The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-28

In words that tlngled with the SplFlC | of America in the great struggle, the | President reiterated the purposes for which the civilized world Is fighting, and made it plain that the only peace l we can consider is the peace of vic tory.
 A league of nations, the President said must be the instrumentality to make peace secure and permanent. Without it. he added, peace will rest in part upon the word of outlaws and only upon that word"
 The President showed his faith in the national by devoting only few words to the Liberty Loan. He declar- ed he knew the country would do it's part. He spoke to a wildly enthusi- astic audience, which let him know hisc onfidence would not be misplaced. The President struck home for his every word breathed fire and deter imitation and he declared with earn estness that peace could not rest "uppon the word of outlaws"
 We cannot come to terms with them" he said, flor they have made 1t impossible"
 President Wilson spoke as follows: My Fellow Citizens:
 l am not here to promote the loan. That will be done, ably and enthus- iasticalIy by the hundreds of thou sands of loyal and tireless men and women who have undertaken to pre- sent 1t to you and to our fellow citi- zens throughout the country And I have not the least doubt of their complete success, for I know their 1irit ,i,-it op My confidence is confirmed, too, by the thoughtful and experienced CO., operation of the bankers here and everywhere, who are lending their in- valuable aid and guidance.
 I have come, rather, to seek an op- portunity to present to you some thoughts which I trust will give you in perhaps fuller measure than be- fore, a vivid sense of the great is sues involved, in order that you may appreciate and accept with added en- thusiasm the grave significance of the duty of supporting the government by your men and your means to the ut most point of sacrifice and self-denial No man or woman who has really taken in what this war means car hesitate to give to the very limit o1 what they have; and it is my mission here tonight to try to make 1t clea1 once more what the war really means You will need no further stimulation or reminder of your duty.
 At every turn of the war we gail fresh consciousness of what w mean to accomplish by it. When ou hope and expectation are most excited we think more definitely than befor of the issues that hang upon it ant well-defined purposes which we di not determine and which we canno alter. No statesman or assembly ere ated them: no statesman or assembl can alter them.
 They have arisen out of the yer nature and circumstances of the wal The most that statesmen or assemble can do is to carry them out or b false to them. They were perhap not clear at the outset, but they ar clear now.
 The war has lasted more than fou wears. and the whole world has bee drawn into it The common will ( man has been substituted for the pal ticular purpose of individual state Individual statesmen may have star ed the conflict, but neither they nc their opponents can stop it as the please.
 It has become a peoples war, an peoples of all sorts and races, of evel degree of power and variety of fo tune. are involved in it's sweepir processes of change and settlemer I've came into it when its charact had become fully defined and it WI plain that no nation could stand apa or be indifferent to its outcome. l challenge drove to the heart of ever thing we cared for or lived for.
 The voice of the war had becon clear and gripped our hearts 0 brothers from many lands, as well our own murdered dead under t sea, were calling to us, and we r sponded, fiercely and of course.
 The air was clear about us. ' saw things in their full convinci proportions ais they were, and ' have seen them with steady eyes a unchanging comprehension ever sin' We accepted the issues of the war facts. not as any group of men eth here or elsewhere had defind the and we can accept no outcome whi does not suuarely meet and set them. The issues are these:
 Shall the military power of any I ton or group of nations be suffer 10 determine the fortunes of peep over whom they have no right to T1 except the right Of force?
 Shall strong nations be free
 wrong weak nations and make tn subject 70 their purpose and intere!
 Shall people be ruled and domin ed, even in their own internal afa1 (, by arbitrary and irresponsible force by their own will and choice?
 Shall there be a common stand; of right and privilege for all peep and nations. or shall the strong do f they will and the weak suffer with redress?
 Snail the assertion of right be h hazard and by casual alliance, or sl there be a common concert to obl the observance of common rights?
 No man or group of men, ch these to be the issues of the strug
 They are the issues of it; and {
 must be settled; by no arrangemen
 compromise or adjustment Gr in
 ests, but definitely and once for \ and with a full and unequivocal
 ceptance of the principle that the
 terest of the weakest is as sacred
 the interest of the strongest. This is what we mean when
 speak of a permanent peace, if
 speak sincerely, intelligently, and '
 6 real knowledge and comprehen