Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-12-06
PRESIDENT TELLS
WORLD AMERICAS
AIMS IN The WAR.
Declares Prussian Autocracy and
Oppression Must Be Done
Away With.
DEMANDS FULL PREPARATION
No Desire to Interfere With Internal
Affairs of Central Nations, but
Peace Cannot Be Made With
Germany's Present Rulers
Declaration of War on
Austria Hungary.

Declaration of War on
Austrla-Hungary.
Washington, Dec. 4.-President Will.
son in his message to congress today
declared emphatically for peace has.
ed on generosity and justice after Ger.
man autocracy "shall first be shown
the utter futility of it's claims to
power or leadership in the modern
world''
The message follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress-llight
months have elapsed since | last had
the honor of addressing you. They
have been months crowded With events
of Immense and grave significance for
us. shall undertake to detail or even
To summarize these events. The prac.
tical particulars OF the part we have
played in them will be laid before YOU
n the reports of the executive depart.
ments. / shall discuss only our pres.
ent outlook upon these vast affairs,
our present duties, and the Immediate
means OF accomplishing the objects
we shall hold always in view
II sli;ll not go back to debate tbs
causes of the war. The intolerabiq
wrongs Gone and planned against us
nv the sinister masters of Germany
have long since become too grossly
OBVIOUS and odious to every true Amer,
lean to need to be rehearsed But
shall ask YOU to consider again and
With q very grave scrutiny our obiec.
tives and the measures by which we
mean to attain them; for the purpose
Of discussion here in this place is ac.
tor, and our action must move
straight towards definite ends.
Must Win the War.
Our object is, of course. TO win tbs
war; and we shall not slackcn or SUI.
fer ourselves 10 be diverted until ii is
Won. But it is worth while asking and
answering the question: When shall
We consider the war Won?
From one point Of view it is moi
necessary to breach this Fundamentals!
matter. | do not doubt ihnt the Amer,
Jean people know what the war il
about and What sort of an outcome
they will regard as Il realization OF
their purpose in ii. AS Il nation we
are united in spirit and intention. !
pay little heed to those who tell me
otherwise. / hear the voices of dis
sent-who does not? | hear the crti
cisln and the Glamour of the noisy
thouglitless and troublesome. also
see men here and there fling them
selves III impotent disloyalty against
the calm. indomitabie power of the ma
ton. hear men debate peace VIII
understand neither its nature nor the
way in which we obtain it with uplift
ed eyes and unhrollen spirits. But /
known that none of these speaks fol
the nation. They do not touch the
heart of anything. They may safely
be left to strut their uneasy hour ana
be forgotten.
No Peace by Compromise.
''Hut from another point of view
plainly what we here at the seat of ac,
ton consider the war to be for and
What part we mean to play in the set
tlement Of its searching issues.
1--WE are the spokesman of the Amer.
lean people, and they have a 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 II impossible. and
| they wish to know how closely our
| thought runs with theirs, and what ar.
| tion we propose. They are impatient
with those who desire peace by any
sort Of compromise-deepl and indig.
| nantly mpatient-but they will Zoe
! equally impatient with US if we do not
make it plain to them what our oh
| iectives are and what we are planning
| for In seeking to make conquest of
/ peace by arms.
Menace Must Be Crushed.
81 believe that i speak for then
when ! say two things: First, that
this intolerable thing Of which The
masters of Germany have shown Us
bincd intrigue and force which we nov
see so clearly as the German power
a Thing without conscience or honol
or capacity for covenanted peace, mus
be crushed and, If it Is not utterly
brought to an end, at least shut on
from tie friendly Intercourse of thu
nations; ard, second, when this Thins
and it's power are indeed defeated ant
the time comes that we can discus
paace-wlcn the German people have
Spokesman whose words we can be
lieve and when those spokesman ar,
ready in the name of their people t.
accept the common judgment o
the nations as to what shall hence
forth be the bases Of law and of Gov
enant for the life of the world-w
shall be willing and glad to pay tn
full price for peace, and pay it I'm
,grudgingly. We know what that pric
Mr.. and Mrs. n. L. Price haV
/ received on announcement car.