The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-06-21
SCORES THE KAISER
PRESIDENT SAYS MILITARY MAS
TIERS DENIED v. S. RIGHT
TO 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.


Drawn Blood From Us.
washington, June 15.-President
Wilson In II Flag day address deliv-
cred here on Thursday declared that
we were forced into the worldwide
war by the extraordinary insults and
aggressions of the military masters of
Germany.
The presidents address In part is as
follows:
My Fellow Citizens: We meet to
celebrate Flag Day because this flag
which we honor and under which we
serve is the emblem of our unity, our
power, our thought and purpose MS IL
nation. 1t has no other character than
that which we give 1t from generation
to generation. The choices are ours.
1t floats In majestic silence above the
hosts that execute those choices
whether In peace or In war. And yet,
though SILENT it speaks to us-speaks
to us of the past, of the men and wOm-
en- who went before us and Of the rec
ords they wrote upon 1t. We celebrate
the day of. its birth; and from Its birth
until now 1t has witnessed grent his.
tory, has fioated on high the symbol of
great events, of n great plan of life
worked out by great people. We nre
about to carry 1t into battle, to lift II
where 1t will draw the fire of our en-
emies. We are about to bid thousands
hundreds of thousands, 1t may be mil.
lions of our men, the young, the strong,
the capable men of the nation, to go
forth and die beneath 1t on fields Of
blood far away-for what? For some
unaccustomed thing? For something
for which 1t hns never sought the fire
before? American armies were never
before sent across the seas. Why are
they sent now? For some new pur-
pose, for which this great flag has new
er been carried before. or for some old,
familiar, heroic purpose for which 1t
has seen men, It's own men, die on ev-
cry battlefield upon which Americans
have borne arms since the Revolution;
These are questions which must be
answered. We are Americans. We in
our turn serve America, and can serve
her with no private purpose. We must
use her flag us she has always used It..
We are accountable at the bar OF his
tory and must plead In utter frankness
what purpose 1t Is we seek to serve.
United States Forced Into War.
1t Is plain enough how we were
forced into the wnr The eytraordi.
nary insults and apgressions of the i'm.
perial German government left us M
self.respectiny choice Int to take nm
arms in defense Of our rights ms free
people md of our honor MS n sovereign
government The military masters Of
Germany denied us the right tn no non.
trol They filed our ,,nsusnectinp com.
munlties with vicious spies and con.
spirutors md sought 10 corrunt the
onIniop Of orr people In their own be.
hnlf. When they found TINT thew could
NOT do tbat tbeir npents dilipent,v
sprcod sedItion amongst MS md soupht
IN draw our own citizens from tbeI,
o,Ioyionce md some NJ those npents
wore men connected with the official
emh,ssv NJ III. German roverpment r..
sc,f here in our own cnpItnI They
sought by violence to destroy our in.
dustries and arrest our commerce.
They tried to incitc Mexico to take up
arms against us and to draw Japan in
to n hostile alliance with her-nntl
that, not by indirection, but by direct
suggestion from the foreign Office In
Berlin. They impudently denied us
the use Of the high seas and repeated
ly executed their threat that they
would send to their death any Of our
people who ventured to npprOach the
consts of Europe. And many Of our
own people were corrupted. Men be.
gan to look upon their own neighbOrs
with suspicion nndsto wonder In their
hot resentment and surprise whether
there wns any community In which
hostile Intrigue did not Turk. What
grcnt nation In such circumstances
would not have tnken up nrmsf Much
ms we had desired peace, 1t was denied