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RECOMMENDS WAR * AGAINST AUSTRI? DOES NOT RECOMMEND WAI AGAINST BULGARIA AND TURKEY AT.PRESENT. PEACE IS OUT OF QUESTIOI Nothing' Shall Turn United Staten Aside Until War is Won and Ger many is Beaten-Greeted With Ap plause. Washington.-Immediate declaratiot of war against Austria-ilungary was recommended to congress by President Wilson. The president did not, however, roe ommend a declaration of war against Turkey and Bulgaria at this time. Immediate war against Austria, the president told congress, was necessary to meet the nno;nalous situation the United Siates fat,; in its war with Germany even though, he . declared, Austria was not her own mistress and merely a vassal of Germany. The mame logic, he said, would be to war against Turkey and lulgaria. But they do not yet, he added, stand in the path of the united States in its war against Prussian autocracy. In ringing and definite terms, the president declared that nothing shall turn the United States aside until the war is won and Germany is beaten. All talk of peace he pronounced out of the question. Peace, the president declared, could conic only when the German people make it through rulers the world ran trust; when they make reparation for the destruction their presenI rulers have wrought and when Germany re codes from all the territory acquired by armed conquest. The president spoke as follows: Gentlemen of the Congress: Eight months nave elapsed since I last had the honor of addressing you. They have been months crowded with events of immense and grave singiii. cane for us. I shall not undertake to detail or even to summarize those events. ''he practical particulars of the part we have played in them will be laid before you in the reports of the executive departments. I shall discuss only our present outlook upon these vast affairs. our present duties, and the immediato means of accomplishing the objects we shall hold always in view. I shall not go back to debate the causes of the war. Intolerable wrongs done and planned against us by the sinister masters have long since be rome too grossly obvious and odious to every true American to need to be. rehearsed. But I shall ask your to consider again and with a very grave s-rutiny our objectives and the measures by which eve mean to attain them; for the pur pose of discuissionu herie in I his place is act iou, and our actloln must move str-aighit towvards delnite' ends. Oiu object is. of course, to in the war; and we shall not slacken or' suiffer our selves to be divei-ted until it is won. But it is worth while asking and an swering the question, when shall wve conslier the war won? From one polint of view it is not necessary to broach this fundamental matter. I do not doubt that the Amer ican people know what the wai- is about andI what sort of an outcome they will regard as a realization of their p~uirpose in it. As a nation we are united ini spirit and lntentioni. I pay little heed to those who tell me oth oirwise. I hear- the voices of dissentt who (lees not ? I hear- the criticism and~ the clamnour- of the noisily thought less anid troublesome. I also see men her-e and ther-e fin bg themselves in im potent diisloyalty againist the calnm, ini domitable poweor of the nation. I hear men debate peace who unider-stand neither its natunre nor the way in which wve may attain it with uplifted eyes and unbroken splirits. But I know that none of these speaks for thle nation, They (10 not touch the heart of anything, They may safely be left to st rut t their unieasy hour and be forgotten. But fi-om a nothlert poiniit of view I believe that it is necessary to say plainly wvhat we htere at the seat of action conisider- the wvar to be for and what part we meani to play in the set tiement of its searchting issues, We are~ the spokesmeni of the Amei-ican people and they have ia right to know whether their purpose is ours. They desire peace by-the overconing of evil, by the defeat once for- all of the sinister forces that intorr-upt peace and render it impossible, and they wish to know~ how closely our thought runs with theirs andI with the action we propose. They are impatient with those who de sire peace by any sort of compromise deepi yanid indignantly impatient--bul they will be equally impatient with us' if we (10 not make it plain to thoem what our objectives are and what we are planning for in seeking to make conquest of peace by arms, I believe that I speak for them whier I say two things: First, that this in tolerable thing of which the masters of Germany have shown us the ugly face, this menace of combined intrigue and force which we now see so-clearly au