The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-04-12
WILSON ACCEPTS
HUN CHALLENGE
PRESIDENT ADVOCATES WAR TO
FINISH IN ANNiVER SARY
ADDRESS AT BALTIMORE.
But Orc Response to Germany
Righteous Force Which Shall Make
Right the Law Of World and Cast
Selfish Dominion in the Dust.

Baltimore.-Presldent Wilson, at
great Liberty loan celebration here Sat
urday night, April 6, gave Amrca's
answer to the renewed propaganda for
a German-made peace, to all proposals
to end the war before Germany Is
wakened from her dream Of world do
mnion. The presidents answer was:
"Force. force to the utmost, force
without stint or Init, 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 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 bat
tlefields of Europe AT the moment
million more of their kind all over the
land were celebrating the opening Of
the third Liberty loan; and the orders
for mobiizing the first Of the great
army of a second million we're going
out to the country.
Challenge Of Huns Accepted.
Those were some OF the physical
facts which backed his words, when,
after reviewing briefly the evidences
that Germany seeks a peace for her
world dominion, the president de-
clared:
81 accept the challenge. know that
you accept 1t. All the world shall
know you accept It, 1t shall appear In
the utter sacrifice and self-forgetful-
ness 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 every
thing that we say, my fellow country
men, everything that we henceforth
plan and accomplish, ring true to this
I response till the majesty and might OF
s our concerted power shall fill the
, thought and utterly defeat the force of
those who fout and misprize 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 conceives it, or dominion, as
she conceives it, shall determine the
destines of mankind.
"There is, therefore, but one re-
sponse possible from us; force force
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"
Hun Success Means Our Ruin.
Warning anew that triumph OF
arms for Germany means ruin for all
the ideals America has won and lived
for, the president reiterated he was
willing TO discuss at any time a fair,
just and honest peace sincerely pro-
posed-"a peace in which the strong
and weak shall fare alike"
'But the answer" he said, when I
proposed such a peace came from the
German commanders in Russia, and l
cannot mistake the meaning of the an
swer
"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, help
less by their own act, for the time at
their mercy. Their fair professions are
forgotten. They nowhere set up jus
tice but everywhere impose their pow
er and exploit everything for their own
use and ACKNOWLEDGMENT; and the peo-
pies of conquered provinces 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 II they were not
there face to face with armies whom
their countless divisions cannot over
Gomez"
President Wilson was given a great
: demonstration on his arrival at the
hall, which was packed with about
+ $4,000 persons.
I Thousands were at the doors un-
4 able to gain entrance. Long lines
formed in front of the armory as early
as o'clock.