Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1917-04-07

will be very practical duty-of sup
plying 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 be effective there.
Il shall take he liberty fsug-
gesting through the several executive
departments Of the governent for the
consideration OF your committees.
measures for the accomplishment of
the several objects | have mentioned.
| hope it will be your pleasure to deal
with them as having been framed
after very carewul thought by the
Branch OF the government upon which
the responsibility of conducting the
war and safeguarding the naion will
most directly fall
While we do these things, these
deeply momentous things, let us be
very clear and make very clea rto 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 | do not
believe that the thought of the ma
ton as 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 22nd
of January last; the same that | had
in mind when | addressed the congress
on the Sd of February. Our object
now, as then, is TO vindicate the prin.
ciples o fpeace and justice in the life
autocratic poewr. and to set up
amongst the really free and seh-gov-
erned peoples of the world such a
concert OF purpose and OF action as
will henceforth insure the observance
of these principles
Neutrality is no longer feasible or
desirable when the peace OF the world
is involved and the freedom OF its
peoples and the menace TO that peace
and freedom lies in the existence OF
governments backed by or
ganized force which is controlled
wholly by heir will, not by the will
of their people. We have seen the
last of neutrality in such circr,n
stances.
I'VE are at the beginning OF an age
in which it will be insisted that the
same standards of conduct and of re
sponsibility for wrong doing shall be
observed among nations and sheir
that are observed among
the individual citizens of civilized
states
I'VE have no quarrel with the Ger
man people We have no feeling to-
ward sthem but one of sympathy and
friendship. 1t was not upon their inn
pulse that their government acted in
entering this war. 1t was not with
their pi ievious knowledge or approval
at was a war determined upon "a
wars used to be determined upon i'll
the old unhappy days when peoples
were nowhere consulted by heir
leaders 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.
"Self governed nations do not MI
their neighbor state with spies or
set the course OF intrigue to bring
about some critical POSITION of af
fairs which will give them an oppor
tunty to strike and make conquest
Such design scan be successfully
worked only under cover and where
no one has the right to ask questions.
"Cunningly conceived plans of de-
cetion or aggression, carried, it may
be, from geenration to geheration,
can be worked out and kept from the
light only within the privacy OF courts
or be hind the carefully guarded con-
6dences of narrow and privileged
classes. They are happily impossible
where public opinion commands and
insists upon full information concern
ing all the nations affairs
"A steadfast concert for peace can
never be maintained except by part
nership of democratic nations. No
autocratic government could be trust
ed to keep faith within it, or observe
its covenants. 1t must be league OF
honor, a partnership of opinion In
Ftrigue would eat its vitsls away; the