The Ordway new era., 1917-12-07
MUST RESTCaE LAN-S
Saws Peace for World Never Can
Be Negotiated with Present
Masters of Germany.
flGH1.HG TO FaEE PEOPLE
War Not Upon Industry and En-
terprise of Teutons But on
Autocratic Rulers.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington. Dec. 5.-President VII
son delivered to Congress an address
Tuesday considered so important III
Its relation to international affairs
that it had been transmitted in ad
vance 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.
I shall not go bs.ck 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
orican to need to be rehearsed.
But shall ask you to consider
again and with very grave scrutiny
our objectives and the measures by
which We mean to attain them: for
Che purpose of discussion here in this
place is action. and our action must
move 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 broach this fundamental
matter. / 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,
see nen here and there fling them
selves in impotant disloyalty against
the calm. indomitable powe- of the ma
ton. hear men debate peace who
understand neither its nature nor the
way in which we may attain it with
upiifted and unbroken spirits. But |
know that none of these speaks for
the nation. They 90 not touch the
rxf -,
ly left to strut their uneasy hour and
be fog gotten.
But from another point OF view,
believe that it is necessary TO say
plainly what we here at the seat OF
action consider the war to be for, AMI
what part We mean to play in the set
element of its searching issues. We
are the spokesmen of the American
people and they have right to know
whether their purpose is ours. They
desire peace by the overcoming of
evil by tie 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 action we
propose.
..us.y Face Must Be Crushed
They are inpatient with those who
desire peace BY any sort of compTon
tse-dseply and Indignantly impatient
bi; they will be equal. impatient with
us II we do not make it plain to them
what our objectives are and what We
are planning for in seeking TO make
conquest of peace BIZ arms
believe that l speak for them when
] say two things; First. that this In
tolerable thing of which the masters
Of Germany have shown us the ugiy
face. this menace of combined intrigue
and force which we now see SO clear
ly as the German power, thing with
out conscience or honor or capacity
for covenanted peace, must be
crushed, and If it be not ut.arfj
Brought to an end, at least shut or
from the friendly intercourse of III.
naticns: and, second, that when thii
ahing and its power are indeed defeat
ed and the time comes that we car
discuss peace-when the German peo
p1e have spokesmen whose word ".
can believe and when those spokes
men are ready In the name of theil
people to accept the common tudg
nent Of the nations as to what shs |
hencefoYth be the bases of law ans
" covenant for the life Of the worlc
1--we shall BE- willing and glad to pa,
ehe fun price for peace, and pay 4
snGfudginGly. We know what tina
+ + 3r3oe will ~ II viii be full, impair
&1Af Justice justice done at ever,
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