Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-03

to state with confidence is that it
 would be a disservice alike to the
 country and to the owners of the rail
 roads to return to the old conditions
 unmodified. These are conditions of
 restraint without development. There
 is nothing affirmative or helpful about
 them. What the country chiefly needs
 is that all it's means of transportation
 should be developed. its railways, it's
 waterways, it's highways and it's
 countryside roads. Some new element
 of policy therefore, is absolutely
 essary-necessary for the service
 of the public, necessary for the re-
 lease of credit to those who are ad-
 ministering the railways, necessary
 for the protection of their security
 holders, The old policy may be changed much or little, but surely it cannot wisely be left as it was hope that the congress will have a com plete and impartial study of the whole problem instituted at once and prosecuted as rapidly as possible.
 '1 stand ready and anxious to re- lease the roads from the present con trol and l must do so at a very early date if by waiting until the statutory limit of time is reached I shall be merely prolonging the period of doubt and uncertainty which is hurtful to ev- cry interest concerned.
 q welcome this occasion to an- nOunce to the congress my purpose to meet in Paris the representatives of the governments with which we have been associated in the war against the central empires for the purpose of discussing with them the main fea- lures of the treaty of peace. l realize the great inconveniences that will at- tend my leaving the country. particu- larly at this time but the conclusion that it was my paramount duty to go has been forced upon me by considera- tions which l hope will seem as con elusive to you as they have seemed to me.
 ''The allied governments have ac- cepted the basis of peace which 1 out lined to congress on the 11th of Jan uary last, as the central powers also have, and very reasonably desire my personal counsel in their interpreta- tion and application, and it is highly desirable that I should give it in order that the sincere desire of our gov ernment to contribute without selfish purposes of any kind to settlements that will be common benefit to all the nations concerned may be made fully manifest. The peace settlements which are now to be agreed upon are of tran scendent importance both to us and to the rest of the world, and l know of no business of interest which should take precedence of them. The gal Iant men of our American forces on and and sea have consistently fought for the ideals which they knew to be the ideals of their country; 1 have thought to express the ideals; they nave accepted my statements of them IS the substance of their own thought md purpose, as the associated govern nents have accepted them; l owe to | hem to see to it, so far as in me lies, | hat no false or mistaken interpreta- ion is put upon them, and no possible effort omitted to realize them. It is | low my duty to play my full part in making good what they offered their ife's blood to obtain. I can think of 10 call to service which could tran icend this.
 ''I shall be in close touch with you md with affairs on this side of the water. and you will know all that do. At my request the French and Eng ish governments have absolutely re moved the censorship of cable new