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Wilson'S Great Speech

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entrance into the war, to sound
another trumpet call to the Amer
lean people, SOLDERING them to a
: realization of their supreme duty
and preparing them for the fur
, ther sacrifices which will have to
be made in fulfillment of the OBJ
legations assumed when we picked
up the bloody gauntlet cast at our
J feet by the military government
of Germany. The speech in effect
a remuneration Of any further
peace discussion until Germany
has wholly altered her present
persistent purpose to compel
peace negotiated at the point of
the sword. The words of our
chief executive and today the |
accepted spokesman for the entire
allied cause, cannot fail to carry
encouragement to all of the suf-
fering people of France, of Eng
land, Of Belgium. Serbia, Rumania
and to such of those in benighted
Russia who are mentally capable
of grasping the significance of the
mighty forces which are in con-
flict throughout the world to-day.
Those words are a splendid reqf-
of our own sturdy pur-
pose to fight on with. ever-grow-
ing power against the ponsfous
power OF Prussianism. They are
a solemn challenge to the war
ordS of Germany who are even :
now hurting hundreds of thou
sands Of the helpless human
)awnS of their own land into the
,apaciouS maws of the great god
If battle who reigns supreme
rom the North sea to the Swiss o'
lips. Those same war lords may Of
'ress forward; they may continue to
D make crimson with the blood
t tens of thousands of their own
nd allied troops the plains of
landerS and Picardy and the roll
lg hills of the Champagne; they
lay continue to kill woman and
lildren in London. and Paris and of
urder the innocents of Belgium; WI
ley may, indeed, defeat the in
mics of Britain and France and up
merica against which they are a.,
wv pounding with such resolute
rec, but that will not bring
,ace nor a cessation of the fight
hich they so rashly and AFRO 1 les
nifty precipitated nearly four yor
ars ago. They must first de- ev'
at the millions here in America ..,,
no now stand ready TO take UP ger
ms at the call of their country. of
They must sweep the mighty
Wy of America from the seas "
d repeat, here on our own soil "
battles which they have oool
lght in France and Belgium and 3"
'bia and Rumania and Russia n
" must; in short, completely io'
lquer this nation of one hun
d million people before they &C,
have won that toward which som
E, g,
y so gaily set forth in August, ..1,h
4, the dominion of the civilized expl
Id. President Wilson speaks in Sc
n certain knowledge of the
it of the people of whom he
fittingly represents in this GET
at world crisis. He knows E#S
our resolution will rise with EE:
losses in men and E%::
lev; that they are united as 81:
er before in the whole history "
the republic and with this
Wedge, he can make no mis-
in reasserting the unalter-l
determination of this country
%. forward with their great
titan task until it is done. His
ions to terms of peace are {
entail to the declaration that
RIGA is in this fight until
eousness and justice triumph ;
the hosts Of EVIL aud dark aru
which, for these forty-four much
his, have been loading the IF the
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of great leader and a great best
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