The Monticellonian., 1918-04-12
PRESIDENT ACCEPTS KAISER'S CHALLENGE
WILL USE FORCE WITHOUT STINT UNTIL VICTORY
 IS WON.
READY FOR A JUST PEACE
Must Be Peace, However. Tn Which Strong and Weak Shall Fare Alike Declares German Success in Poor
 Russia a Cheap Triumph.

Balt - lore Md.-President Wilson. at great Liberty loan celebration here, gave Americas answer to the German drive on the western battle front, to the renewed propaganda for Germanmade peace, to all proposals to end the war before Germany is awak- ened from her dream of world do- minion.
 The presidents answer was:
 Force, force to the utmost, force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant force which shall make the law of the world, and cas- every selfish dominion down in the dust"
 A few hours before the president spoke he had reviewed division Of citizen soldiers, called only few months ago from the pursuits of peace, now transformed into fighting men to carry the ideals of America to the battlefields of Europe. at the mo- ment a 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 second million were going out to the country.
 Those were some of the physical facts which backed his words when al ter reviewing briefly the evidence that Germany seeks peace that would give her world dominion, the president declared:
 q accept the challenge. I know that you accept it. All the world shall know you accept it. It shall appear in the utter sacrifice and self-forgetfulness with which we shall give all that We love and all that we have to redeem 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 hence forth plan and accomplish. ring true to this response, till the majesty and might of our concerted power shall fill the thought and utterly defeat the force of those who fout and misprize what we honor and hold dear.
 Only One Answer Possible.
 "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 coneeives if, or dominion, as she ceneeiyes it. shall determine the destinies of mankind.
 There is, therefore, but one re-
 
 to the utmost, force without stint or limit. the righteous force which shall make right the law of the world, and cast every selfish dominion in the dust"
 Warning anew that a triumph of arms for Germany means rum for all the ideals America has won and lives for, the president reiterated he was willing to discuss at any time fair, just and honest peace sincerely pro posed, "a peace in which the strong and weak shall fare alike"
 But the answer" said he, when l proposed such a peace, came from the German commanders in Russia, and l cannot mistake the meaning of the an sNer
 "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 tn" 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 inees 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 whom their countless divisions cannot over come?"
 In full the presidents speech was as follows:
 American Nation Is Awake.
 "Fellow Citizens-This is the annl- yersary of our acceptance of Ger many's challenge to fight for our right to live and to be free, and for the sa- cred 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 fittest men. and, if need be. all that We possess. The loan We are met to discuss is one of the least t,~>~--->-~--------->-7