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u ShAll take the liberty Of suggest
I'M, sthrOugl the several executive de
partments OF the government, for the
confederation OF your committees
measures for the accomplishment Of
tho several objects I have mentioned.
y hope that It will be your pleasure to
deal with them as having been framed
after very careful thought by the
branch of the government upon which
the responsibility of conducting the
war and safeguarding the nation will
most directly fall.
While we do these things, these
deeply momentous things, let us be
very clear and make very clear tc
Ill the world what our motives and
Onr objects are. My own thought has
not been driven from It's habitual and
normal course by the unhappy events
OF the last two months and / do not
believe that the thought Of the nation
has been altered or clouded by them.
Same objects In Wow.
II have exactly the same things In
mind nov that / had In mind when ]
addressed the senate on the 22nd OF
January last; the same that l had In
mind when | addressed the congress
on the third OF February and on the
26th Of February. Our object now, az
then, Ia to vindicate the principles OF
peace and justice In the life Of the
world as against selfish and autocratic
power and to set up amongst the real.
" free and self-governed peoples OF
the world SUCH concert of purpose
and Of action as will hencforth ensure
the observance Of these principles.
Neutrality is nc longer feasible or de.
sirable where the peace Of the world
10 involved and the freedom OF its
peoples and the menace to that peace
and freedom lies In the existence Of
autocratic governments. backed by or
ganized force which is controlled Who'll.
y by their will, not by the will Of
their people.
we have seen the last of neutral.
lty In such circumstances. We are at
the beginning OF an age In which II
viii be insisted that the same stand.
ards OF conduct and OF responsibility
tor wrong done shall be observed
among nations and their governments
that are observed among the individ.
ual citizens OF civilized states.
No Quarrel With German People.
I'VE have no quarrel with the Ger
ma people. We have no feeling to.
wards them but n of sympathy and
friendship. 1t was not upon their I'm.
pulse that their government acted in
entering this war. It was not with
thor previous advantage or approval.
II was a war determined upon as
wars used to be determined upon In
the old. unhappy days when peoples
we're nowhere consulted by their rul.
srs, and wars we're provoked and
Waged In the interest of dynasties or
little groups of ambitious men who
were accustomed to use their. fellow
men as pawns and toolH.
Send No swarms OF Spies.
sSelf.governed nations do not All
their neighbor states with spies or
ut the purse OF intrigue to bring
about ome critical posture Of affairs
which will give them an opportunity
10 strike and make conquest.
Such. designs can be successfully
worked out only under cover and
where no n has the right to ask
questions. Cunningly contrived plans
of deception or aggression, carried, 1t
may be, from generation to generation,
can be worked out and kept from the
light only within the privacy Of courts
~ behind the carefully guarded con.
sddencss Of . narrow and privileged
ulass. a
They are happily impossible where
subtle opinion commands and insists
apon full information concerning all
tAs nations affairs.
intrigue Eats vitais Away.
Asteadfast concert for peace can
never Be maintained except BY part,
nlstship 6f democratic nations. No
sk~ntocratic government could be trust.
q 70 keep faith within 1t or observe
10 covenants. II must Do i league
~ honor. Z pertnership Of opinion.
Intrigue would eaG itsayitals away:
~ plottinGs % innsr circles who
coald plan what they would render
apoount = nounesNould he ! corrup.
skicn selxeda& itssvetys heart.
sOniy free peoples can hold their
parposs md their honor steady TO !
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