Show SCORES THE KAISER PRESIDENT SAYS MILITARY MAS DENIED U S RIGHT ro BE NEUTRAL FILLED COUNTRY WITH SPIES failed in attempt to spread sedition german people in grip of same sinister power that has drawn blood from Us vi 1 ashington june 13 15 1 I iliou in u k hug ing jay day address ml erid liere here on thursday declared that wo we were mere tuned forced into the worldwide orld wide war by the extraordinary insults anil anti of tho the military masters of albany the presidents add addres resi in part Is us follows my ity I 1 lellow ellow citizens I 1 e meet to celebrate hag klag day because this flag willah vie me bonor honor and under which we me nerve gene Is the emblem of our unit our our thought and purpose us as a nation it has no other character cliar acter than that that which we me give it from generation to gelie generation ration the choices are oura it gloats in ili majestic silence above lie tile 11 that execute those r I 1 ether in ili peace or in A war nr and 3 act et tIlo though uh silent it speaks to us speaks to us of the past of the men and morn en who nho went meat before Ls and of the rec orda tiny wrote upon it NN e celebrate bo the day of it hirth birth and from its birth until ua cow it has witnessed a great his hill tory has floated flouted on high the symbol of peat great p eat events of a areat reat plan of life worked out by a great people we are about to carry it into bittle to lift it where liere it will draw drain the fire of our en antles we are about to bid thousand thousands hundreds of thousands it may be lull tull lions of our men the young tho the strong the he cal calville men of the nation to g go forth and die beneath it on fields of blood far away nany tor for what some unaccustomed thing for something for katch it has never nener sought the tire before american anniles were never before sent across the seas are they tent sent now for some new purpose for which this tills great hag flag has hits ne never been carried before or for some old familiar heroic purpose tor for which filch it has haq seen inen men its own men wen die on every battlefield upon which american Amerl have hae borne arms since the tile revolution themi are questions bullch wl ich mu must mutt tt lip answered we are americans 1 I e eln to our turn serve gene america Ameri cn and tan serve her mith w ath no private purpose we must ue her flag ai as ahe she has used it we are accountable at the bar of hia big tory anil anti mu must it plead in utter frankness what purpose it Is we ue seek to serve united states forced int war it Is plain enough how we were forced into the war aar the nery insults and aggressions of the fin p arini german government left ua us no self respecting choice but to tako up arms in defense defene of our rights as a free people and of our honor as a sovereign government tho the military masters of germany denied dented us the right to be neu aral they tilled filled our unsuspecting corn with vicious oples and con aspirators spIra tors pad sought to corrupt lie the opinion of our people in their own on behalf hen lien they found that they could not do that their agents diligently spread sedition amongst us and sought to draw our own citizens from their allegiance and some of those agents were men connected with mith the official embassy of the german itself here in our own oun capital they bought sought by violence to destroy our in destries dus tries and arrest our commerce they tried to incite mexico to take up arms against us and to draw japan into a hostile alliance with mith her and that not by indirection but by direct suggestion from the foreign office omee in ili berlin they impudently denied ut u the use of the high sens seas and repeated ly executed their threat that they would send to their death any of our people who mho ventured to approach the coasts of europe and many of our own oun people were corrupted men began to look upon their own neighbors with suspicion and to wonder in their hot resentment ment and surprise ur prise ul whether lether there uni nry ary community in which hostile intrigue did not lurk what great nation in such circumstances A would not have taken up arms much as its we me had find desired pence it was mas lenlee us tm and not of our own oan choice this flag under which we e re would mould have been dIstio dishonored nored had we withheld our out hand no eunity oard german people but that Is only part of the story II 11 e know now as a clearly as we knew before wo ue were mere cri that we are not enrin enemies les of the german people and that they are not our enemies they did lid not originate or desire this hid hideous us war or wish that we me should be drawn into it and we e arc are vaguely con eklous that we are lighting fighting their caus as they will none some day see it as well as our own olin they are them themselves seles in the pip of the game u sinister power that has now nt at last stretched its ugly tal on out and drawn blood from us the whole hole world Is in the grip of hat flint POU po er and Is trying out the tile great battle hah shall determine whether it Is to 6 ile b brought under its hastery or fling I 1 twit free tile war was wa begun by the masters of germany who proved to lc be also tso the masters of austria hungary these men have freyr re regarded girded ua fill lions as pen peoples ples men inen women jani nd children n of like blood and frame of for whom governments ex fated 11 ll and in whom horn governments had hild r life they have ne ardeil them arely its serviceable mationg mth thel hey could by force or bem al or camiet to their own i arpee vie have hae the sta tiller sante in n particular and alif im win 11 be 01 overwhelmed erm helni 41 I 1 y force i hilr natural tools and 0 domination their thir purpose has ion ben 11 the demanda dei nanae made by austria up