The Yale expositor., 1918-04-11
PRESIDENT SAYS NATION WILL
FIGHT UNTIL AUTocRATIC
FOE HAS BEEN CAST
IN THE DIRT.
WILLING TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE
OF GERMANY, NOT WITH JUNKERS
Remain Triumphant If Would
Mean Ruin Of American
Ideals of Justice.

Bahimore-President Wilson at a
great Liberty Loan celebration here
April 6, gave Americas answer to the
German drive on the western battle
front; to the renewed propaganda for
a German made peace, to all proposals
to end the war before Germany is
awakened from her dream of world
dominion
The presidents answer was:
Force, force to the utmost, force
without stint or limit, the righteous
and triumphant force which shall
make right the law of the world and
cast every selfish dominion down in
the dust"
The speech was delivered before
grave audience in the Fifth regiment
armory, where he was first named to
be chief magistrate of the nation.
Sees New Soldiers March.
A few hours before the president
spoke, he had reviewed a 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 battlefields of Europe. At the
moment 100000 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 second 100000
was 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 a peace for her
her world dominion, the president de-
clared;
i accept the challenge. know you
accept it. All the world shall know
you accept it. 1t shall appear in the
utter sacrifice and self forgetfulness
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,
VIII Fight to Finish.
"This now is the meaning of what
we do. Let everything that we say,
my fellow countrymen, everything that
we henceforth plan and accomplish,
ring true to this response till the ma
jesty and might of our concerted pow
er shall fill the thought and utterly
defeat the force of those who f1ount
and misprize what we honor and hold
dear.
Germany has once more said that
force and force alone shall decide
whether justice and peace shall reign
in affairs of men; whether right as
America conceives it or dominion as
she conceives It shall determine the
destinies of mankind.
There is therefore but one response
possible from us; force, force to the
utmost, force without stint or limit,
the righteous force which shall make
right the law of the world, and cast
every selfish dominion in the dust"
Warns Of Russis's Fate.
Warning anew that a triumph OF
arms for Germany means ruin for all
the ideals America mas won and lives
for, the president reiterated he was
willing to discuss at any time a fair,
just and honest peace sincerely pro-
posed-"a peace in which the strong
and weak shall fare alike"
But the answer" said he. when
proposed such peace came from the
German commanders in Russia and
cannot 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 nowhere
set up justice but everywhere impose
their power and exploit everything for
their own use and aggrandizement;
and the peoples of conquered prov
inces are invited to be free under their
dominion.
Germans Can't Be Trusted.
Are we not justified in believing
that they would do the same things
at their western front If they were
not there face to face with armies
whom their countless divisions can.
not oyercome?"
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