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Show PRESIDENT WILSON'S MESSAGE- We are pleased with President Wilson's Wil-son's message to congress. His declaration decla-ration in favor of making war on Austria Aus-tria will meot with general approval, as the great majority of the people have not fully understood why Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary should not hav9 been included includ-ed in the state-of-war pronounced upon Germany in April last. Obviously in response to the taunts of the pro-Germans, the president answers an-swers the questions as to why the United States is at war and what are the ultimate aims of our fighting forces, and his rojoinder Is powerful. No part of his message Is a stronger appeal' to American patriotism than ! his declaration that this country will remain in the war until the German people are made to respect the rights of others and the world Is freed from the" menace of the militarism of the German plotters. President Wilson warns the Germans Ger-mans they are in danger of. lasting ostracism' by the free people of the world. He points out the possibility of the allies forming a commercial pact which will exclude the Germans, if they persist In attempting military domination. This threat of ovenlual-ly ovenlual-ly reducing the Teutons to the level of outcasts If they persist in their outrageous out-rageous attitude, should make more than one Gorman overlord squirm. Evidently the president has not lost hope of separating Turkey from German Ger-man control, a he places Turkey and Bulgaria in the class of misled victims of Germany. The big note in the president's message mes-sage is the resolve to turn the whole energy of the nation to the winning of tho war; although almost as important im-portant is his urging of penitentiary sentences for alien enemies who violate vio-late tho rules of conduct which have j been prescribed for them during this war. |