OUR IMMEDIATE TASK IS TO ^ WIN WAR PRESIDENT WILSON TKI-LS CONGKKS! (Continued from Page 1.) ties." Just bepausp this onulo fnr mula expresses the instinctive judg ment as to right of plain men every where, it has been made diligent us< of by the masters of German intri gue to lead the people of Russia as tray?and the people of every othe country their agents could reacn. ii order that a premature peace migh be brought about before autocrac; has been taught its final and con vlnclng lesson, and the people of th' world put in control of their owi destlnieB. But the fact that a wrong use ha been made of a just idea is no rea eon why a right use should not b made of it. It ought to be brougli under the patronage of its rea friends. Let it be said again tha autocracy must first -be shown th utter futility of its claims to powe or leadership in Hie modern world It is impossible to apply any stand ard of justice so long as such force are unchecked and undefeated as th present masters of Germany com mand. Not until that has been don can right be set up as arbiter an peacemaker among the nations. Hu when that has been done?as. Go willing. It assuredly will be?w Bhall at last be free to do an unprt vOTicinrii Ullll IIUS l!? (lit* IIIII to avow our purpose to do it. W shall be free to base peace on ger erosity and justice, to the excluslo of all selfish claims to advantag even on the part of the victors. Let there be no misunderstanding Our present and Immediate task i to win the war. and nothing sha turn us aside from it until it is a< complished. Every power and r< source we possess, whether of mei of money, or of materials, is bein * . M * * rurni r?? "71?ifTf" ! i ' 5! i : j ; I IB 1 -- HAH .. J J Have You Cau Gifts For Chri It Is The R( bine The Useful Sentiment. Yoi T"! T"'l i nose i nat uiv ?Or A Month? Not Give Your 1 Will Outlast Pa; As Only Gooc Stores Furniture Now Is The Full Stock Is Re Devote Their Ui < I ANCASTEF The Best Plac rHE LANCASTER N developed and will continue to be de- the Impudent and alien voted to the purpose until it Is of the Prussian milltnt achieved. Those who desire to merc'al autocracy. _ bring peace about before that pur- PurlH>tM* to 1 pose is achieved I counsel to carrv we owe 11, h(>wever. to say that we do not their advice elsewhere. We will not ... way to impair or to r< entertain it. We shall regard the Au8tro_?ungarlan empll " war as won only when the German affair of ou,.8 what t - people say to us. through properly thejr QWn ,|fe e,(her {n " accredited representatives, that they po,ltloally We do not b are ready to agree to a settlement dC8ire fQ dlptate t(j t| - based upon justice and the repara- way Wp on,y deg|n? " tion of the wrongs their rulers have thp,r affa,rg are ,eft , done.. They have done a wrong to han(,8 ,n a? matterB> Rr J Belgium which must be repaired We 8ha? hope to 8ecure t They have established a power over p,eg Qf the Ba,kftn pen,r Y other lands and peoples than their the pe()p,e Qf thp Turk|s - 0Wn_0ver the great empire of Aus- rlRht and opp0rtun|ty t) ? tria-Hungary. over hitherto free QWn ?ve8 8afe the,r c ? Balkan states, over Turkey. and 8ecure aRain8l oppre8fji within Asia?which must be relin- t,ce and from the (Uct. s quished. r,Kn courts or parties. " Germany's success by skill, by in- And QUr attltude a ^ dustry. by knowledge, by enterprise wUh regard t() 0erman 11 we did not grudge or oppose, but ad- . ... ... -- cu a line Kind. we 1 mired, rather. She had built up for t K wronu against the Oer t herself a real empire of trade and n<> lnterference wlth ho influence, secured by the peace of the fa|fs We ahou)d (,epi 1 world. We were content to abide ,. ., , . I one or the other absolv ' by the rivalries of manufacture. , . . . , , > liable, absolutely cont l~ science and commerce that were in- , . , . , _ , principles we have prof a volvod for us in her success, and . . , . . . ? : by and to hold most sa< ? stand or fall as wo had or did not , out our life as a natioi l~ have the brains and the initiative G to surpass her. But at the moment I people of (,crmn r' when she had conspicuously won her "ie niHn h? triumphs of peace she threw them | pei to ('ere'vo then n away, to establish in their stead as their thai e (what the world will no longer per ' mit to be established, military and G political domination by arms, by Jy |T^; e . which to oust where she could not 1 | excel the rivals she feared and V^m we li deliver the once fair and happy pen- M ill " f Belgium northern is France from the Prussian conquest Al "m I the peoples of Austria-Hungary, the peoples the i. Balkans, and the peoples of Turkey. from lake This A iture Christmas' Tpnrl p ght the Spirit of Giving Furnit stmas ? jsult Of The Modern Desire To C Tko Rooiifriful I*- I? A C v v i%iA m IIV/ A^VC4itllI Ul? ILL IS) / V oeriv u Yourself Appreciate Most Of e Pleasure Not Merely For A Mon -But For Years?A Lifetime. SoV Friends And Dear Ones Gifts W ssing Fads And Fancies?Such C 1 Furniture?Lancaster Departn !?Makes. Time To Make Your Selection?