Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-04-11
WILSON ACCEPTS
FOES CHALLENGE
In Rousing Anniversary Speech
President Interprets Acts
of Central Powers.
FORCE TO DECIDE WAR
Fcrvent Address Of Chief Executive
Brings $4,000 Approving
Hearers to Their Feet
With Cheers.

Baltimore, April 7.-Presidcnt
Wilson's acceptance in Il speech here
last nighe of Germany's challenge
that the issue between the Central
Powers and her enemies be settled
by force, brougt $1,000 persons
cheering TO their feet. In part, his
speech was as follows:
"Fellow citizens: This is the an
niversary of our acceptance of Ger
many's challenge to fight for our
right to live and be free. and for tine
sacred rights of free men every
where. The nation is awake. There
is no need to cali to it. We know
what the war must cost, our utmost
sacrifice. the lives of our fittesi men,
and, if need be. all that we possess.
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 economy
meager earnings.
The reasons for this great war,
the reason why it hard to come, the
need to fight it through, and the is
sues that hang upon it's outcome, are
before. The man who knows least
can now see plainly how the cause of
justice stands, ara what the imper-
ishable thing is he is asked to invest
in. Men in America may be more
sure than they ever were before that
the cause is their own and that, if
it should be lost. their own great ma
tion's place and mission in the world
will be lost with it.
We have ourselves proposed no
injustice, 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.
at has been with this thought
that l have sought TO learn from
those who spoke for Germany
whether it was justice or domin-
ion. and the execution of their own
will upon the other nations of the
world that the German leaders were
seeking. They have answered, an
swered in unmistakable terms. They
have avcWed that it was not justice
but dominion, and the unhindered
execution of their own will. The
avowal has not come from Germany's
statesmen. 1t has come from her
military leaders who are her real
rulers.
I'VE cannot mistake what they
have done in Russia, in Finland. in
the Ukraine, in Rumania. The real
test Of their justice and fair play has
come. From this we may Judge the
rest. They are enjoying in Russia
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 the!, mercy.
Their fair professions are forgotten.
They nowhere set up justice, bue
everywhere impose the power and
exploit everything for their own use
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; and the peo-
pies of conquered provinces are in
vited 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 the
armies whom even their countless
divisions cannot overcome?
For myself l am ready. ready
still, ready even now, to discuss a
faar and just and honest peace at
any time that it is sincerely plrposetl
"a peace in which the strong and
the weak shall fare alike But the
answer, when i proposed such a
peace, came from the German COM
manders in Russia, and / cannot mis-
take the meaning of the answer.
81 accept the challenge. Iknov
that you accept it. All the world
shall know that you accept it. It
shall appear in the utter sacrifice
and selfforgetfulness with which we
shall give a.. that we love and ali
that we have to redeem the world
mad make it fit for free men like
ourselves to live Ii. This now is
the meaning of all that we do. Let
everything that We say, my fellow
countrymen, everything that we
henceforth plan and accomplish.
ring true TO this response until the
majesty and might Of our concerted
power shall fill the thought a.d
utterly defeat the force of those who
flout and misprise what we honor
and hold dear. Germany has once
more said that force. and force
alone, shall decide whether Justice
and peace shall reign in the affairs
OF men. whether right as America
conce1yes it, or dominion as she CON
ceiyes 1t. shall determine the desti
MES of mankind
There is, therefore. but one res
ponse possible from us. Force
force to the utmost, force withol 4
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"
Bismarck. April 7.-Commjssion-
er of Agriculture John n. HaEan
returning from a meeting of the
federal advisory committee on agri-
culture, reports that body to have
recommended modification of present
grain grading rules similar to those
proposed at recent conference of
; state officials at Helena, Montana
II London, April Premier Lloyd
a George yesterday wired the Lord