The Twin City star., 1918-04-13
FORCE OF ARMS
ANSWER TO FOE
Finish Fight for Liberty is De-
manded BY President Wilson
at Baltimore.
CHALLANCE ACCEPTED
Declares Force Without Stint Must
Triumph and Make Right Law of
World Casting Selfish Domi-
nation in Dust.

Triumph and Make Right Law of
World Casting Selfish Domi-
nation in Dust.
Baltimore, April Utter defeat of
Germany was declared the aim Of
| America by President Wilson at
great Liberty Loan celebration here.
In memorable address, the Presi-
dent gave answer to the German drive
on the Western front; to all proposals
to end the war before Germany is
awakened from her dream of world
dominion.
The Address In Full.
The address in full follows:
"Fellow citizens: This is the ami
versary of our acceptance of Ger
many's challenge to fight for our right
to live and be free, and for the sacred
rights of free men everywhere. The
nation is awake. There is no need to
call to it.
"We know what the war must cost,
our utmost sacrifice, the lives of our
we possess. The loan we are met
to discuss is one of the least parts
of what We are called upon to give,
and to do, though in itself imperative.
The people of the whole country are
alive to the necessity of it, and are
ready to lend to the utmost, even
where it involves a sharp skimping
and daily sacrifice to lend out of
| meager earnings.
Contempt for Loan Slackers.
"They will look with reprobation
and contempt upon those who can
and will not, upon those who demand
a higher rate of interest, upon those
who think Of it as mere commercial
transaction. I have not come, there
fore, to urge the loan. I have come
only to give you, II can, more
vivid conception of what It is for.
"The reasons for this great war, the
reason why it had to come, the need
to fight 1t through. and the issues that
hang upon its outcome, are more
clearly disclosed now than ever be-
fore. It is easy to see just what this
particular loan means because the
cause we are fighting for stands more
sharply revealed than at any previous
crisis of the momentous struggle.
1.-THE man who knows least can now
see how plainly the cause Of justice
stands and what the imperishable
thing is he is asked to invest in. Men
IN America may be more sure than
they were before that the cause is
lost, their own great nations place
! and mission in the world would be
lost with it.
1--WE must Judge as we would be
Judged. I have sought to learn the
| objects Germany has in this war from
the mouths of her own spokesmen,
! and to deal as frankly with them as
wished them to deal with me.
have laid bare our own ideals, our
| own purposes, without reserve or
doubtful phrase, and have asked them
to say as plainly what it is that they
seek.
Ready to Deal Fairly.
1--WE have ourselves proposed no in
| justice, no aggression. We are ready,
| whenever the final reckoning Is made,
to be just to the German people, deal
fairly with the German power, as with
all others. There can be no difference
between peoples in the final judg-
ment, if it is indeed to be a righteous
judgment. To propose anything but
| justice, even-handed and dispassion-
| ate justice, to Germany. at any time,
whatever the outcome of the war,
would be to renounce and dishOnor
| our own cause. For we ask nothing
that we are not willing to accord.
at has been with this thought that
/ have sought to learn from those who
| spoke for Germany whether it was
| justice or dominion, and the 'execu-
tion Of their own will on the other
nations of the world that the German
leaders are seeking. They have ans
wered, answered in unmistakable
terms. They have avowed that it was
not justice but dominion, and the un.
hindered execution of their own will.
| War Lords Rule.
| "The avowal has not come from
Germany's statement. 1t has come
from her military leaders, who are
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-in indefinite and uncertain
terms, indeed, and in phrases that
often seem to deny their own mean.
ing. but with as much plainness as