< ady And Our Salespople Are Free ndivided Attention To You. \ Department Qtof e ** To Shop Alter ^ All" EW8. FRIDAY, DEC. 7. 1917. i domination fighting for the very life and exist-J powerful nations, and y and com- ence of their empire, a war of des- enemies as well as 01 perate self-defense against deliber- sociates in the war. I Mctate. ate agression. Nothing could be and am thinking no> to ourselves lnore grossly or wantonly false, and herself, among the rea wish in any we mast Reek by the utmost open- Serbia and of Poland sarrange the ueM and candor as to our real aims equality of rights can e. It is no to convince them of its falseness, a great price. We ar hey do with' ^ e are 'n ^act fighting for their raanent, not temporar dustrinlly or I emanclpation from fear, along with for the peace of the wi purpose orlour own?fi'om the fear as well as seek them candidly i hem in anyifrom fact of unjust attack by As always, the right w to see that 1 neighbors or rivals or schemers af- the expedient, n their own 'er world empire. No one is "What '~,,all we do, eat or small, j threatening the existence or the in- this great war of fre< for the Peo-:t,ePendence or the peaceful enter- tice to its righteous < isula and foi Pri8e of the German empire. We must clear awa; h empire the Worst That Could Happen. ough hand all impedi 3 make their The worst that can happen to the cess and we nniBt 111 >wn fortunes detriment of the German people is Justment of law that on or injus- this, that if they should still, after ,he fl,n and ,ree use ition of for- the war is over, continue to be oblig- .capacity and force ed to live under ambitious and in- unlt. ind purpose triguing masters interested to dis- One very emlmrras y herself are turb the peace of the world, men or that stands in our w ! intend no classes of men whom the other peo- are at war with Ger man empire, pies of the world could not trust, it with her allies. 1 tl r internal af- might be impossible to admit them earnestly recommend ii either the to the partnership of nations which gress immediately decl itely unjusti- must henceforth guarantee the States in a state of < rary to the world's peace. That partnership tria-Hungary. Does ii essed to live must he a partnership of peoples, to you that this sliou red through- not a mere partnership of govern- elusion of the argunic i. ments. It might be impossible, also, addressed to you It ny are being s,,ch untoward circumstances, to a fact the inevitable 1 in they nowiadn,'t Germany to the free economic have said. Austria-I l and to act intercourse which must inevitably time being not her ow inev are uui ui me oiner partnerships simply the vassal of of a real peace. But there would be government. We must a no aggression in that; and such a as they are and act ui situation, inevitable because of dis- out sentiment in this trust, would in the very nature of The government of things sooner or later cure itself by gary is not acting process which would assuredly set initiative or in respons in. and feelings of its j The wrongs, the very deep wrongs instrument of a J committed in this war will have to must meet its t | be righted. That, of course, can- ?wn and regard the not and must not be righted by the ;is '"ft one. The wt commission of similar wrongs cessfully conducted in against fJermany and her allies. The The same logic would world will not permit the cotntnis- declaration of war : sion of similar wrongs as a means and Bulgaria. They of reparation and settlement, tools of (lermany. Statesmen must by this time have mere tools and not y< learned that the opinion of the direct path of our n? world is everywhere wide awake and We shall go whnevi | j fully comprehends the issues in- i'es of this war ca ! volved. No representative of any seems to me that we self-governed nation will dare disre- where immediate and gard it by attempting any such cov- siderations lead us, enants of selfishness and compromise an>' others. [as were entered info at the congress The financial and 'J of Vienna. The thought of the plain ures which must be people here and everywhere suggest themselves a throughout the world, the people its undertakings deve | who enjoy no privileges and have take the liberty of pr very simple and unsophisticated certain other acts j standards of right or wrong, is the which seems to me to air all governments must henceforth the support of the w , breathe if thev wmiM i? !. - > -? -- ? ......... n ?.