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If we had not accepted the challenge of the war-mad, desperate, dictatorial, contemptuous, hypocritical,and medieval Prussian militarists, wewould have had to admit that we were not a free nation, that we preferred peace at any price, and were interested only in the fleshpoJ:s. This country either had to swallow its own words, abdicate its position as a free sovereign power, concede that it had no rights except those which Germany accorded it, hold its citizens and ships away from Europe, or to recognize the plain fact that Germany was acting in a hostile manner against it, fight to defend its rights, fight for humanity and the cause of civilization and free peoples everywhere, joining its power with the other free nations of theworld to put an end to autocratic and Ibrute force. There was one choice we I
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Newport Hoosier State
Newport, Indiana, US
Wed, Feb 27, 1918
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