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Show WILSON APPEALS FOR UIBOB'S I CONVENTION CHEERS RINGING STATEMENTS OF PRESIDENT IN BUf-FALO ADDRESS. Is Oppoced to Peace Until the War Against Germany Has Been Won, Declaring Victory Only Road to Permanent Peace. I'.ul'falo, X. Y. President Wilson, in a forceful addresshcre on November 1- hel'ori; the American Federation ot Labor, appealed to the working men of the United States for co-operation in the conduct, of the war, and made It clear that he opposes peace until the war against Cermany has been won. The president declared that his lieat'L wan with "the feeling of the pacilisls," hut that "my mind 1ms a contempt. or Ihem." "I want, Meace, but I know bow to Kel. it and Hioy do not," be declared. Col. ;. M. House, head of the American Ameri-can deleft tiu to the allied war conference, con-ference, fbe oresident said, bad been .sent to take unrt in n conference as to how the war ivhs to be won, "and be knows, its I know, that that is the way to get pence If you want it for American Federation of Labor, and the spirit of co-operation he had manifested man-ifested in his relations with the administration. ad-ministration. "I like to lay my mind," he said, "alongside of a mind that knows liow to pull in harness. The horses that kick over the traces will have to be put in a corral." The president's references ref-erences to Mr. Oompers were loudly applauded. Labor Must Be Protected. "While we are fighting for freedom," free-dom," Mr. Wilson asserted after these reference, "we must see, among other things, .that labor is free. We must see to it that the instrumentalities instru-mentalities by which JJie conditions of labor are improved are not blocked and checked. rfobouy has a right to stop the processes of labor until all the methods of conciliation and settlement have been exhausted." The president took occasion also to denounce the mob spirit, which, he said, "is displaying itself here and there in this country." He declared that "if our men have not self-control, they are not capable of that great thing which we call democratic government." more than a few minutes. War Statements Applauded. Thi 4o(l delegates to the convention anf7. the several thousand persons admitted ad-mitted to the ball to hear the president presi-dent speak arose and upplnuded this declaration with a tremendous burst of cheers. Another demonstration of approval came when he said: "We must stand together, night and day, until this job is finished." The president, while devoting his address to problems for the people of the United States, laid emphasis upon the broader phases of the world conflict con-flict In a way that seemed to indicate that his speech was possibly intended ns a message to the people of Germany, Ger-many, of Austria and of Russia, as well as of the United States. He declared de-clared his belief that were it not for the pan-Germans, the spirit of freedom free-dom would find "as fine welcome in the hearts of Germans as it can find In any other heart." "Power," he said, "cannot be used with concentrated force against free peoples, if it is to be used by free people." Speaking, probably of Austria, Mr. Wilson referred to the intimations of anxiety for peace that had come "from one of tbe central powers," and declared de-clared that it means "that the people in that central power know that if tbe war ends as it stands, they will, in effect, themselves be vassals of Germany, Ger-many, notwithstanding that 'they do not wish in their pride and proper spirit of nationality to be absorbed ab-sorbed and dominated," Of Russia, he said that he was amazed that some groups in that country coun-try could suppose that "any reform plans in the interest of the people can live in the presence of a Germany powerful pow-erful enough to undermine or overthrow over-throw them by intrigue or force." Pacifists Are Fatuous. "Fatuous as the dreamers of Russia," Rus-sia," were those persons in this country, coun-try, he declared emphatically, who suppose that "the free industry and enterprise of the world can continue if the pan-German plan is achieved and the German power fastened upon the world." The president directly asserted that Germany had started the war and said he would leave continuation of this statement to the verdict of history. He referred to Germany's growth to a "place in the sun," and asked why she was not satisfied when she gained that position. In answer he described the ,i Avai'iiniont'c methods nf con- trolling the competition of its industries indus-tries and asserted that "all the while there was lying behind its thought, in its dreams for the future, a political control which would enable it in the long run to dominate the labor and industry in-dustry of the world." Through R. R. a Force Threat. Mr. Wilson cited in this connection the Berlin-to-Ragdnd railway which, be said, "was constructed to run the threat of force down the flank of the industrial undertakings of half a dozen other countries, so that when German competition came in it would not be resisted too far because there was always tbe possibility of getting German armies into the heart of that country quicker than any other armies could get there." Summing It up, he said that Germany Ger-many is determined that tbe political power of the world shall belong to her, and that never before had such ambitions been based upon so exact and precise and scientific a plan of domination. The president voiced in terms of eulogy his approval of the conduct of Samuel Gompers, president of the |