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iruim __ I ' K f I H r1 ABl l; 1 S>; M^^BHHn _ m! ??? WILSON'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS' H i ftf. (Continued from Page 1) f:- not make it plain to them what our I g?- objectives are and what we arej Li planning for in seeking to make k conquest of peace by arms.' Germany Mutt Have Spokesmen; P" Who Can Be Believed. "I believe that I speaK ior memj ? when I say two things: First, that, j|_ this intolerable thing of which the | f masters of Germany have shown | 'f us the ugly face, this menace of; combined intrigue and force which jjrV. we now see so clearly as the Ger-| man power, a thing without con-J ?? science or honor or capacity for covenated peace, must be crushed and, if it be not utterly brought to an end, at least shut out from the friendly intercouse of the nations; i and, second, that when this thing: and its power are indeed defeated ! - and the time comes that we can discuss peace?when the German nennle have sDokesmen whose word we can believe and when those spokesmen are ready in the name ? of their people to accept the common judgment of the nations as to what shall henceforth be the bases of law and of covenant for the life j of the world?we shall be willing and glad to pay the full price for peace, and pay it ungrudgingly. "We know what that price will be. It will be full, impartial justice?justice done at every point and to every nation that the final settlement must affect, our enemies 11 __ -r_; SB wen its UUI AIicuuo. "You catch, with me, the voices of humanity that are in the air. They grow daily more audible, more articulate, more persuasive, and they come from the hearts of men everywhere. They insist that the war shall no tend in vindictive action of any kind; that no nation or pepole shall be robbed or punished because the irresponsible rulers of a single country have themselves done deep and abominable wrong. J It is this thought that has been ex-j pressed in the formula "no annex-! ations, no contributions, no punitive indemnities." Just because this crude formula expresses the instinc ., , ? i tive judgment as to rignt ox piain j men everywhere, it has been made| diligent use of by the masters of I German intrigue to lead the peo-i pie of Russia astray?and the peo-j pie of every other country their, agents could reach, in order that a' premature peace might be brought | about before autocracy has been J taught its final and convincing lesson, and the people of the world put in control of their own destinies. To Bate Peace on Generosity and I El. LIC This will be the op; to give good and serv The Cooking, Heal possible, cooking for possible at less cost t] You may not apprc home that requires h cept the spanking of t All the drudgery o home of all the disagr A few things that a the house from garrel by use of a utility mot thing, every way, jus work electrically and washed, wrenched, ri any other way. Heati Sewing machines elec A demonstration o and Friday, Dec. 12t pert to explain in det* Remember the dal SEVILLE 1 Justice. 1 "But the fact that a wrong use s has been made of a just idea is no ] reason why a right use should not ! be made of it. It ought to be 1 brought under the patronage of its i real friends. Let it be said again { tha tautocracy must first be shown i the utter futility of its claims to < cower or leadership in the modern I world. It is impossible, to apply 1 any standard of justice so lnog as such forces are unchecked and undefeated as the present masters of Germany command. Not until that has been done can right be set up as arbiter and, peacemaker among the nations. But when that has been done?as, God willing, it assuredly will be?we shall at last be free to do an unprecedented thing, and this is the time to avow our purpose to do it. We shall be free to base peace on generosity and justice, to hte exclusion of all selfish claims to advantage even on the part of hte victors. "Let there be no misunderstanding. Our present and immediate task is to win the war, and nothing shall turn us aside from it until it is accomplished. Every power and resource we possess, whether of men, of money, or of materials, is being devoted and will continue to be devoted to that purpose until it is achieved. Those who desire to bring peace about before that purpose is achieved I counsel to carry their advice elsewhere. We will not entertain it. We shall regard the war as wo nonly when the German people say to us, through properly accredited representatives, that they are ready to agree to a settlement based upon justice and the reparation of the wrong their rulers have done. They have done a wron gto Belgium which must be repaired. They have established a _ xl 1 1 1 _ power uver otner lanus ana people 1 than their own?over the great em- i pire of Austria-Hungary, over hith- j erto free Balkan states, over Tur- f key and within Asia?which must i be relinquished. ( German Industrial Skill Not Be- < grudged. 