the German power, a thing without conscioince or honor or .capacity fom covenanted peace, must be crushed and,. it it be not utterly brought tc an end, at least shut out from the friendly intercourse of the nations; and, second, that when this thing ant its powers are indeed defeated and the time comes that we can discuss peace -when the German people h'av( spokesmen whose wore we can bolievt and when those spokesmen are roady in the name of tehir people to accept the common judgment of the nations as to what shall henceforth be the basis of law and of covenant for th< life 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 justico--justice (lone at every point and to every nation that the final settlement must affect, our enemies as well as our friends. You catch, with me, the voices of humanity that are in the air. They - grow daily more audible, more aurtleu late, more persuasive and they come from the hearts of men everywhere. They insist that the war shall not end in vindictive action of any kind; that no nation of people shall be robbed or punished because the irresponsible rulers of a single country have them selves done deep and abominable wrong. It is this thought that has been expressed in the formula, ''No annexa lions, no contributions, no punitive in demnities.'' .Just because this crude formula expresses the instinctive judg |ment as to right of plain men every. where, it has been made diligent use of by the masters cv German intrigue to lead the people of Russia astray and the people of every other country their agents could reach, in order that a premature peace might be brought about be&re autocracy has been taught its final and convicing lesson, and the people of the world put in control of their own destinies. But the fact that a wrong use has been made of a just idea is no reason why a right use should not be made of it. It ought to be brought under the patronage of its real friends. Let it be said again that autocracy must first be shown the utter futility of its claims to power of leadersliip in the modern world. It is imlpssible0 to ap ply any standard of just ice so long as such forces are unchecked and tunle feated as the present masters of Ger. many demand. Not until that has been (lone can right he set up as arbiter and peacemlaker among the nation. hut when that has been done-- as, (hod willing, it, assuredly will be---we shall at last be free to do an unprecedeinted thing, and this is the time to avow our purpose to do it. We shall be free to base pence on generosity and ins. tice, to the exclusion of all selfish claims to advantage even on the part of the victors. Le-t there te no misunderstanding. Our present and immediate task is to win the war, and nothing shall travn us aside from it until it is accomplish ed. ]:very power and resource we pos sess, whether of men, of money, or of materials, is being developed and will continue to be devoted to that pur 1)0s(1 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 won only when the German 11e01)le say to uso, through properly ac credited repjresentatives, that thley are ready to agree to a settlement based upon01 julstice and thle rep~aration of tile wrongs their rulers have dlone. Th~ey hlave done a wrong to Belgium which must be repaired. They have es Italishedl a power over other lands and p~eoples than their own--over the great empire of Austria-H-ungary, over hiithi erto free Balkan states, over Turkey, and within Asia-which must be re l inquished. Germany's success by skill, by in dustry, by knowledge, by enterprise wve did not grudge or oppose, but admired, rather. Silo hadl built up for herself a real emplire of trade and influence, so cured bly tile peace of tihe world. We were content to abidle tile rivalries of mnanufactuire, scienice and commerce that werec inlvolved for us in hler sucW cess anld stand or fall as we had or d1id not have the brains anld the inlitlative to surpass her, lBut at the moment when she had conspicuously won her triumphs of peace, she threw them awvay, to establish in their stead what tihe wvor'ld will no longer permit to be establishedi, nmilltary and political domi inationl by arms, by which to oust where she could not exceli the rivals she most feared and hated. The peace we make must remedy that wrong. It nmust deliver tile onceO rail' lands anid hlappy peoples of Belgium and north ern France from the Prussiani conl. quest. and tile Prussian menace, but it mumst also dliver tihe people of Aius tria-Ilungary, the peoples of the Bal kans, and the peoples of Turkey, alike in Europe andin Asia, from the impu dent and alien domination of the Prus sian military and commercial aultoc racy. We