Republican farmer., 1918-10-04
Addresses Immense Crowd in Metropolitan Opera House in New York Last night Clearly Defines Aims of America in the War-Peace to Come After Victory and Nations League to Follow Peace.

night, delivered the most effective 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 it plain that the only peace we can consider is the peace of vic- tory.
 A league of nations, the President said, must be the instrumentalfty 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 a few words to the Liberty Loan. He declar- ed he knew the country would do it's | part. He spoke to 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 mination 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 it impossible"
 President Wilson spoke as follows: My Fellow Citizens:
 l am not here to promote the loan. That will be done ably and enthus- iastically by the hundreds of thou sands of loyal and tireless men and women who have undertaken to pre- sent it to you and to our fellow c1ti- zens throughout the country And have not the least doubt of their complete success, for I know their spirit and the spirit of the country. 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 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 further stimulation or reminder of your duty.
 At every turn of the war we gain a fresh consciousness of what we mean to accomplish by it. When ou1 hope and expectation are most excited we think more definitely than before of the issues that hang upon it and well-defined purposes which we did not determine and which we cannot alter. No statesman or assembly cre- 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 perhaps not clear at the outset, but they are clear now.
 The war has lasted more than four years, and the whole world has been drawn into it. The common will ot man has been substituted for the par ticular purpose of individual states Individual statesmen may have start. ed the conflict, but neither they nol their opponents can stop it as they please.
 It has become peoples war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of for tune. are involved in it's sweeping processes of change and settlement We came into it when it's character had become fully defined and it wal plain that no nation could stand apar or be indifferent to it's outcome. It: challenge drove to the heart of every thing we cared for or lived for.
 The voice of the war had become clear and gripped our hearts Oul brothers from many lands, as well al our own murdered dead under th' sea, were calling to us, and we re sponded, f1ercely and of course.
 The air was clear about us. Wt saw things in their full, convincing proportions as they were, and w have seen them with steady eyes ana unchanging comprehension ever since We accepted the issues of the war 8! facts, not as any group of men either here or elsewhere had def1nd them and we can accept no outcome whicf l does not squarely meet and settle i them, The issues are these: Shall the military power of any na
 tion or group of nations be suffered to determine the fortunes of people, over whom they have no right to rule except the right of force?
 Shall strong nations be free tC , wrong weak nations and make +nen subject to their purpose and interest Shall people be ruled and dominat < ed. even in their own internal affairs by arbitrary and irresponsible force ol , bv their own will and choice?
 Shall there be a common standard of right and privilege for all people: . and nations, or shall the strong do a ; thev will and the weak suffer withou f redress?
 Snail the assertion of right be hap , hazard and by casual alliance. or shal h there be a common concert to obligt , the observance of common rights? r No man or group of men, chos a these to be the issues of the struggle n They are the issues of it; and the. q must be settled; by no arrangement 0 6 compromise or adjustment 5r inter
 ests, but definitely and once for al
 and with a full and unequIvocal ac s ceptance of the principle that the in . terest of the weakest is as sacred al I; the interest of the strongest. This is what we mean when w | speak of a permanent peace, if W, n speak sincerely. intel1igen-iy, and witt