Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-12-15

League Of Honor
washington, Doc. President VIII
son delivered to Congress an address,
considered so important In It's rela-
tions to international affairs. that II
IA been Transmitted In advance by
1 ~ Government to practically every
ofher capital IN the world.
Immediate declaration Of war against
Austria Hungary was recommended by
President Wilson.
The President did not, hewever.
recommend q declaration OF war
against Turkey and Bulgaria at this
NINE.
The President spoke, as follows;
0ehEemen Of the Congress:
Eight months have elapsed since !
last had the honor Of addressing you.
They have been months crowded with
syents Of immense and grave sig
uificance FOR US. shah not undertake
% detail or even to summarize those
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events.
The practical particulars of the part
we have played in them will be laid be-
fore you in the reports Of the executive
departments. shall discuss only our
present outlook upon those vast at
fairs, our present duties and the i'm
mediate means Of accomplishing the
objects we shall hold always in view.
"our Object Is To Win the War;"
shall not go back to debate the
causes Of the war. The intolerable
wrongs done and planned against us
BY the sinister masters Of Germany
have long since become too grossly
obvious and odious to every true
American to need to be rehearsed. But
I shall ask you to consider again and
with a very grave scrutiny our OBJ
jectives and the measures by which we
mean to attain them; for the purpose
Of discussion here In this place is
action and our action must move
straight toward definite aims.
Our object is, of course, to win the
war and we shall not slacken or suffer
ourselves to be diverted until it is
won. But 1t is worth while asking and
answering the question, When shall
we consider the war won?
q From one point of view 1t is not
necessary to breach this fundamental
matter do not doubt that the Ameri-
can people know what the var Is about
and what sort OF an outcome they will
regard as realization Of their pur-
BOSE in it. AS q nation we are united
p spirit and intention.
"Let Dissenters Strut Their Uneasy
Hours"
I pay little heed to those who tell
otherwise. / hear the voices of
\sent; who does not? hear the
icism and the clamor of the noisy.
lghtlsss and troublesome. also
men here and there fling them
es In impotent disloyalty against
20 calm, indomitable power Of the
nation. l hear men debate peace who
understand neither its nature nor the
way We may attain it with uplifted
eyes and unbroken spirits. But l
know that none of these speaks for
the nation. They do not touch the
heart of anything. They may safely
be left to strut their uneasy hour and
be forgotten.
But from another point of view
believe that it 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 it's searching issues. We
are the spokesman of the American
people and they have right to know
whether their purpose is ours. They
desire peace by the overcoming OF
evil. by the defeat once for all of the
sinister forces that interrupt peace
and render it impossible and they wish
to know how closely our thought runs
with theirs and what action we pro
pose.
They are impatient with those who
desire peace by any sort OF com
promise - deeply. and Indignantly i'm
patient-but they will be equally i'm
patient with us If we do not make il
plain to them what our detectives are
and what we are planning for in seek
ing to make conquest of peace BY
arms.
"This intolerabIe Thing-Must Be
Crushed"
believe that l speak for them
when say two things: First, that thi
intolerable thing of which the mas
tiers of Germany have shown us tn,
ugly face, this menace of combined in
trigue and force which we now see S,
clearly as the German power, a thin,
without conscience or honor or capac
ity for covenanted peace must b,
crushed and, if it be not utterl,
brought to- an end, at least shut GU
from the friendly intercourse of tn
nations; and second, that when thi
thing and it's power are indeed defeat
ed and the time comes that we cal
discuss peace-when the German pee
pie have spokesman whose word W.
can believe and when those spokesmel
are ready in the name of their peopl
to accept the common judgment of tn
nations as to what shall henceforth b
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