Show SCORES THE KAISER PRESIDENT SAYS MILITARY MASTERS MAS MAS- DENIED U. U S. S RIGHT TO BE NEUTRAL FILLED COUNTRY WITH SPIES Failed in Attempt to Spread Sedition German People In Grip of Same Silme Sinister Power That Has Drawn Blood From Us Washington June 10 PresIdent President Wilson in lu a King day ny n address dress delivered eliv ered here on Thursday declared Ul that t twe we te were forced Into the world wide e war b by the tile extraordinary Insults an and aggressions of the tue military masters of Germany The presidents president's ml address ress In iii part Is as ns f 8 My MJ I Fellow ellow Citizens We Vo meet to celebrate Flag D Day because this flag which we honor and un under er which we serve is the tIle cm emblem lem of our unity empower our em our power our thought nn and purpose as ns a n tUItion nation It It has hns no no other character than titan that which we give It from generation to generation The choices are ours It floats In majestic silence above the tile hosts that execute those choices whether In peace pence or in war wm An And yet though silent It speaks to us US speaks speaks to us of the past of the men and women wom worn en who went before us nn and of the records records rec rec- or s they wrote rote upon It We celebrate the day of ot Its birth an and from Its birth until now It has witnessed a great glent history his tor tory has floated on high the sJ symbol of great grent events vents of a great plan of life worked out by a great people We Wc are about to carr carry It Into battle to lift it where It will draw the fire of our en We Ve are about to bi bid thousands s. s hundreds s of thousands s It may be millions mil mU- lions of our men the young the strong the capable men of the nation to go goforth goforth forth nn and die beneath It on fields Gelds of blood boo far fur a away for away for what ha t For some unaccustomed thing For something for which It ft hits has never sought the fire before American armies were vere never before sent across the seas Wh Why are they sent now For some new purpose purpose pur pur- pose for which this tills great grent flag lIag has never nev nay er cr been er-been been carried before or for some old familiar heroic purpose for which it has seen men Its own men die le on every ev cv- cv er cry ery battlefield upon which w Americans have nave borne arms arras since the Revolution These are questions which must be answered We Ve are Americans We In our turn serve America an and can cnn serve her with no private purpose We must use her flag as she has ahn always s 's use used It We are ure accountable at the bar of ot history his liIs tory an anti and must plead In utter uttel frankness what purpose it Is we seek to serve sene United States Forced Into War It Is plain enough how we were forced Corce into the war The extraordinary l nal nary insults and aggressions of the tile Im Imperial un- un penal German government left heft us no self respecting choice but to take up arms In defense of our rights as a n free people nn and of our honor as ns a sovereign government The military masters of Germany Germun de denied us the right to be he neu The They tilled filled our unsuspecting communities communities com coat with vicious spies au and conspirators con con con- an and sought to corrupt the opinion of oC our people le In their own be half When the they found that they could coul not do O that their agents diligently spread sedition amongst us us and sought to draw law our own citizens from their allegiance nn and some of those agents were yore men connected with the official embassy of the German government Itself itself It it- self here In our own capital They sou sought ht b by violence to destroy oy our Industries In in- ies dusti-ies and arrest our commerce They tried to Incite Mexico to take up arms against us nUl and to draw raw Japan Into into In in- to p. p ho hostile alliance with her her anti and that not by In Indirection but hut by direct suggestion from the foreign office In Berlin They impudently denied denle us UN tm- tm the use of the high bight seas sens nn and repeatedly repeated ly executed their threat that they would send to their death eath any of ot our people leOPle who ventured venture to approach the coasts of Europe And many of our our- own people were corrupted Men Ien began begun be be- gun gan to look upon upon their thell own neighbors with suspicion and to won wonder er In their hot resentment an and surprise whether there was as any community In which hostile Intrigue did dIll not lurk luik What great greut nation In such circumstances would not have e taken up arms Much Muchas as ns we ha had desired pence peace h It was denied us nn and not of ot our own choice This flag under which we serve would have been dishonored had we ve withheld our hanoi hand No Toward German People But that Is only part of the story We know now as clearly as we knew before we were ourselves engaged that we weare are not enemies of f the Ole German n p pro peb- pie plc and anti that the they are arc not our OUI cn enemies They lid did ll not orl originate or desire this hl hideous war or wish that we should be drawn Into It and we are vaguely vaguel conscious con con- scions that we are fl fighting lJUng their cause as ns the they will wilt some sonic tiny Jay see sec It as us well as us our ouro n. own They are themselves in the grip of the same sinister power that has hils now nt at last Just stretched Its ugly talons tal tal- tal ons one out an anti and drawn blood from us The holc world worl Is In hoe grip of that power pow pow- er and anti Is trying out the thie great gleat battle I which shall shah determine whether It Is to be under Its mastery or fling i Itself free The war was begun b by the military masters of ot Germany who proved pro to be also the masters musters of Austria These men have never novel regal regarded ded et nations na an- Lions as peoples men women anti and children of like hike blood and frame as ns themselves for whom governments gO ex cx- isted and In whom governments hail th their tr life lite They have o reg regarded l them mc tact merely as Servi serviceable ceable- ceable organizations Lf hs which they ther could by force or intrigue bend br or or corrupt C to their own purpose put i They have hac regarded the smaller states In particular an and the peoples eople could be overwhelmed by ly force ns its their natural tools nn and Instruments of I domination Their purpose has long Ions on been leen avowed Th The Thu demands ma made e by Austria upon Serbia were a n mere