Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-04-06

ed 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 liza
bility to service, and also the authori'
zation of subsequent additional in
crements of equal force as soon as
they may be needed and can be han
died in training.
1T will involve also, Of course, the
granting of adequate credits to the
government, sustained, hope, SO far
as they can equitahly be sustained, by
the present generation, by well con.
ceived taxation. say sustained 50
far as may be equitable by taxation
because it seems to me that it would
be most unwfse to base the credits
which will now be necessary entirely
on money borrowed.
1T is our duty, I most respectfully
urge, to protect out people so far as
we may against the very serious hard
ships and evils which would be likely
to arise out Of the imitation which
would be produced by vast loans.
"In carrying out the measures by
which these things are to be accom-.
plished we should keep constantly in
mind the wisdom of interfering as lit.
tie as possible in our preparation and
in the equipment of our own military
forces with the duty-for 1t will be a
very practical duty-of supplying the
nations already at, war with Germany
with the materials which they can oh.
They are in the field and we should
help them in every way to be effec.
tive there.
Wilson to Suggest Measures.
II shall take the liberty of suggest.
Ing, through the several executive de-
partments of the government for the
consideration of your committees,
measures for the accomplishment of
the several objects l have mentioned.
II hope that it will be your pleas
ure to deal with them as having been
framed after very careful thought by
the branch of the government upon
which the responsibility Of conducting
the war and safeguarding the nation
will most directly fall.
"While we do these things, these
deeply momentous things, let US be i
very clear, and make very clear to all
the world what our motives and our
objects are. My own thought has not
been diven from its habitual and nor.
NAL course by the unhappy events of
the last two months and I do not be.
lieve that the thought of the nation
has been altered or clouded by them
II have exactly the same things in
mind now that had in mind when
addressed the senate on the 22d of
January last; the same that had in
mind when j addressed the congress
on the Sd of February and on the 26th
Of February.
"Our object now, as then, is to vim.
dicate the principles of peace and the
Justice in the life of the world as
against selfish and autocratic power
and to set up amongst the really free
and self governed people Of the world
such . concert OF purpose and of. &C.
ton a. will henceforth insure the OBJ.
of those principles.
Neutrality No Longer Desirable.
Neutrality is no longer feasible or
desirable where the peace of the world
8 involved and the freedom of its
peoples, and the menace to that peace
md freedom lies in the existence of
governments backed by or.
,anized force which is controlled
wholly by their will, not by the will
If their people. We have seen the
asst Of neutrality in such circum.
stances.
eve are at the beginning of an age
same standards of conduct and of re-
possibility for wrong done shall be
observed among nations and their gov
that are observed among
he individual citizens of civilized
tates.
1--WE have no quarrel with the Ger
nan people. We have no feeling to-
Yards them but one of sympathy and
It was not upon their i'm
,ulse that their government acted in
'ntering this war. 1t was not with
heir previous knowledge or approval
1T was war determined on as wars
lsed to be determined on in the old,
unhappy days when people were no.
where consulted by their rulers and
vars were provoked and waged in the
interest Of dynasties or of little groups
# ambitious men who were accustom-
d to use their fellow men as pawns
nd tools. r-.