owe it, however, to ourselves te say that we do not wish in any way tc impair or to rearrange the Austr'o Hungarian empire. It is 110 affair of ours what they do with their own lIfe, either industrially or politically. Wen (10 not propose or desire to dictate tc them in any way, We only dlesire te see that their affairs are left in their ownI hands, in all matters, great oi small. We sh~all hope to secure for the( people of tile Turkish empire the righi and opportunity to make their owr1 lives safe, their own fortunes secura against oppression or injulstice and from the dictation of foreign courts or Iparties. Anid our attitude and purpose witti regard to Germany herself are of g like kind, WVe intend no wrong against the German empire, no inter ronca with har intenal atais. uri I .should deem either the one or t other absolutely unjustifiable, aba lutely contrary to the principles w have professed to live by and to ho I most sacred throughout our life as nation. The people of Germany are bein told by the men whom they new pe mit to deceive them and to act a their masters that they are flghtil for the very life and existence c their empire, a war of desperate sol defense against deliberate aggressiol Nothing could be more grossly ( wantonly false, and we must seek b t he ut ..ost openness and candour a to our real aims to convince them a its falseness. We are, in fact, figh lag for their emancipation from feat along with our own-from the fea as well as from the fact of unjust a tack by neighbors or rivals or schen ers after world empire. No one I threatening the existence or the in dependence or the peaceful enterpris of the German empire. The worst that can happen to th detriment of the German people i this, that if they should still, afte the war is over, continue to be oblig ed to live under ambitious and in trigning masters interested to dis turb the peace of the world, men or classes of men whom the other peo pies of the world could not trust, it might be impossible to admit then to the partnership of nations which must henceforth guarantee the world's peace. That partnership must be a partnership of peoples, not s mere partnership of governments. I1 mnight be impossible, also, in suel untoward circumstances, to admit ;ermany to the free economic inter course which must inevitably spring out. of the other partnerships of a real peace. But there would he ne aggression in that; and such a situa tion, inevitable because of distrust would in the very nature of thing: sooner or later cure itself by pro cesses which would assuredly set in Te wrongs, the very deep wrongs committed in this war will have to be righted. That, of course. But they ean not and must not be righted by the commission of similar wrongs agains Germany and her allies. The world wil not permit the commission of simiiat wrongs as a means of reparation and settlement. Statesmen must by thi: time have learned that the opinion o the world is everywhere wide a wake :ud fully comprehends the issues in volved. No representative of any self governed nation will dare disregard i by attempting any 5h(11 covenants o selfishness and compromise as wer< entered into at the congress of Vienna The thought of the plain people here and everywhere throughout the world the people who enjoy no privilege an have very simple and unsophisticate standards of right and wrong, is th air all governmenta must. hencefort breathe it they would live. It is in th full disclosing light of that thougl that all policies must be conceived at executed in this mid-day hour of tI world's life. German rulers have bee able to upset the peace of the wor only because the German people wer not suffered under their tutelage t share the comradeship of the othe peoples of the world either in though or in purpose. They were allowed t have no opinion of their owvn whic might be set up as a rule of condu for those who exercised authority ov< them, But tho congress that co eludes this war wvill feel the ft) strength of the tidles that run now the hearts andl coniscienc'es of free me everywhere. Its conclusions wvill rt with those tides. All these things have been true fro the very beginning of this stupe dous war; and I cannot help thinkx that if they had been made plain the very outset the sympathy and e thusiasm of the Russian people mig have been once for all enlisted on t1 side of the allies, suspicion and d trust swvept away, and a real and la ing union of puirpose effected. iHi they b~elieved these things at t very moment of their revolution a1i had they been confirmedl to that bell since, the sad reverses which have1 cently marked the progress of th< affairs -towards an ordered and stat