River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-04-11
FORCE ONLY TO Be
DECIDING FACTOR
PRESIDENT WILSON ACCEPTS
cERMANY'a CHALLENGE TO
SETTLE ISSUES.
DEFEAT OF FOE PARAMOUNT
Says Everything America Has Lived
For and Loved Will Have Have
Fallen to Utter Ruin II Teu-
tons Gain Mastery.

tons Gain Mastery.
Baltimore, April 8.-Declaring Ger
manys real purpose, that OF dominion
now stands disclosed and that I'VE
know the war must cost our utmost
sacrifice. the lives of our fittest men
and, if need be, all we possess" Presi-
dent Wilson opened the Liberty Loan
campaign here with an address calling
on the nation to exert it's utmost
force.
The Address.
The address in full 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.
eve 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 imperative.
The people of the whole country are
alive to the necessity of it, and are
ready to lend to the utmost, even
where it involves a 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 can
and will not, upon those who demand
a higher rate of interest, upon those
who think of it as a mere commercial
transaction. | have not come, there
fore, to urge the loan, / have come
only to give you, if / can, 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. It 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
Vrfsis of the momentous struggle.
1.-THE man who knows least can now
see how plainly the cause of justice
stands and what the imperishable
thing is he is asked to invest in. Men
in America may be more sure than
they 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.
I'VE must Judge as we 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 our own ideals, our
own purposes, without reserve or
doubtful phrase, and have asked them
to say as plainly what it is that they
seek.
Ready to Deal Fairly.
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 German power, as with
all others. There can be no difference
between peoples in the, final judg-
ment if it is indeed to be a righteous
Judgment. To propose anything but
justice. even-handed and dispassion-
ate justice, to Germany, at any time,
whatever the outcome of the war,
would be to renounce and dishonor
our own cause For we ask nothing
that we are not willing to accord
ct has been with this thought that
have sought to learn from those who
spoke for Germany whether it was
justice or dominion, and the execu-
ton of their own will on the other
nations of the world that the German
leaders are seeking. They have ans
wered answered in unmistakabIe
terms. They have avowed that it was
not justice but dominion and the I'M
hindered execution of their own will.
War Lords Rule.
THE avOwal has not come from
Germanys statement. 1t has come
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 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 plainness as
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