The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-04-09
Wilson Defies Rulers
of German Empire
Force to the Utmost VIII be Used by
American People to Secure Rights
of the Nation.

BALTIMORE, MD, Force was
the answer President Wilson sent
across the seas tonight to the Teuton
challenge on the plains of Picardy in
his address on Loyalty Day.
Force without limit-righteous and
triumphant, lis Americas zone re
sponse," he said, Ito make right the
law of the world and cast every self
ish dominion down in the dust"
Cheered by a gigantic throng that
packed the great armory where he was
first nominated for the nations ex-
ecutive office, the president stripped
the mask OF hypocrisy from the face
of Teuton militarism and spoke out
for a finish fight.
He came here to open the Liberty
Loan campaign but that, he said was
unnecessary as the people, he de-
clared are awake, ready for the sac
rifice, alive to its need. 1.-THE cause
we are fighting for stands more
sharply revealed than at any previous
crisis of the momentous struggle.
Germany has once more declared
that force and force alone, shall de-
eide whether right, as America sees
it, or dominion as Germany sees it,
shall determine the destinies of man
kind" he said.
America accepts the challenge
henceforth everything she says or
does must resound, he said, to this
answer until the majesty and might
of our concerted power, shall defeat
those who flout and misprize what
! we honor and hold dear"
The presidents address was by far
the strongest pledge he has yet made
to wage the war to the bitter end. He
reflected at once his deep disappoint-
ment and bitterness at the ravages of
the Teuton war lords in their relent-
less policies toward the weakened and
over-run nations of the near east.
The real test of their justice and
fair play" came he said, in Russia,
Finland, Ukraine and Rumania.
"They are enjoying in Russia a
cheap triumph in which no brave or
gallant nation can long take pride"
1t is obviously now part of the
German purpose, he warned, to sub
ject to her will all the slavic peoples,
the ambitious nations of it's Baltic and
the peoples, under Turkish "misrule''
and create dominion which eventual
ly will master Persia, India and the
peoples of the far east
If that dream is fulfilled, he pledg-
ed America land all who care or dare
to stand with her" to start from the
beginning again "the old age-long
struggle for freedom and right"
"Preposterous and impossible as
this may appear" he sid, 81 judge
only by what the German arms have
accomplished with IMPLYING thor
oughness throughout every fair re-
gion they have touched"
That they would do the same things
at their western front were they moi
; opposed to armies they cannot over
come" he believed assured. Hence il
! they are checked and suggest peace
) later. could they blame us if VIZ
concluded they did so only to assure
themselves of a free hand in Russi;
2 and the east?"
r The president said, however, he il
3 ready now to discuss a fair and hon
est peace in which both strong ant
! weak shall share alike. This was re
= garded as notice that he woull
s not notice the plumber pacts imposed
Y by the Teutons on Russia and Ru
/ mania.
E The presidents address tonight ap
= peared to knit more closely the diplo
macy of the allies than any expires
sion he has given hitherto. 1t follow
ed speech today by Foreign Score
Z tary Balfour in London in which
marked similarity of views developed
2 Balfour said the ideals of the Germa
) military party cannot flourish along
= side those of the great democracies-
: clearly emphasized tonight by tn
I president
5 Balfour spoke of the "inexcusabl
} ravishment Of Russia" with the flu
( ture of the world jeopardized If pres
ent arrangements are allowed to re