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• .J s• THEW O. i; IfitED TIMES WI RED, MONTANA, 1•R MUST WAR ON AUSTRIA SAYS PRESIDENT IN HIS I: MESSAGE TO CONGRESS Washington, Dec. spoke as follows: Gentlemen of th• oongress Eight months have elapsed minas I lam had the honor of eddressing you They have been months crowded with events of Immense and grave significance for as I shall not undertake to detail or even to nummarise these events. The practi- cal particulars of the part we have played In them will be laid before you In the reports of the exeeutive departments and I titian discuss only our present outlook Upon these vast affairs, our prssent duties and the immediate means of . accomplish- ing the objects we shall hold always is view. C Are Obvious. I shall not go baklit to debate the causes of th• war. The intolerable wrongs done and planned against us by the sinister masters of Germany have longe lame be- eorne too grossly obvious and odious to every true American to need to be we hear - pied, But I shall ask you Or again and with a very gra tiny our objectives arid the measures y whicih we mean to attain them; for the purpose of discussion here in this place is aetiloa and our action must move straight to- ward, definite ends. Our object Is. of course, to in the war, and we shall not slacken or suffer ourselves to be diverted until it is won. But It is worth while asking and answering the gumption wheel shall we consider the war won? Nation Is Uplifted. From one point of view it is net nesse- nary to broach this fundamental matter. I do not doubt that the American people know what the war is about and what sort of an outcome they will regard as a realisation of their purpose In it. As a nation we are united in spirit and inten- tion. I pay little heed to those who tell me otherwise. I hear the voices of dis- sent—who does not? I hear the criti- cism and see the clamor of the noisily thoughtless and troublesome. I also see men here and there fling themselves in potent disloyalty against the calm, !n- th:imitable power of the nation. I hear men debate peace who understand neither its nature nor the way in which we may attain it with uplifted eyes and unbroken spirits. But I know that none of these speaks for the nation. They do not touch the heart of anything. They may safely be left to strut their uneasy hour and be forgotten. Are Spokesmen. Rut from another point of view I be- lieve that it is necessary to say plainly what we hare at the seat of action con- s.der the war to be for and what part we mean to play in the atonement of its searching issues. We are the spokes- - , en of the American t .0•.1e, arid they ti•ve a right to know vi' • , tr their pur- i.• -. is ours. They . es...' by the oyt .- r evil. i S.-• eats or - -• emistet . . • .. render it niw WAY •.. ..ffill to know how t 1 our thoughts run v 'th theirs st \ a _ :Ion we pro- pose. They are , _lent ei h those who desire peace b' sort , f ,- araprornIse— ,m o n deeply and antly imaationt, but they will be • ally impatient with us if we do not make it plain to them what our objectives are and what we are plan- ning for In seeking to make conquest of peace by arms. Mum: Crush Menace. I believe that I 'peak for them when I say two things: Fin*, that this intoler- able thing of which the moaner\' of ow - many have shown us the ugly face, this menace of combined intrigue and force which we now see so clearly as the Ger- „man power, a thing without conscience or honor or capacity for covenanted peace, must be crushed, and if it is not utterly brought to an end, at least shut out from the friendly intercourse of the nations; and, second, 'that when this thing and It. power are indeed defeated and the time comes that we can discuss peace—when the German people have spokesmen whose word we can believe, and when these spokesmen are ready in the name of their people te accept the common judgment of the nations as to what shall henceforth be the bases of law and of covenant for, the 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 justice—justice done at every point and to every nation the final settlement must affect our ene- mies as well as our friends. \Veleta of Humanity.” You catch, with me. the voices •f hu- manity that are in the air. They grow daily more audible, more artleniete morn persuasive and they come from the hearts of men everywhere. They insist that the war 'hall qat_snit in vindictive aqt.latt_l A.