Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1917-11-15
WILSON APPEALS
FOR COOPERATION
PRESIDENT rs OPPOSED TO
PEACE UNTIL GERMANY ls
BEATEN.
NE MUST STAND TOGETHER

Appeals to Workinamen for co-opera-
tion 10 Conduct of war--vietory
Cannot be Won Unless All Factions
Are United.
Buffalo. N. Y.--President Wilson. In
a forceful address here before the
American Federation of Labor ap-
pealed to the workingmen of the Uni.
ted States for cooperation in the con.
duct OF the war, made 1t emphatical,y
clear that he opposes peace unil this
war against Germany is won.
The president declared that his
heart was with the feeling of the
pacifists. but that my mind has CON
tempt for them
Il want peace. but know how TO
get IL and they do not" he declared
Col. f. NJ. House, head OF the
American delegation to the allied war
conference. the president said had
been sent to- take part in conference
as to how the war was TO be won. and
he knows. as | know. that that is the
way to get peace IL you want II for
more than few minutes.
The 450 delegates to the conven.
eion and the several thousand persons
admitted to the hall to hear the presi.
dent speak, arose and applauded this
declaration with tremendous burst OF
cheers. Another demonstration of ap-
proval came when he said:
We must stand together, night and
.lawx /. l. Ii. -. a.
For Foreign Consumption.
The president. while devoting his
address to problems for tine people of
the United States. laid emphasis upon
the broaded phases of the world con-
fiict In a way that seemed TO indi.
cate that his speech was possibly In
tended as message to the people of
Germany, Of Austria and OF Russia, as
we'll as OF the United States. He de.
ctared his belief that were It not for
the anGermans. the spirit OF freedom
would find "as fine a welcome In the
hearts OF Germans as 1t can find In any
other heart.
POWER" he said, cannot be used
with concentrated forces against free
peoples. II 1t Is to be used by free
people,"
Speaking. probably OF Austria, Mr..
Wilson referred to the intimations of
anxiety for peace that had come.
from one OF the central powers and
declared that II meant that he peo-
pie OF that central power knew That
! II the war ends as 1t stands, they wild
In effect, themselves be vassals of Ger
many. Notwithstanding that tbey
do not wish in their pride and proper
spirit OF nationality to be absorbed and
dominated"
OF Russia, he said that he was
amazed that some groups in thar
country. could suppose that "any re.
form plans In the interest of the peo.
pie can live In the presence OF Ger.
many powerful enough to undermine
or overthrow them by intrigue or
force"
Fatuous as the dreamers of Rus.
sia." were those persons in this coun.
try. he declared emphatically. who sup
pose that 'She free industry and en-.
terprise of the world can continue II
the pan-German plan Is achieved and
the German power fastened upon the
world.
Germany Started War.
the President directly asserted that
Germany had started the war and
said he would leave confirmation of
this statement 10 the verdict OF his.
tory. He r.S<rree to Germany,s
grqwp.~s place in the SUM- and
asked why she was not satisfied when
she gained that position. In answer.
he described the German govern.
ment's methods of controlling the
competition OF its Industries and as
serted that "all the while there was
lying behind It's thought. In It's dreams
tor the future. political control
which would enable II In the long
run to dominate the labor and the
industry OF the world.
Mr.. Wilson cited In this connection
the Beriin-to- -Bagdad railway which he
said. was constructed TO run the
threat OF force down The flank OF the
Industrial undertakings OF half doz.
en- other countries. 80 that when Ger.
man competition came in Il would
not be resisted too far sss because
there was always the possibility OF
getting German armies into the heart
OF that country quicker than any 9th.
er armies could get there"
Summing mp, he said that Germany
ss determined that the political power
Il the world shall belong to her.