The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-12-04
Immediate Task is 10 Win The War
Nothing Should Turn Us Aside
Until Accomplished"
FIGHT UNTIL BELGIUM
AND FRANCE ARE FREED
German People Must Agree to Settlement
Based on Justice; ReparaIiOn for
Wrongs Of Rulers
BY United Press

!
Washington. Dec. 4--President
Wilson addressing the joint session
Of congress- today asked that con-
gress make an immediate declaration
OF war on Austria He emphasized
the fact that at present the immedi-
ate task is to win the war and said
that nothing shall turn us aside un
III this end is accomplished
Every power and resource we pos
sesa, men, money, material. is being
devoted and will continue to be de
voted to that purpose until success Is
achieved" said the president ANY
peace that America makes must not
only deliver the people and lands Of
Belgium and northern France from
Prussian conquest, but from Austria,
Hungary, the Balkans and Turkey"
Tho prosidents message Is being
cabled 10 europe. South America. ia.
pan and China. Tho war message
will be made public I'D all parts Of
the world except the central powers
Aviators may drop the message be
hind the German lines later.
Explaining his reason for his decIa.
ration in favor Of war against Aus
trla, the president said It would re-
move an embarrassing obstacle that
is now standing in our way
A great crowd jammed the con
gressionaI hall to hear the message,
The president said that the wrongs
committed in this war win have to be-
righted and cannot and must not be
righted by the commission Of similar
wrongs against Germany "All gov
ernments, if they must live, will
henceforth have the simple stand
ards Of right and wrong that the
plain people have today" said the
president
President Wilson said ID part:
Eight months have elapsed since
had the honor of addressing you
There have been months crowded
with events Of immense and grave
significance for us. shall not under
take to relate or even summarize
these events. The practical particu.
lars Of the part we have played In
them win be laid before you IN re
ports from the executive departments
1 shall discuss only our present out.
look upon those vast affairs our pres
ent duties and immediate means Of
accomplishing those objects we shall
hold always ia view. I shall not go
back TO the causes Of this war. the
intolerable wrongs planned against
US by the sinister masters OF Germa,
ny. these have long since been too
greatly obvious and odious to every
American citizen. to need 70 be re
peated."
The president recommends that
Immediately declare the
United States in state Of war with
Austria and declares emphatlcalIy for
peace based on generosity and justice
after German autocracy shah be first
shown the utter futility OF its claim
to power and leadership in the mod.
ern world
The president said further II shall
ask you to consider against and with
a very grave scrutiny our objectivea
and the mobiles by which We mean
to attain them. For the purposes Of
discussion here in this place is ac-
ton, and our action must move
straight towards definite ends. Our
object is Of course to win the war
aud we shall not slacken or suffer
to be distorted until II is
won. But it is worth while asking
and anskering the question. when
shall. we consider the war WON'T Our