1 "Germany's success by skill, by J industry, by knowledge, by enter- < prise, we did not grudge or oppose, '< but admired, rather. She had built 1 up for herself a real empire of trade 1 and influence, secured by the peace of the world. We were content to abide the rivalries of manufacture, < cmoripn onrl nnmiYiorno fVmf u/ovo in- ( volved for us in her success and i stand or fall as we had o rdid not i have the brains and the initiative to < surpass her. But at the moment < when she had conspicuously won < her triumphs of peace she threw t 19 ctric I portunity for the Citizei iceable gifts, and shoulc :ing and Power rate re< the family, bath room < ban it is now being done >ciate it but it is the fac eat or power that cann< he kids and that will be f the house work if doi eeable part of life, and re successfully done "< t to cellar, without the tor which helps in man; t as you want it, after [ this disagreeable task ing, dried and ironed "< l?rr KnfVi rnnm as well ai 111^ *#?*?? WW WW :trically operated will \ f the above will be on a h, 13th and 14th. Your ril every thing. tes. WATER i them away, ta establish in their stead wha tthe world will no longer permit to be established, military ind political domination by arms, jy which to oust where she could lot excel the rivals she most feared md hated. The peace we make nust remedy that wrong. It mugt leliever the once fair lands and hapjy peoples of Belgium and northern France from the Prussian conquest ind the Prussian menace, but if nust also deliver the peoples of he Balkans and the peoples of furkey, alike in Europe and in \.sia. from the impudent and alien lomination of the Prussian military ind commercial autocracy. "We owe it, however, to ourselves ;o say that we do not wish in any vay to impair or to rearrange the Vustro-Hungarian empire. It is no tfFair of ours what they do with hei rown Jife, either industrially or jolitically. We do not purpose or lesire to dictate to, them in any vay. "We only desire to see that their iffairs are left in their own hands, nail matters, great or small. We ihall hope to secure for the peoples >f the Balkan peninsula and for the jeople of the Turkish empire the ight and opportunity to make their >wn lives safe, their own fortunes secure against oppression or injus;ice and from the dictation of foreign courts or parties. "An dour attitude and purpose vith regard to Germany herself are >f a like kind. We intend no wrong igainst the German empire, no in;erference with her internal affairs. tVe should deem either the one or ;he other absolutely unjustifiable, ibsolutely contrary to the principles ve have professed to live by and ;o hold most sacred throughout our ife as a nation. "The people of Germany are beng told by the men and whom they low permit to deceive them and to ict as their masters that they are lghting for the very life and exstence of their empire, a war of lesperate self-defense against deliberate aggression. Nothing could )e more grossly or wantonly false, ind we must seek by the utmost >penness and candor as to our real rims to convince them of its falseless. Must Get New Rulers To Join in World Peace. "We are in face fighting for their mancipation from fear, along with )ur own?from the fear as well as :ro mthe fact of unjust attack by leighbors or rivals or schemers af:er world empire. No one is threatening the existence or the independence or the peaceful entreprise of ;he German empire. ? I.I IT" rnrktn It/All 11/ LA A is and customers of the 1 1 be taken-advantage of b; cently established by Cit] comfortable as well as he with coal or wood at pr< t there is nothing to be < >tbe accomplished "ELI perfected very shortly, te "electrically" will reli will make home happy, jlecfcrically" are first, sv 1 east dust being raised, j ways, Cooking square i the meal i? served the di is done. On Monday1 th electrically" in one fifth 1 s having albundance of ha prolong the life of^many a t Water & Light Office W presence is requested. 1 , i .,' v-i . ~ ? .j... \ND ELE( "The worsl; that can happen to the detriment of 1he German people is this, that if they should still, after the war is over, continue to be obliged to live under ambitious and intriguing maiiters interested to disturb the people of the world, men or classes of men whom the other peoples o fthe world could not trust it might be impossible to admit them to the partnership of nationsj which must henceforth guarantee the world's peacefl That partnership must be a partnership of peoples, not a mere partnership of government. I tmight be impossible, also, in such untoward circumstances to admiit Germany . to the free economic intercouse which must in-j evitably spring out of the other partnership of a real peacs. But there would be no aggression in that; and such a situation, inevitI able because of distrust, would in the very nature of things sooner or later cure itself, by processes which would assuredly set in.. "The wrongs, the very deep wrongs, committed in this war will have to be righted. That, of course, But they caniot and must not be righted by thu commission of similar wrongs against Germany and her allies. The world will not permit the commission of similar wrongs a.'3 a mean? cf reparation and settlement. Statesmen must by this time have learned that the opinion of the world is everywhere wideawake and fully comprehends the issues involved. No representative of any self-governed nation will dare disregarc it by attempting any such covenants of selfishness and compromise as were entered into at the nnncrrps.s nf Vienna.The thouerht of the plain people here and everywhere throughout the world, the people who enjoy no privilege and have very simple and unsophisticated standards of right and wrong, is the air all governments must henceforth breathe if