Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-04-12
WILSON ACCEPTS
HUN CHALLENGE
PRESIDENT ADVOCATES WAR TO
FINISH IN ANNIVERSARY
ADDRESS At BALTIMORE.
But One Response TO Germany
Righteous Force Which Shall Make
Right the Law Of World and Cast
Selfish Dominion in the Dust

Baltimore Wilson. Mt q
great Liberty loan celebration here SAT-
urday night, April 6, gave Amrica's
answer to the renewed propaganda for
a German-made peace, to all proposals
to end the war before Germany Is
wakened from her dream of world do
minion. The presidents answer was
"Force, force to the utmost, force
without stint or Init, the righteous ana
triumphant force which shall make
right the law of the world and cast
every selfish dominion down in the
duse'
A few hours before the president
spoke, he had reviewed division OF
citizen soldiers, called only a few
months ago from the pursuits Of peace;
now transformed into fighting men to
carry the ideals of America to the bat.
tlefields of Europe. At the moment
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.
Challenge of Huns Accepted.
Those were some of the physical
facts which backed his words, when,
after reviewing briefly the evidence
that Germany seeks peace for her
world dominion, the president de-
clared:
81 accept the challenge. know that
you accept it. All the world shall
know you accept it. 1t shall appear in
the utter sacrifice and self-forgetful-
ness with which we shall give all that
we love and all that we have to redeem
the world and make it fit for free men
like ourselves to live in. This now Is
the meaning Of what we do. Let every.
thing that we say, my fellow country
men, everything that we henceforth
plan and accomplish, ring true to this
response till the majesty and might of
our concerted power shall fill the
thought and utterly defeat the force OF
those who fiout aad misprize what we
honor and hold dear.
Germany has once more said thAt
force and force alone shaiI decide
whether justice and peace shall reign
| In the affairs of men; whether right, as
America conceives it, or dominion, as
she conceives 1t, shall determine the
destinies of mankind.
"There is, therefore, but one re-
Spouse possible from us; force, force
to the utmost force without stint OF
limit: the righteous force which shall
make right the law of the world ant
cast every selfish dominion in thu
dust"
Hun Success Means Our Ruin.
Warning anew that triumph o
arms for Germany means ruin for al
the ideals America has NON and live
for, the president reiterated he wa
willing to discuss at any time a fair
Just and honest peace sincerely pro
posed-"a peace In which the stroni
and weak shall fare alike"
"But the answer" he said, when
proposed such a peace came from tn
German commanders in Russia, and
cannot mistake the meaning Of the an
swer.
"They are enjoying in Russia tn
president declared, "a cheap trump
In which no brave or gallant nation ca
long take pride. A great people, hell
less by their own act, for the time q
their mercy. Their fair professions AZ
forgotten. They nowhere set up jui
tlce, but everywhere impose their poE
err and exploit everything for their ow
use and aggrandizement: and the pei
pies of conquered provinces are invite
TO be free under their dominion.
"Are we not justified In belieyin
that they would do the same things 1
their western front II they were nj
there face to face with armies who
their countless divisions cannot owe
j Gomez"
! President Wilson was given a grea
, demonstration on his arrival at IL
] hall, which was packed with abol
/, 5000 persons.
Thousands were at the doors u
. able to gain entrance. Long lin
J formed in front OF the armOry as ear
3 as g o'clock.