Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-15
PRESIDENT WARNS
AMERICA AGAINST
''PEACE INTRIGUE"
Designed to End War While
Germany's Aggressions
Are Secure.
LET CONFLICT STOP NOW
AND PRUSSIANISM is SAFE
Forced Back an Inch, and It's
Power Falls Like House
of Cards.
FATE OF WORLD AT STAKE
AT Present Time Tcuton Plan Of
Conquest Has Been Largely
Carried Into Effect.
LET CONFLICT STOP NOW
AND PRUSSIANISM is SAFE
FATE OF WORLD AT STAKE
AT Present Time Tcuton Plan oi
Conquest Has Been Largely
Carried Into Effect.

W ASflNGTON, June l4.--Anlcrica's =
reasons for sending her flag against, the
Gre Of the enemy across the ana
the purpose she seeks were s,atcu
anew by President " wilson to-day in
Flag Day address beneath the Wash
inEton Monument.
Germany's military masters denied
the United States the right 10 be ncu-
trail. the President said and by extra
ordinary insults and agErcssions. left
US no Eclf-rcspecting choice but 10
take up arms in defense Of our rights
AZ free people and of our honor as
"A sovereign government"
Now that America has been forcea
to war. declared tho President she bids
her young men go forth to fight on
heids Of blood far away for the same
old familiar. heroic purpose for which
II has seen it's mon die on every uattt.
field upon which Americans nav- oorn,
arms since the observation-disclosures
sinister power he said. which has
the German people themselves in it's
grip now AT las, has stretched fo~th
us ugly 'alons and drawn blood from
u.s.
The whole world Is At war" he
added because the whole world is IN
out tho great battle which sna,i DC
tcrmine whether 1t is TO he brouch,
under it's mastery or hing itself free"
GERMANY REFLECTS IDEA
OF SOLIDARITY OF RACES
In giving warning tha. the Germans
actually have carried into execution
their plan to throw broad belt of
military power across the center OF
Furol" and into the heart OF Asia
rejecting the idea of solidarity Of races
and IN" choices Of peoples. Mr.. Wilson
3n'k" OF the new intrigue for peace
now appearing In many guises at the
bsS"st or The Gc,ln government
~ cannot Eo further: IL dare not
Eo aacc." he aaid 1T wishes TO close
Us bargain hctcrc II is TOO late. and i,
has !it;lc left to offer for tho pound -
i'sh IL will Gcmand."
several hours before the President
spoke. Washington had been drenchcd
with rain and pcltcd with hail. All
through the speech rain came down
softly. and a Secret Service man held
an umbrella over the Presidents head
while hundreds Of umbrellas hid the
faces OF most OF the hearers The
President spoke as follows:
My fellow citizens: We meet to cele-
brate Flag Day because this flag which
we honor and under which We serve
is the emblem OF our unity our mower
our thought and purpose as a nation
IT has no other character than tha.
which we give it from generation to
generation. VIC celebrate the day
of Its birth. and from it's birth until
now II has witnessed a great history
has f1oatcd on high the symbol of great
events. OF n great plan of life worked
out by great people. We arc about
10 carry II into battle. TO lift IL where
II will draw the ire of our enemies
We are about 10 bid thousands. hun
dreds Of 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 far away-for what? For some
unaccustomed thing? For something
for which II has 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
never been carried before. or for some
old. familiar. heroic purpose for which
it has seen men, it's own men. die on
every battle field upon which Amer
lCRuS nave pOrne arms since the revO-
luton?
These are questions which must be
answered.
PLAIN HOW NATION
WAS FORCED INTO WAR
1T is plain enough how we were
forced into the war. The extraordinary
insults and aggressions OF the imperial
German government left us no self
respecting choice but to take up arms
in defense Of our rights as free peo-
pie and of our honor a sovereign
government The military masters Of
Germany denied us tho right to be
neutral. They filled our unsuspccting
communities with vicious spies and
conspirators and sought to corrupt the
opinion Of our people in their own
behalf. When they found that they
could not do that, their agents dill
gently spread scdition amongst us and
sought to draw our citizens from their
allegiance-and some of those agents
were men connected with the official
embassy of the German government
itself-here in our own capital. They
sought by violence to destroy our in
dustrics and arrest our commerce.
They tried to incite Mexico to take up
arms against us and to draw Japan
into a hostile alliance with hcr-and
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 repeatedly
executed their threat that they would
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