Omaha daily bee., 1917-12-05
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WAR AGAINST AUSTRIA.

Immediate war against Austria,
even though she only be Germany's s
vassal and not her own mistress, the
president declared, was necessary be-
cause the central powers must be con-
sidered as one and because the war
can be conducted successfully in no
other way. z
Giving a. plain warning, however,
that he would not hesitate to ask for
declaration of war on Turkey and
Bulgarian when he considered it
necessary, the president said:
1--WE shall 60 wherever the necessi-
ties Of this war carry us, but it seems
to be that we should 60 only where
immediate and practical considera-
tons lead us and not heed any
Others"
CRUSH PRUSSIAN AUTOCRACY.
Peace, the -presidei.:: told congress,
can come only when the Prussian
military autocracy is beaten down;
when the German people make peace
with the world through rulers the
world can trust; when they make
reparation for the wrongs their pres
ent rulers have done and when the
enslaved people of Belgium, northern
France and the Balkans have been set
free.
Germany's declaration that it is
fighting a war of self-defense against
deliberate aggression, the president,
in ringing words, declared "wantonly
false" and he reiterated anew that
no one is threatening the existence of
the independence of the peaceful en-
terprise of Germany.
Of those who speak of peace with
out the overthrow of German militsry
autocracy the president declared:
II hear men debate peace who un-
derstand neither its nature nor the
way in which we may attain it with
uplifted eyes and unbroken spirits.
But ] know that none of these speaks
for the nation. They do not touch
the heart of anything. They may
safely be left to strut their uneasy
hour and be forgotten"
To Dominate World.
Declaring anew that the United
States has no war on GermanS's
skill, enterprise or commercial
achievements, the president declared
that the United States became Ger
many's enemy only when it started,
out to dominate the world by force
Of arms. Stating again the war OBJ
jects of the United>States and those
which he believed to be those of the
allies, the president declared;
81 believe that | speak for them
when | say two things: First, that
this intolerabIe thing Of which the
masters of Germany have shown us
the ugly face, this menace of COM
bined intrigue and force which we
now see so clearly as the German
power, thing without conscience or
honor or capacity for covenanted
peace, must be crushed, and, if it be
not utterly brought to an end, at
least shut out from the friendly in
tercourse of the nations; and
Second, that when this thing and
its power are indeed defeated and the
time comes that we can discuss peace
when the German people have
spokesmen whose word we can believe
and when those spokesmen are ready
in the name Of their people to accept
the common judgment of the nations
as to what shall henceforth be the
bases OF law and covenant for the life
Of the world-we shall be willing
and glad to pay the full price for
peace and pay it ungrudgingly, We
know what that price will be. 1t will
be full, impartial justice-justice done
at every point and to every nation
that the final settlement must effect,
our enemies as we'll as our friends"
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