Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09
DOOM OF MILITARISM
PRONOUNCED BY WILSON
London Morning Post Gives
High Praise to Presidents
Baltimore Speech

LONDON. April s.-The doom Of the
military power in Germany was pro-
nounced BY President Wilson in his
speech at Baltimore. says the Morning
Post
Whether or not the allies are strong
enough to break in pieces the German
military power remains to be SEEN" it
adds.N
But that given time, America is able
to defeat the enemy is as little doubtful
as that she is resolved to DO it. however
long the work may take. 1t is a gigan-
tic enterprise, for the defeat of the Ger
man armies in the field is not all that
America has promised, but she purposes
to go further.
amid the stress and suspense Of the
great conflict now raging on the west
ern front, we can assure our western
friends that their brave and simple
declarations are inexpressibly encourag-
ing They look upon the war from a
point Of view which, after nearly four
years of supplying vicissitude' we have
lost.
president Wilson from the first has
insisted that before all it is a moral is
sue. There are millions of men among
the Americans and the forces of the al
lies who are fighting in the simple
faith that they are doing duty in good
cause.
ct has fallen TO President Wilson to
put in stern practice the conviction
which the greatest among American
poets affirmed in every line of his rough
hewn verse, that the spirit of liberty
is invincIble."
HIn these hours of trial Great Britain
feels the real meaning of American sym
pathy and aid. She is heavily engaged
on many fronts and in many different
WAYS, and on each front and in each
sphere she is lavishly giving her blood.
''On the western front British army
of millions is facing the German ava
lanche side by side with the French and
in eomradeship With American battal-
ions~xhich has been put into the strug-
gle On two Turkish fronts Great
Britain is bearing the entire burden of
the war. On the Indian frontier she has
20 be always on guard. In East Africa
she is defeating the last remains Of
the German colonial forces. Her navy
Of 45O,0 900 men is maintaining sleep
less watch on the high sea fleet. Her
merchant service of 100000 men. IN
shaken by the cruel submarine losses
and periIs remains almost entirely re-
SpOnSible for the transport OF Iooos men
and munitions TO the allied nations and
the fighting fronts.
Great Britain has no cause to lee
ashamed of what she has done, and they
greatly mistake the spirit Of her people
who suppose that they would escape pri-
vations. suffering and death by going
back from the way in which they be-
gan. We know that in America flames
the same spirit as ours. America ana
the allies stand for Justice and right.
and Germany for dominion and violence
when President Wilson solemnly de-
clares that i'm utter Self-Sacrihce ana
self-forgetfulness America will give all
that we love and all that We have to
redeem the world and make it Mt Tor
free men like ourselves to live in we
know that this pledge will be kept"
The Daily News says:
I'm his speech concentrating the an
nivcrSary Of Americas entry into the
war. President Wilson, with that dispas-
sionate 7nality which always marks
his utterances. stated the issut with
uuanswerable truth. 1t is whether The
world is 10 be governed by the German
genera; Stan.