government of free me'n might ha been avoided. Trhe RussIan peor havo been poisoned by the very sar falsehoods that have kept the Germ, p~eople in -the dlark and the poison hi been administered by the very star hands. The only possible an-tidote the truth. It cannot be uttered t plainly or too often. From every point of vIew, therefoi it has seemed to be my dluty to spel these dleclarations of purpose, -to a thes~e speciflc interpretations to -wh I took the liberty or saying to t senate in. January. Our entrance irl the wvar has not altered our attitu towards the settlement that must cot wvhen it is over. When I said in Jar ary that the nations of the world we entitled not only to free pathwa upon the sea but also to assured al unmolested access to those pathwa) I was thinking, and I am thinki now, net of the smaller and weak nations alone, which need our coun nance and support, but also of t great and powerful nations, and of o present enemies as well as our pri ont associates in the war, I was thir ing and am thinking now, of .Austi horself, among the rest, as well as Serbia and of Poland. Justice a equality of rights can be had only a great price. We are seeking porrn nent, not temporary, foundations f the peace of the world, and must so. them candidly and fearlessly. As ways. the right will prove to be tV expedient. What shall we do. then, to Pu this groat war pf freedom and Justi to to its righteous conclusion? We mui o- clear away with a thorough hand a re impediments to success and we mut Id make every ad ustment of law the a wilt facilitate the full and free use o our whole capacity and force as g fighting unit. r- One very embarrassing obstacl s that stands in our way is that we ar g at war with Germany, but not wit; >f her allies. I therefore very earnestl f- recommend that the congress imme 1. diately declare the United States in 'r state of war with Austria-Hungar3 Y I)oes it seem strange to you that thi s should be the conclusion of the argu f mont I have just addressed to you L It is not. It is in fact the inevitabil logic of what I have said. Austria r Hungary is for the 'time being not he own mistress but simply the vassal o the German government. We mus s face the facts as they are and ac upon them without sentiment in thi: stern business. The government o Austria-Hungary is not acting upon its own initiative or in response ti the wishes and feelings of its own peoples but as the instrument of an other nation. We must meet its force with our own and regard the centra powers as but one. The war can be successfully conducted in no othe way. The same logic would lead alsc to a declaration of war against Tur key and Bulgaria. They also are the tools of Germany. But they are mere tools and do not yet stand in the di root path of our necessary action. We shall go wherever the necessities o this war carry us, but it seems to me that we should go only where imme diate and practical consideration lead us and not heed any others. The financial and military measures which must be adopted will suggest themselves as the war ane Its under takings develop, but I will take the liberty of proposing to you certair other acts of legislation which seen to be so needed for the support of the war and for the release of our whole force and energy. It will be necessary to oxtend in certain particulars the legislation o the last session with regard to alie enemies; and also necessary, I believe 'to create a very definite and particu lar control over the entrance and de parture of all persons into and fron the United States. Legislation should be enacted defln ing as a criminal oiYense every wilfu r violation of the presidential proclama f tions relating to alien enemies promul t gated under Section 4067 of the re vised statutes and providing apprc 3 priate punishments ;and women a , well as men should be included unde I the terms of the acts placing re 1' straints upon alien enemies. It Is like a I ly that as time goes on many alie h enemies will be willing to be fed an e housed at the expense of the goveri t ment in the detention camps and d will be the purpose of the legislatic le i have suggested to confine ofiende n among them in penitentiaries and ot d or similar institutions where thi e could be made to work as other crin o inals do. r Recent experience has convinced n .0 Ithat the congress must go further h authorizing the government to set ltr h its to prices. The law of supply at -demand, I am sorry to say, has bei rreplaced by the laws of unrestrainm 1selfishness. While we have eliminati nprofliteering in several branches of (hdustry, it still runs impudently rai n pant in ethers. The farmers, for exai