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PRESIDENT FOR
WAR IN AUSTRIA
Declares DUAL Monarchy is
VdSsaI Of Germany.
NO TIME TO TALK PEACE
MIR. Wilson Pledges Every Resource
and Power of Nation to Crush Auto
cracy and Win the War.

cracy and Win the War.
! Washington, Dec. 5.-The president
in his address to congress demanded
! a declaration of war on AuStria-Hun-
gary and pledged the nation to carry
on the war against autocracy TO COM
r'ete victory. His address was as
follows:
! Gentlemen Of the Congress:
Eight months have elapsed since
| I last had the honor of addressing you.
| They have been months crowded with
! events of immense and grave signiti-
! canoe for US. I 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 executive departments. I shall
! discuss only our present outlook upon
! these vast affairs, cur present duties
and the immediate means of accom-
p!ishing the objects we shall hold al
/ ways in view.
! az shall not go back to debate the
causes of the war The intolerab!e
wrongs done and planned against us
by the sinister mosters Of Germany
have long since hecCme too grossly
obvious and od:ous to every true
American to need to be rehearse1.
| But I ask you to consider again, and
with very grave scrutiny. or OBJ
jectiyes and the measures by which
we mean to attain them for the pur-
pose of discussion here in this place
IS action. and our action must move
straight toward definite end. Our OBJ
feet IS, of course. to win the war, and
we shall not slacken or suffer our
+ selves to be diverted until it i won.
But it is worth while asking and an
swering the question When shat we
consider the war wono
Nation United in Intention.
"F'rom one point Of view it is not
necessary to breach this fund.- mental
| matter 7 do not doubt that the
American re0ple knew what the war
I" abou: and what sort Of CT outcome
tAev will regard as a realization OF
-;r purrcse in it As q nation we
ere united in shirt nd inten'ion. |
pay little heed to tNose who eel me
Otherwise I hear the vcice7 Of dis
sent-who does not? I hear tie ri /
cism End the clam0~ c. the noiei'y
thought,es5 and troublesome 7 also
see men here ana there fine them
selves in impctent disl~y2lty against
the calm, indCmi- he power CT the
nation. 7 hear me- debate peace who
understand neither is nature no the
wpv in witch We may attain il with
uplifted eyes and unbroken spirit. But
know that none Of these speaks TO"
tie nati-n. They do not touch the
heart G ANYTHING. They may safely
be left 70 strut their uneasy hour and
be for ten.
"Prt from another point of view
berevo that it is necessary to say
plainly what we here at the sent Of
action consider the war to be for
and wNat part we m can to play in the
settlement of its sea~ching issues. We
are the spokasmen of the American
people and they lave a right TO know
whether their purpose IS ours.
Menace Must Be Crushed.
81 believe that I speak for them
when soy two things: First, that this
intolerable thing Of which the masters
Of Germany have shown Us TIE ugly
face, this menace of combined in
trioue and force which we now see
so clearly as the German power, a
thing without conscience or honor or
capacity fc: covenanted peace, must
be crushed. and if it be not utterly
brought to an end, at least shut out
from the friendly intercourse of the
nations; and, second, that when this
thing and its power are indeed de-
feated and the time comes that we
can discuss peace-when the German
people have spokesman whose word
we can believe and when those spokes-
men are ready in the name of their
people to accept the common judg-