Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19
FORCE UTMOST,
WILSON'S ANSWER
CHIEF EXECUTIVE STATES AMER
IcAsS POSITION IN OPENING
BALTIMoRE'S LOAN DRIVE.
WAR FACTS ARE MADE CLEAR
Causes Leading to World Conflict Re-
iterated by the President and Fair
neSs Guaranteed in Consider
ing Terms of Peace.

h3.S S60t aIlICCo III S0boiOCI-
ing Terms of Peace.
Baltimore.-Before a patriotic audi
ence of 1000 people here, President
Woodrow Wilson in a stirring speech
opened the Liberty Loan drive. The
event also was in celebration of Amer
ica'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 no
need to call to it. We know what the
war must cost-our utmost sacrifice,
the lives of our fttest 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 to do, though
in itself imperative.
"The people of the whole country
are alive to the necessity of it and are
ready to lend to the utmost, even
where it involves a sharp skipping and
daily sacrifice to lend out of meager
earnings.
"They will look with r~eprobation and
contempt upon those who can and will
not, upon those who demand a higher
rate of interest, upon those who think
of it as a mere commercial transac-
ton.
81 have not come, therefore, to urge
the loan. I have come only to give you,
if 1 can, a more vivid conception of
what it is for.
"The reasons for this great war, the
reason why it had to come, and the
need to fight it through and the 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.
1.-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 eve were before that the
cause is their OWE, and that, If II
should be lost, their own great nations
place and mission in the world would
be lost with it.
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, so fraugh'
with the destinies of mankind through
out all the world, to speak with trucu
lence, to use the weak language O
hatred or vindictive purpose. We mus
Judge as we would be judged.
IT have sought to learn the object
Germany has in this wal from tn,
mouths of her own spokesman and t,
deal as frankly with them as / wishe,
them to deal with me.
81 have laid bare our own ideals, GU
own purposes without reserve or doubt
full phrase and have asked them to sa,
as plainly what it is they seek.
Being Just to Germany.
5 "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, des
fairly with the German power, as wit
t all others.
There can be no differences in pee
pies in the final judgment if it is ii
deed to be a righteous judgment. T
i propose anything but Justice, ever
handed and dispassionate justice. t
Germany at any time, whatever tn
outcome of the war, would be to r,
nounce and dishonor our own caus
For we ask nothing that we are NJ
willing to accord.
a st has been with this thought ths
. [ have sought to learn from those VII
! spoke for Germany whether it was ju
r tice or dominion or the execution &,
r their own will upon the other natior
n of the world that the German leader
lr were seeking.
"They have answered, answered
q u~nmistakable terms. They have avo,
y ed that it was not justice but domi
, ion and the unhindered execution
their w will.
a What Peace Should Be Based On.
n "Her present chancellor has said
In indefinite and uncertain terms, i
al deed, and in phrases that often seem
deny their own meaning, but with suC
p~lainness as he thought prudent-thi
n.