Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-04-13
WILL FORCE PEACE,
DECLARES WILSON
MIN GAGE OF BATTLE ACCEPTED
BY PRESIDENT IN BAlTi-
MORE Address.
Reasons for the War, the Need 10
Fioht II Through, and the issues
That Hang Upon Its Outcome Are
More Clearly Disclosed.


That Hang Upon Its Outcome Are
More Clearly Disclosed.
Baltimore Wilson, at
vreat Liberty loan celebration here
Saturday night, April q, gave Amer
ico's answer to the German drive on
the western front.
The presidents address was as 1oi-
lows:
"Fellow citizens-This is the ami
yersary of our acceptance OF Ter
many's challenge to fight for our rlght
to live and be free, and for the sacred
rights of free men everywhere. Inc
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 fittest men, ana, II heeu
be. all that we possess. Inc loan we
are met to discuss is one OF the least
parts of what we are called upon 10
give and do, though in itself iinpera-
tive. The people of the whole couh-
try are alive to the necessity OF w.
and are ready to lend to the utmost,
even where 1t involves IA sharp skimp-
Ing and daily sacrifice to lend out OF
meager earnings. Aney VIII looh WIN
reprobation and contempt upon those
who can and will not, upon those VINO
demand u higher rate OF interest,
upon those who think of it as mere
commercial transaction. | have not
come, therefore, to urge the loan.
have come only to give you, III can
a more vivid conception OF what IL
Is for.
Reasons for the War.
"The reasons for this great war, the
reason why it had TO come, the heeu
TO fight 1t through, and the issues
that hang upon it's outcome are more
clearly disclosed now than ever ne
fore. Ii is necessary to see JUST
what this particular loan means be
cause the cause we are flghuhS lot
stands more sharply revealed IMAM
at any previous crisis of the mo
mentous struggle The man VINO
knows least can now see plainly now
the cause of justice stands and what
the imperishable thing Is he Is asker
TO invest in. Men in America may
be more sure than they ever were ot-
fore that the cause is their own, ana
| that, If IL should be lost, their own
great nations place aud mission III
the world would be lost with 1t.
| call you to witness, my felio"
countrymen, that ut no stage OF tiiiS
terrible business have ! judged th'
purposes of Germany intelnperateiy
| should be ashamed In the presence
of affairs so grave, so fraught wiz
the destinies of mankind Throughout
nil the world, to speak win lrucu
lence. TO use the weak language VI
hatred or vindictive purpose. we mus
iudpe as we would be judged. l nave
sought to learn the objects "er''ah!
has I'm the war from the NOUNS %
her own spokesman, and TO aeai al
frankly with them as l wished ,he''
10 deal with me. l have iaid par
our own ideals, our own purposes
without reserve or doubtful phrase
and have asked them to say as PLAIN
ly what 1t is that they seek.
Proposes No Injustice.
"We have ourselves proposed no IN
Justice, no aggression. we are rea"!
whenever the final reckoning Is Inadt
TO be lust to the German people, dea
fairly with the German power, as VIII
all others, There can be no diherenc
between peoples In the final judgment
II it. Is. indeed, to be righteous JUG
ment. To propose anything but JUS
tice. even-handed and dispassionat
Justice. to Germany, at any time, wha'
ever the outcome of the war, would b
TO renounce and dishonor our owl
cause. For we ask nothing that we ar
not willing to accord.
ut has been with this thought tina
have sought to learn from those WI
spoke for Germany whether II was Jus
tice or dominion and the execution 9
their own will upon the other nation
Of the world that the German ieadef
were seeking. They have answered
answered In unmistakabie terms. Inc
have avowed that 1t was not Justlc
bur dominion andsthe unhindered ex'
cution Of their own VIII.
Germany Ruled by Military
1.-THE avcwal has not come from Ge
many's statesmen. 1t has come frol
her military leaders, who are her rel
rulers. Her statesmen have said th'
they wished peace, and were ready
discuss it's terms whenever their opp
= nents were willing to sit down at II
!. conference table with them. Her pre-
;. ent chancellor has said-in indehni
: and uncertain terms, Indeed, ana
), phrases that often seem to deny the
own meaning, but with as much plai