, 1917-12-13
RESTORE LANDS
savs Peace for World Never Can
Be Negotiated with Present
Masters of Germany.
TO FREE PEOPLE
War Not Upon Industry and En-
terprise of Teutons But on
Autocratic Rulers.

b western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, Dec. 5.-President vii
.on delivered to Congress an address
Tuesday considered SO important In
lis relation to international affairs,
that it had been transmitted in ad'
Vance by the government to practical
ly every capital in the world.
The President spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress:
Eight months have elapsed since
last had the honor of addressing you
sThey have been months crowded with
eyepts of immense and grave signifi
canoe for US. / shall not undertake
no detail or even to summarize those
events.
The practical particulars of the part
we nave played in them will be laid
before you in the reports of the e1
~scutive departments. l shall discuss
. only our present outlook upon these
vast affairs, our present duties and
the immediate means of accomplish
ling the objects we shall hold always
In view.
l shall not go back to debate the
Cduot5 VI llC wal AhO LAWFUL AUX
wrongs done and planned against us
by the sinister masters of Germany
have long since become too grossly
obvious and odious to every true Am
erican to need to be rehearsed.
But i she'll ask you to consider
again and with a very grave scrutiny
our detectives and the ISL by
which we mean to astain them; fol
the purpose of discussion here in this
place is action, and our action must
move straight towards definite ends
Our object is, of course, to win the
war, and we shall not slacken or suf
fer ourselves to be diverted until il
is won. But it is worth while asking
and answering the question, wheI
shall we consider the war won?
From n point of view it is mo-
necessary to breach this Fundamental
matter. l do not doubt that the Am
erican people know what the war i.
about and what sort of an outcome
they will regard as a realization o
their purpose in it. AS a nation We
are united in spirit and intention.
pay little heed to those who tel
me otherwise. / hear the voices O
dissent-who does not? l hear the
criticism and the clamor of the noisy
thoughtless and troublesome. l also
see men here and there fling them
selves in impotent disloyalty agains
the calm, indomitable power of the ma
ton. | hear men debate peace wht
understand neither its nature nor tn,
way IN which we may attain it will
uplltted and unbroken spirits. But
Know that none of these speaks TO
the nation. They do not touch tn,
heart OF anything. They may be safe
~ LEFT to strut their uneasy hour an(
be forgotten.
But from another point of view,
believe that 1t Is necessary to sa,
plainly what we here at the seat o
action consider the war to be for, anC
what part we mean to play in the set
tieihent of its searching issues. w,
are the spokesman of the American
people and they have a right to know
whether their purpose is ours. The,
uesire peace by the overcoming o
EVIL by the defeat once for all of thu
sinister forces that interrupt peac,
and render it impossible, and the!
WISH TO know how closely our though
runs with theirs and what action W,
propose.
Ugly Face" Must Be Crushed.
Ihey are impatient with those VIII
uesire peace by any sort of comprom
,se-deeply and Indignantly impatient
Out they will be equally impatient will
US II we do not make 1t plain to then
Mhal our detectives are and what VIZ
are planning for in seeking to max,
conquest OF peace by arms.
l believe that l speak for them wheI
say w things: First, that this in
folerable thing of which the masters
Germany have shown us the ugly
lace, this menace of combined intrigue
aHu force which we now see SO clear
as M German power, a thing with
~ conscience or honor or capacity
w. peace, must be
Gushea, and If 1t be not utterly
Stought to an end, at least shut Out
ION The friendly intercourse of the
na.lohs; and, second, that when this
mug n its power are indeed defeat
a. ana the time comes that we can
u,9cuss peace-when the German peo
PIC nave spokesman whose word we
s"l believe and when those spokes,
mn are ready in the name of their
puUple to accept the common judg-
tleht OF the nations as to what shall
"encetorth be the bases of law and
VI for the life of the world
we n be willing and glad to pay
ne Iull price for peace, and pay 1t
u~nsrudgingly. We know what that
nitSe VIII be. 1t will be full, impair.
sai lustice-justice done at avery
pOant n to every nation the final
se'uement must affect, our enemies
10 well as our friends.
Iou catch, with me, the voices of
sSa% di that are u the air. They