The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1917-12-08

nave just GALGHuGu ItcoSulIiOl anu
the right hand Of fellowship, and to
whom I have, in the exercise of the
powers conferred upon me by the
congress, just extended a credit Of
S100, 100000. We want them to un-
derstand that Americas professions
of friendship and support are not lip
service, but that we intend to put be-
hind every nation fighting with US for
the cause of liberty throughout the
world what congress, in it's resolution
declaring state of war between Ger
many and the United States, ex-
pressed in this noble language: we
pledge the entire resources of the
people of the United States for this
great object
s'There is one remaining military
autocracy left, military autocracy
the ike of which the world has never
known, headed by an autocrat of linn
itless and lustful ambition, whose
covetous eyes rest upon the whole
world. His purpose today is world
dominion. Never since the days of
Alexander the Great has such an au-
dacious scheme of world conquest
| been deliberately conceived and re-
snorselessly organized by any nation.
| That is the thing that threatens the
| liberties of mankind; that is the
thing that makes it necessary for
America to get into this fight as
the champion of liberty throughout
the world, and to see that that colos-
sal crime. as it would be if successful,
is not perpetrated upon the human
race.
| 81 like to feel, my friends, when |
think about this war, that it is the
| onlv kind of war in which this great
republic could afford to engage. we
would not go into any war for ma
terial ends. We would not lift a nm
ger to take one square inch OF the SOL
| of anv other nation upon the face OF
| the earth. We do not seek to make
| subject any other races upon the face
| of the earth. We do not want any
indemnities or any compensation fol-
what we do in this war. We are fight
ing for an ideal, which is the only
thing that makes any nation great
whether it has material resources OF
not. because any nation with materla
resources and no ideals will in time
become the prey of the conqueror
We do not intend to be drawn at tne
chariot wheels Of any military auto
crat. as poor, stricken, bleeding Bel
OHM has been for the past three
Years, and as horribly devastated Ser
i hia has been for the same time. We
intend to assert the power OF free
/ America with such effect upon these
d hattle fronts in Europe that it won.
i he long before the slaughter OF al
kinds Of human beings will be stopped
And when America sits at that coun
ell table of peace-and that IS one Q;
, the things about this war that IS sucl &c!
a noble and inspiring thing, a tnlnt
uuen which like to let my magma
tion dwell--when America sits a
3 fF,at councif4of the great nations sfa
must bear upon her brow the crow
If iustice, the crown Of dlsintereste,d
), ness. and in her eyes must SHINE Tn
, clear LIGHT Of liberty and love for nu
. mainly: she must seek nothing 10
herself: she must use her benevolen
movers for the purpose OF seeing ina
q even as between these beillgerent::
enemies and friends alike, justice
done: that the bases of peace snail D
! founded upon fair adjustment Q
III Of the complex questions involved
, that no cancerous sores snali DC lTl
to tester and disturb the peace OF th
q world in the future; that all may nav
o the assurance that, because the 1reaI
= is based upon justice, the new peac
q NAV for centuries survive with pres
nant blessings to mankind!