The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-04-11
FORCE To UTMOST,
WILSON s ANSWER
CHIEF EXECUTIVE STATES AMER
IcHS POSITION IN OPENING
BALTIMoRE's LOAN DRIVE.
WAR FACTS ARE MADE CLEAR
Causes Leading TO World Conflict Re-
itersted by the President and Fair.
nsls Guaranteed in Consider
Ina Terms of Peace.

Baltimore.--Before q patriotic audi
ence Of 1000 people here, Presiden
Woodrow Wilson in a stirring speed
opened the Liberty Loan drive. TIL,
event also was in celebration of Amer
ics's anniversary of entrance into war
He 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 nc
need to call to it. We know what the
war must cOst-our utmost sacrifice
the lives OF our fittest men, and, II
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 10 the utmost. even
where IT involves sharp skipping and
daily sacrifice to lend out of meager
earnings.
They will look with Reproduction and
contempt upon those who can and will
not, upon those who demand a higher
rate of interest, upon those who think
OF IL as a mere commercial transac-
ton.
81 have not come, therefore, TO urge
the loan. have come only to give you
II / can, a more vivid conception OF
what it is for.
1.-THE reasons for this great war the
reason why it had to come and the
need to fight It through and Ire issues
that hang upon its outcome, are more
clearly disclosed now than ever be-
fore
ut 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 imperIshable
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 call you to witness, my fellow
countrymen, that at no stage OF this
terrible business have I judged the
purposes of Germany Unexpectedly.
II should be ashamed In the pres
ence OF affairs so grave, 80 frsught
with the destlnies Of mankind through
out all the world, to speak with trucu-
lence, 70 use the weak language OF
hatred or vindictive 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 Spokesman and to
deal az frankly with them as I wished
them TO deal with me.
81 have laid bare our own ideals our
own purposes without reserve or doubt
full phrase and have asked them to say
as plainly what It is they seek.
Being Just to Germany.
I'VE 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 he no differences In peO-
pies In the final judgment II II is in
deed 10 be a righteous Judgment. To
propose anything but justice. even
handed and dlspasslonate justice, to
Germany AT any time, whatever the
outcome OF the war. would he 10 re-
nounce and dishonor our own cause.
For we ask nothing that we are not
willing TO accord
"It has been with this thought that
have sought TO learn from those who
spoke for Germany whether il 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
"1hey have answered. answered In
unmSiakabe terms. They have avow-
ed that II was not justice but domin-
lon and the unhindered execution OF
their own viii.
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