President Wilson sees now that what Germany has done in
Russia she would do in France ; and that if Germany ever proposed equitable terms for Belgium, France, and Italy, it would be only to secure a free hand in Russia and the East for vast schemes of conquest. America must fight to secure a world-mastery based on ideals of freedom, and of the rights of all who are weak, lest " the gates of mercy once more pitilessly shut upon mankind." Mr. Wilson accepts the challenge implied in Germany's latest acts of aggression. " 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." America's only possible response to Germany's appeal to force is
in terms of 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."
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