The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-10-11
PRESIDENT DELIVERS
GREAT WAR ADDRESS
Speaks to Liberty Loan Workers in
New York: States Price of Peace: :
Demands Impartial Justice for All
Nations: Conditions for Germany.
The President spoke as follows:

The President spoke as follows:
my Fellow Citizens:-I 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 un-
dertaken to present it to you and to
our fellow citizens throughout the
country; and l have not the least
doubt of their complete success; for
/ know their spirit and TIE spirit of the
country. My confidence is confirmed,
too, by the thoughtful and experienced
cooperation of the bankers here and
everywhere, who ere lending their in
valuable aid end guidance. | have
come rather to seek an opportunity to
present to you some thoughts which
l trust will serve to give you, in per-
haps fuller measure than before WV
id sense of the great issues involved,
j.. order that you may appreciate and
accept with added enthusiasm the
glave significance of the duty of sup
porting the government by your men
and your means to the utmost point of
sacrifice and self-denial. No man or
woman who has really taken in what
this war means can hesitate to give to
the very limit of what they have, and
it is my mission here tonight to try
to make it clear once more what the
war really means. You will need no
other stimulation or reminder of your
duty.
"At every turn of the war we gain
o fresh consciousness of what we mean
10 accomplish by it. When our hope
and expectation are most excited We
think more definitely than before of
the issues that hang upon it and of the
purposes which must be realized by
means of it. For it has positive and
we'll defined purposes which we did not
determine and which we cannot alter
No statesman nor assembly created
them; no statesmen nor assembly can
alter them. They have arisen out of
the very nature and circumstances of
the war. The most that statesmen or
assemblies can do is to carry them out
or be false to them. They were, per-
haps, not clear at the outset; but they
are clearer now.
"The war has lasted more than four
years and the whole world has been
drawn into it. The common will of
mankind has been substituted for the
particular purposes of individual states
Individual statesmen may have started
the conflict, but neither they nor their
opponents can stop it as they please.
1t has become peoples war and peo-
Piles of all sorts and races, of every
cegree Of power and variety of for.
tune are involved in its sweeping pro-
cesse of change and settlement. We
came into it when its character had
become fully defined and it was plain
that no nation could stand apart or be
indifferent to it's outcome. It's chal-
ienge drove to the heart of everything
We cared for and lived for. Our broth
ers from many lands, as we'll as our
own, murdered, dead under the sea,
were calling to US, and we responded,
tiercely, and of course.
"The air was clear about US. We
saw things in their full, convincing
proportions as they were; and we have
seen them with steady eyes and unehan
glng comprehension ever since. We
acceptd 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 settle them. These
issues are these:
"Shall the military power of any
nation or group of nations be suffered
to determine the fortunes of peoples
over whom they have no right to rule
except the right of force?
Shall strong nations be free to
wrong weak nations and make them
subject to their purpose and interest?
Shall peoples 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 a common standard