single step In a U aplan plan which compassed Europe and andAsia andAsia Asia from frolD Berlin to Bagdad They hoped those demands might not arouse Europe but the they meant to press them j whether they did or not for the they thought themselves ready reads for the final issue of arms Vast Empire Planned Their plan was to throw a broad hron belt helt of of German military power nn and i political control across the very center of En Ea rope anti and beyond the Mediterranean Into Into Into In In- to the heart of oC Asia and Hun Austria gary was to be as much their tool anti and pawn as ns Serbia or Bulgaria or Turkey or 1 the pon ponderous erous states of the I East ast The dream had hind Its heart at nt Berlin It could have hInd had a heart nowhere else I It rejected the Idea Mea of soll solidarity of race entirely The choice of peoples pla played ed no part In it at all nU The They ardently ardently ar nr ar- ar dently desired to direct their own affairs affairs affairs af af- af- af fairs would be satisfied only by un undisputed ls Independence They could be kept quiet only by the presence or the constant threat of armed men The German military state statesmen men had reckoned reckoned reck reck- with all aU that nn and were ready rendy to todeal todeal todeal deal with It In their own way An And the they have actually carried the greater grenter part of that amazing plan Into execution I Look how things stand Austria Is at nt their mercy It has acted not upon Its own Initiative or upon the choice of Its o own n people but at nt Berlins Berlin's Ber Bel lin's lins dictation ever since the war begar be be- gar gan ar Its people now desire peace pence but hut cannot have It until leave Is granted from The so called central powers are In fact but a n single power Serbia Is at nt Its merc mercy should Its hands be but for a n moment freed From Hamburg to the Persian gulf suf the net netIs netIs netis Is spread j Why Berlin Seeks Pe Peace Is It not easy ns to understand the eagerness eagerness eagerness erness for peace pence that has been manifested manifested mani mani- from Berlin BerUn ever since the snare was set nn and sprung Peace peace p peace ace has been the talk of her Iler foreign for foi now n a year an and moro more not not peace upon her own Initiative but upon upon up up- on the Initiative of the nations over oyer which she now deems herself to hold the advantage Through h all sorts of channels It has hns come to me anti and in all aU sorts sorts' of guises hut but never with the terms disclosed which the German cov- cov O would be he willing to accept That government still holds n a valuable part of France though with slowly re relaxing grasp and practically the whole of ot Belgium It cannot go further It dare not go bac back It wishes to close Its bargain before It Is too late and It has little left to offer for the pound of flesh h it will demand The military masters under tinder whom wham Germany Is bleeding see very clearly to what pol point poh t Fafe has brought them If It they fall back or are forced b b ick an inch their power both hoth abroad and at home will fall to pieces like a ahou ahouse ahouse hou house e of cards If Tt they can secure secure se se- se cure peace now with the Immense advantages advantages ad rul vantages es still In their han hands s which they have up to this point apparently gained they will have Justified fied themselves them them- themselves selves ely before the German people will have llave gained by Jy force what they promised promise to gain by It an immense expansion of or German power an Immense Immense Im Im- Im mense enlargement of German Industrial Industrial Indus Indus- trial tria and commercial opportunities If 01 they fall fail their people Will Wili thrust them al aside e a government accountable to the people themselves will be set up In Germany ns as It has hns been In England In the United States In France and andIn andIn andIn In all nil the great countries of the modera modern mod mod- ern era time except Germany If they succeed suc sue coed they are safe and Germany and the world are undone If the they fall fail Germany Ger Ger- molly many Is saved aved and the world will be heAt beat at peace pence If It they thy succeed we and nil un the rest of the world must remain armed as they will remain nn and mut make ready for the next step of or aggression aggression ag ng- ag- ag If It they fall fail the world may unite for peace pence and Germany may be beof beof of af the union Se Seek k to td Deceive World The present particular aim aim of oC the masters of Germany 1 Is to deceive all those who throughout the world stand for for- forthe the rights of peoples and the self- self government go of nations for they see what immense strength the he forces of Justice and of liberalism are gathering out of this war var The sinister Intrigue Is being no no le less s actively el conducted In this country than thanIn In and In eYer every country countr In Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope to which the thc agents and dupes of the Imperial German government can cnn get access United States In W War Jr for Freedom The The rhe great fact that stan stands s out above al all the rest is that this is a Peoples People's war wai- a n war for tree freedom om and Justice au and self government amongst all an the nations na nn tIn of the world a war to make the world safe for the tile peoples who live lI In tn It nn and have made mahe It their own wn the man Get people themselves es Included and that with us rests the choice to break through all these hypocrisies s nn and patent cheats and masks of brute force an and help set tet et the world worl free or else stand t n aside l e and let it be dominated a n along along lon long n age e through by sheer weight of or arms and the arbitrary choices of self- self constituted masters by hy the nation which can CUll maintain the biggest armies S nn and the most Irresistible armaments armaments- a n power to which the world has afforded af of- forded no parallel and In the face of or which s political freedom eed n must wither and und perish For Foi us there Is but one choice Wo We have e made It Woe Voe b be to the man or group of 01 men that seeks to stand tn In our OUI wa way In this tills Ilu day of oC high r resolution when er e every principle we wo hold dearest is ia to be vindicated d and 1111 m l c t lJ the salvation sal of or the tIle nations We are arc ready rendy to plead at nt the bar har of ot hl history tory I I and md our flag flab shall wear a anew new luster tel |