Based on structural elements, what type of expository text does this excerpt from a 1917 congressional address by president woodrow wilson exemplify?

i am not now thinking of the loss of property involved, immense and serious as that is, but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of the lives of non-combatants, men, women, and children, engaged in pursuits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern history, been deemed innocent and legitimate. property can be paid for; the lives of peaceful and innocent people cannot be.

a.) persuasive essay.
b.) creative nonfiction.
c.) news article.