upon litt st abla wire a it inere single step in n plan inn chith compa ased europe and asla sin from berlin to bagdad the loped hoped those demands might not arouse Uti europe rope but they meant to press them thelm vh hether ether they did or not for they nought thought themselves ready for the final asue of arms vat vast empire planned their plan was to throw a broad belt at of G german erinne military power and political control across the very ery center of fu rope and beyond the in to the heart of asia und and austria hun gary was ails to he be as much their tool and fawn paun as serbia or bulgaria or turkey or the ponderous states of the fast the dream had its heart at berlin it could have hn ha I 1 it heart nowhere else 1 f it aji the idea ilea of solidarity of race en entirely tirel the choice of peoples placed no part in it at all thea the nr ar denti desired to direct their own on nf if fairs would mould ie te satisfied only by undid buted independence they could be kept kert quiet only by the presence or the contant con tant threat of 0 armed men the germin germ in military statis nien had reck reek boned with all that and were ere ready to deal with mith it in their own oun aty way and anil they have actually carried the greater part of that amazire plan into e execution I 1 look how thinht stand austria Is at their mercy it has ling acted not upon its own initiative or upon the choice of its own people hut but at berlins dictation ever since lie the war aar he be ran gan its people now desire peace hut but cannot have bave it until leave lene Is grunted granted from berlin the so called central boners are in fact but a single power serbia Is nt at its mercy should its handa bp be but for a moment freed from hamburg to the persian gulf the net Is spread why berlin seek seeks peace Is U not easy to understand the eagerness for pence that has been roani maril tested from berlin ever ener since the snare was mas set and sprung pence peace pence peace pence has fins been the talk of her foreign office for now a year and more not I 1 leace bace upon her own initiative but up on the initiative of the nations over which filch sh she now deems herself to hold the adan advantage tage through all sorts of channels it has come to me and in all borts of guises but never with the terms disclosed which the german government would mould be willing to accept tl at government still holds a valuable nhip pirt ot france though with m ith sion slowly ay relaxing grap grasp and practically the whole of belgium it cannot go furth further cr it dare ilare not go back it to close its bargain before it ts Is too late and it has little left to oner offer for the pound of flesh it will nill demand the military masters under whom Is bleeding SOP see verv very clearly to what N hat point I 1 ate has brought them if they full fall hock back or are forced back an inch their power both abroad and at home will mill fall to pieces like a house of cards if they can secure pence now v wah the I 1 mense nd ad vantages an still in their hands which they have up to this tilts point apparently gained they will mill have justified them pal calves eq before the german people they will aili have hane guinea by force what alint they promised to gain by it its an immense expansion of german power an nix immense enlargement of german industrial find commercial opportunities it they fall their people will thrust them aside a n government accountable to the people themselves will AM be set up in germany ns as it has been in england En la in the united states in france and in all the great countries of the modern time excena germany it if they succeed they face ft re afo and germany and the world are tire undone if the fall germany la is saved and the world orld will sill be nt at pence peace if it they succeed we me and all the rest of the world anu must at remain armel armed as they will w allt re remain ninin and roust make ready foe for the next step of ng 89 gress loi if they full the world ma unit to in pence and germany may be of the union seek to deceive world the present particular aim of 0 the masters of germany Is to deceive all dioso fioso who throughout the world eland stand for the rights of aples and unit the self coerne ent of nations for they ake what ahat immense strength the forces force of justice ami and of are gathering out of this tills war the sinister intrigue Is being no 1 actively conducted in this country than 11 in und in every country in en eu rope to which the agents and dup dups dupla la of the imperial german government can get access united state states in war for freedom th great fact that stands out above all the rett rest Is that this Is a IP people oPleS j war ar a A war a r for freedom a aid id justice and amongst all the till alens of he the world a war aar to make the world safe for the tile peoples who live in it and have made it their on the german people themselves included and that us rests the choice to break through nil all these theme hypocrisies and patent clients and of brute force and help fet set the world orld i free or else aside and let it U be dominated a long age through by sheer weight eight of arms and the arbitrary choice choices of self constituted masters mac tere by the nation chieh can main maintain taIr the biggest blest armies amle d and the no st it irresistible a romer to ta which the world hae has nt at forded no parallel and in the face of which political freedom must wither and for uit u t ere Is 11 but one choice we have made it woe be to the man or that wk to stand in group of M men en our way in thin this dey day of high re resolution when every r we hold dearent tit 1 to 1 b vindicated vleda bated afta aide mole eure foi tot the at the nations we nr n rv mady 0 o plead at ake bellr of MOM end our flag 1 wear a new lu lurter aller |