, 1918-04-11
CHALLENGE FLUNG TO GERMANS
BY PRESIDENT WILSON IN
BALTIMORE SPEECH.
OPENS THIRDLOANDR|VE
SAYS "ALL WE LOVE AND HAVE
WILL BE GIVEN TO REDEEM
WORLD FOR FREE MEN,"

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Baltimore, Md.-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 propo-
sails 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 h
make Right the law of the world and
cast every selfish dominion down in
the dust"
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; 10Y transformed into fighting
men to carry the ideals Of America to
the battle fields of Europe. At the
moment a million more of their kind
all wei the land were celebrating the
opening of the third Liberty Loan;
and orders for mobilizing the first o.
the great army of a second million
were going out to the country.
Those we're some of the physical
facts which backed his words when,
after reviewing briefly the evidence
that Germany seeks a peace for her
world dominion, the President de-
clared:
Il accept the challenge. l know
that you accept it. All the world
shall know that you accept it. 1t
shall appear in the utter sacrifice and
forgetfulness with which we shall give
all that we love and all that we have
to redeem the world and make 1t fit
for free men like ourselves to live in.
This now is the meaning of what we
do. Let everything that we ay, my
fellow-countrymen, everything that we
henceforth plan and accomplish, ring
true to this response till the majesty
and might of Jul concerted power
shall fill the thought and utterly de-
feat the force of those b flout and
misprize what we honor and hold
dear.
Germany has nee more said that
force and force alone shall decide
whether Justice and peace shall reign
in the 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 re-
Spouse 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"
Warning anew that a triumph of
arms for Germany means ruin for all
the ideals America has won and
lived for, the President reiterated he
was willing to discuss at any time a
fair, Just and honest peace sincerely
proposed-"a peace in which the
strong and weak shall fare alike"
But the answer he said, when /
proposed such a peace came from the
German commanders in Russia, and !
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 aggrandizement, and the peoples
of conquered provinces are invited to
be free under their dominion.
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 cannot over
Gomez"
At the conclusion of the Presidents
address subscriptions were opened for
Liberty bonds. The Savings bank Of
Baltimore Immediately took $1,00O,O00
worth. Other large. amounts were
subscribed.