Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1917 — FROM THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE [ARTICLE]

FROM THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

“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 po vver and resource we possess, whether of men, of money, or of materiai, is being devoted and will continue to be devoted to that purpose until it is achieved. * * * “We shall regard the war as we n only when the German people say to us, though properly accredited representatives, that they are ready to agree to a settlement based upon •justice and the reparation of the

wrongs their rulers have done. * * ‘When this intolerable Thing, this German power, is, indeed, defeated and the time come that we can discuss peace-'- when the German people have spokesmen whose words we can believe and when those spokesmen are ready in the name of their people to accept tie common judgment of the i iatit ns as to what shall henceforth be liie basis of law and of covenant for the life of the world- —we snail be willing and glad to pay the fi ll price for peace and pay V rngrudgingly. 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 as well as our friends."