Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-04-03
President Wilson's War Message

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be most unwise to base the credits
which will now be necessary entirely
on money borrowed.
ut is our duty, I most respectfully
urge, to protect our people. SO far az
hardships and evils which would be
likely to arise out of the imitation
which would be produced by vast
loans.
I'm 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 WI prepara-
ton and In the equipment of nor mill
be y very practical duty-of supply
ing the nations already at war with
Germany with the materials which
they can obtain only from us or by
our assistance. They are In the field
and we should help them In, every
way to he effective there.
II shall take the liberty of suggest
ting, through the several departments
of he government for the cOnsidera-
the accomplishment of the several
objects I nave mentioned. l hope
that It will be your pleasure to deal
with them as having been framed af-
ter very careful thought by the
branch Of the government upon
which the responsibility of conduct
ing tho war n safeguarding the ma
ton will most directly fall.
"While we do these things, these
deeply momentous things, let us be
very clear, and make very clear to all
the world. what our motives and our
objects are. My own thought has not
been driven from its habitual and
normal course by the unhappy events
of the last two months. and I do not
believe that the thought of the ma
o q been altered or clOuded by
them.
II have exactly the same things in
mind now that l had In mind when 1
addressed the senate on the 22nd day
Of January last; the same that 1 had
In mind when I addressed the con-
gress on the third of February and on
the 26th Of February.
Vindicate Principles of Peace
Our object. now as then. is to
vfndicate 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 a concert of purpose and OF
action as will henceforth insure the
observance Of those principles.
Neutrality is no longer feasible or
desirable where the peace Of the
world is involved and the freedom of
Its peoples, and the menace to that
peace and freedom lies in the exist
ence OF autOcratH governments back
ed by organized force. which is con-
trolled wholly by their will. not by the
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the last of neutrality in such circ1lm-
stances.
w are at the beginning of an age
in which it will be insisted that the
same standards of conduct and of re-
s~ponstbility for wrong lone shall be
observed amibng nations and their
governments that are observed among
the individual citizens of civilized
states.
No Quarrel With German People
nave no quarrel with the
German people. We have no feeling
towards them but ono of sympathy
and friendship. 1t was not upon their
impulse that their government acted
in entering this war. 1t was n with
their previous KNOWLEDGE or approval,
1T was war determined upon as
wars used to be determined on in the
old, unhappy days when peoples
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ers and wars were provoked and
waged in the interest of dynasties or
of little groups Of ambitious men who
were accustomed to use their fellow
men as pawns and tools.
Cunning Plans Of DcccufiOn
Self governed nations do not fill
their neiehbor states with spies o,
set the course of intrigue to bring
about some critical posture of affairs
which will give them an opportunit,
to strike and make conquest. Such
designs a be. successfully worked
only under v and where no one
has the right to ask. questions.
"Cunningly contrived plans of de-
cept1on or aggression. carried. it may
be, from generation to generation, can
be worked out and kept from the light
behind the carefully guarded conf
dences Of a narrow and privileged
class. They are happily impossible
where public opinion commands and
insists upon full information concern
ing all the nations affairs.
A Combine Of Dcmocracics
"A steadfast concert for peace can
never be maintained except by a part
nership of democratic nations. No
autoc,atic government could be- trust.
ed to keep faith within 1t or observe
Its covenants. 1t must be a league of
honor. a partnership OF opinion. In
trieue would eat its vitals away; the
plottings of inner circles who could
plan what they would and render ac-
count to no one would be a corrup-
ton seated at its very heart. Only
free people can hold their purpose
AND their honor steady to a common
end and prefer the interests of man
kind to Any narrow interest of their
own.
Does not every American feel tina,
assurance has been added to our hone
for the future peace of the world by
the wonderful and h%eartening things
that have been happening within the
last few weeks in Russia?
Russia A Worthy Partner
"Russia was known by those who
knew 1t best to have been always ir
fact democratic at heart, in all the
vital habits of her thought. in all the
intimate relationships Of her people
that spoke their natural instinct, then
habitual attitude towards life.
The %autocracy that crowned the
summit Of her political structure, lone
as 1t had stood and terrible as was
the reality Of its power, was not ir
fact Russian in origin. character o,
purpose; and now it has been shaker
OF and the great, generous Russian
people have been added in all thei,
naive majesty and might t o the force,
that are fighting for freedom In the
world. for justice and for peace. Here
10 q mt PARTNER for a League Of honor
Our Nation Overrun With Spies
zone of the things that has served
to convince us that the Prussian auto.
cracy was not and could never be gu,
friend Is hat from the very outset OF
the present war 1t has filed our un
s~uspecting communities. and ever GU,
OFFICES Of government. with spies ano
set criminal intrigues everywhere