Meade County news., 1918-04-18
ACCEPTSCHALLENGE
President Wilson Welcomes Auto
CraCy's Defy in ForcefuI
Address.
WAR FACTS ARE EXPLAINED
. Nations Chief Opens BaItimore's Lib.
erty Loan Drive and Celebration
Of Anniversary of Americas
Entrance Into Conflict

Baltimore.-Before an audience of
more than 1000 people, President
Woodrow Wilson opened the Liberty
Loan drive here. The occasion also
was in celebration of the anniversary
Of Americas entrance into the war.
The president said:
"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 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 1t and are
ready to lend to the utmost, even
where 1t involves sharp skimping and
daily sacrifice to lend out of meager
earnings.
"They will look with reprobatlon and
contempt upon those who can and will
not, upon those who demand higher
rate Of interest, upon those who think
of 1t as a mere commercial transac-
ton.
II have not come, therefore, to urge
the loan. have come only to give you,
II l can, more vivid conception Of
what 1t is for.
"The reasons for this great war, the
reason why 1t had to come, and the
need to fight 1t through and the issues
that hang upon its outcome, are more
clearly disclosed now than ever be-
fore.
1T Is easy to see just what this par
ticular loan means because the cause
we are fighting for stands more sharp
ly revealed than at any previous crisis
Of the momentous struggle.
"The man who knows least can now
see plainly how the cause of justice
stands and what the imperlshable
thing Is he is asked to invest in.
The Cost Of Defeat.
"Men in America may be more sure
than they ever were before that the
cause is their own, and that, II 1t
should be lost, their own great nations
place and mission in the world would
be lost with II.
81 coll you to witness, my fellow
countrymen, that at no stage of this
terrible business have judged the
purposes Of Germany intemperately.
"I should be ashamed In the pres
ence Of affairs so grave, so fraught
with the destinles Of mankind through
lence, to use the weak language of
hatred or vindlctive purpose. We must
Judge as we would be judged.
II 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.
II have laid bare our own ideals, our
own purposes without reserve or doubt
full phrase and have asked them to say
as plainly what 1t Is they seek.
Being Just to Germany.
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 differences in peo-
pies in the final judgment If 1t is in
deed to be righteous judgment. To
propose anything but justice, even
handed and dlspnssiOnate justice, to
Germany at any time, whatever the
outcome of the war; would be to re-
nounce and dishonor our own cause
For we ask nothing that we are not
willing to accord.
ut has been with this thought that
have sought to learn from those who
spoke for Germany whether 1t was jus,
tice or dominion or the execution of
their own will upon the other nations
of the world that the German leaders
were seeking.
"They have answered, answered In
unmistakable terms. They have avow.
ed that 1t was not justice but domin.
ion and the unhindered execution OF
their own will.
What Peace Should Be Based On.
.Her present chancellor has said
in indefinite and uncertain terms, in.
deed, and in phrases that often seem to
deny their own meaning, but with such
plainness as he thought prudent-that
he believed that peace should be based
upon the principles which we had de
clared would be our own In the fnal
settlement.
"At Brest-Litovsk her civilian dele
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