Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-04-09
WHY WE FIGHT
President Wilson Reiterates Americas
Attitude in World War.

President Wilson Reiterates america 8
Attitude in World War.
President Wilson at great Liberty
loan celebration in Baltimore, last
Saturday night gave Americas an
swer to the German drive on the
Western front; to the renewed propa-
ganda for Il German-made peace, to
all proposals TO end the war before
Germany Is awakened from her dream
of world domination.
The presidents answer was:
Force, force to the utmost, force
without stint Of limit. the righteous
and triumphant force which shall
make right the law Of the world, and
cast every selfish dominion down In
the dust
A few hours before the president
spoke he had reviewed a division OF
citizen soldiers, called only n few
months ago from the pursuits OF
peace; now transformed into fighting
men to carry the ideal Of America to
the battlefields Of Europe at the mo.
mcnt, a million more Of their kind all
over the land were celebrating the
opening of the third Liberty loan, and
the orders for mobilizing the first OF
the great army of a second million
were going out to the country.
Those were some Of the physical
facts which backed his words. when
after reviewing briefly the evidence
that Germany seeks peace tina,
would give her world domination, the
president declared.
81 accept the challenge. | know
that you accept 1t. All the world shall
know you accept 1t. 1t shall appear
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fulness with which we shall give al
that we love and all that we have to
redeem the world and make 1t fit fol
free men like ourselves to i've IN
This. now Is the meaning OF what VIC
.do-..Iet. everything that we. say, my
fellow countrymen, everything that we
henceforth plan and accomplish, rinG
true to this response till the mai
esty and might Of our concerted pow
er shall fill the thought and utterly
defeat the force Of those who fout
and misprize what we honor and hold
dear.
germany has once more said that
force and force alone shall decide
in the affairs Of men; whether right
in the aairs off men; whether right
as America conceives II, or dominion
as she conceives 1t, shall determine
the destinies of mankind.
There Is, therefore, but one re-
sponse possible from us: force, force to
the utmost, force without stint or
limit, the righteous force which snail
make right the law Of the world, and
cast every selfish dominion In the
dust"
Warning anew that a triumph OF
arms for Germany means ruin tor all
the ideals America has won and lives
for, the president reiterated he was
willing to discuss at any time q fair,
Just honest peace, sincerely proposed,
"a peace in which the strong and
weak shall fare alike.
But the answer" said he, when
proposed such q peace, came from the
German commanders in Russia, and
can not mistake the meaning OF the
answer.
"They are enjoying in Russia" the
president declared, "a cheap triumph
in which no brave or gallant nation
can long take pride. A great people,
helpless by their own act, lies for the
time at their mercy. Their fair pro-
fessions are forgotten. They no.
where set up justice, but everywhere
impose their power and exploit every
thing for their own use and aggran-
dizcment: and the peoples Of conquer
ed provinces are invited to be free
under their dominion.
Are we not justified in believing
that they would do the same things
at their Western front II they were
not there face to face with armies
whom their countless divisions can not
ovcrcome?"