Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-04-13
The PRESIDENTS
LIBERTY ADDRESS.
IN LIBERTY DAY ADDRESS At.
BALTIMORE HE TELLS OF GER
MAN PEACE PROPOSALS.
Danish Selfish RULE
Declares He Accepts Teutons' ChaI-
lenge and II Shall Appear in Utter
Sacrifice of People to Re-
deem the World.

Baltimore, Md.-President Wilson.
at great liberty loan celebration in
Baltimore Saturday night, gave Amer
ica's answer to the German drive on
the western battle front; to the re-
newed propa paganda for German-made
peace, to all proposals to end the war
before Germany is awakened from her
dream of world dominion.
The presidents answer was:
Force, force to the utmost, force
without stint or limit, the righteous
and triumphant force which shall
make right the law of the world and
cast every selfish dominion down in
the DUST
A few hours before the president
spoke he had reviewed a division of.
citizen soldiers, called only a few
months ago from the pursuits of peace,
now transformed into fighting men to
carry the ideals of America to the
battIefields of Europe. At the mo-
ment million more of their kind all
over the land were celebrating the
opening of the third liberty loan; and,
the orders for mobilizing the first of
the great army of a second division
were going out to the country.
Those were some of the physical
facts which backed his words, when,
after reviewing briefly the evidence
that Germany seeks a peace for her
world dominion, the president de-
clared:
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you accept it. All the world shall
know you accept it. It shall appear
in the utter sacrifice and self-forgetful-
i.u5s with which we shall give all that
we love and all that we have to re-
deem the world and make it fit for
free men like ourselves TO live in.
This now is the meaning of what we
do. Let everything that we say, my
fellow-countrymen everything that we
heneeforth plan and accomplish ring
true to this response till the majesty
and might of our concerted power
shall fill the thought and utterly de-
feat the force of those who flout and
misprize what we honor and hold dear
Germany has once more said that
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whether justice and peace shall reign
in the affairs of men; whether right as
America conceives it, or dominion as
she conceives it, shall determine the
destinies of mankind.
There is, therefore, but one re-
sponse possible for us-force, force to
the utmost, force without stint or
limit. the righteous force which shall
make right the law, CT the world, and
cast every selfish dominion in the
dust
Warning anew that a triumph of
arms for Germany means ruin for all
the ideals America has won and lives
for, the president reiterated he was
willing to discuss at any time a fair,
just and honest peace sincerely pro-
posed" peace in which the strong
and weak shall fare alike"
But the answer" he said, when 1
proposed such peace came from the
German commanders in Russia and I
can not mistake the meaning of the
answer.
: They are enjoying in Russia" the
president declared, "a cheap triumph
in which no brave or gallant nation
can long take pride. A great people,
helpless by their own act, lies for the
time at their mercy. Their fair pro-
fessions are forgotten. They nowhere
set up justice, but everywhere impose
their power and exploit everything for
their own use and aggrandizement;
and the peoples of conquered prov
inces are invited to be free under their
dominion.
Are we not justified in believing
that they would do the same things
at their western front if they were not
there face to face with armies which
their countless d. isions can not over