New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-10-11
ENEMY WILL HAVE
TO PAY THE PRICE,"
ASSERTSPRES|OENT
Wilson Tells u. S. Aims in New
York Address.
no COMPROMISE WITH FOE"
Executive Says Peace Is Not a Cues
ton Of Coming to Terms "For We
Cannot Come to Terms With
Them" as "They Have
Made II Impossible"

Them" as "They Have
Made II Impossible"
New York, Sept. 30.-President WI
son, before an immense audience i
the Metropolitan opera house her
Friday night delivered the most smash
tng war address of his career.
In words hat tlngled with the spiri
Of America in the great struggle, tn
president reiterated the purposes 70
which the civilized world is fighting
and made It plain that the only peace
we can consider Is the peace of vic
tory.
The president showed his faith IL
the nation by devoting only a few
words to the Liberty loan. He de
Clnred he knew the country wOul(
do its part.
He spoke to a wildly enthusiastic
audience, which LET him know his con
fdenre would not be misplaced.
Text Of Address.
The president spoke in part as fol
lows:
"My Fellow Citizens: I am not here
N promote the loan. That will be done
ably and enthusiastically done-by
the hundreds of thousands of loyal and
~tireleSS men and women who have I'M
d%"rtakon to present it TO YOU and TO
our fellow citizens throughout the
country, and have not the least doubt
of their complete success, for | know
their spirit and the spirit Of the coun-
try.
"No man or woman who has really
taken In what this war means can hes
itate TO give to the very limit OF what
they have.
and il is my mission here to try to
make clear once more what the war
really means. You will need no other
stimulation.
I'VE accepted the issues OF the war
as facts. not as any group of men
either here or elsewhere had defined
them, and we can accept no outcome
which does not squarely meet and set
tie them.
The Wars Issueo.
"ThOSe issues are these:
"Shall the military power of any ma
tion or group of nations be suffered to
determine the fortunes of peoples over
whom they have no right to rule ex-
cert the right of force?
Shall strong nations be free to
wrong weak nations and make them
subject TO their purpose and interest?
"Shall people be ruled and dominat-
ed, even in their wv internal affairs,
by arbitrary and Irresponsible force,
or by their W will and choice?
"Shnll there be Il Ommon standard
Of right and privilege for all peoples
and nations or shall the strong do as
they will and the weak suffer without
redress?
"Shall the assertion of right be hap
hazard and by casual alliance or shall
there be n common concert to oblige
the observance of common rights?
mo man, no group Of men, chose
these TO be the issues of the struggle. |
They are the issues of IT, and they
must be settled by no arrangement or
compromise or adjustment Of interests,
but definitely and once for all and with
n full and unequivocal acceptance of
the principle that the interest of the
weakest is as sacred as the interest of
the strongest.
Enemy Without Honor.
This is what we mean when we
speak of a permanent peace, if we
speak sincerely, intelligently, and
with a real knowledge and compre-
hension of the matter we deal with.
I'VE are all agreed that there
can be no peace obtained by any
kind Of bargain or compromise with
the governments of the central en-
pires, because w have dealt with
them already and have seen them
deal with other governments that were
and Bucharest.
They have convinced us that
they are without honor and do not
intend Justice. They observe no
covenants, accept no principle but
force and their W interests.
Impossible to Come to Terms.
I'VE cannot come to terms with
them. They have made 1t impossible.
THE German people must by this
time be fully aware that we cannot
accept the word of those who forced
war upon us. We do not think
same thoughts or speak the same
language of agreement.
at is Of capital Importance that we
should be explicitly agreed that no ,
peace shall be obtained by any kind
Of compromise or abatement Of the
principles we have avOwed as the prin !
riples for which we are fighting. l
There should exist no doubt about .
hat. I am. therefore. going to take !
liberty Of speaking with the ut. '
most frankness about the practical I'm. .
)licatiOns that are involved in Il. !,
Foe Must Pay the Price. r
IF 1t be in deed and in truth the
object of the governments t
associated against Germany and Of y
he nations whom they govern. as l v
II to be, to achieve by the COM u
True Happiness. a
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