The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-07
NATION PREPARED
 THAT CARRIED
Will Employ All Resources to Bring Germany to Terms
 and End Strife
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NeTMAn BuDuRrLl9 WhEIRE6 bh A "a warfare against mankind, '
 President Wilson in his address made the following recommendation to congress: H
 l advis0 that congress declare ths
 recent course of the imperial Ger.
 man government to bo In fact noSh-
 ing less than war against thO gov-
 Srnment and people of tho United
 StRtes and that it formally accept
 the statue of the bOlleeront which
 has thus been thru6t upon lt and
 employ all of Its rosouroes Co bring
 the government of Germany to
 terms and to end the war. .. |
 Following this epoch making asseE- tiOn, this resolution was introduced in both branches Of congress;
 Joint resolution declaring chat a
 state of war oxlsta between the IRi-
 perial German government and che l government and people of thS Unit"
 ed States and making proVislon to
 prosecute the samSi
 Whereas, The recent acts of Che l Imperial government arc Aet0 of war
 against the government and people
 of the United Stat0sj
 Resolved, by the senate and houOO
 of representatives of the United
 States of America In congress a8.
 sembed, That the StatO of war be-
 tween the United States and th0 lm-
 periaI German government which has been thus thruSt upon Che URlt- f- ER 1 elared; and
 That ths president bS, and h0 To
 hereby, authorized and directed to
 take immediate stsps not only to
 put the country In Q thorough 0tate of defense, but also to exert all Of
 its power and employ all of ltS TO-
 sources to carry on war against thO | imperial German government and
 to bring the conflict to a successful termination.
 And then the United States of Amer lea had entered the greatest struggle in the history of the world.
 Unreservedly With the Allies.
 Before an audience that cheered him as he has never been cheered in the capitol in his life the president cast in the lot of America unreservedly with the allies and declared for a war that must not end until the issue between l autocracy and democracy has been fought out He recited our injuries at Germany's hands, but he did not rest | our cause on those; he went on from that point to range us with the allies as a factor in an irrepressible conflict between the autocrat and She people. He showed that peace was impossible for the democracies Of the world while this power remained on earth. ''The world" he said, must be made safe for democracy" ...... We had learned that the German Ru- tocracy could never be a friend of this country; she had been our enemy while nominally our friend and even before the war of 1914 broke out. He called on us to take our stand with the de- | mOCracies in this lrrepressible conflict with before our eyes ''the wonderful and heartening events that have been happening in the last few weeks ln Russia" He reafIlrmed his hope for peace and for freedom and looked to the war now forced upon us to bring these about, for, he said, a world com pact for peace can never be maintain ed except by a concert of the democ- raCies of the world" ..r-
 The objects for which we fight, he said, are democracy, the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own government, the right and liberties of small nations, the universal dominion of right, the con- cert of free peoples to bring peace and safety to all nations and to make the world free These have always been our ideals, and to accomplish them we accept the war Germany has made upon us. In fighting 1t we must not only raise an army and increase the navy, but must aid the allies In all ways, financial and other, and so order our own preparations as not to inter- fere with the supply of munitions they are getting from us.
 Ready For Strife.
 This utterance found the nation I'll k- A