The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-12
PRESIDENT
TO CONGRESS
Counsels Self-Possession on
This Hour of Our
Triumph
CONQUER THE WORLD
BY FORCE OF EXAMPLE.
We Must Hold the Light
Steady for the Crop
ing Peoples

Washington, Nov. l2--The terms o
the armistice with Germany were read t
Congress by President Wilson at o'clocl
yesterday afternoon. Assembled in tn
hall of the House, where 10 months ag,
senators and representatives heard tn,
president ask for the declaration of war
they yesterday heard him speak thu
words which heralded the coming 81
peace.
The president spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress:
In these times of rapid and stupen.
dous change it will in some degree light.
en- my sense of responsibility to perform
In person the duty of communicating To
you some of the larger circumstances OF
the situation with which it is necessary
to deal
The German authorities who have. at
the invitation of the supreme war coun.
ell, been in communication with Marshal
foeh, have accepted and signed the terms
OF armistice, which he was authorized
and instructed to communicate to them. ("
The president then read the terms.
continuing, then, he further said
Inc war thus comes to an end--for
having accepted the terms of an armistice
u VIII be impossible for the German com
mand to renew it.
1t IS not now possible to assess the
consequences Of this great contamination.
we know only that this tragical war.
whose consuming flames swept from one
nation to another until all the world was
on fire, is at end and that It was the
privilege of our own people to enter IL M
It's most critical juncture in such fashion
and in such force as to contribute in a
way OF which we are all deeply proud, to
the great result. We know, too, that the
OBJECT OF the war is attained, the object
upon which all free men had set their
hearts; and attained with a sweeping |
completeness which even now we do not /
realize. Armed Imperialism such as the !,
men conceived who were but Yesterday |
the masters Of Germany is at an end; its /
Illicit ambitions engulfed in black dis |
aster Who will now seek to revive itY |
lhe arbitrary power of the military caste
OF Germany which once could secretly
and OF its own single choice disturb the
peace of the world is discredited and de-
stroyed. And more than that-much
more than that-has been accomplished
he great nations which associated them
selves to destroy it have now definitely
united in the common purpose to set up
such peace as will satisfy the longing
OF the whole world for disinterested ius.
tice, embodied in settlements which are {
based upon something much better and I
more lasting than the selfish competitive I
interests OF powerful states. There is no /
longer conjecture as to the objects the a
Fletors have in mind They have a mind t
n the matter, not only, but heart also. !
The avowed and concerted purpose is to
'atisfy and protect the weak as well az d
% accord their just rights to the strong. Q
Ihe humane temper and intention OF | il
ne victorious governments has already /
,een manifested in very practical way. Il
Their representatives in the supreme war /
council at Versailles have by unanimous v
esolution assured the peoples of the cen o
raj empires that everything that is pos t,
ibie IN the circumstances win be done TO f,
ulpply them with food and relieve the n
distressing want that is in so MANY d
'laces threatening their very lives; and b,
teps are to be taken Immediately to or II
anize these efforts at relief in the same al
SYSTEMATIC manner that they were organ Il