Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1918-04-11
PRES. WILSON'S WAR SPEECH

CITIZENS: This
of challenge fight right live and be
for the scored rights of The nation awake
There nj o
We
of es and need all that The loan
discuss called
to give and do though itself imperative The people of the whole
country alive to the necessity ready to lend the
utmost where involves sharp skmpng and daily sacrifice
lend out of meager earnings
'They reprobation
and will those higher
not therefore the loan have only to give
if vivid conception of what it is for.
for this great the why had to
fight hang upon
disclosed before 1t just
revealed previous
mentous struggle.
plainly how
justice thing asked invest
before
their their
great place
witness countrymen, that of
parative
with dnes mankind hruout all the world speak
vndicte
Judge be judged
Germany
men, frankly
laid ideals without
doubted have asked them plainly what
it is that they seek
We
ready reckoning made,
There
be peoples the final Judgment To
dpassiona justice Ger
the outcome of the would be
dhonor For nothing that
not willing to accord
thought
whether justice dominion and
other nations of the world that
seeking They answered answered
They have avowed that not justice but
dominion and the unhndered execution of their own will
The has not from Germans statement 1t has come
who real rulers Her statesmen
have said that they wished and were ready to discuss us terms
their willing sit down the
chancellor has saidn indefinite and
and in that often to deny their
but with much panness he thought
the principles which
ad be the final settlement
At BeLovsk her civilian delegates spoke in similar terms;
proed and accord the
pies whose fortunes they were dealing the
But action accompanied and followed the profession
in execution proclaimed very dnerent we can
done Russia in Finland in the Ukraine
of their justice and fair play has come
may judge the rest.
They are enjoying which brave
gallant people, helpless by their
own act lies Their fair professions
forgotten They set Justice but everywhere impose h
exploit eyhing their and aggrandzemen
and the peoples OF are 10 oe Tree ne
their dominion
Ae we not would do the
things their Western front they were not there race " lace WIN
divisions cannot overcome? IT, wher
they check be fna they should propose favorable
and equitable terms with regard to Belgium ana france na M
concluded that they did SO only to assure
themselves a free hand in Russia and the East?
purpose all the Slavic peoples all
the nations the Baltic peninsula all the lands
dominated and msruled subject their Will ana am
bifon and build upon tnat common an eiup - e w ~ ]
hostile the Americans as to the Europe
empire which will ultimately master PERSIA
India the the East.
such ideals of Justice and humanity
world insists play no part They are reject
that the strong must rule
whether those whom it is
that the peoples of the world are to be made
those have the power
to enfor
carried America and all who or dare
themselves to contest the mas
rights of the
all weak must for the time being be
isregrded and the old agelong struggle for
beginning. Everything
ndfcate and bring
glorious will have fallen in utter ruin and the gates OF
mercy once more pitiessy shut mankind.
and impossible and yet Is not tna
armies meant
in this moment to
utter dllusionmen unrghteousy judge only
accomplished with Implying thorough