace
when the German people have spokes
men whose word we can believe and
when these spokesmen are ready in the
name of their people to accept the com
mon> judgment of the nations at To
what shall henceforth be the basis of
law and covenant for the life of the
word-we shall be willing and glad
to pay the full price for peace and
pay it ungrudgingly. We know what
the price will be. 1t will be full i'm
partial justice--justice done at every
point and to every nation that the final
settlement must affect, our enemies
as well as our friends"