The Arvada enterprise., 1918-04-11
FORCE TO UTMOST
challenge Flung 70 Germans by
President Wilson in Balti-
moro Address.
Observation-Disclosures
Cheap Triumph Of Teutons In
Russia Shows Aim to Strangle
Weaker Nations.

Russia Shows Aim to strangle
Weaker Nations.
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Baltimore. Md.-President Wilson,
d an address here April 6, said:
Fellow Citixens-This is the anniver-
sary Of our acceptance Of Germany's
challenge to fight for our right to live
and be free, and for the sacred rights
Of free men everywhere. The nation
u awake. There Ia no 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 ID 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
eaortfice to lend out Of mSager earn
ings.
They will look with reprobation
and contempt upon those who can
and will not, upon those who demand
. higher rate of interest upon those
who think Of 1t Is mere commercial
transaction. l have not come, there
fore, to urge the loan, l have come
only to give you, II can. q more vivid
conception Of what 1t ia for.
Tho reasons for this great war. the
reason why 1t had to come, the need
to fight 1t through. and the issues
that hang upon its outcome, are more
clearly disclosed now than ever be-
fore. 1t 10 easy to see Just what this
particular loan means because the
cause we are fighting for stands more
sharply 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 IL he
70 asked to invest in. Men in America
| may be more sure than they ever
were before that the cause 10 their
own. and that, II It should be lost.
their own great nations place and
mission In the world would be lost
with II
cal you to witness, my fellow
countrymen, that at no stage Of this
terrible business have l judged the
purposes Of Germany Unexpectedly.
I should be ashamed In the presence
Of affairs 20 grave, 10 fraught with
the destinies of mankind throughout
oil the world. TO speak with trucu.
lence. to use the weak language Of ha'
tired or vindictive purpose. We must
Judge ~ We would be judged.
I have sought to learn the objects
Germany has In this war from the
mouths Of her own spokesman, and IL
deal - frankly with them a. l wished
them to deal with me. have laid
bare our own ideals. our own pur.
poses without reserve or doubtful
phrase. and have asked them to say
- plainly what It Is that they seek.
We have ourselves proposed no In.
justice. no aggression. We are ready
whenever the final reckoning Ii
made, to be Just to the German PEG.
pie, deal fairly with the German pow.
er. ~ with all others. There can be
no difference between peoples In the
final judgment. II It IL indeed to he Z
righteous Judgment. To propose any
thing but justice. even.handed and
dispassionate justice. 10 Germany. a
any time, whatever the outcome Of
the war. would be to renounce and
dishon0r our own cause. For we ASK
nothing that we are not willing to &C
cord
II has been with this thought tns'
l have sought TO learn from those who
spoke for Germany whether II was
Justice or dominion and the execution
Of their own will upon the other ma
tons Of the world that the German
leaders were seeking. They have
answered, answered In unmistaksble
terms. They have av0wsd that II
was not justice. but dominion and the
unhindered execution Of their own
will.
The avowal has not come from Ger
many's statesmen. II has come FROM
her military leaders. who are her rea
rulers. Her Statesmen have said that
they wished peace. aud were ready "a
discuss Its terms whenever their op
ponents were willing 70 sit down u
the c0nfernece table with them. Hei
present chancellor has ssid-in indcf
mite and uncertain terms. indeed. and
In phrases that often seem 10 deny
their own meaning, but with ns much
plainness AZ he thought prudent
that he believed that peace should be
based upon the principles which W.
had declared would be our own In the
final settlement.
Al Brest.I.itovxk her civilian dele
gates spoke In similar terms: pro
fessed their desire to conclude fair
! peace and accord to the peoples with
| Whoae fortunes they were dealing tho
right 10 choose their own siieginnces
Hut action accompanied and followed
the profession. Their military mas
tiers, the men who act for Germany
: and exhibit her purpose In execution
proclaimed n very different conclu
sion.
We cannot mistake what they have
doue-in Russia. In Finland. In the
MviiI0sn and Cohen Act Five Years.
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