The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-07
NECESSARY, SAYS PRESIDENT iii,
MESSAGE, TO MEET SiTUA-
! TioN THIS COUNTRY FACES
IN WAR WITH GERMANY.
AMERICAS PRESENT TASK
TO WIN WAR DECISIVELY
Turkey and Bulgaria Not Considered
In Path of Fight On Autocracy at
Present-More Drastic Laws
for Food, Railroad and
Aliens Recommended

Washington. Dec. 5.-President
Wilson in his address delivered be-
fore a joint session of congress Tues
day afternoon. urged immediate dec
laration of war on Austria-Hungary.
He said he did not believe war
with Turkey and Bulgaria necessary.
as yet, because those nations do not
stand in the direct path of necessary
American action.
Immediate war against Austria. even
though she only be Germany's vas
sal and not her own mistress, the
President declared, was necessary
because the Teuton powers must be
considered as one and because the
war can be conducted successfully in
no other way.
Will Go Where War Carries Us.
Giving a plain warning, however,
that he would not hesitate to ask for
declaration of war on Turkey and
Bulgaria when he considered it neces-
sary, the President said:
"We shall go wherever the neces-
stiles of this war carry us, but it
seems to me that we should go only
where immediate and practical consid-
Grafton lead us and not heed any
others"
Peace, the President told Congress,
can come only when Prussian mill
tary autocracy is beaten down, when
the German people make peace with
the world through rulers the world can
trust, when they make reparation for
the wrongs their present rulers have
done and when the enslaved people
of Belgium, Northern France and the
Balkans have been set free.
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Following is the Presidents mes,
sage in full:
Following is the Presidents mes
sage in full:
Gentlemen Of the Congress-: Eight
months have elapsed since l had the
honor of addressing you. They have
been months crowded with events of
immense and grave significance for
us. shall not undertake to detail or
even to summarize these events. The
practical particulars of the part we
have played in them will be laid be-
fore you In the reports of the execu-
tive departments l shall discuss on
ly our present outlook upon these vast
affairs, our present duties and the i'm
mediate means of accomplishing the
objects we shall hold always in view.
War Causes Not Debated.
shall not go 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
American to need to be rehearsed But
with very grave scrutiny our objec-
tives and the measures by which we
mean to attain them; for the purpose
of discussion here in this place is ac-
ton, and our action must move
straight toward definite ends Our OBJ
ject is, of course, to win the war; and
We shall not slacken or suffer our
selves to be diverted until it is won.
But it is worth while asking and an
swering the question, when shall we
consider the war won?
United In Spirit and Intention.
From one point of view it is not nee
essary to breach this fundamental mat
ter. l do not doubt that the American
people know what the war is about
and what sort of an outcome they will
regard as realization of their pur-
pose on it. AS hation, we are united
in spirit and intention. / pay little
heed to those who tell me otherwise
l hear the voices of dissent-who do IS
not? l hear the criticism and the
clamor of the noisily thoughtless and
troublesome. / also see men here and
there fling themselves in impotent dis
loyalty against the calm, indomitable
power of the nation. l hear men de-
bate peace who understand neither it's
nature nor the way in which we may
attain it with uplifted eyes and un-
broken spirits. But know that none
of these speaks for the nation They
do not touch the heart of anything