Middletown transcript., 1918-04-13
PEACE BY FORCE
WITHOUT LIMIT
Is President Wilson's Answer
to Germany
ACCEPTS HUN CHALLENGE

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Draws Fine Distinction Between Peo-
pie and Statesmen, as Compared to
Their Real Rulers, the Dominion
Seeking MiIitarists- Measures Re-
ply Evenly With chalIenoe-Lib-
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Revelation.
Baltimore, April 6.-To every part
Of the civilized world there went out
from Baltimore tonight the final de-
Termination Of America as voiced by
Woodrow Wilson, its President and
spokesman of a united people.
1t was that this war, as far as Amer
lea is concerned, is to be settled by
FORCE. And it Is to be Force to tho
utmost, Force without stint or limit,
the righteous and triumphant Force
which shall make Right the law of the
world!"
For the President has seen there is
no other way. The time for temper
izing has passed, the time for peace
by negotiation has gone, we cannot
trust Germany, we have seen what
she has done in Russia, have seen
that her statesmen have said one
thing and her real rulers, the military.
do another, that the only thing she
recognizes is her own god-Force.
She herself has chosen it. We &C
cept the challenge, and with force we
shall deal with her to the end.
That, in substance, was the mes
cage to the world from the American
people, voiced by their President,
message which the American people
themselves have longed to have ut
tered, and to which they and all the
Allies will respond.
And delivered in the wonderfully
beautiful setting of "Over There" in
the presence of more than 10000 peo-
pie, on the first anniversary of Amer
ica's entrance into the great conflict.
It was virtually a new declaration OF
war.
The Pre- sident spoke as follows:
Fellow Citizens: This is the ami
versary of our acceptance of Ger
many's challenge to fight for our rights
to live and be free men everywhere.
The nation Is awake. There is no
need to call to it. We know what the
war must cost, out 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 parts of what we are called
upon to give and do, though in itself
imperative. The people Of the whole
country are alive to the necessity of
It, and are ready to lend to the ut
most, even where it involves a sharp
skipping and daily sacrifice to lend
out of meagre earnings. They will
look with reprobation and contempt
upon those who can and will not, upon
those who demand higher rate OF
interest, upon those who think of 1t as
mere commercial transaction.
have not come, therefore, to urge the
loan. l have come only to give you,
If I can, a more vivid conception of
what it 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 it's outcome, are more
clearly disclosed now than ever be-
fore. 1t is easy to see just what this
particular loan means because the
cause we are fighting for stands more
sharply revealed than at any previous
crisis of the momentous struggle.
The man who knows least can now
see plainly how the cause OF justice
stands. and what the imperishable
thing he is asked to invest in. Men
in America may. be more sure than
they ever were before that the cause
,s their own, and that, If it should be
lost, their own great nations place
and mission in the world would be
lost with it.
Sought to Learn objects Of Germany.
call you to witness, my fellow
countrymen, that at no stage of this
terrible business have l judged the
purposes of Germany Unexpectedly.
| should be ashamed in the presence
Of affairs so grave, so fraught with
the destinies of mankind throughout
all the world, to speak with turbulence,
to use the weak language of hatred
or vindictive purpose. We must judge
as we would be judged. have sought
to learn the objects Germany has in
this war from the mouths of her own
spokesmen, and to deal as frankly
with them as l wished them to deal
with me. l have laid bare our own
ideals, our own purposes, without re-
serve or doubtful phrase. and have
asked them to say as plainly what 1t
is that they seek.
We 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
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