The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-06-15
PRESIDENT IS.
HEARD NOTE.
0F WARNING
IN Flag Day Address Wilson
Tells of Intrigue
of Peace"
HOW THE U. S. WAS
DRAWN INTO WAR
Insults and Aggressions of
Imperial Government
Responsible.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

aShlngtOn, June i4.-PrSSldcnt
wilson warned the American people
in a flag day address on the Wash
ln-ton monument grounds today that
Germany has carried into effect the
greater part of her immediate plan of
conquest and now is negotiating a
new intrigue of peace" designed to
end the war while her aggressions
are secure.
All the central empires, the presi-
dent declared, have been cemented
into one great autOcracy-riddcn en-
Dire. throwing a broad belt of Ger
nan military power and political con-
troll across the very center of Europe
and beyond the Mediterranean to the
heart Of Asia" This accomplished,
he said, it is easy to understand why
Germany is fostering a propaganda
+or an early peace.
Peace, peace, peace has been the
talk Of her foreign office for now a
lear and more" said the president.
a little of the talk has been public,
but most of it has been private.
through all sorts of channels it has
come to me and in all sorts of guises.
.e military masters under whom
5.rmany is bleeding see very clearly
DThat point fate has brought them.
+ they can secure peace now with
he immense advantages still in their
lands which they have up to this
point apparently gained, they will
rave justified themselves before the
German people; they will have gainS.I
by force what they promised 10 gain
by it"
The president recited again the
German aggressions which drove the
United States to war. He declared
the purpose for which American sol
ders now carry the stars and stripes
to Europe for the first time in history
are not new to American traditions
because realization of Germany's wal
ANS must eventually mean the I'M
do.ug of the world. He spoke in full
as follows:
My fellow citizens: We meet to
celebrate Flag Day because this flag
which we honor and under which VIC
serve is the emblem of our unity, our
power our thought and purpose as a
nation. 1t has no other character
tlan that which we give it from gen
Grafton to generation. We
celebrate the day of its birth, and
from its birth until now it has wit
messed a great history, has foated on
nigh the symbol of great events, of a
great plan of life worked out by a
g9at people. We are about to carry
into battle, to lift it where it will
draw the fire of our enemies. We
are about to bid thousands, hundreds
" thousands, it may be millions of
our men, the young, the strong, the
capable men of the nation, to go forth
and die beneath it on fields of blood
ar aWay-fOr what? For some I'M
accustomed thing? For something for
9AIch 1t has never sought the fire
before? American armies were never
before sent across the seas. Whv are
they sent now? For some new pur-
pose, for which this great flag has
never been carried before, or for soma
old, familiar, heroic purpose for which
r has seen men-its own men-die
en- every battlefield upon which Amer
lcaDs have borne arms since the revo-
.1c,on?
These are questions which mus
be answered. =
III is plain enough how we were
orccd into the war. The eXtraOrdi-
1arE insults and aggressions of the
."aarjal German government left US
Z" self-respecting choice but to take
y arms in defense of our rights as
-gee people and of our honor as 4
>rereign government. The military
-a5-ers of Germany denied US the
-S1- to be neutral. They filled our
-2sus pecting communities with vi
~--s spies and conspirators and
s'se.- to corrupt the opinion of our
s7og1 in their own behalf. When
.-| found that they could not do
@a~ their agents diligently spread
.-I-.an amongst US and sought to
I'D. our own citizens from their al
.,S--oce-and some of those agents
.7-- men connected with the official
~.-lassy Of the German government.
-so-. here in our own capital. They
.--.- ov violence to destroy our in
--,-'es and arrest our commerce.
-. .r-ed to incite Mexico to take
GYMS against US and to draw
,@sS. ITO a hostile alliance with her
1922 that, not by indirection, but
-.@rt suggestion from the foreign
r. Berlin. They Immediately
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