Show President Wilson Delivers Most Masterful Speech of His Career At Great Liberty Loan Meeting President Wilson at a great groat Liberty Lib Lib- arty erty loan celebration in Baltimore Saturday night April 6 gave Americas America's Americas America's Ameri Amen cas ca's answer to the Gorman German drive on the western battle battlo front to the renewed renewed re re- flowed propaganda for tor a German German- German I made peace to all nil proposals to end the war before Germany German is wakened from her dream of world dominion the presidents president's answer was Force force to the utmost force without stint or limit the righteous and triumphant force which shall make right the law of at the world and I cast every selfish dominion down inthe In Inthe Inthe the dust The full text o of his masterful speech Is as follows Fellow Citizens This Is the anniversary nry of at our acceptance acceptance acceptance ac ac- of or Germanys Germany's challenge to fight for our right to live and be befree befree free tree and for the sacred rights of at free tree freemen freemen men everywhere The nation Isa Is la a awake wake There is no need to call to it We know what the war must cost our cost our utmost sacrifice the lives of oC our fittest men and if need be 00 all that we possess The loan we weare weare weare are met to discuss is one of oC the least leas I parts of what we are called upon Ito j I to give and to do though in itself imperative The people of oC the whole I country are ready to lend to the ut-i ut ute ut- most even where it involves a sharp I skimping and daU daily sacrifice to lend out of oC meager earnings They will I I look with reprobation and contempt I upon those who can and will not upon those who demand a higher I rate of interest upon those who think of it as a mere commercial I transaction I have not come therefore therefore thereto there- there therea to fore e to urge the loan I have come i ionly only to give you If It I 1 can a more v id conception of ot what It Is for tor Reasons are Disclosed I The reasons for Cor this great war the reason why it had to to come the I need to fight it through and the Is Issues issues issues is- is sues that hang upon Its outcome are more clearly disclosed now than ever I before It is necessary to see Just what this particular loan means because because be be- cause causo the cause we are fighting I be-I for tor stands more sharply revealed than at any previous crises of the momentous momen women women- I tONS thus struggle The man who knows I least can now see plainly how the cause of justice stands and what the Imperishable thing is he Is asked to invest in Men in America may be bemore bemore bemore more sure than they ever ever were before before before be be- fore that the cause is their own and that if It should be lost their own great nations nation's place and mission mission mission mis mis- sion in he world would be lost with It I call you to witness my fellow countrymen that at no stage of this terrible business have I Judged the purposes of Germany intemperately I should be he ashamed in the presence presence presence pres pres- ence o of affairs so grave so fraught with the destinies of oC mankind throughout all the world to speak with truculence to use the weak language of hatred or vindictive purpose Wo We must Judge as we wew w would uld be bo Judged I have sought to learn the tho objects Germany has haa In Inthe inthe inthe the war from the mouths of her own spokesmen and to deal as frankly I with them as I wished them to deal with me I have laid bare our own ideals our own purposes without reserve or doubtful phrase and have hav asked them to say as plainly what it is that they seek seck Ready for Peace Pence We Wo have ourselves proposed no injustice no aggression Wo We are arc ready whenever the final reckoning is made to be Just to the German people deal fairly with the German n power as with all aU others There e can bo be no difference between peoples peoples peoples peo peo- ples In tho the final Judgment If it Is Ls Indeed to bo be a righteous Judgment To propose anything but Justice even evenhanded evenhanded handed and dispassionate Justice to Germany at any time whatever the outcome of oC the tho war would bo be to to renounce and dishonor our own cause For we ask nothing that we weare weare weare are not nol willing to accord It has been with this thought that I have sought to learn from tram those who spoke for tor Germany whether it was Justice or dominion and the execution execution exe exe- cution of their own will upon I exe-I the theother theother other Ither nations of oC the tho world that the tho 10 German leaders wore seeking They ey have answered ered answered answered In unmistakable unmistakable unmistakable un un- un- un mistakable terms They have avowed avowed avow avow- ed ad that It was not Justice but dominion dominion do dominion minion and the unhindered execution execution execution tion of oC their own will Tho The avowal has haa not come from Germanys Germany's statesmen It has come from her military leaders who are areher areher her real rulers Her statesmen have said that they wished peace and were ready to discuss Its terms whenever their opponents were willing to sit down at the conference table with them Her present chancellor has said said said-In in indefinite and uncertain terms Indeed and in phrases that often otten seem to deny their own meaning meaning mean mean- ing but with as much plainness as ashe ashe he thought prudent that prudent that he believed believed be be- that peace should be based upon the principles which we had declared would be our own in the final settlement At Brest her civilian delegates spoke in similar similar simi