The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-08
FORCE IS OUR
REPLY TO FOE,
WILSON SAYS
Baltimore Audience Cheers
Presidents Promise of
War to Victory
THE NATION
STANDS UNITED
German Made Peace Is Not
Acceptable to America,
He Declares

Baltimore, Md, April SIN the hall
where he was nominated in 1917 Wood
row Wilson. as the war president oil the
United States, Saturday night accepted
Germany's challenge to end the war by
force.
The force We shall use, the president
said. will be 1.-The righteous and tn
nmphsnt force which shall make right
the law of the world and cast every self
ish dominion down in the dust
The president, cheered by great
throng that damned the 9Th regiment
armory, spoke less than 1000 words but
every word had weight and significance,
and the president aroused the unchecked
enthusiasm of his auditors. They stood
and cheered when he said, raising his
voice and with added emphasis
Il accept the challenge | know you
accept it,"
"They (the Germans are enjoying IN
Russia cheap triumph was another
expression which evoked approval.
when the president speaking with
slow emphasis. concluded with his rel
crence 10 Force, force TO the utmost,
the crowd. in which mingled many sol
diers and sailors, stood and shouted their
appreciation.
The presidents statement that he was
willing at any time to listen TO honest
peace overtures, but the plain notice that
there is to be no German made peace
dictated by the military masters OF
Prussia, brought the assembage to
cheers again.
1--WE have had the man of the world
as our guest o-day," said former Gov
ernor GoIdsborough, thus bringing the
first demonstration for the president.
When Governor Harrington later intro
duced the president, Mr.. Wilson stified
the applause by holding up his hands
after the shouting had continued Tor
fully minute
The presidents speech in full was as
follows;
Fellow Citizens: This is the anniver-
sary of our acceptance OF Germany $
challenge to fight for our right TO live
and be free, and for the sacred rights OF
freemen everywhere. The nation IS
awake. There is no need to call to u.
We know what the war must cost, our
utmost sacrifice, the lives OF our httest
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 1t,
and are ready to lend to the utmost, even
where it involves sharp skimping and
daily sacrifice to lend out of meagre
earnings. They will look with reproba
ton 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 trans
action | have not come. therefore, 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 ii had to come, the need to
fight il through and the issues that hang
upon its outcome are more clearly DIS
closed now than ever before 1t Is easy
TO see Just what this particular loan
means because TIE cause we are fighting
for stands more sharply revealed 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 is the impershable
thing he is asked TO invest III. 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.
| call YOU to witness. my fellow coun.
trvmen, that at no stage of this terrible
business have | judged the purposes of
Germany Unexpectedly. | should be
ashamed in the presence OF affairs so
grave, so fraught with the destinies of
mankind throughout all the world, to
speak with turbulence, to use the weak
language 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 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 re-
serve or doubtful phrase and have asked
them TO say as plainly what 1t Is that
they seek.
We have ourselves proposed no injus-
tice, no aggression. We are ready, when
ever the final reckoning is made, to be
lust to the German people, deal fairly
with the German power, as with all
others. There can be no difference be-
tween peoples in the final judgment, ii
il is indeed to be a righteous judgment
To propose anything but justice, even
handed and dispassionate justice, to Ger
many at any time, whatever the out
come of the war, would be to Tenounce