they would live. It isi in the full disclosing light of that thought that all policiles must b? conceived and executed in this midday hour of the world's life. German rulers have been able to upset the peace of the world only because the German people were not suffered under their tutelage to share the comradeship of the other jpeoples of the world either in thought or in purpose. Russian People Have Keen Poinoned by Falsehoods. "They wens allowed to have no opinion of their own which might be set up as a rule of conduct for those who exercised authority over them. But the congress that concludes this war will feel the full strength of the tides that run now / / las Abater & Light Plant y everyone. y Council will make mating water for same esent prices. lone in the average lCTRICALLY," exeve the Lady of the reeping and cleaning Preparation of meals neal. any thing, every -L 1 5 i. i. sn wasner is pui 10 e family laundry is the time it requires in >t water all the time. l wife. ednesday, Thursday, rhere will be an ex:tric pl flMEflBllfliHflHHHHBHflHHiHBflHfllHHflflHHHUI Thousands of Go< ^ ArejN Clerical J The government has just b \ v>i\ DRAUGHON'S PRACTICAL BUS] in the hearts and consciences of free men everywhere. Its conclusions will run with those tides. "All these things have been true from the very beginning of this stupendous war; and I cannot help thinking that if they had been made plain at the very outset the sympathy and enthusiasm of the Russian people might have been once for all enlisted on the side of the allies, suspicion and distrust swept away, and a real and lasting union of purpose effected. Had they believed these things at the very moment of their revolution and had they been confirmed in that belief since, the sad reserves which have recently marked the progress of their affairs towards an ordered and stable government of free men might have been avoided. "The Russian people have been poisoned by the very same falsehoods taht have kept the German people in the dark, and the poison ha sbeen administered by the very same hands. The only possible antidote is the truth. It cannot be uttered too plainly or too often. "From every point of view, ?here fore, it has seemed to be my duty to speak these declarations of purpose, to add these specific interpretations to what I took the liberty of saying to the senate in January. Our entrance into the war has not altered our attitude towards the settlement that must come when it is over. When I said in January that the nations of the world were entitled not only to free pathways on the sea but also to assured and unmolested access to those pathways, I was il.T orv\ fVtinVinc now. I tllHIIViIlg, auu x uiu , not of the smaller and weaker nations alone, which need our countenance and support, but also of the great and powerful nations, and of our present enemies r.o well as out* present associates in the war. I was thinking, and am thinking now, of I . . i > lllll I I " I-! i ra SJ9. MB II I Urala i I mm? i I w&MmM 3 ^1 rl I iwaw^8 1 ny I ANT I ?? ; I od Stenographers eeded Help Wanted written to this school pointing out their urgent need of stenographers, both male and female, and asking us to help them in securing the great number needed. The starting salary offered is $900 to $1200 a year. Examinations are being held weekly in 400 cities. Besides the demand of the government, the conscription is taking thousands of i ' . young men from commercial positions, and their positions will have to be filled by new employees. Business men are calling on us daily for assistance in securing stenographers and bookkeepers. Write for detailed information. Address [NESS COLLEGE, Greenville, S. C. Austria herself, among the rest, as well as of Serbia and of Poland. Justice an dequality of rights can be had only at a great price. We are seeking permanent, not tempor- \ ary, foundations for the peace of the world and must seek them candidly and fearlessly. As always, the right will prove to be the expedient. Must Clear Away AH Impediments to Success. "What shall we do, then, to push this en-eat war of freedom and ius tice to its righteous conclusion? We must clear away with a thorough hand all impediments to success, and we must make every adjustment of law that will facilitate the full and free use of our whole capacity and force asI a fighting unit. "One very embarrassing obstacle \ that stands in our way is that we are at war with Germany, but not ltn^U U At* nllt An T At*A^ A?A lfflwr wiui iici aiiico. x tncicivic vcijr earnestly recommend that the congress immediately declare the United States in a state of war with Austria-Hungary. Does it yeem strange to you that this should be the conclusion of the argument I have just addressed to you It is not. It is in fact the, inevitable logic of what I have said. Austria-Hungary is for the time being not her own mistress, but simply the vassal of the German j. TTf ? i. ? government,. we must iai:e me facts as they are and act upon them without sentiment in this stern business. The government of Austria-Hungary is not acting upon its own initiative or in response to the wishes and feelnigs of its own people, but as the instrument of another nation. We must meet its force with our own and regard the central powers as but one. The war can be successfully conducted in no other way. "The same logic would lead also (Continued on Page 6)