nple, complain with a great deal jutstice that, while the regulation m food prices restricts their incomes, n- restraints are placed upon the pric igof most of the things they must thei tselves purchase ;and similar inequi n- ities obtain on all sides. e It is itmperatively necessary thm *. the consideration of the full use of tI t- wa'ter power of the country and al; id the consideration of the systemat le and~ yet economical development id such of the natural resources of ti ef counitry as are still ututet the co e. trol of the federal governtment shout ir- be itmmedsaately resumed and affirm le tively and constructively dealth wvi ye at the earliest possible moment. TI le pressitng need of suchl legislation e daily becoming more obvious. in Thie legislation proposed at the la las session with regard to regutlated cor le binations among our exporters, in a is deor to provide for our foreign tradelf 30 more effective organiz~ation and met od of co-operation, omtght b~y all meat e, to be0 completed at this session. ik And I beg that the members of tI Id house of treptresentatives will perm at me to express the opinion that it wi 10 be Impossible to deal in any but a vet to wastefitl and extravagant fashtion wil le the enormous appropriations of tl me puiblic moneys which must contint u- to be made, if the war is to 1)0 properl re sustained, utnless the house will co: ys sent to return to its former pract ice 4 id initiating and preparing all appropi 's, ation bills through a single committe ig in order thtat responsibility may 1 or centered, expendtures standardize e0- and made uniform and waste and di e plication as miuch as possible avoidei ur Additional legislation may also b s- come necessary before the preset k. congress adjoutrns again in order I ia effect the most efficient co-ordinatic of and operation of the railway and oti id or transportation systems of the coui at try; butt to that I shall, if circur a- stances should demand, call the atte; or tion of thte congress upotn another o 3k caslon. 11- If I have overlooked anything tht 1e ought to he dotne for the more effecthi conduct of the war, yeur own counse sh will supply the omission. What I ai li present session of the congress our . t whole attention and energy should be t concentrated on the vigorous, rapid ,f and successful prosecution of the great a task of winning the war. We can do this with all the greater e zeal and enthusiasm because we know ? that for us this is a war of high prin 1 ciple, debased by no selfish ambition v of conquest or spoliation; because we - know, and all the world knows, that x we have been forced into it to save the very instittuions we live under s from corruption and destruction. The purposes of the central powers strike ? straight at the very heart of every thing we believe in; their methods of warfare outrage every principle of hu nanity and of knightly honor; their intrigue has corrupted the very thought and spirit of many of our peo ple; their sinister and secret diplo macy has sought to take our very ter ritory away from us and disrupt the union of the states. Our safety would be at an end, our honor forever sullied and brought into contempt were we to permit their triumph. They are strik ing at the very existence of democracy and liberty. It is because it is for us a war of high, disinterested purpose, in which all the free peoples of the world ace banded together for the vindication or right, a war for the preservation of our nation and of all that it has held dear of principle and of purpose, that we feel ourselves doubly constrained to propose for its outcome only that which is righteous and of irreproacha ble intention, for our foes as well as for our friends. The cause being just and holy, the settlemnt must be of like motive and quality. For this we 4 can fight, but for nothing less noble or less worthy of our traditions. For this cause we entered the war and for this cause we will battle until the last gun is fired. I have spoken plainly, because this r seems to me the time when it is most necessary to speak plainly, in order > that all the world may know that even E in the heat and ardour of the struggle a and when our whole thought is of car- e rying the war through to its end we have not forgotten any ideal or princi . pie for which the name of America has . been held in honor among the nations and for which it has been our glory to contend in the great generations that went before us. A supreme me ment of history has come. The eyes of j the people have been opened and they see. The hand of God is laid upon the nations. He will show them favor. I devoutly believe, only if they rise to - the clear heights of His own justice t and mercy. r l MILLION DOLLAR PLANT n DESTROYED Bl FIRE t Under Guard of Soldlers investigation p Begun to Determine Origin. ni s New York.