—The pesisblest ************************** * • THE PRESIDENT OF THE * UNITED STATES IN HIS * MOMENTOUS SPEECH SAID: * * An immediate desiaration of war * * on Austria-Hungary is necessary. * * shall regard the war as won * * only when the German people say * * to us, through properly aooredited * * representatives. that they are * • ready to agree to a settlement * • based upon justice and the repara- * * film of the wrongs their rulers * * have done us. They have done a * * wrong to Belgium that must be * * repaired. * Autocracy must be shown the * * utter futility of its claims to power * * or leadership in the modern world. * • The supreme moment of history * * has come. The eyes of the people * • have been opened and they see, * * The hand of God is laid upon the * * nations. He would show them * * favor, I devoutly believe, only if * * they rise to the clear heights of * * his own justice and mercy. ************************** my kliid; that no nation or people snarl be robbed or punished because the irre- sponsible rulers of a single country have themselves done deep avid abominable wrong. it is this thought that has been expressed in the formula \no annexa- tions, no contributions, no indemnities.\ Just because this crude formula expresses the Instinctive judgment as to right of plain men everywhere, it has been made diligent use of by the masters of the 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 before autocracy has been taught its final and convincing les- son and the people of the world put in control of their own destinies. Turn to Right Use. But the fact that a wrong use has been made of a Just idea is no reason why a right use should net be made of it. It ought to be brought under the patronage of its real friends. Let it be said again that autooracy must first be shown the utter futility of Its claims to power and leadership in the modern world. It is Impossible to apply any standard of justice so long 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 purposes to do it. We shall be free to base peace on generosity and justice, to the exclusion of all selfish olefins to advantage even on the part of the victors. To Win War. 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 material. is being devoted Said will continue to be devoted to that purpose untli. is anhlevad. Thuile wh a y tee OrPtig otiec+ ' before th A We ITO! ot erieri • 4. (11 114 - ' St ' regexd the war as w.. mly when tr.s German people say to 118, through prop- erly accredited representatives that they are ready to agree to a settlement based upon justice and the reparation of the wroags their rulers have dune us. They have done a wrong to Belgium which most be repaired. They have establish- ed a sower over other lands and peoples than their own—over the great empire of Austria-Hungary. over hitherto free Balkan states. over Turkey and within Asia—whiob must be relinquished. Germany's success by skill, by indus- try, by knowledge, by enterprise, we did not grudge or oppoite, but admired rather. She had built up for herself a real em- pire of trade and influence, secured by the peace of the world. We were content to abide the rivalries of manufacture, science and commerce that were involved for us in her success, and stand or fall as we had or did not have the brains and initiative to surpass hers, but at the moment when she had conspicuously won her triumphs of peace she threw them away to establish in their stead what the world will no longer permit to be established, military and political domina- tion by arms, by which to oust where she could not excel the rivals she most feared and hated. The peace we make must remedy. that wrong. It mina deliver the once fair lands and happy peoples of Belgium and northern France from the Prussian conquest and the Prussian men- ace, and it must also deliver the peoples of Austria-Hungary, the peoples of the Balkans and the peoples of Turkey, alike In Europe and In Asia, from the impu- dent and alien domination of the Prus- sian military and commercial autocracy. Intend No Wrong. We owe it, however, to ourselves to say that we do not wish In way way to IrripaTr or •earrange The Ktisitro-/Ittn- !tartan e . It is no affair of ours What they with their own life, either Industrial) r politically. We do not Purpose t sire to dictate to them in any way. e only desire to see that their affa re left in their own hand'', in all ma . great or small. We shall hope to re for the peoples of the Balkan p sula and for the people of the Turk' empire the right and oppor- tunity to take their own lives safe, their own -tunes secure against oppres- sion or ii stice and from the dictation of foreign urts or parties. And our at- titude anQurpose with regard to Ger- many her f are of a like kind. We In- tend no ling against the German em- pire, no j .erference with her internal affairs, should deem either the one or the otP absolutely unjustifiable, ab- solutely mtrary to the principles we have proPhed to live by and hold meet sacred tteughout our life as a nation. ails Monstrous Lie. The pet • of Germany are being told by the riti whom they now permit to deceive tint and to act as their masters that tholes.e fighting for the very life and exist ce of their empire, a war ot desperate elf -defense against deliberate aggressio Nothing could be more gross- ly or wanly false, and we must seek by the tpnost openness and candor to our real ime, to convince them of its falseness We are n fact. fighting for their eman- cipation rim fear, along with our own; from the sax as well as from the faot of unjust a lick by neighbors or rivals or mchemersjafter world