simi- lar terms professed proCessed their desire to conclude a fair peace and accord to the peoples with whose fortunes they ther were dealing the right to choose their own allegiances But ac action accompanied and followed th the profession Their military masters matS maa- te the men who act for tor Germany ai and exhibit her purpose in execution execution execution tl tion proclaimed a very different cc conclusion We cannot mistake w what the they have done in Russian in IF Finland in the Ukraine In Rumania The real test of ther justice and fa fair play has come From this we m may judge the rest They are enjoying enjoying enjoying en en- Jc In Russia a cheap triumph in Ic which no brave or gallant nation a can long take pride A greatS great people people peo- peo p pie helpless by their own act lies f for the time at their mercy Their fair professions proCessions are forgotten The They nowhere set up justice but everywhere everywhere every every- where Impose their power and exploit exploit ex- ex everything for far their own use and aggrandizement and the peoples of at conquered provinces are invited to tobe be ue free tree under their dominion Would Dominate AllAre All AU AllAre Are we not justified in believing that they would do the same things at their western front if they were not there face to face ace with armies whom even their countless divisions cannot overpower If It when they have felt their check to be ue final they should propose favorable and equitable equitable equi equi- table terms with regard to Belgium and France and Italy could they blame us if H we concluded that the they did so only to assure themselves themselves' of ofa a a. free hand in Russia and the east Their purpose undoubtedly is to tomake tomake tomake make all the Slavic peoples all the free Cree and ambitious nations of oC the Baltic peninsula all the lands that tha Turkey has dominated and misruled subject to their will and ambition and build upon upon that dominion an empire of ot force upon supremacy supremacy- an empire as hostile to the Americans American as to the Europe which It will wUl overawe over over- awe awe an an empire which will ultimately ulU- ulU master Persia India and the peoples of the Far East In such a 3 program our ideals ideal the Ideals o of justice and humanity and liberty the principle of oC the free tree self deter of ot nations upon which Jl JI the modern world Insists can play no part They are rejected for th the ideals of ot power for tor the principle that the strong must rule the weak that trade must follow tollow the flag g whether those to whom it is taken take welcome it or not that the peoples people of oC the world are to be made subject to the patronage and o of at those who have the power to enforce it Contest Content World Mastery That program once carried out America and all who care or dare t to stand with her must arm and prepare prepare prepare pre pre- pare themselves to contest the mastery mastery mas mas- tery of ot the world a a. mastery In which the rights of at common men the rIghts right of ot women and of at all who are weak must for tIll the time being be trodden under foot and disregarded and th the theold theold old long age-long struggle for tor freedom and right begin at its beginning Everything that America has lived live for and loved and grown great t to vindicate ato and bring to a glorious ro ro- will have havo fallen in utter ruin and the tho gates of merc mercy once one more pitilessly shut upon mankind I Continued on Pago Page Eight PRESIDENT WILSONS WILSON'S SPEECH Continued from Page One The thing is preposterous and impossible Impossible impossible im Im- possible And yet Is not that what the whole course and action of ot the German armies has meant wherever they have moved 1 I do not wish even In this mom moment nt of utter dull to Judge harshly or un un- un righteously I Judge only what tho German arms have accomplished I with unpitying thoroughness throughout through throughout out every fair fair region they have touched What then are we to do dot For myself I am ready ready still ready even now to discuss uSI a a. fair and Just and honest peace at any time that It is sincerely purI purposed pur pur- a posed posed a peace In which the strOng and toe the weak shall shall rare tare alike but I the answer when I proposed such sucha a peace came from the German commanders In Russia and I cannot canno mistake the meaning of the answer I accept the challenge I 1 know that you accept It All the world shall know that you accept It It shall appear In the utter men men- sacrifice I flee fice and self forgetfulness with which we shall give all that we love I and all that we have havo to redeem the world and make It fit for tor free ree men like ourselves to live In tn This now Is the meaning of all that we do Let everything that we say my fellow countrymen everything thae that we henceforth plan and accomplish continue to this response until the majesty and might of our concerted power shall fill the thought and utterly utterly utterly ut ut- ut- ut terly defeat the force torce of those concerted who flout and what we honor and hold dear I Germany has once more said that force and force alone shall decide whether justice and peace pea reign in the affairs att drs of ot m men 1 whether right as America conceives It or domination domInation domination dom dom- as sho she conceives it shall determine determine de de- termine the destinies of mankind There Is therefore but one response response re ro- from us Force force torce to the utmost force torce without stint or limit the righteous and triumphant force torce which shall ahall make right the law of the world and cast every selfish dominion down In the dust o- o |