New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-12-07
MUST RESTORE LAN1S
Says Peace for World Never Can
Be Negotiated with Present
Masters of Germany.
FIGHTING TO FaEE PEOPLE
War Not Upon Industry and En-
terprise of Teutons But on
Aut0cratic Rulers.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, Dec. 5.-President vii
son delivered to Congress an address
Tuesday considered SO important ir
its relation to international affairs
that it had been transmitted in ad
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
They have been months crowded with
events OF immense and grave signifi
canoe for US. l shall not undertake
TO detail or even to summarize those
events.
The practical particulars of the part
we have played in them will be laid
before you in the reports Of the ex'
ecutive departments. l shall discuss
only our present outlook upon these
vast affairs, our present duties and
the immediate means of accomplish.
ing the objects we shall hold always
in view.
! shall not 60 back to debate the
causes of the war. The intolerable
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 l shall ask you to consider
again and with a very grave scrutiny
our detectives and the measures by
which we mean to attain them; for
the purpose of discussion here in this
place is action. and our action must
o 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 it
Is won. But 1t Is worth while asking
and answering the question, when
shall we Consider the war won?
From one point of view it is not
necessary to breach this fundamental
matter. l do not doubt that the Am.
erican people know what the war is
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.
l pay little heed to those who tell
me otherwise. hear the voices OF
dissent-who does not? | hear the
criticism and the clamor of the noisy,
thOughtless and troublesome. | also
see men here and there fling them
selves in impotent disloyalty against
the calm, indomitable power of the ma
ton. | hear men debate peace who
understand neither it's nature nor the
way in which we may attain it with
uplifted and unbroken spirits. But |
know that none of these speaks for
the nation. They do not touch the
heart of anything. They may be safe
ly left to strut their uneasy hour and
be forgotten.
But from another point of view, l
believe that 1t is necessary to say
plainly what we here at the seat or
action consider the war to be for, and
what part we to play in the set
Of its searching issues. We
are the spokesman of the American
people and they have a right to know
whether their purpose is ours They
peace by the overcoming of
evil, by tie defeat ono for all of the
forces that interrupt peace
and render 1t impossible, and they
wish to know how closely our thought
runs with theirs and what action we
propose.
ugly Face" Must Be Crushed.
Tley are impatient with those who
desire peace by any sort of comprom-
lse-deeply and Indignantly impatient,
but they will be equally impatient with
US if we do not make it plain to them
detectives are and what we
are planning for in seeking to make
conquest of peace by arms.
believe that l speak for them when
say two things: First, that this in
thing of which the masters
Of Germany have shown us the ugly
ACE, this of combined intrigue
force which we now see so clear
y as the German power, a thing with
conscience or honor or capacity
or covenanted peace, must be
and If it be not utterly
brought to an end, at least shut out
rom the friendly intercourse of the
and, second, that when this
hing and its power are indeed defeat
d and the time comes that we can
peace-when the German peo-
lie have spokesman whose word we
an believe and when those spokes-
men are ready in the name of their
to accept the common judg-
nent of the nations as to what shall
be the bases of law and
( covenant for the life of the world
" shall be willing and glad to pay
he full price for peace, and pay it
ngrudgingly. We know what that
rice will be. 1t will be full, impair.
al justice-justice done at every
oint and to every nation the final I
must affect, our enemies {
8 well as our friends. ,
You catch, with me, the voices of {
umanity that are in the air. They {
row daily more audible, more articu- {
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