The Monticellonian., 1918-04-12

parts Of what We are called upon tc
 give and to do, though in itself i'm 1 perative. The people of the whole country are alive to the necessity oi l it, and are ready to lend to the utmost I even where it involves a sharp skimp-
 ing and daily sacrifice to lend out Of
 meager earnings. They will look with
 reproduction and contempt upon those who can and will not, upon those who 1 demand higher rate of interest, upon those who think of it as a mere com mercial transaction. l have not come, therefore, to urge the loan. have come only to give you, if can, a more vivid conception of what it is for.
 "The reasons for this great var. the reason why it had to come. the need to fight it through. and the issues that hang upon it's outcome are more clear ly disclosed now than ever before. It is easy to see just what this particular loan means because the cause we are lighting for stands more sharply re- vealed than at any previous crisis of 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. Men in America may be more sure than they ever 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.
 q call you to witness, my fellow countrymen. that at no stage of this terrible business that I judged the pur- purposes of Germany intemperately. I should be ashamed in the presence Of affairs to grave, so fraught with the destinies of mankind throughout all the world, to speak with truculence, to use the weak Language of hatred or vindieative purpose. l have sought to learn the objects Germany had in this war from the mouths of her own spokesmen, and to deal as frankly with them as l wished them to deal with me. I have laid bare our own ideals, our own purposes. without re- serve or doubtful phrase, and have asked them to say as plainly what it is that they seek
 Will Treat Germans Fairly.
 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 1t is indeed to be righteous judgment. To propose anything but justice. eyen-handed and dispassionate 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
 Tt has been with this thought that have sought to learn from those who spoke for Germany whether il is jus tice or dominion and the execution of their own will upon the other nations of the world that the German leaders were seeking, They have answered. answered in unmistakable terms They have ayowed that it was not justice, but dominion and the unhindefed exc cution of their own will.
 The ayewal has not come from Ger many's statesmen. It has come from her military leaders. who are her real rulers. Her statesmen have said that they wished peace and were ready to discuss it's terms whenever their op. ponents were willing to sit down at the conference table with them. Her present chancellor has said-in indef- nite and uncertain terms. indeed, and in phrases that often seem to deny their own meaning, but with as much plainness as he thought prudent-that he believed that peace should be based upon the principles which We had de- clared would be our own in the final settlement. At Brest Litovsk her ci- william delegates spoke in similar terms professed their desire 10 con clude fair peace and accord to the people with whose fortunes they were dealing the right 10 choose their own allegiances. But action accomplished and followed the profession. The mill tary masters. the men who act for Ger many and exhibit her purpose in exc cution. proclaimed very different conclusion. We cannot mistake what they have done-in Russia. in Finland in the Ukraine. in Roumania The real test Of their justice and fair play has come. From this we may judge the rest.
 Enjoying a Cheap Triumph
 "They are enjoying in Russia a cheap triumph in which no brave or