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Show NUMEROUS EDITORS MUSE PRESIDENT (Continued from Page Four.) the last fourteen months as modern American diplomacy. Our issue with Germany can ho settled now only by a display of determination backed by force. And it should have been settled set-tled that way without parley or faltering, fal-tering, as soon as it became clear last August that Germany never intended to respond to Mr. Wilson's words with an adequate offer of reparation for the Lusitania massacre. SIOUX FALLS (S. D.) PRESS Berlin Ber-lin is given one more chance to prove the genuineness of its professions to the poverument and tho people of the Vnited States. Notice has been served that argument is ended, that- reform must begin. It is now Berlin 's move. BALTIMORE GERMAN" CORRESPONDENTS CORRE-SPONDENTS President Woodrow Wilson has created a dangerous war cloud with his action of sending an ultimatum to Germany, and he has done so with the full knowledge of the fact that the big majority of tho American people do not want war with Germany or any other country. PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LEDGER The president has been patient more than patient in the face of unprecedented unprece-dented provocations and intolerable injuries. The position he has finally tali en will have the united and wholehearted whole-hearted approval of the nation. Staats Zeitung Angry. NEW YORK STAATS ZEITUNG It is unthinkable that the German government gov-ernment should recognize these credentials cre-dentials (the president's) as the representative rep-resentative of all neutral nations and grant the peremptory demands of the president as long as the cause for the inauguration of this submarine warfare war-fare the illegal British blockade and interference with the commercial rights of neutrals remains in force, and as long as British inhumanity against the civilian noncombatant population pop-ulation of Germany is continued. The president's demands seek permanently permanent-ly to guard British sea trade, and would, if complied with, make England Eng-land proof against injury. Can Germany Ger-many agree to that? The answer remains re-mains with the individual. President Wilson has given the German government the alternative of complying with demands which seem impossible to complv with, or to expect war with the United States for the severance of diplomatic relations re-lations under circumstances like the present can only result in war. The president has brought about a diplomatic diplo-matic situation which must involve the United States in a war with Germany, Ger-many, unless congress intercedes in proper time. NEW YORK SUN We must regard it (the address) as in part a repetition repeti-tion of a true and now top familiar indictment in-dictment of a civilized nation for illegal il-legal practices, and in part a restatement restate-ment of the president's views concerning con-cerning his responsibility not only for the protection of American rights but also for the general interests of humanity. hu-manity. Still Hope for Peace, NEW YORK WORLD They (the American people) still hope, and hope will not cease unless tho German government gov-ernment deliberately takes the fatal step that ends all possibility of an honorable and amicable adjustment of past wrongs and all possibility of j future guarantees. It is for the Ger-! Ger-! man government to say whether it I wants the United States for a friend I or an enemy; it knows the terms. ' NEW YORK HERALD This is no time for division anywhere in the United States. The country is on the brink of war. The president is right. It is the country that speaks through Mr. Wilson. The interests of the whole land are involved. It iB easy to criticize, and yet he who criticizes now is engaged in a bad business. It is easy to attribute mean motives, and he who does so is showing a meaner motive than can be easily characterized, character-ized, r MORNING PRESS (Danville, Til.) President Wilson, after exhausting every means of averting trouble, reached the limit of patience and forbearance for-bearance and was compelled to take the final step to uphold tho dignity of this nation and the principles of justice jus-tice and humanity. The people of the United States will support him to the limit, whatever mav befall. ILLINOIS STAATS ZEITUNG; (Chica-I (Chica-I go) We are not aware that Mr. Wil-j Wil-j son ever received a mandate to repre-! repre-! sent humanity; and if he did, he ought to return his retainer, for he j never represented humanity, but the I interests of the ammunition manufacturer manufac-turer in opposition to the real interests inter-ests of humanity. Why not rather send a threat to the nation whose inhuman Btoppage of food products for the civil population of Germany caused the submarine war? . We do not even believe that the president really wants war, and we are sure the nation does not want it. Must Satisfy Our Demands. PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER The note is practically an ultimatum, although al-though it admits of an answer. Indeed, In-deed, a reply is expected. Germany must squarely satisfy our demands or deliberately spurn our official friendship. friend-ship. The choice is hers. We should have made the J6sue immediately after af-ter the Binking of the Lusitania, PHILADELPHIA PRESS President "Wilson's recital of Germany's repeated re-peated violations of the law of nations na-tions and of humanity and her submarine sub-marine warfare is more than ample justification for suspending official relations re-lations with that country. Germany is given one more chance to change her course. The country will be with the president. MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER The American people, those who take their Americanism without prefixes, suffixes suf-fixes or hyphens, applaud the resolute tone of the president's address. It is a ringing call to a new national spirit. ATLANTA CONSTITUTION The attitude at-titude of the president does not necessarily neces-sarily mean war. MOBILE REGISTER Tho people are behind their president. Says It Means War. NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN AND AMERICAN It means war with Germany Ger-many a war that the United States could not escape and that its people will approve. STATE LEADER (Cheyenne, Wyo.) President Wilson needs the support of every citizen of the land, without regard" re-gard" to partisanship, and the citizenship citizen-ship as a unit should subscribe to whatever course is taken in this national na-tional crisis. The address of the president to congress was lucid and firm, with no appeal to emotions, no intimation of hysteria. The president has adopted the only course open to the Amfrican people. |