-> rfH'iiHe ui our w noie the full disclosing light of that orgy. thought that all policies must he Heconimenils Le 'conceived and executed in this mid- ... , It will he necessar .day hour of the world's life. (!er- . . . ,. certain particulars tin man rulers have been able to upset .... ... the last session with i the peace of the world only because . . enemies; and also n? the fJerman neonle were not sutler11rVf to CI'CMVC VST ed under their tutelage to share the ' *' " . .... . . particular control ove comradeship of the other peoples of . ? , . I . . . , . . and departure of al the would either in thought or in , ? ,, . , , ? , and from the United i 1 purpose. Thev were allowed to , . . .. ...... Legislation should I have no opinion of their own which ,, . ... I . . . . . . , . . fining as a criminal might be set up as a rule of conduct .... ... ... wilful violation or th< for those who exercised authority ? ... ... relating to alien eneni over them. But the congress that , . . . , . , ...... ed under section 4.061 concludes this war will feel the . , .. ... ... statutes and providli strength of the tides that run now . . , , , . . punishments; and woi in the hearts and consciences of free , , . , . men should be inclui men everywhere. Its conclusions i ... ... .. ... terms of the acts pla will run with those tides. upon alien enemies. 1 \l1Y0 ' Kunsia. as goes on many lit I tT \11 these things have been true wi 11 he willing to he from the very beginning of this stu- ai the expense of t pendous war; and I ran not help jn tli?> detention cata] thinking that if they had been made the purpose of th plain at the very outset the sympa- )inVe suggested to co thy and enthusiasm of the Russian nninnf pur- Recent experience pose effected. Had they believed nu. tlint the congress ^|| these things at the very moment of ,,u.r in authorizing tl their revolution and had they been ,n s(.t limits to prices confirmed in that belief since, the s?pp|y and demand. sail reverses which have recently sliy has 1 replace I7L? marked the progress of their affair unrestrained seltis * towards an ordered and stable gov- we have eliminated - 1 ernnient of free men might have several branches of in llCIl been avoided. The Russian people runs impudently rami * Cm have been poisoned by the very y^e farmers. for llltS falsehoods that have kept the Ger- piain with a great <1 man people in the dark, and the (hat. while the regu] poison has been administered by the prj(f?s restricts their t veiy same hands. The only possible Htraints are placed u] antidote Is the truth. It cannot be Qf most of the thin uttered too plainly or too often. themselves purchase; Our I From e ery point of view, it has ine lualities obtain or seemed to bo my duty to speak these It is Imperatively > Tn declarations of purpose to add these the consideration of t specific interpretations to what I the waterpower of th took the liberty of saying to the also the consideration ; senate in January. Our entrance matlc and yet econo into the war has not altered our at- ment of such of thi == titude towards the settlement that sources of the counti must come when it Is over. When I under control of the sabl In January that the nations of eminent should be ii Imm the world were entitled not only to sumed and afflrmatb 'LV free pathways upon the sea, but also st r net i vely dealt with to assured and unmolested access to J possible moment. Th? I those pathways, I was thinking, and j of such legislation is i ,1 am thinking now, not of the, more obvious, smaller and weaker nations alone, I The legislation pri 1 which need our countenance and | last session with regai MM support, but also of the great and combinations among 4 ? ? of our present in order to provide f ur present as- trade a more effectiv was thinging amj Gf C0.0p v, or Austria . ,, r l>y all means to be coi f n? UOll !tu nf Justice nnd session, be had only at Kxpenditui e seeking per And I beg that the i y, foundations house of representatii orld, and must |ne express the o md fearlessly. wm j,,. impossible to < ill prove to be a very wasteful an< fashion with the em then, to push priations of the public doni and jus- must continue to be conclusion? war is to be be prop v with a thor- unless the house will nients to sue- turn to its former pra< ake every ad- ing and preparing all will facilitate bills through a single of our whole order that responsil as a lighting centered, expenditure! and made uniform a ising obstacle duplication as nine ay is that we avoided, many but not Additional legislate lierefore very become necessary be that the con- cut congress adjourn: are the t'nited tfer to effect the 1110 .var with Aus- ordination and operat L seem strange way and other tram id be the con- terns of the country; nt I have just shall, if circumstanc is not. It is Inland, rail the attonti ogic of what I press upon another o< lungary is for jr i have overlor, n mistress, but I that ought to be don the German 1 effective conduct of face the facts I Gwn counsels will su ion them with-l8|on. What I ant stern business. I about is that in the Austria-Hun ,,f the congress our 1 upon its own I and energy should 1 le to the wishes I on the vigorous, rapl teoples. but aslfUi prosecution of th nother nation.I winning the war. 