The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-12-14

Washington, Dec. 4.-President viii
hon in his message TO congress today
declared emphatically for a peace bas
n on generosity and justice after Ger
man aatocracy "shall first be shown
he utter futility of its claims to
power or leadership in the modern
world
The message follows:
"GentleMen of the Congress-Eight
months have elapsed since | last had
'hr honor uf addressing you. They
have been months crowded with events
II immense and grave Significance for
IL. shall undertake to detail or even
- summarize these events. The prac
urai particulars of the part we have
played in them will be laid before you
in me reports of the executive depart
:urntS. shall discuss only our pres
eat outlook upon these vast affairs,
our present duties, and the immediate
dueanS Of accomplishing the objects
Ne shall hold always In view.
i 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 Amer
lean 90 peed TO be rehearsed. But
shalt ask sou to consider again and
with a very grave scrutiny orr objec-
tives and the measures by which we
mean 10 attain them; for the purpose
Of discussion here in this place is ac-
too. and our action must move
straight towards definite ends.
Must Win the War;
Our object is. of course. to win the
war; end we shall not slacken or suf-
won. But il is worth while asking and
answering the question: When shall
we consider the war won?
From one point OF view il is not
necessary to broach this fundamental
matter. | do not doubt that the Amer
lean people know what the war is
about and what sort of an outcome
they will regard as a realization of
their purpose in 1t. AS n nation we
are united in spirit and intention. |
pay little heed to those who tell me
Otherwise. l hear the voices of dis
sent-wilo does not? l hear the criti-
cism and the Glamour of the noisy,
thoughtiess and troublesome. l 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 Its nature nor the
way in which we obtain II with uplift-
~ eyes and unbroken spirits. But
known that none of these speaks for
the nation. They do not touch the
heart of anything. They may safely
be left to strut their uneasy hour and
De- forgotten.
40 Peace by Compromise.
"But from another point of view /
believe that IL is necessary to say
plainly what we here at the seat of ac-
ton consider the war to be for and
what part we mean to play in the set
tiement of its searching issues.
We are the spokesmen of the Amer
lean people, and they have a right to
know whether their purpose is ours.
They desire peace by the overcoming
of evil by the defeat once for all of
the sinister forces that interrupt
peace and render it impossible, and
they wish to know how closely our
thought runs with theirs. and what ac-
ton we propose. They are impatient
with those who desire peace by any
sort of ompromise-deeply and indig-
uantIy impatient-but they will be
equally impatient with us If we do not
mu,,c IL plain 70 them what our OBJ
iPc,ives are and what we are planning
fer in seeking to make conquest of
peace by arms.
Menace Must Be Crushed.
Il believe that I speak for them
when I say two things: First, that
this iEtolerable thing of which the
masters Of Germany have shown us
the ugy face, this menace of COM
hined intrigue and force which we now
see so clearly as the German power,
Thing without conscience or honor
%. capacity for covenanted peace, must
De crushed I'd, If IL Is not utterly
brought to an end. at least shut out
rom the friendly intercourse of the
nations: and second, when this Thing
and fits power IRE indeed defeated and
the time comes that we can discuss
peacc-when the German people have
spokesman whose words we can be-
l!eve and when those spokesmen are
ready In the name of their people to
accept the common Judgment OF
rhe nations as to what shall hence
forth be the bases of law and of COW
crnnt for fhe life of the world--we
shall hc willing and glad to pay the
fuI, rrice for peace. and pay IL un-
v,':lsnS'y. We know what that price