Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-04-12
WILSON ACCEPTS
FOE s CHALLENGE
President Pledges Americas Full
Strength in War.
KAISER REVEALS REAL AIMS
Executive in Speech at Baltimore Says
Germany Answered Offer of Just
Peace by Crushing
Russians.


Wilson accepted In full the challenge
Of autocracy on Saturday night. He
pledged to the world Americas full
strength in. battle-to meet force with
all the vast force of these United
States and to fight until the world do
minion plans of Germany are wiped
from the earth.
Citing the answers of the central
powers to his offers of way to just
peace-answers spelled in the invasion
of Russia and the crushing of the
Slavs-he said:
81 am ready, ready still, ready even
now, to discuss fair and just an0
honest peace at any time that it is sin
cerely proposed, a peace in which the
strong and the weak shall fare alike.
But the answer, when proposed such
a peace, came from the German COM
manders in Russia, and / cannot mis-
take the meaning Of the answer.
There is but one response possible
from us. Force, force to the utmost,
force without stint or limit, the right
eOus and triumphant force which shall
make right the law of the world and
cast every selfish dominion down in
the dust"
America Shows Her Heart.
President Wilson's speech was the
most notable feature of a day of re-
marlzable demonstrations from one end
of the nation to the other.
Every city, town and hamlet in the
United States celebrated Liberty day
and the opening of the Third Liberty
loan drive-celebrated 1t with an en-
thusiasm, patriotism, wholehearted-
ness and sincerity that left no doubt
as to where America stands.
The president said America was
awake. Surely all reports that came
in here as he spoke showed that he
knew and spoke the truth.
President Wilson was given great
demonstration on his arrival at the
Fifth regiment armory, which was
packed with about $4,000 persons.
Cheer Acceptance of Challenge.
The presidents declaration that
nothing is proposed for Germany but
Justice, was warmly applauded, as
was his statement that Germany's
course in Russia is cheap triumph.
When the president declared that he
accepted Germany's challenge and that
force must decide the issue, the audi
ence arose to its feet and cneered for
several minutes.
In the afternoon he reviewed 10000
Camp Meade troops. They comprised
drafted men from Pennsylvania, Mary
land and the District of Columbia.
In the stand with the president were
Mrs. Wilson, Cardinal Gibbons, Maj.
Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn, commanding
the Seventy-ninth division at Camp
Meade, and others.
Presidents Address.
President Wilson's address was in
part as follows:
yellow 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.
1.-THE nation is awake. There is no
need to call to it. We know what the
war must cost, our utmost sacrifice,
the lives of our finest 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 inn
perative.
'The people of the whole country
are alive to the necessity Of it and are
ready to offer to the utmost, even
where it involves a sharp skimping
and daily sacrifice to lend out of
meager earnings.
'"The reasons for this great war, the
reason why it had to come, the need to
fight 1t through. and the issues that
hang upon the outcome are more clear
1y disclosed now than ever before.
''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.
eve must judge as we would be
Judged. 1 have sought to learn the OBJ
iects 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.
Ready for Just Peace.
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.
ST have sought to learn from those
who spoke for Germany whether it was
Justice or dominion and the execution
of their own will upon the other ma
lions of the world that the German
leaders were seeking They have an
swered, answered in unmistakable
terms. They have avowed that it was
not Justice but dominion and the I'M
hindered execution of their own WILL
1.-The avowal has not come from Ger
many's statesmen. 1t has come from
her military leaders, who are her real
rulers.
Sat Brest-Litovsk her civilian dele
gates spoke in similar terms; pro-