The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-25
AMERICANS WILL
FIGHT TO FINISH
President Wilson Accepts ChaI-
lenge of Germany in Speech
at Baltimore.
HUNS SEEK EMPIRE BY FORCE
Actions of Kaiser in Russia, Finland
and Rumana Shows His Lack
of Justice and Fair Dealing.


Baltimore, Md-President Wilson
came to Baltimore and formally open
ed the third Liberty loan drive with
review of $4,000 troops of the national
army from Camp Meade, Md, and a
speech in the evening in the hall in
which he was nominated for his first
term as president.
The presidents answer to Germany
was: o
Force, force to the utmost, force
without stint or limit, the righteous
and triumphant force which shall
make right the law of the world and
cast every selfish dominion down in
the DUST
American Unity Urged.
Former Governor Phillip S. Colds
borough, introducing the president, de-
clared that out of the war would come
a new world, dedicated to Liberty.
Mr. Goldsborough, Republican, said
that all parties in the country must
rally behind the executive.
Full Text of Speech.
In full, the presidents speech was
as 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 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
parts of what we are called upon to
give and to do, though in itself i'm
perative. 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
skimping and daily sacrifice to lend
out of meager earnings. They will
look with reprobation 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 mere commercial transaction. l
have not come, therefore, to urge the
loan. I 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 its outcome, are more clear
ly disclosed now than ever before 1t
is easy to see just what this particular
reason means because the cause we
ficrhf foT CHI 1-T1Ix1
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 is he is
asked to invest in. Men in America
may be more than sure than they ever
were before that the cause is their
own, and that, if it should be lost,
their own great nations place and mis-
sion in the world would be lost with it.
Tries to Deal Frankly.
81 call you to witness, my fellow
countrymen, that at no stage of this
terrible business have 1 judged the
purposes of Germany Unexpectedly. I
should be ashamed in the presence of
affairs so grave, so fraught with the
destinies of mankind through all the
world, to speak with turbulence, to use
the weak language Of hatred or vindi-
cative purpose. We must judge as we
would be judged. 1 have sought to
learn the objects Germany has in this
war from the mouths of her own
spokesman, and to deal as frankly
with them as I wished them to deal
with me. 1 have laid bare our own
ideals, our own purposes, without re-
serve or doubtful phrase, and have
asked them to say as plainly what it
is that they seek.
1--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
fairly with the Germany power, as
with all others. There can be no diff
ference between peoples in the final
judgment, if it is indeed to be right
eous judgment. To propose anything
but justice, even-handed and dispas-
sionate justice to Germany at any
time. whatever the outcome of the
war, would be to renounce and dis
honor our own cause. For we ask
nothing that we are not willing to
accord
1T has been with this thought that
] have sought to learn from those who
Liked Frederick Best
Mai0rie iS fair and fools rooI v1ro11d