The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-04-11
World Dominion Kaisers Aim
Baltimore Address Clearly Outlines Part Amer
Play Saving Liberty and Happiness to World at Large

Baltimore, April 6-Declaring Germany's real
purpose that of dominion, stands disclosed and
that 1--WE know the war must cost our utmost sacrl-
fce the lives of ttest men, and if need be- all we
possess" President Wilson opened the Liberty Loan
campaign here with an address calling the nation
to exert it sutmost force The address follows:
Fellow Citizens: This is the anniversary of our
acceptance of Germany's challenge to fight for our
right to live and be Free and for the sacred rights
of free men everywhere One nation is awake. There
is no need to call to it.
eve know what the war must cost; our utmost
sacrifice, the lives of our ttest men, and need be,
all that possess. The loan are met to discuss
is of the least parts of what are called upon
to give and to do though in itself imperative. The
people of the whole country alive to the necessity
of it, and ready to lend to the utmost even where
it involves sharp skimping and daily sacrifice to
lend out Of meager earnings.
CONTEMPT FOR LOAN SLACKERS.
"They will look with reprobation and contempt
upon those who demand higher rate of interest,
upon those who think of it as mere commercial
transaction. have not come, therefore, to urge the
loan. have come only to give you, if I can,
vivid conception of what it is for
sThe 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 clearly
just what this particular loan means because the
:, cause we are fighting for stand more sharply re-
veaed than at any previous crisis of the momentous
struggle.
NATIONS PLACE is IN DANGER
"The man who knows least plainly
how the cause of justice stands and what the inn
perishabe thing is he is asked to invest in. Men in
America may be more than they ever were be-
fore that the cause is their own, and that, if it
should be lost their 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
judged the purposes of Germany Unexpectedly.
should be ashamed in theh presence of affairs SO
grave so fraught with the destinies of mankind
throughout all the world to speak with trucuence to
use the weak language of hatred or vndictive pur-
pose.
eve must judge would be judged. /
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 wished them
to deal with me- have laid bare ideals,
purposes, without reserve or doubtful
phrase, and have asked them to say plainly what
it is that they seek
READY TO DEAL FAIRLY WITH GERMANY.
"We have ourselves proposed injustice, no
aggression. We ready, whenever the final reck-
oning is made to be just to the German people, deal
fairly with the German power, as with all others.
There be no difference between people in the
final judgment, if it is indeed to be righteous
judgment. To propose anything but justice,
handed and dispossionate justice, to Germany, at
any time, whateve the outcome of the war, would be
to renOunce and dish0n0r cause. For ask
nothing that we are not willing to accord.
"It has been with this thought that have
sought to learn from those who spoke for Germany
whether it justice dominion, and the execu-
ton of their will the other nations of the
have answered, answered in unmistakabe terms.
ion, and the unhndered execution of their own will
GERMANY'S MILITARY LEADERS RULE.
"The avowa has not come from Germany's
statement. It has from her military leaders,
who are her real rulers. Her statesmen have said
that they wished peace, and were ready to discuss
its terms whenever their opponents were willing TO
sit down at the conference table with them. Her
present chancellr has said-in indefinite and un-
certain TERMS indeed and in phrases that often
to deny their own meaning, but with as much plain
ness as he thought prudent-that he believed that
peace should be based upon the principles which we
lad declared would be our own in the fnal settle
m.nt
"At Brest- Litovsk her civilian delegates spoke in
fair peace and accord to the people with whose for
tunes they were dealing the right to choose their
own allegiances But action accompanied and follow
ed the profession. Their military masters, the men