Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-08
FORCE TO UTMOST,
FORCE UNST|NTEO;,
WILSON OEF|ES HUN
we Must Give All We Love and
All We Have to Redeem the
World" He Says in Lib
erty Bond Speech.
ASKS ONLY FOR JUSTICE

Baltimore. April S.-Prcsident Will
sons speech in the opening of the Liberty
Loan campaign here last Saturday night
was applaudcd by more than $4,000
persons MIR. Wilson's answer TO the
German drive on the west battle front
and To the renewed propaganda Tor n
Gcrman-made peace was:
Force, force to the utmost, forcc
without stint or limit, the righteous.
triumphant force which shall make right
the law of the world and asst every selfish
dominion down in the dust.
The full text of the speech. which Is
regarded as remarkably strong de-
hvcrance and clear exposition OF the at
titude of the United States, follows:
Fellow citizens is the ami
vcrsary of our acceptance of Germany
challenge to fight for our right to live
and be free, and for the sacred rights of
freedom everywhere The nation Is
awake. sTherc Is no need To call 20 It,.
We know what the war must cost, our
utmost sacrifice. the lives of our httcst
men, and if need be, all that We possess.
The loan we arc met To discuss Is
one of the least parts of what we arc
called upon to give and 10 do, though
III itself imperative. The people OF
the whole country are alive to the neces-
sity Of il. and are ready to lend TO the
utmost, even where it involves u sharp
skmpng and daily sacrifice TO lend out
of mcagre earnings They will look with
rcprobation and contempt upon those who
can and will not. upon those who demand
y higher rate OF interest, upon those who
think OF il as a mere commercial tranSac-
tion. have not come therefore, TO
urge tho loan. | have come. only 10
give you. if can. a more vivid concep-
tion of what IL IS for.
THE CAUsE Is AMERICAS.
The reasons for this great war. the
reason why il had to come. the need
Ia fight il through. and the ISSUES that
hang upon its outcome. are more clearly
disclosed now than ever before. lt is
easy 10 sec just what this particular loan
means. because the cause We are fighting
tor stands more sharply revealed than at
any previous crisis of the momcntous
struggle The man who knows least can
now sec plainly how tho cause of justice
stands and what is the impcrlshablc thing
he Is asked 10 invest in Men in America
NAV be more sure than they ever were
before that the cause IS their own and
that, if it should he lost. their own great
nations place and mission IN the world
would be lost with II.
No yINDICTIvE PURPOSE.
II call YOU 10 witness. my fellow coun-
trymen. that at no stage oi this terrible
business have ! Judged the purposes ot
Germany intemperatclv | should bC
ashamed in the presence OF affairs ~
grave. so fraught with the dcstimcs oi
4k-Ot.Dh,zs,t all Tho trrrlA gp
speak with turbulence, To use the weak
language Of hatred or y1ndlctlvc purpose
We must Judge as we would he Judged
| have sought TO learn the objects Ger.
MANY has in this war from the mouths
of hCN own SpokeSmen. and TO deal rs
frankly with them as ! wished them Ia
daal with me- I have laid bare our own
ideals. our own purposes without reserve
or doubtful phrase and have asked them
10 say as plainly what IT Is that they seek
I. :. ASKS ONLY JUSTICE.
We have ourselves proposed no in
Justice. no aggression We are ready
whenever the final reckoning Is made 10
be just TO the German people deal is rly
with the German power, rs with all
Others There can toe no difference be
twcen. peoples in the Anal Judgment, il il is
indeed to be q righteous judgment. To
propose anything but justice, even-handed
and dispasslonate justice. to Germany
at any time, whatever the outcome Of the
war, would be to renounce and dlshOnOr
our own cause For we o SIX 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 II was
justice or dominion and the execution
oi thrie own viii upon the other ma
1ions of the world that the German
leaders were seeking They have answer
cd answered IN unmIstakable terms. They
have avowed that it was not justice but
dominion and the unhindered execution
u their own Will.
HER STATESMEN WANTED PEACE
The avowal has not come from Ger
many : statesmen II has como from
her military leaders who are her real
leaders Her statesmen have said that
they wished peace, and were ready 10
discuss It's terms whenever their ol,-
ponents were willing 10 sit down at the
conference table with them. Her present
chancellor has SAID in indefinite and
uncertain terms. indeed and in phrases
that often seem TO DENY their own mean
ing but with as much plainnoss as he
thought prudent that he believed that
peace should be based on the principles
which We declared would be our own in
the final settlement
AT Brcst- -Litovsk her civilian dele
gates spoke in similar terms; proiossed
their desire TO conclude fair peace and
accord to the peoples with whose for
tunes they were dealing the right TO
choose their own allegianccs
TRIUMPB IN RUSSIA. cBEAr
But action accompanied and fol-
lowed the profession Their military
masters. the men who act for Germany
and exhibit her purpose in execution