The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-04-05
PRESIDENT WILSON URGES WAR.

PRESIDENT WILSON URGES wax.
The Congress of the United States
convened in specia! session in Wash
i~gtcn at twelve o'clock Monday.
I-ssident Wilson in his address be-
FIRE a Joint session of its two
branches referred to the deplorable
condition of affairs in war-gidden
Europe, and said that it was not
through choice that the United States
would entsr the great war, but that
cur interests On the high seas must be
rejected, that we as a people could
rot but resent the unrestricted sub
marin warfare of Germany, in which
the lives of many Americans had
been sacrificed, md that the United
States must continue to advance such
I'D to the Allies as was we'll within
her means The President is quoted,
in part, as follows:
"There is only one choice we cannot
make, we are incapable of making:
We will not choose the path of sub
mission and suffer the most sacred
rights of our nation and our people
to be ignored or violated. The
wrongs against which we now array
ourselves are not common wrongs;
they cut to the very roots of human
life.
"With profound sense of the
solemn and even tragical character
of the step l am taking and of the
grave responsibilities which it in
wolves but in unhesitating obedience
to what I deem my constitutional
duty, I advise that the Congress de-
clare the recent course of the I'm
perial German Government to be in
fact nothing less than war against the
Government and people of the United
States; that it formally accepts the
status of belligerent which has thus
been thrust upon it and that it take
immediate steps to put the country
in more thorough state of defense
but also to exert all it's power and
employ all its resources to bring the
Government of the German Empire
to terms and end the war"
The measures urged upon Congress
by the President are thus sum
married.:
''Utmost practical cooperation II
counsel and in action with the gov
o--rments already at war with Ger
many.
"Fxtcnsion of liberal financial
credits to those governments SO thai
the resources of America may b.
added, so far as possible, to theirs.
Organization and mobilization Of
all the material resources of tn,
country.
Full equipment of the navy, es
recially for means for dealing will
submarine warfare.
"An army Of at least 100000 men
based On the principle of universe
liability to service and the authorize
ton Of additional increments o
100000 each as they are needed an
can be handled in training.
raising necessary money for tn
United States Government so far a
possible without borrowing, and o
the basis Of equitable taxation.
"All preparations, the Presiden
urged, should be made in such a wa
as not to check the flow of wa
supplies to the nations already in tn
field against Germany"
This mornings daily papers an
rounce that the Senate has voted 70
war to the finish with Germany by
vote of 81 to 6. The measure will
taken UP for passage in the Hous
to-day. Those senators who cas-
negatives votes were: Gronna 9
Nort', Dakota, La Toilette of Visor
sin, Norris Of Nebraska, Lane c
Oregon, Stone Of Missouri, an
Vardaman of Mississippi.
1t is also announced that Austri:
Hungary is on the eve of breakin
diplomatic relations with the Unite
States. Throughout the Union pref
arations for war continue, and man
young men are volunteering for ser,
ice in the Army and Navy.