The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-11-12
COOPERATION
IS NECESSARY
70 BEAT ENEMY
President Addressing Federation
of Labor Outlines Purposes
of this Nation
HOUSE SENT TO EUROPE
NOT ON A PEACE MISSION
Horses that Kick Over Traces
Must be put in a Corral, Says
Executive

Buffalo, N. Y, Nov. 12.-President
Wilson made a personal and eloquent
appeal here today for the full support
of organized la3or for the government
in the conduct of the war. Speaking
before the annual convention of the
American federation of labor he de-
clared the war could not be won un'
less all factions unite in common
cause, sinking their differences.
The president paid warm tribute to
Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation of LABOR, ana
virtually called on the federation 10
give him united support. He de-
nounced pacifists and critics. He ap-
pealed for cooperation. \
Discussing Germany, the presiden.
declared that Germany had started
the war, and that he was willing to
await the verdict Of history on that
statement. t,e ~lf...-.. & 4a.f
New instrumentalities for better
cooperation between labor and capi-
tai was one statement by the presl
dent which was OF prime interest to
The president alluded to the pres
ent war as "the last decisive issue
between the old principles of power
and the new principle of freedom"
Il believe" he said, that the spir-
it of freedom can get into the hearts
of Germans and find as fine a wei
come there as it can find in any 9TH
er heart But the spirit of freedom
does not suit the plans Of pan-Ger-
manism Power cannot be used with
concentrated force against free peo-
pies if it is used by free peoples.
"You know" he continued, "how
many intimations come to US from
one of the central powers that is
more anxious for peace than the
chief central power, and you know
that it means that the people in that
central power know that If the war
ends as it stands they will, in effec;.
themselves be vassals of Germanl. not
withstanding that their populations
are compounded of all the people OF
that part of the world, and notwith-
standing the fact that they do not
wish in their pride and proper spirl;
of nationality to be dominated
Referring in another part OF MS
speech to Russia, the president said:
Surprised at Russian Groups.
MAY not say it is amazing to me
that any group of people should be 50
ill-informcd as to suppose as some
group in Russia apparently suppose,
that any reforms planned in the in
terest of the people can live in the
presence of Germany, powerful
enough to undermine or overthrow
them by intrigue or force, anybody
of free men that compound with the
German government, compounds Tor
feeling of pacifists, but their stupidity.
The pacifists do not know how to
get peace, but | do
The president referred to the send
ing of Col House to Europe as "haV-
ing sent a greater lover of peace than
any man in the world, but | did no;
send him to negotiate peace. sen:
him to determine how the war is to
be won.'
Taking up the labor question in the
United States, the president said:
"If we are true friends of freedom,
we will see that power and productiv-
ity of the country shall be kept at
maximum Eut nobody shall be al
lowed to stand in the way. The gov
ernment won't keep them from do
ing this. but the spirit of the Ameri-
can people will.
"Ne must stand together night and
day until the war is over.' said the
president, adding that while we are
fighting for freedom, we must insure
the freedom of labor.
'"The horses that kick over the ira
ces must be put in a corral
President Wilson's war address to
Congress is included in the report
with the declaration adopted by "A
meeting Of union officials last March
when it was seen to be inevitable that
the European eonfIagration would
snread to America. Under the head
ina LABOR AND THE WAR;, the
report says:
Protest its People
Under all circumstances 1t IS the
duty of any government to protect lts
people against wilfull and wholesale
murder. A people unwilling to make
the supreme sacrifice in support to
the government which undertakes to
make that principle good are unde'
serving to live and enjoy the privilege
of free, democratic government
The duty of wage-earners in the
war is emphasized particularly in the
section of the report devoted 10
Peace Terms, which advocates an
international agreement to secure
peace and the settlement OF the pre-