Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-04-11
sAio PRESIDENT WILSON IN A
DARING ADDRESS BEFORE
BALTIMORE AUDIENCE.
The President spoke as follows:

Inc PRESIDENT spoke as follows:
Fellow citizens: This is the an
niversary of our acceptance OF Ger
manys challenge to fight for our righ
70 i've and be free. and for the sacred
rights OF free men everywhere. The
nation is awake. There is no need
to call to 1t. We know what the wa,
must cost. ourt utmost sacrifice. the
lives OF our fittest men and, Of need
De, all that we possess. The loan VIC
are met to discuss Is one OF the least
parts OF what we are called upon to
give and to do. though in itself # is
imperative. 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 a sharp and
daily sacrifice. to lend out of meager
earnings. They will look with repro.
patton and contempt upon those who
can and will not, upon those who de-
mand higher rate Of interest, upon
/ those who think OF 1t as a mere com.
mercfal transaction. have not come.
therefore. to urge the loan have
come only to give you. II can, a more
| vivid conception OF what Il is for.
The reason for this great war. the
reason why II had to come. the need
to fight IL through. and the issues that
hang upon Its outcome are more clear
iy 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
revealed than at any previous crisis
or 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. Mon In America
may be more sure than they ever
were before that the cause Is their
own. and that, IL 1t should be lost.
their own great nations place and
mission in the world would be lost
with II.
Il call you to witness. my fellow
countrymen. that at no stage OF this
terrible business have judged the
purposes OF Germany intemperately. I
should be ashamed in the presence
OF anafrs so grave. so fraught with
the destinies OF mankind throughout
all the world. to speak with trucu.
lence. to use the weak languages of
hatred or vindictive purpose. We
must Judge as we would be judged.
have sought to learn the objects Ger
many has in this war from the mouths
OF her own spokesmen and to deal as
/ frankly with them as I 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.
I'VE 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 diff
ference between peoples In the final
Judgment, IL 1t Is indeed to be q right
eous judgment. To propose anything
but justice. even-handed and dispas-
sionate Justice to Germany at any
time, whatever the outcome OF the
honor our own cause. For we ask
nothing that we are not willing to ac-
cord.
'It has been with this thought that
have sought to learn from those who
spoke for Germany whether 1t was
Justice or dominion and the execution
of their own will upon the other ma.
tions Of the world. that the German
leaders were seeking. They have an
l. ~
terms. They have avowed that 1t was
not justice but dominion and the un.
hindered execution OF their own will
THE avowal has not come from
Germany's statesmen. II has come
from her military leaders. wnc 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, In
deed, and in phrases that often seem
, to deny their own meaning. but with
as much plainness as he thought pru-
dent-that he believed that peace
should be based upon the principles
! which we had declared would be our
own in the final settlement.
! "At Brest- -Litovsk her civilian dele
| gates spoke In similar terms profess
ed their desire to conclude fai'
| peace and accord to the peoples with
whose fortunes they were dealing the
right to choose their own allegiances
But action accomDanied and followed
the profession. Their military masters
the men who act for Germany AM
exhibit her purpose in execution
proclaimed very different conclu
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