empire. No one is threat/ ing the existence or the lade- pendencepf the German empire. . Might Bar People. The we t that can happen to the detri- ment of t German people Is this, that if they alto still, after the war is over, continue . be obliged to live under am- bitious at Intriguing masters interested to disrupt the peace of the world, men or Cillalltal f men whom the other peo- ples of th world could not trust, It might be imposts le to admit them to the part- nership o nations which must hence- forth gua .ntise the world's peace. That partnersh: must be a partnership of the peoples, ect a mere partnership of gov- ernments. It might be impossible, also. In such u oward oircurnatanees. to admit Germany hr the free economic intereourse which me p4: inevitably spring out of the other part lenitive of a real peace. But there would be no aggression in that; and such a situation, inevitable because of distrust, would in the very nature of things sooner or later cure itself by pro- cesses which will assuredly set In. Must Right Wrongs. The wrongs, the very deep wrongs, committed In this war will have to be righted. That, of course. But this can- not and must not be righted by the com- mission of similar wrongs against Ger- many and her allies. The world will not Permit the commission of similar wrongs as a means of reparation and settlement. Germany must by this time have learned the opinion of the world is very wide awake and fully comprehends the Issues involved. No representative of any self - governed nation wtll dare disregard It by attempting any such covenants of self- ishness and promisee as were entered into at the congress of Vienna. The thought of the plain people here and everywhere throughout the world, the people wipe en- joy no privilege and have very simple standards of right and wroatg. is the air all rover...manta must henoeforth brew If they•010 li m /, iv. •T is discloee 1 ; 4 `;:X - n \. . - - .4•...e 17 liVrtVr'\ — :ka life. IC , sma , . rui....c. iiave been .ble upset tbe peace of the world only Ine cause the German people were not 'tuftr ed under their tutelage to oomradshlt 'ut other people of the world either tn thought or in purpose. They were allow- ed to have no opinion of their own which might be set up as • rule of (»admit for Mom who exereised authority over them. But the congress that concludes this war will feel the full strength of the tides that run now in the hearts arid °omelettes; of free men everywhere. Its conclusions will run with those tides. Russians Poisoned. 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 owe for all enlisted on the side of the allies. suspicion and distrust swept away and a lasting union of purpose effected. Had they believed these things at the very moment of their revolution and had these been confirmed in that belief since, the sad reverses which have recently marked the progress of their affairs towards an ()relieved and stable government of free men might have been avoided. The Rus- sian people have been poisoned by the very same falsehoods that have kept the German people in the dark, and the poi- son has been administered by the very same hands. The only possible antidote Is the truth. It cannot be uttered tee plainly or too often. Allies Unaltered. From every point of view, therefore, it has seemed to be toy duty to Speak these declarations of purpose, to add the spe- cific interpretations to what I took the liberty of saying to the senate in Janu- ary. Our entrance into the war has not altered our attitude towards 1111. soul.- ment that must tt,iro• wli. , t1 ;, is (., When I said in Janiricv :h it i. i „ of the world were eotitle.1 to IContinued on page 41 —The Auto Dray for hauling. EFFICIENCY Everybody is talking efficiency these days. Our universities and col- leges are, more than ever, turning out men and women trained for efficiency, The well organized business house and the factory are demanding it. A man is not a success in business without it. A woman is not a good home builder without it. An account in this bank will help your efficiency. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF WINIFRED \The Bank For All The People\ A DECEMBER 7, 1917. r1MANS ATTACK MASSED FORM H is RAGING WITH GREAT rIERCENESS BUT WITH- OUT ADVANTAGE. OODIEST BATTLES . OF WAR n r,,,„ Assert 6.000 Bratish Have f en Taken Prisoner Since Their giarprise Attack.—Eritish Win Guns Bask. nilen, Dec. 4.