Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-03-09
WILSON APPEALS
FOR LABOR'S AID
CONVENTION CHEERS RINGING
STATEMENTS OF PRESIDENT
IN BUFFALO ADDRESS.
is Opposed to Peace Until the War
Against Germany Has Been Won,
Declaring Victory Only Road
to Permanent Peace.

Buffalo, n. Y.-President Wilson, in
Il forceful address here on November
II before the American Federation or
Labor, appealed to the working men
of the United States for cooperation
in the conduct of the war, and made 1t
clear that he opposes peace until the
war against Germany has been won.
The president declared that his
heart was with "the feeling of the
pacifists," but that my mind has
contempt for them"
Il want peace, but l know how to
get it and they do not he declared.
Col. E. NJ. House, head of the Ameri
can delegation to the allied war con-
ference, the president said, had been
sent to take part in Il conference as to
how the war was to be won, land he
knows, as | know, that that is the
way to get peace if you want it for
more than a few minutes
War Statements Applauded.
The 400 delegates to the convention
and the several thousand persons ad-
lullteu W iie HAIL W near Inc pleSl-
dent speak arose and applauded this
declaration with a tremendous burst
of cheers. Another demonstration of
approval came when he said:
1--WE must stand together, night and
day, until this job is finished"
The president, while devoting his
address to problems for the people of
the United States, laid emphasis upon
the broader phases of the world con-
fiict in way that seemed to indicate
that his speech was possibly intended
as a message to the people of Ger
many, of Austria and of Russia, as
well as of the United States. He de-
cared his belief that We're it not for
the pan Germans, the spirit of free
dom would find "as fine welcome in
the hearts of Germans as it can find
in any other heart"
Power" he said, cannot be used
with concentrated force against free
peoples, if it is to- be used by free
people"
Speaking, probably of Austria, Mr..
Wilson referred to the intimations of
anxiety for peace that had come from
one of the central powers" and de-
clared that it means that the people
in that central power know that If the
war ends as it stands, they will, in
effect, themselves be vassals of Ger
many, Notwithstanding that
they do not wish in their pride and
proper spirit of nationality to be abb
sorbed and dominated"
OF Russia he said that he was
amazed that some groups in that coun-
try could suppose that "any reform
plans in the interest of the people can
live in the presence of a Germany pow
erful enough to undermine or over
throw them by intrigue or force"
Pacfists Are Fatuous.
''Fatuous as the dreamers of Rus
sia,' We're those persons in this coun-
try, he declared emphatically, who
suppose that 'the free industry and
enterprise of the world can continue
if the pan-German plan is achieved
and the German power fastened upon
the world"
The president directly asserted that
Germany had started the war ana said
he would leave confirmation of this
statement to the verdict of history.
He referred to Germany's growth to n
'place in the sum-" and asked why she
was not satisfied when she gained that
position. In answer he described the
German governments methods of con-
trolling the competition of its indus
tries and asserted that 'all the while
there was lying behind its thought, in
its dreams for the future, political
control which would enable 1t in the
long run to dominate the labor and in
dustry of the world
Through r. r. Force Threat.
Mr.. Wilson cited in this connection
the Berlin-to -Bagdad railway which,
he said, was constructed to run the
threat of force down the flank of the
industrial undertakings of half dozen
other countries, so that when German
competition came in 1t would not be
resisted too far because
there was always the possibility of
getting German armies into the heart
of that country quicker than any other
armies could get there
Summing it up, he said that Ger
many Is determined that the political
power of the world shall belong to
her, and that never before had such
ambitions been based upon so exact
and precise and scientific plan of
domination. ,
The president voiced in terms of
eulogy his approval of the conduct OF