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Show I NO STOPPING OF I WAR MOVEMENT German Attempt to Becloud the Issue Will Not Halt j This Country. WASHINGTON, March 2f While it H Is ass timed flora the defensive meas-ures meas-ures already taken by the military arm of the government, Presidpnt Wil-son Wil-son in addressing congress next week, will ak for war against Germany or a declaration that a state of war ex-gts, ex-gts, it is known he will speak along broad lines siting incidents leading up, to the present crisis. Officials feel now that the time Is past when incidentals should be dis j cilSBed, and henceforth that only fun-, damental questions of both present) and future American safety should be j considered. As a result the president ' is gathering opinions and suggestions from all sides as to the sort of an ad-dress ad-dress to make in the coming crucial hours. The general situation has not been changed by the speech of the German chancellor, Von Bethmann-Hollweg, to-day. to-day. according to the view tonight of officials. Germany, it was said, has consist-ently consist-ently attempted to lay the blame for her acts on other nations. On previ-ous previ-ous occasions President Wilson ha I taken the position that Germany i In 1 no way Justified in carrying on subrua-I subrua-I rine ruthlessness because of the Brit- lsh blockade. J Only complete abandonment of un-1 restricted submarine warfare could I change the attitude of the United 1i States, it has been said serai-officially jji recently, and press reports indicate I that the German chancellor did not l even discuss that possibility. The president will meet with his I cabinet tomorrow for the last time be-i be-i fore beginning the actual writing of ;1 his message to congress, and therefore A ii is expected that the German situa-A situa-A tion will be dealt with very fully. He 3 is hopeful that no time will be lost a in organizing the house, so ihat he I, may deliver his address as soon as -S possible after the extra session con- J The attitude of both congress and I II public opinion is sought m order to M represent both as fully as possible. I a As to the former, the president is anx-fl anx-fl lous not to transgress the constitution's! constitution-'s! al prerogatives of congress as (he M war-making body. It is realized that in the ultimate analysis the responsi-q responsi-q bility for decision rests there. m Public ODinion. r3 Public opinion, it was here said, in-3 in-3 dicated by clippings by newspapers in if all parts of the country, unmistakably favors decisive action. Belligerency a is not confined to the Atlantic and Pa- "M cine sections, if opinions gathered by J ihe administration are a true Index. H Demand for action on the part of con- M gress and the president also comes 'Tj from the interior section between the 't! Alleghonies and the Sierras. Tlie W lews reported by some mid-western j congressmen as to tho sympathy of 9 their constituents is considered more M local than general. .91 The greatest point under considera- 1 tion by the administration is whether Germany has not unmistakably 6hown. through a long succession of viola- I tions of international law, that the Sl United States must definitely unite 'M with the liberal democracies of the world against the four most complete . HH autocracies, both for its present and -1j its future safety. All hope has been m lost, as shown In the noto to Germany 'W as to the treaty of 1828. in tho good r,a9 faith of tho present German rulers. 'JS The Be!an deportations, the ruthless I submarine warfare, the attempts to j embroil neutral countries in plots and ; the general conduct of tho war have L convinced officials that the German military system as at present directed is a great danger to the world's peace. German Plots Great Evil. German plots in this country, running run-ning back almost to the beginning of the war and finally culminating in the Zimmerman note to ally Japan and Mexico in wrar against this country, are regarded as evidences of the tvil of the general system. The admints (ration has much material not made public and it is understood, moreover, that the complete text of the Zimmerman Zimmer-man note has not been published. Fur ther disclosures of intrigues may be expected at any time Germany, through the coolness with which she treated the president's proposal pro-posal to name peace terms, is felt to be the greatest source of danger to world peace. Some officials here who felt her original offer was insin ere and. merely a play for domestic consumption, con-sumption, beliee her refusal to state terms is proof of that contention. Full cooperation with the allies, therefore, is generally favored as a necessity to America's future safety. Cernian victory now, it is said, might lead to a direct attack on this country coun-try later and would at least necessitate necessi-tate expensive armament. A deadlock would be tantamount to a German victory vic-tory on the basis that while, after peat I the German union would become be-come stronger, the entente might easily eas-ily fall apart and Germany would be left relatively world supreme |