The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-04-19
FORCE Of ARMS
]. ANSWER TO FOE
Finish Fight for Liberty is De-
manded BY President Wilson
at Baltimore.
CHALLANCE ACCEPTED
Declares Force Without Stint Must
Triumph and Make Right Law Of
World Casting Selfish Domi-
nation in Dust.

UdtiVU III 6uSIs
Baltimore. April Sitter defeat of
Germany was declared the aim Of
America by President Wilson at a
great Liberty Loan celebration here.
In a memorable address, the Presi-
dent gave answe to the German drive
on the Western front; to all proposals
to end the war before Germany Is
awakened from her dream Of world
dominion.
The Address In Full.
The address in full 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 1t.
I'VE know what the war must cost,
our utmost sacrifice, the lives OF our
fittest men, and, IL 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 1t, and are
ready to lend to the utmost, even
where it involves a sharp skimping
and daily sacrifice to lend out Of
meager earnings.
Contempt for Loan Slackers.
"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
fore, to urge the loan. have come
only to give you. il ! can, a more
vivid conception of what 1t is for.
"The reasons for this great war, the
reason why it had to come. the need
to fight it. through, and the issues that
hang upon its outcome. are o
clearly disclosed now than ever be-
fore. It is easy to see just what this
particular loan mean because the
cause we are fighting for stands o
sharply revealed than at any previous
crisis Of the momentous struggle.
"The man who knows least a now
see how plainly the cause OF justice
stands and what the imperishable
thing is he is asked to invest in. Men
in America may be more sur than
they were before that the cause is
their own, and that, II It should be
lost. their own great nations place
and mission in the world would be
lost with 1t.
I'VE must Judge as we would be
judged. l have sought to learn the
objects Germany has in this wal from
the mouths of her own spokesman,
and to deal as frankly with them as
l wished them to deal with me. /
have laid bare our own ideals. our
" purposes, without reserve or
doubtful phrase. and have asked them
to say as plainly what it is that they
seek.
Ready to Deal Fairly.
I'VE 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. There can be no difference
between peoples In the final judy
ment. II It Il indeed to be q righteous
judgment. To propose anything but
Justice. even-handed and dispassion-
ate justice. to Germany. at any time,
whatever the outcome of the war,
would be to and dishonor
our own cause. For we ask nothing
that we are not willing to accord.
ut has been with this thought that
I have sought to learn from those who
spoke for Germany whether 1t was
justice or dominion, and the execu-
tion Of their own will on the other
nations OF the world that the German
leaders are seeking. They have ans
wered. answered In unmistakable
terms. They have avowed that 1t was
not justice but dominion. and the un-
hindered execution OF their own will.
War Lords Rule.
The avowal has not come from
Germany's statement. It has come
from her military leaders. who are
her real rulers. Her statesmen have
said that they wished peace. and we're
ready to discuss It's terms whenever
their opponents were willing to sit
down at the conference table with
them. Her present chancellor has
said-in Indefinite and uncertain
terms, indeed. and In phrases that
often seem 30 deny their own mean
Ing. but with as much plainness as
Eear on P~srshinr's Staff.