The Pulaskian., 1917-12-07
BREAK WITH AUSTRIA IS
 WILSON PLEA
President Recommends to Congress That State of War Be Declared With Dual Mon- archy, But Immediate Break With Turkey and Bulgaria Is Not Necessary, He De- cIares

it's nature nor the way in which we may attain IL 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 lelt to strut thelr uneasy hour and be forgotten
 Part We Must Play.
 but ffom another point of view I be- lieye that 1t is necessary to say n1ainIv what We here at the seat of action consider the War to be for and what part we mean to play ID the settlement of it's searching issues. he are the spokesmen of the American people and uhey have q right to kn0W whether their purpose is o1rs They desire peace by the overcoming of evn, by the deIeat once for all of the sinister forces that interrupt peace and render It Impossible and they wish fo know how closely our thought runs with theirs and what action We propose Tbev are impatient with those who desire neaca ~ any sort ot eompromise-deeply and inulgaahtly impatient, but they will be equally Impatient with Us if we do not make It pialn to them what our obiectives are and what we are planning for in seek Ing to maNe conquest of peace by arms.
 T believe that l speak for them when say two things; First, that this infel- efaoie lmhS or which the masters of 1ermany have shown Us the ugly face sllis menace of combined intrigue and t0fee which We now see so clearly os fbh herman power, thing without con aeteies OF honor OF capaeity for cove hahtea peace, must be crushed, and if It oe HOe ueteHg brought t0 an end at least smut out from the friendly intereoHpse If the nations; and. second. that when tbis lhiag and It's power are indeed defeated and the time comes that we can dIscuss peace-WAen the German people have spoKesmen Whose word can be believed and when those spokesmen are reaav III the name of their people to accent the common judgment of the nations as 10 what shall henceforth be the bases of law and Of covenant for the life of the 'ierld-we shall be willing and glad to pay the full price for peace and pay It lngrudgingly. We know what thai urira will be. It will be full, impartial justice justice done at every point and to every nation the final settlement must 1tteet, our enemies as well as our friends.
 ou catch, with me, the voices of aumanlty that are i'll the air. They grow daily more audible, more articuiate. nore persuasive and they come from the Learts of men everywhere They insist that the war shall not end in vindictiVe action of any kind; that no nation or people shal be robbed or punished be- 5ause the irresponsible rulers of a sin yle country have themselves done deep nd abomnabe wrong. It is this thought
 nat has expressed in the formula No
 nnexations, no contributions, no pGnl-
 i've ndemnities' just because this cru -ade formula expresses the instinctiYe
 judgment as to right of plain men every There It has been made dlligent use of V the masters of German intrigue to
 ead the people of Russia astray-and
 he people of every other country their
 gents could reach in order that a pre-
 nature peace might be brought about lefore autocracy has been taught it's final and convincing lesson and the peo- ie Of tine world. put in control of their Jwn destinies.
 been made of just idea is no reason why a right use should not be made of | IL. 1t ought to be brought under the l patronage of its real friends. Let it be | said again that autocracy must first be shown the utter futility of it's claims to | power or leadership in the modern world
 1t is impossible to apply any standard of justice so long as such forces are un-
 checked and undefeated as the present | masters of Germany command. Not un- | til that has been done can right be set | up dS dIUtlSI anu pGdCSIldhtE dLlOuS Lue
 nations. But when that has been done
 as, God willing, it assuredly will be- l we shall at last be free to do an unpreee- l dented thing and this is the time to avow i our purpose to do 1t. We shall be free
 to base peace on generosity and justice
 to the exclusion of all selfish claims to 1 advantage even on the part Of the v1c-
 tors.
 Our Part to Win.
 T,E t,e, t,i,.- -A,,,I | Our present and immediate part IS to
 win the war and nothing shall turn us
 aside from it until it is accomplished Every power and resource we possess, | whether of men, of money, or of mate rials, is being devoted and will continue
 to be devoted to that purpose until it is 1 achieved Those who desire to bring l peace about before that purpose :. is l achieved, l counsel to carry their advice 1 elsewhere We will not entertain it. Ne 1 shall regard the war as won only when
 the German people say to us, through 1 properly accredited representatives, that | they are ready to agree to a settlement | based upon justice and the reparau0ns of
 the wrongs their rulers have done. They
 nave done q wrong to Belgium which
 must be repaired. They have estabhsneI l power over other lands and peor. .es 1 than their own, over the great empire If l Austma-Eungary, over hitheFto free bal l kan states, over Turkey and within Asia which must be reiinquished, Germany s
 success, by skill, by industry, by knowl- e6se, by enterprise, We do not judge or 1 oppose, but admired rather. She had 1 bult. up for herself a real empire of
 trade aud Influence, secured by the peace l of the world, Me were content to abide 1 the rivalries of manafaetaree, science and commerce. that were involved for us l in her success, and saand or fall as We
 had, or did not have, the brains and the initiative to suepaSs her. But at | the moment when she had eonspicHouSly
 won her triumphs of peace she threw
 them ava. to establish in their stead what the world will no longer permit to be stablishea-military and pohtica. domination by arms--by which to ousC where she could not excel the rivals she most feared and hated. The peace We l make must remedy that wrong. It must deliver the once fair lands and happy 1 peoples of Belgium and northern France
 from the PraSsian conquest and the 1 Prussian menace. but 1t must also de l liver the peoples of Ausgna-Hungary l zrt- I al