—Pixtremely hard dog with the Germans using great f e of infantry in utast formation, l'h,ug place along the southwest - (1 southeastern sections in. the p ti salient. ne region of Illenuelieu, la V5(' - ad southward to Vendimile a uortbward toward Masnieres. hat - raged with great fierceness l oout Monday, but with the Ger- : nowhere succertsful la breaking British front. At la Vacquerie O again succeeded la penetrating t village from which they were el ted previously, but a strong coun- ty mulch again turned the scales in fit r of General Byng's forces, who a out the enemy, inflicting heavy tallies on him. a in their previous attacks, the mils used great magnet; or lean- tr hit the British forces everywhere ineir onslaughts stoically and at locounts were firmly holding th r lines at all points. Illiough the Germans in their of- fe Iv. have been using men reckoned at 0 diN Mons ' , the British have been a at several points to regain some of lit ground they lost in the Initial at rk which wise delivered with a sit denness similar to that of Byng's hi lhive toward Cambral. Sunday vii hI they had gained the ettstern edge nit, the village of Villers-Guislain and drfven out the Germans from la Vac- querit. They held this latter position u ntil Monday, when they were corn- pelley ageln to cede it to the enemy. ontrlto tube - it again inter In the day. Stvest' of B:airlo village, to the xitleh shit hey' ic I rein it fejrnut.i war o flee asserts th. .1,00 , ,ritiatti have been made prisoe or daring their drive and that 100 guns have been taken from them. A large number of guns already have }wen recaptured. The feinr days' battle is deseelhed as the nowt sanguinary one that has ink - plate since the days of Verdun and the first battle of Ypres. Artillery duels are In progress be- ut - eOn French and the Germans rth of the Chevnin-des-Datnes and in the Verdun seetor. An attack by the flotilla:if. north of Floury In the latter lcchin ‘ts entirely without result, the i:erniant being driven heck hu the vcen,di, .liffering heavy casualties and leaving prisoners behind them. In official dispatch from Rome se7 - ta that the Austria -German attacks (.11 the Italian front have ceased en- tirely. Although the Teutonic Invasion was launched leder rain and snow, the Geernen prega explains the sudden in- activity t , . unfavorable atmospheric condition. The truth is, according to the dispatoh. that the Italian army, re- organized oiler the crisis, is now hold- ing the Another odtenalve by the enemy oa a stillklarger veal' is believed imminent nnd the _nein% are preparing to meet ti In la It -- Re4-Cross Entertainment The ladies of the Red Cross will give a social dance in Pol- zean hall Saturday evening Dec. 15th. The members are working diligently on articles of wearing apparel such as socks, sweaters, scarfs, etc. and have already sent ward two large boxes of ti 0 articles which go to the rs at the front. The society need of funds to buy yarn, e3c.,t0 make up future goods and it is toped everyone will come tint and give them a boost. See glnall bills. „New Draft Law Previous to Dec. 15, 1917, a set of questions numbering 184, will be sent to every man regis- tered under the selective draft law. These questions are now being received by the men and the list has been termed by the government \the questionnaire\ There is a heavy penalty pro- vided, including .a prison term, for those who fail to answer the PRICE FIVE CEN I We have just a few crackerjack Leather Vests and Duck Coats left. Hurry or your size will be gone. Fur Caps Mittens Felt Shoes and everything that will make your clothes for winter complete. REEVES & DAY Winifred and Suffolk MO. 4111111111111M WINTER GOODS Fuli, line 9twin - goods nOw in 'to Leather Vests Mackinaws Flannel Shirts Blanket Lined Trousers Blankets Stafford's Merchandise and Implements questions and they must be answered and returned to the board at Lewistown not later than December 22nd. Voluntary enlistments of men of draft age is prohibited after 6 o'clock, p. m., Dec. 10, 1917. All men who have been grant- ed exemptions must answer the questions as well as those who have not. Any other information in re- gard to the law may be obtained in Winifred from Howard C. Gee or Thos. G. Hayden. Cemetery Beautified It appears that a word of com- mendation would not be amiss relative to the fine Appearance of the grounds of the Winifred cemetery. The place has recent- ly been enclosed with a neat and attractive fence and the posts decorated and painted. The lanes have been gravelled to pre- vent driving over sacred ground and to keep the weeds down. A very neat and well -painted build- ing has been erected to house the tools of the sexton and afford a shelter for him on stormy days The cemetery is conveniently situated to both Winifred and Suffolk and contingent country east ann west and we feel our silent little city of the dead has the ne.atest appearance of any in the county. A well cared for cemetery speaks well for the community. Public Sale of State Lands. On December 11, 1917, there will be sold at the court house in Fort Benton, Montana, a pub* y i land sale, at which the state 'II sell 22,000 acres of school rs, practically all of which • good level land. Most of this land is' located within twelve miles of the town of Geraldine which is on the Mil- waukee railway, beisneen Lewis- town and Great FAO. Geraldine is a good live town and the farm- ers in that vicinity are unusually prosperous. This school land will be sold at public auction at not less than the appraisetieprices, which range from $10.50 to $21.00 per acre. on terms of fifteen per cent of the purcha, nrice 14.
