Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-10-03
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Wilson Tells U. S. Aims in New
York Address.
"No COMPROMISE WITH FOE"

Executive says Feace Is Not CUES
ton Of Coming to Terms "For We
Cannot Come to Terms With
Them" as "They Have
Made It impossible"
New York, Sept. 3d. President Will
son, before an immense audience in
the Metropolitan opera house here
Friday night delivered the most smash
ing war address of his career.
In words that tingled with the spirit
Of America in the great struggle the
president reiterated the purposes for
which the civilized world is fighting
and made 1t plain that the only peace
we can consider is the peace OF vic
tory.
The president showed his faith in
the nation by devoting only few
words to the Liberty loan. He de-
clared he knew the country would
do its part.
He spoke to wildly enthusiastic
audience. which let him know his con-
fidence would not he misplaced.
Text of Address.
The president spoke in part as fol-
lows:
MY Fellow Citizens: am not here
to 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
dertaken to present it to you and to
our fellow citizens throughout the
country, and have not the least doubt
Of their complete success, for 1 know
their spirit and the spirit of the coun-
try.
No man or woman who has really
taken in what this war means can he's
ftate to give to the very limit Of what.
they have.
And it is my mission here to try to
make clear once more what the war
really means. You will need no other
stimulation.
"We 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 Issues.
Those issues are these:
Shall the military power of any ma
ton or group of nations be suffered to
determine the fortunes of peoples over
whom they have no right to rule ex-
cept 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 own internal affairs,
by arbitrary and irresponsible force,
or by their own will and choice?
"Shall there be common 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 heNassertion of right be hap
hazard and by casual alliance or shall
there be a 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 lit, and they
must be settled by no arrangement or
compromise or adjustment of interests,
but definitely and once for all and with
a 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 permanent peace, if we
speak sincerely, intelligently, and
with a real knowledge and compre-
hension Of the matter we deal with.
1--WE 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 we have dealt with
them already and have seen them
deal with other governments that were
party to this struggle, at Brest-Litovsk
and Bucharest.
"They have convinced us that
they are without honor and do not
mlcHu JuSllCS. 1uey observe no
covenants, accept no principle but
force and their own interests.
lmpossible to Come to Terms.
1--WE 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
this war upon us. We do not think
the same thoughts or speak the same
language of agreement.
ut 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 ayowed as the prin.
ciples for which we are fighting.
There should exist no doubt about
that. am, therefore, going to take
the liberty of speaking with the ut
most frankness about the practical i'm.
plications that are involved in it.
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