Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-09-28

Wilson'S
Address
PAGE EIGHT.
New York, Sept. 27.-The text OF
President Wilson'S address follows:

New York. Sept. 27.-The text OF
President Wilson'S address follows:
My fellow citizens:
I am not here to promote the loan.
That will be done-ably and enthu-
siastically done-by the hundreds of
thousands Of loyal and ~tireless men
and women who have undertaken to
present 1t to you and to our fellow
citizens throughout the country; and
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
invaluable aid and guidance. I have
come rather to seek In opportunity
which I trust will serve to give you,
in perhaps fuller measure than be-
fore, a vivid sense of the great issues
involved, in order that you may ap-
preciate and accept with added en-
thusiasm the grave significance of
ment 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
other stimulation or reminder of
your duty.
At every turn Of the war we gain
q fresh consciousness of what we
mean to accomplish by it. When our
hope n expectations are most ex-
before the issues that hang upon 1t
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 states
man or assembly created them: no
statesman or assembly can alter
very nature and circumstances of the
war. The most statesmen or as
semblies a do is to carry them out
or be false to them. They were per-
haps not clear at the outset; but they
are clear now. The wal has lasted
world has been drawn into it. The
common will of mankind has been
substituted for the particular pur-
poses of individual states. 1ndi-
vidual statesmen may have started
the conflict, but neither they nor
their opponents a stop it as they
please. 1t has become a peoples war
SAA1o PSOPlSS I'll ga OAO A~N~Os
of every degree Of power and variety
of fortune. are involved in its sweep
ing process OF change and settle
ment. We came into it when its
character had become fully defined
and it was plain that no nation could
outcome. Its challenge drove to the
heart of everything we cared for and
lived for. Our brothers from many
lands, as well as our own murdered
dead under the sea, were calling to
us, and we responded, fercely 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 junchanging comprehension ever
since. We accepted the issues Of the
war as facts, not as n group OF
men either here or elsewhere had
outcome which does not squarely
meet and settle them. These issues
are:
Shall the military power OF
any nation or group Of nations
he suffered to determine h for
tunes OF peoples over whom they
have no right to rule except the
right OF force?
shall strong nations be free to
wrong weak nNuOHS anu uIakc
them subject to their purpose
and interest?
Shall peoples he ruled and
dominated, yer in their own in
ternal affairs. by arbitrary and
irresponsible force or by their
own will and choice:
Shall there be a m
standard Of right INC privilege
for all peoples and nations or
shall the strong do as they will
and the weak suffer without re-
dress?
Shall the assertion of right he
haphazard and by casual alli-
ance or shall there he a COM
mon concer to obligc the OBJ
servancc of common rights:
No man, no group of men. chose
these to be the issues of the struggle.