The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-08
WILSON'S SPEECH
SOUNDS DOOM OF
pRUSS|AN POWER
America Determined to Beat
Hun, London Press Says,

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LONDON. April 8.-The doom Of
the military power in Germany was
pronounce by President Wilson In
his speech at Baltimore, says the Morn
ing Post.
Whether or not the allies are strong
enough to break in pieces the German
military power remains 10 be SEEN" II
adds. "Rut that given time, America is
able to defeat the enemy, Is as little
doubtful as that she is resolved TO do
Il, however long the work may take
II Is a gigantic enterprise for the de.
feat OF the German armies in the field
], not all that America has promised.
but she proposes to go further
Declaration Encouraging
'"Amid the stress and suspense of the
great conflict now raging on the west.
ern front we can assure our American
friends that their brave and simple
declarations are inexpressably en-
eouraging They look upon the war
from point Of view which, after near,
four years OF supplying yieissimde, we
have lost
It's Moral Issue.
President Wilson from the first has
insisted that before all, II is moral
issue. There are millions OF men
among the Americans and the forces OF
the allies who are fighting in The
simple faith that they are doing a duty
IN a good cause.
1T has fallen to President Wilson
TO put into stern practice the oonylc-
tlon, which the greatest among Ameri-
can poets affirmed in every line Of his
rough hewn verse, that the spirit Of
liberty is inyincible"
The Daily Mail says;
an these hours OF trial Great Britain
feels the real meaning OF American
aid. She is heavily engaged on many
fronts, on each OF which she is lavishly
giving her blood,
Great Britain Not Ashamed.
Great Britain has no cause to be
ashamed AID they greatly mistake the
spirit Of her people who suppose that
they would escape privations, suffer
ings and death by going back from
the way in which they began, America
and the allies stand for justice and
right, and Germany for dominion and
violence.
when President Wilson solemnly
declares that in utter self-sacrifice and
self-forgetfulness' America will give all
that we love and all that we have to
redeem the world and make il fit for
free men like ourselves to live in we
know that this pledge will be kept
Germans Must Go.
The Daily Mail says:
I'm his speech President Wilson, with
that dispassionate finality which al.
ways marks his utterances. stated the
issue with unsnSwerable truth. II Is
whether the world is 10 he governed by
the German general staff, II the world
is to be made fit for free men TO live
in, military despotsm and the whole in
stitution of war must Co. finally and
irrevocably
1T was the conviction Of this funda-
mental truth which mas kept President
Wilson so loyal to the cause OF Rus
sia and the Russian revolution when
other statesmen have faltered. This
moral leadership in the war is not the
least of the debts that we owe to the
intervention Of the United States.
What America Has Dore.
"The nation today begins to under
stand the enlightened craftsmanship
which has governed the actions OF
President Wilson throughout and is
able to form some measure of the
service his country has rendered 10 the
cause-servicc in money, in material
in men, and, most of all, in moral
force.
"There is no limit TO the sacrifice
which our great ally is prepared to
make to redeem the world That is
the assurance the president gives us
as his anniversary message, II comes,
charged with new note which the
enemy will do we'll TO mark. How
unrcScINculy unS ucNlslOH mas oeVll
taken is evidenced by the chivalrous
consent to allow American soldiers to
be brigaded with British and French
units. II is the S irit OF this noble
sacrifice that has moved this country
but it is its practical bearing on the
issue that is of immediate concern, for
II provides a channel for the great re-
serve of man-power which is the com
manding advantage that America gives
US over the enemy.
Never Understood Wilson.
1T has been the cardinal mistake
Of Germany that she never understood
President Wilson and never believed i'll
the military value of American sup
port
Lincoln fought and won his war in
order that the rule of righteousness
should prevail in the western world
The greater task was never committed
to wiser or more capable hands. We
need not fear the result"
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