St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-04-13
The Cause We Are Fighting
For More Sharply
Revealed Now.
MILITARY LEADERS
GERMANY'S RULERS
She Has Said That Force
and Force Alone Shall
Rule the World. :.

The President delivered the fol-
lowing address at Baltimore last
Saturday on the occasion of the open
ing Of the Third Liberty Loan Cam
paign:
Fellow Citizens is the an
niversary 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 every
where. 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 fittest men
and, If need be, all that 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 sharp skimping
and daily sacrifice to lend out of
meagre earnings. They will look
with APPRECIATION and contempt upon
those who can and will not, upon
those who demand higher rate OF
interest, upon those who think of it
as mere commercial TRANSACT n.
l have not come, therefore, to urge
the loan. I have come only to give
you, il l can, more vivid concep-
ton of what it is for.
The Cause We Are Fighting for More
Sharply Revealed Than Ever.
The reasons for this great war, the
reason why it had to come, the need
to fight it through, and the issues
that hang upon its outcome, are
more clearly disclosed now than ever
before. 1t 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. The man who knows least
con now see plainly how the cause
of Justice stands and what the i'm
perishable thing is he is asked to in
vest in. Men in America may be
more sure than they ever were be-
fore that the cause is their own, and
that, if it should be lost, their own
great Nations place in the world
would be lost with it.
l call you to witness. my fellow
countrymen, that at no stage OF this
terrible business have I judged the
purpose of Germany intemperately.
should be ashamed in the presence
Of affairs so grave, so fraught with
the destinies of mankind throughout
the world, to speak with turbulence,
to use the weak language Of hatred
or vindictive purpose. We must
Judge as we would be judged. l
have sought to learn the ofsects Ger
MANY has in this war from the
mouths OF her own spokesman, and
to deal as frankly with them as
wished them to deal with me. l
have laid bare our own ideals, our
own purposes, without reserve or
doubtful phrase. and have asked
them to say as plainly what 1T is that
they seek.
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
mower, and with all others. There
can be no difference between peo-
ples in the final judgment, If it is in
deed to be a righteous Judgment.
To propose anything but justice,
eyen-handed and dispassionate JUS
tice. to Germany at any time. what
ever the outcome of the war, would
he to renounce and dishonour our
own cause. For we ask nothing
thta we are not willing to accord.
II has been with this thought that
I have sought to learn from those
| who spoke for Germany whether II
was Justice or dominion and the ex-
ecution of their own will upon the
other nations of the world that the
| German leaders are seeking They
have answered, answered IN unmls-
takabl terms They have avowed
that it was not Justice but dominion
| and the unhindered execution OF
| their own Will.
Ayowal of Dominion Came Not From
Statesmen But Military
| Leaders.
The avowal has not come from
Germany's statesmen. 1t has come
from her military eladers, who are
her real rulers. Her statesmen have
said that they wished peace. and are
ready to discuss its terms whenever
their opponents were willing to sl'
down at the conference table with
them. Her present Chancellor has
said,-in indefinite and uncertain
terms, indeed, andt in phrases that
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