The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-08

a more effective organization and
method of cooperation, ought by all
means to be completed at this ses-
sion.
Additional Legislation.
And beg that the members of the
house of representatives will permit
me to express the opinion that it will
be impossible to deal in any way but
very wasteful and extravagant fash
ion with the enormous appropriation
of the public moneys which must con-
tinue to be made, if the war is to be
properly sustained, unless the house
will consent to return to its former
practice of initiating and preparing
all appropriation bills through sim
gle committee, in order that respon-
sibility may be centered, expenditures
standardized and made uniform and
waste and duplication as much as
possible avoided.
Additional legislation may also be-
come necessary before the present
congress adjourns in order to affect
the most efficiency coordination and
operation of the railway and other
transportation systems of the coun-
try; but to that shall, if circum-
stances demand, call the attention of
congress upon another occasion.
If have overlooked anything that
ought to be done for the more eff
fective conduct of the war, your own
counsels will supply the omission
What am perfectly clear about is
that in the present session of the con-
gress our whole attention and energy
should be concentrated on the vigor-
GUS and rapid and successful prosecu-
ton of the great task of winning the
war
We can do this with all the greater
zeal and enthusiasm because we know
| that for us this is a war of high prin-
ciple, debased by no selfish ambition
or conquest or spoilation; because we
know, and all the world knows, that
we have been forced into it to save
the very institutions we live under
from corruption and destruction. The
purposes of the central powers strike
straight at the very heart of every
thing we believe in, their methods of
warfare outrage every principle of
humanity and of knightly honor; their
intrigue has corrupted the very
thought and spirit of many of our
peoples; their sinister and secret di-
plomacy has sought to take our very
territory away from us and disrupt
the union of the states. Our safety
would be at an end, our honor forever
sullied and brought into contempt
were we to permit their triumph They
are striking at the very existence of
democracy and liberty.
The War and the Settlement.
1t is because it is for us war of
high, disinterested purpose, in which
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banded together for the vindication
of right, war for the preservation
of our nation and of all that it has
held dear of principle and of purpose,
that we feel ourselves doubly con-
strained to propose for it's outcome
only that which is righteous and of
1 irreproachable intention, for our foes,
as well as for our friends. The cause
being just and holy, the settlement
must be of like motive and qaulity
For this we can fight, but for nothing
less noble or less worthy of our ira
ditions. For this cause we entered
the war and for this cause will we
battle until the last gun is fired
I have spoken plainly because this
seems to me the time when it is most
necessary to speak plainly, in order
that all the world may know that
even in the heat and ardor of the
struggle and when our whole thought
is of carrying the war through to it's
end, we have not forgotten any ideal
or principle for which the name of
America has been held in honor
among the nations and for which it
has been our glory to contend in the
generations that went before us. A
supreme moment of history has come.
The eyes of the people have been
opened and they see. The hand of
God is laid upon the nations. He will
show them favor, 1 devoutly believe,
only if they rise to the clear heights
of His own justice and mercy.