--Four large buildings at the Morse Drydock & Repair Company on the South Brooklyn water front were destroyed by fire with an estimat ed loss of $1,000,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. United States Ie soldiers on dity at the plant declared in that the fire started suddenly in the n- carpenter sh) where hundreds of id men were working andl then quickly an spread to other buildings.I id The Morse Company was working. don large government ordlersq. The car n- lpentcr shop, the joining shop, and the al- pattern shop, all wooden buildingn, n- were burned to the ground, and the fimmense brick machine shop, in whicn ovaluable machinery was store, was do Lo stroyed. Two large steamships which were tn s Sdrydock were towed into tihe harbor. 48-HOUR ARMISTICE HAS BEEN It SIGNED ON FASTERN FRONT 10 Petrograd.--General D~ukonin, who Ic took over the hpost of commandler-in chief otf the Russian armies after- the o'cverthrow of Premier Kerensky, was thrIownI fro mat traini and killed as tihe iresult of lynch law, after Ensign Kry 'lencko had captured Mohiloff, it was hofficially announcedl by tihe Russian e wa oflice is tNe gotiations Have Begun. Blerlin, via London.-Negotiations for an armistice on the Russian front r- have begun ,the war office anuonces. aLondon.-An armistice between Rus sia and Germany has becen signedl at the headquarters of Prince Leopold of Bavaria, says an Exchange Tele *graph dispatch from Amsterdam. The tarmistice is valid for a period of 48 hours. h e includes Germany's Allies. e Washington.-A joint resolution dis y closing that a state of war exists be 1. tween the United States and Austria ,f Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey was in i- troduced in tihe senate by Senator Pitt. , man for Senator King of Utah. S Finds Husband's Body in Woods. Lumberton.-J. A. Rozier, aged 44 -years, was found dead in tile wvoods t about 300 yards from his home, four 0 miles north of Lumberton, last week. n He had gone into the woods at 8 ' o'clock in the morning to cut a load of ' lightwood, and when he failed to get ' home at noon Mrs. Rozier sent two ' of her children to look for him. They 'failed to find him and returned to the house. Mar. Rozier then went in t search of her husband and was shock. e ed to find him lying on the ground a near where he had been cutting wood. a A physician pronounced death due to, B 'ueart trouble. 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Have used it whi n ecearary for2Oyears and have found no remet y a effective." Elixir Babek 10 cents, all drug lits, or by Parcel Post, prepaid, from Klocsei. ki .b Co., Wulington D. C. A Good Move--Babek Liver plls. ) pills 25 cente, Pity Father. Carl, aged Ihree, and his baby sister f eighteen months slept in the sum - owm as their parents. Carl woke u, arly andi tormented his still sleep. ilther with questions. "Father, ennI1 a cOW speak?" "No, my chil(l." "Father, ('11ln a (log speak?" The father, thinking Carl was golng, bIrough the entire list of animals that e knew, said severely "No animal ann speak. And yoi lust now keep quiet, for father want+ o sleep." For it long time the (hild relainet' ulet ; then being no longer able to re train his enriosIty, he asked timidly "lalher, What kind of an animal . hiy ? Making Enemies Envious. "I don't see why you waint to hire r arge hall for your musiale. You'v' mIfy got about it score of friends thn ou're going to Invite." "I know, ilt I've got several scor if enemies 1 am nt goIng to Invite lind I want thbem to knaow that I har ilnty oif room." Family Pride. "M~y dlear, In wrlitling to our boy hi. he airmy, remembller thant your~ letter vill hie rendi by the censor," saidt Mr )ubwneite. "(Oh, hol her !" exlaimledi Mrs. Dub .'alte. "Thleni I'll have to look uIp the lettormiry. I'ml nlot goIng to hlave anf3 trllnge' 1man1 seeln'. what a roor spell *r I am." Still Another Saving. Hazen J1. Tlitus, the food expert nys: "We 1oub11 save $50,000,00( vor'th of food~ a year by omuit ting out1 Lally luncheons." Japan's Waterfalls Menaced. The constan dan1~li ger oif eniri hquake lands~l ini ft wvay of the dlevelopment f the( wvaterfallis ini .Japanl. 12g1 10 2 Six Minute.o Pusdding Here's a new one-a most delicious desert that can bo mnade in a hurry., To one and one-half cups of milk add one cup of Grape-Nuts and one level table. spoonful of sugar boil siz minutes, cool and serve with milk or cream. Add ral sins if desired. Get a package of Grape. Nuts from youar grocer and try this pleasing recipe.