'orce with our I (>nn ,t? , wit central powers I, aml ,.nthusin ir can be suc" I hnow that for us th no other %xaJ,jhigh principle. debus lead also to n 1 fjsh ambition of com igainst Turkey I (lon; because we km also are the 1 wor,(, Allows, that Hut 1hc\ a eI j-0,.f.ed into it to save et stand in ?*Hn.,ions XV(. Uv,. ?nde 'cessary action l)jon am, destruction, sr the necessi-1 j. (hp rentrnl powers rry us. but i? 1 t (he very h,.art Qf should go only LelieVP ln; ,helr m< practical ron I fare outrage every p and not heed man|ty all(, uf kn i their intrigue has military rneas-1 V( ry thought and spi adopted will 1 our people: their sin s the war and I diplomacy has sougl lop, but I will I very territory away ft oposing to you I ?-,? ? 1 ? ~* *l villi V lie Ulllllll l'l 11 of legislation 8af0(y would be a i be needed foi honor forever sulliei ar and for the jnto contempt were i force and en- t,jUUiph. They are very existence of dem gislntion. erty. y to extend in it is because it is ; legislation of of high, disintereste regard to alien which all the free cessarv, I be- world are banded to v definite and vindication o! right, r the entrance preservation of our I persons into ajj ,ju,t it has held d? itates. and of purpose, thai be enacted do- se)ves doubly constrai offense every tor jt?; outcome only b proclamation righteous and of irn ies promulgat- tention, for our foes of the revised friends. The ca ig appropriate amj holy, the settlenv nen as well as motive and qua ;led under the we oan flght. but for r cing restraints },|e or joss worthy of t is likely that j.-or (his cause we ei alien enemies U1(1 tor this cause we fed and hous- ,jj ti,e last gun is fin he government , , ?.? - [>S. and it will ' e legislation I "P,ns to n,e ,he nfine offender* m?s' n,008sary ? ?? ??<> w? must go fur ,,U'n ,nv i,,Pa, or He government v hich ,h" nani? of An i. The law of ,10l(l in honor ?mon I am sorry to '",,l f,u wh,ch 11 haa d by the law rnn,on'' '? 'he K" hness. Whip tha' wonl before us. profiteering ir n,onl of history has c< idustry, it still of ,ho People have be >ant In others ,,iey Tho han<1 example, com ,,pon ,h'' ??tions. He leal of justice favor- 1 devoutly h< lation of food ,hoy ',so ,ho c,ear ncomes, no re- ?wn J"*" ' ???' mer pon the prices ~ gs they must 240 ,,0lND and similar With corn above 51 i all sides. their heads off very necessary tha? hog that takes two oi he full use of to get on full feed ne e country and a profit. of the syste- When you are read mical develop shoats on feed, begin e natural re Thomas Hog Medicine ry as are sti! and watch your sho i federal gov- Into fat hogs in nine nmediately re going well over 200 itely and con- high as 240 pounds, at the earliest crape feeding and yoi pressing need the B. A. Thomas med daily becoming Investment. Try fee hogs on this plan and oposed at the more than pleased, i rd to regulated the cost of the medich our exporters, lauicaster Mere* I 7 "i "ui lurci^u e organization leration, ought mpleted at thia res. neinbers of the es will permit pinion that it leal in any but I extravagant ornious appro moneys which made, if the erly sustained, consent to rertice of initialappropriation committee, in bilit.v may be s standardized nd waste and h as possible in may also fore the press again in orst efficient coion of the railsportation sysbut to thsit I es should deion of the eon casion. iked anything e for the more the war. your pply the omisperfectlv clear present session , whole attention >e concentrated id and successes ...... w, and all the we have been the very instir from corrupThe purposes j strike straight everything we j thods of war- | irineiple of liulightlv honor; , corrupted the rit of many of ister and secret ; it to take our ' rom us and dis- ' te states. Our J t an end. our rl and brought to permit their striking at the i locraey and lib- > ] for us a war I d purpose, in peoples of the gether for the 1 ?1 ?!* * 1. . 1 " '?i I Wl lilt* nation and of * :?ar of principle 1 t we feel our- ' nod to propose that which is 0 >proachahle in- ^ as well as for use being just i ent must be of 6 lity. For this milling less no- ? our traditions. /, itered the war _ will battle un- a -d. e 11y because this t 111* ? IItrII ll its i eak plainly, in 11 irld may know il l and ardor of o ion our whole ? ing the war * have not forprinciple for leriea has been g the nations, been our glory >at generations ;j A supreme mo- r nne. The eyes r, en opened and n of God is laid will show them 5r >lieve. only if r height of His -.e ?yei I'ICiS. J ) cts. hog9 eat 9 quickly. The i three months t ver brings you v 1 ly to put your Hi with the 13. A. >f . Use regularly h ats round out months ?hogs pounds and a* 61 Figure the av- ' 1 n will see why licine is a good ding out your if you are not *e will refund ne.?Adv. intile Co. u)