PRESIDENT'S GREAT SPEECH.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14578, 8 April 1918, Page 5

PRESIDENT'S GREAT SPEECH.

THE CAUSE FOUGHT FOR, GERMANY'S PROFESSIONS AND ACTipNS^. '< (Australian and $"•?, Cable Association.) (Received April .8,, 12.55 p.m.) .. . . . NEW YORK, April ?. President.:. : Wilson' s..-'speech., .ai.. Baltimore was made on.-the occasion of the celebration of America's of Germany V' challengV to fightr.and -.the inauguration of the th'fd Liberty Loan, r The "President declared tlie nation was awake** there, was no need, tocall it.-* It knew the war must cost: the utmost sacrifice of the lives of Mr best men, ahd,? if Vnee<i be, a f ll' < -we. possess. ■ The people were ready to lend their utmost, even where it mean sharp skimping and daily sacrifice. "Tht*- .cause we , are, fighting for," he added, "stands more sharply, revealed now than ever before. Americans' are now more sure than ever before that the' j cause is their own, and i£,.it shquld be lost their own great nations place and mission m the world 'will be lost." The President reminded* his audience ,'thafc he never: judged the Germans' pur. •poses intemparately. He .was-., ashamed to; speak with turbulence and the weak language of. hatred "or . vindictive pur* poses. He songht to learn- tlie. objects. of Germany f-om. her own spolcesnien, and deal frankly with them i as ihe ;• wished them to deal ..with him.. America' p?o«. [posed no injustice, and , no aggression.' She .was ready -whenever : ,the-" final reckoning was made. to. be just- to thb German people, and to. deal fairly -.with the i German- power, y V* ,*•:.,. j; "The German leaders[ have .answered m unmistakable terms that not injusticebut 'domination and unhindered execution, of -tHeir own ..will is what they wantl This avowal ...has'.* not come from Germany's statesmen; but from her militarileaderS,y who are her real rulers. " : '-7 . y- ■ After.,; revising the various' 'German peace ' off ers, ; the President compared them with - thei* actions m Russia," "Finland, and elsewhere, tvhibh followed' these' professions. ■/•■ The. execution of these actions proclaimed a very ■ different conclusion to such professions. ' ,i! ■■'■ "Are we 1 not justified m believing," the President asked, "that they would do the same things on their Western front if not face to face with armies which thejr countless .divisions cannot overcome, If.v Him they.\have felt their check. to be final they should propose favorab'e and -equitable terms, m regard to Belgium, prance, mid' Italy, coftld they blame ns if l "we , concluded they, , did so only to ,assm*e themselves, of a free hand ,m ,Bnss"a 4l and -tJii-r.East?- They purposes . undoubtedly f make , all Slavic peoples, all free ambitious nations of tj*e fßaltic peninsula, all the lands Turkey Vi-as dominated and misi*uled, •,eubje i ct. > '« their will and l ambitions, and build upon tlVat dominion an Empire,. • of ., "force, whereupon ..fancy t can erect . an.: Empire "if. gain. an 4 commerqial supremacy-r^ an Empire, as hostile vtp America as. "*to Europe, which, it will overawe, an. Era? nire which - \yould ultimately master Rersia.andilndia.and the- Empires of" ihe Far East." ,