New Britain herald., 1917-06-14
PRESIDENT TEARS OFF LID,
 EXPOSING GERMANY'S HAM
Explains Why B
 by Using Her A& as Catspaws, is w on
 ing for Peace

END OF WAR WOUIN
 MAKE HER SUPRE Declares Peace Talks Comes tos
 Through "All Sorts of Channe3A F
 Exposes Vicious Spy System &x &x
 Conspiracies in America, FoatGll
 by Beriin-If Germany Wins W077
 Must Arm Again. esas .sss
 Washington. June 14.-Preol< Wilson warned. the American re in Flag Day address on the VT 1ngton monument grounds todaHssf Germany has carried into efkock s greater part of her immediate pta| conquest and now is negotiatihn new intrigue of peace" desten end the war while her asgressaonS secure sssa s9
 All the central empires, the ISE dent declared, have been cefti0 into one, great autocracy-riddeu pire, throwing broad bolt or fss man military power and political trol across the very center of Ntf and beyond the Mediterranean the heart of Asia" This accompt11 he said. it is easy to 'und Germany is fostering . prop6 6 for an early peace.
 Peace. peace, peace haa bx talk of her foreign office 1or year and more," said the baS "A little of the talk has been r but most of it has Sbeeff TIT Through all sorts of claannels M come. to me and in all sorts of The military masters under
 Germany is bleeding sec very S] to what point fate has brouxhta If they can secure peace noSt the immense advantages still IF hands which they have up tSf point apparently gained, ,s.s staaay
 have Justified themselves bAfOrlEs g German people; they will haye n1i by force what they promised tO by It." E. ssseegaY8|
 The president recited again 6 German aggressions which droy1 United States to war. He ;decl the purposes for which Americaa diers now carry the Starr and at1 to Europe for the first time lii S tory are not new to American ft tons because realization of GernnS war aims must eventually mean undoing of the whole world. spoke in full as follows:
 My fellow citizens: We me- celebrate Flag Day because tiliSs which we honor and under whicts serve is the emblem of our 4iai our power. our thought and pi4ssS as nation. It has no other cI,6 ter than that which we give ix 37 generation to generation. The ch6 are ours. It floats in majestic ptis above the hosts that execute ti7 choices, whether in peace or tiia And yet. though silent, 1t speaIkls5 us, s,-speaks to us of the past, dk 8 men and women who went befoJ \ and of the records they wrote 1t. We celebrate the day o1 birth; and from it's birth untllF 1t has witnessed great histoyyss fioated on high the symbol 0f events, of great plan of life sli out by a great people. We aro to carry 1t into battle. to where 1t will draw the lire Fl enemies. We are about 10 bid sands, hundred of thousands. be millions, of our men, the the strong, the capable men nation. to go forth and die beue on fields of blood far awayss what! For some unaccust6 thing? For something which if never sought before? Am1xS armies were never before sent 4cs the seas. Why are they sent st,6 For some new purpose. for whiclfS great nag has never been carrteAs fore. or for some old, familiar. 1k purpose for which 1t has seen its own men. die on every hat{S1 upon which Americans have TIT arms since the revolutions? sjs
 These arc questions which mSll : We are AmoricanA, In our turn serve America anNs serve her with no private puI We must use her nag as she IT ways used it. We are acc0unta the bar of history and must nt1 utter frankness what purpoa6a we seek to serve.
 No Choice Other Than w.
 Tt is plain enough how we flI forced into the war. The extra6rSI nary insults and aggressions of tl Imperial German government left st no self-respecting choice but to tai up arms in defense of our rights sa , free people and of#our honor aSsa government. The milttaS of Gerhany denied us 4l right to be neutral. They filled communities with I3 cious spies and conspiratorasssg ss sought to corrupt opinion of opf pie in their own behalf. Whe6s found that they could not ddS their agents diligently spread sG2f
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