The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-08
PRESIDENT FOR
WAR TO FINISH
WITH GERMANY
Wilson in Baltimore Speech Says
Kaiser Has Revealed in Rus
sia His Real Aims.
TAKES UP FOES CHALLENGE
Pledges Americas Full Strength in
Battle to Meet Force With AN the
Vast Force of the United
States.

Baltimore, Nd, April S.-President
Wilson accepted in full the challenge
of autocracy on Saturday night. He
pledged to the world Americas full
strength in battle-to meet force with
all the vast force of these United
States and to fight until the world do
minion plans of Germany are wiped
from the earth
Citing the answers of the central
powers to his offers of a way to just
peace-answers spelled in the invasion
of Russia and the crushing of the
Slavs-he said:
II am ready, ready STILL ready even
now, to discuss q fair and just and
honest peace at any time that it is sim
cerely proposed. a peace in which the
strong and the weak shall fare alike.
But the answer, when | proposed such
peace, came from the German COM
manders in Russia, and / cannot mis-
take the meaning of the answer
There is but one response possible
from us. Force. force to the utmost,
force without stint or liElit. the right
eous and triumphant force which shall
make right the law of the world and
cast every selfish dominion down in
the dust"
America Shows Her Heart.
President Wilson'S speech was the
most notable feature of day of re-
markable demonstrations from one end
of the nation to the other.
Every city, town and hamlet in the
United States celebrated Liberty day
and the opening of the Third Liberty
loan drive-celebrate it with an en-
thusiasm, patriotism. wholehearted-
ness and sincerity that left no doubt
as to where America stands.
The president said America was
awake. Surely all reports that came
in here as he 81 Oke showed that he
knew and spoke the truth.
President Wilson was given a great
Fifth regiment armOry, which was
packed with about $4,000 persons.
Cheer Acceptance of Challenge.
The presidents declaration that
hobiIlllS - plopOSSu 1Ol 0SI Ildi1y bul
justice, was warmly applauded, as
was his statement that Germany's
course in Russia is cheap triumph
When the president declared that he
accepted Germany's challenge and that
force must decide the ISSUE the audi
ence arose TO its feet and cheered for
several minutes.
In the afternoon he reviewed $4,000
Camp Meade troops. They comprised
drafted men from Pennsylvania, Mary
land and the District of Columbia.
In the stand with the president were
Mrs. Wilson, Cardinal Gibbons, Maj
Gen. Joseph e. Kuhn, commanding
the Seventy-ninth division at Camp
Meade, and others.
Presidents Address.
President Wilson's address was in
part as follows:
"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 finest 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 70 do, though in itself i'm
perative.
1.-THE people of the whole country
are alive to the necessity of it and are
ready to offer TO the utmost even
where it involves a sharp skimping
and daily sacrifice to lend out of
meager earnings.
1--WE must judge as we would he
judged I have sought to learn the oh
jects Germany 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.
Ready for Just Peace.
'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.
81 have sought to learn from those
who spoke for Germany whether it was
justice or dominion and the execution
of their own will upon the other ma
tiOns of the world that the German
leaders were seeking. They have an
swered, answered in unmistakable
terms. They have avowed that it was
not justice but dominion and the I'M
hindered execution of their own will.
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