Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-04-07
FORCE ONLY REPLY
THAT CAN BE MADE
!. TO GERMAN RULERS
Address Delivered to 1000
People in Baltimore
Armory.
STILL READY TO DISCUSS
FAIR AND HONEST PEACE
Answers to His Previous Suggcs-
tions Have All Come From
Enemy Generals,
TEUToNIC PEOPLES usIED
Conquest OF Russia Is Triumph In
Which NO Brave Nation Can
Take Pride. ~
rEUToNIo PEOPLES ns1HD
Conquest Of Russia Is Triumph In
Which No Brave Nation Can
Take Pride. a-

PADFlAORE. April 6,-PreS1dent
Wilson tonight hurled back at the
German war lords tho defiance With
which all efforts to negotiate 4 tu.t
peace have been received. The speech
was delivered before a grave audience
In tho Fifth Regiment armory, where
he was first nominated to be chief
magistrate OF the nation. The occa-
sion was the opening Of tho third
Liberty loan drive, which had includ cd
review in the afternoon Of tho Ma
tional Army units brought hero from
Camp Meade.
The Liberty loan exhibits tn tn.
great auditorium supplied a fttins
setting. Immediately back of the
stage a statue OF Liberty lowered
moro than forty feet Tho attendance
was estimated at 1000 persons. Police
authorities announced an equal number
had been denied access to the build
Ing, as 1t was necessary to close the
doors at o'clock.
The President called It tho -anni-
Versary OF our acceptance Of Ger
many's challenge to fight for our right.
to live and be free" Then, following
review OF hts efforts for peace,
which was most effective verbal
bombardment OF Teutonic policies, hs
framed the response the United States
now makes in these words:
Force. force to the utmost: force
without stint or limit; tho righteous
and trium phant force which shall make
tho law OF tho world and cast every
selfish dominion down in the dust"
The speaker and the audience were
both serious, but tho applause was
generous.
Each rhetorical salvo wes received
with enthusiasm. which indicated be-
Lief that the speech would cause more
destruction in Berlin and Vienna than
German long-range guns can ever In
hict upon Paris.
DISTINGUISHES BETWEEN
PEOPLE AND THEIR RULERS
Consistent with previously announced
policies, clear distinction was again
drawn between tho war-craxed autoe
racy or the central empires and the
German peoples. Even the Teutonic
statesmen who have been forced to
accept the Kaiser's leadership We're
mentioned in charitable terms.
In full. the Presidents speech was
as follows.
Fellow citizens: This Ia the an.
niversary Of our acceptance OF Ger
many's challenge to fight for our right
TO live and be free. and for the sacred
rights OF freemen everywhere. The
nation is awake. There IS no need
TO call to it We know what the war
must cost, our utmost sacrifice: tho
lives OF our httest men. and. II 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 iInpera-
tive.
The people OF the whole country
are alive to the necessity of II, and
are ready to lend to the utmost, even
where 1t involves n 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 higher rate OF interest, upon
those who think OF 1t as a mere com
mercial transaction. have not come,
therefore. TO urgo the loan. have
comeNonly to give you. II can, a more
vivid conception of what it is for.
REASONS FOR WAR NOW
CLEAR TO EVERY ONE
The reasons for the great war, the
reason why 1t had to come, the need
to fight 1t through and the Issues that
hang upon its outcome are more clearly
disclosed now than ever before. It Is
easy to see just what this particular
loan means. because the cause we are
fighting for stands more sharply re-
vealcd than at any previous crisis OF
the momentous struggle. The man
who knows least can now see plainly
how the cause OF Justice stands anu
what the imperishable thing is he IL
asked to invest in. Men in America
may be more 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 mission
In the world would be lost with IT,
Il call you to witness, my fellow
countrymen, that at no stage of this
terrible business have 1 judged the
purposes of Germany intcmperatclY.
I should be ashamed in the presence
OF affairs so grave, so fraught with
the destinies OF mankind throughout
all tho world. TO speak with truculencc. v