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Show : PRESS COMMENT ! I ON WILSON REPLY: I Papers of Country Unamious-ly Unamious-ly Approve Forcible Answer Sent to German Gov-! Gov-! ernment. Chicago Tribune "The president's response to the German proposals rls-! rls-! es inevitably from tho logic of those noteworthy communications and ad-! ad-! dresses which have marked our con-I con-I troversy with the imperial German government. It expresses with force and unequivocally the conviction and purpose of the American people in this J war, and will receive their unhesitat- II ing undivided and enthusiastic ap-W ap-W proval." 1 St. Louis Globe-Democrat "The W president has not misinterpreted the spirit of tho nation in his reply. He, could not have said less and remain j In accord with the American people; it was unnecessary to have said more." Baltimore Sun "The president's answer leaves the door open to the German people, if they will kick out tho kaiser, cease their atrocities and i then accept such terms as the allied 1 '! governments will grant It invites I peace, but only on those conditions." j Sioux City (la.) Journal "The re ply of the president will meet the unl-I unl-I versal approval of the people, because Jt is the statement of -what the people ' insist shall be the terms upon which J the war is terminated. They have de manded that German atrocities shall not go unchallenged and that her barbarism bar-barism shall not be condoned. They have demanded that the fruits of victory vic-tory shall not be surrendered until the I purposes for which the sacrifices which made that victory possible shall have been achieved. The government and the people are in accord." Lincoln (Neb.) State Journal "For two days America resembled nothing go much as a football crowd yelling to the players: 'Look out for a fake.' A few icy paragraphs coming from the Wnlie .tiOU5e uy v.il ui. una aiaiu uu- I partmeut stills the tumult. There is f no danger that president will be j fooled by a fake." I Cleveland Plain Dealer "There can I be no peace. There can be no armis- I tlce. There can be nothing but war, I so long as the" Hohenzollern sits on I the throne." 3 Rutland (Vt.) Herald "President I Wilson's reply means in effect, evac- uato, abdicate and then negotiate. 1 The next move must come from the rc German people themselves." D Hartford (Conn.) Courant "The 1 n public would have welcomed a brief, I EE direct, unconditional surrender. That 9 is the sentiment of the civilized world I today. There is a growing impatience R of letter writing." K 'Springfield (Mass.) Union "The I president's reply to the German gov- I ernment lacks two words that have II an important place in American hls- 1, tory. The absence of these words Bf means, in all probability, further cor- U respondence, which will be ended only I when the president bluntly and curtly says: 'Our terms are unconditional I ' surrender.' " 1 1 Louisville Herald "We coilld wish 1 1 the president had used fewer words. "Wo had hoped that such words a si ho did uso would leavo no doubt In tho mind of tho man in the street, If, actually, there is an unequivocal unequiv-ocal demand 'for the destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere' and that those words men, are intended intend-ed to mean the downfall of militarism, wo could almost shout amen. "But wo are not qulto suro." Louisville Courier-Journal "Again tho president has spoken with the voice of Amorlca and for the civilized nations of the earth . "Tho answer of the president is an ultimatum to a defeated power. Us terms are so clear that only two courses lie open to tho Germans submission, sub-mission, which means .present surrender, surren-der, or resistance, which means ultimate ulti-mate destruction." Sioux City (la.) Tribune "There is no peace. Tho German army is Btill unwhipped. The German people still are unrepentant The Germun government gov-ernment still is unrcformed. There can be no peace without atonement and guarantees. The German military system and machine must be destroyed." destroy-ed." Memphis (Tcnn.) Commercial Appeal Ap-peal "The German empire K was born and it must die in tho nfctimo of William the Second. President Wilson Wil-son has pronounced its death sentence." sen-tence." St. Joseph (Mo.) - Gazette "President "Presi-dent Wilson has said tho last word to Germany. The American nation spoke out before the president could formulate his reply. East, west, north and south, tho verdict was tho same that Germany must be shown no soft hand: must be given no gcntlo words." Baltimore American "If tho Gorman Gor-man people show the degree of sanity that their plight dictates they will comply with the president's demands," New York Tribune "Why in our growing correspondence with Germany' Ger-many' Is the word surrender taboo? Why Is that we cannot talk as wo fight. We are negotiating with Germany toward an armistice toward peace. Does the American government know the heart of the American people, peo-ple, and how it sings as each further expectation is so vaguely disappointed?" disappoint-ed?" New York Herald. (German) "The principal point in Mr. Wilson's note is that part in which lie insists on a change of government in Germany. If the German military party thinks to win by camouflage, they are hopelessly mistaken." Portland (Me.) Press "The president's presi-dent's note measures up to the demands de-mands and expectations of the American Ameri-can people and will meet with their endorsement and approval. It ends discussion." dis-cussion." Washington Post "Humanity cannot can-not fail to applaud the decision taken by President Wilson in behalf of the United States and the allies and conveyed con-veyed to the German government in a manner that gains terrible significance and finality by the restraint of the language employed. The note Is nothing noth-ing less than a sentence of death upon the Hohenzollern military system, pro-'nounced pro-'nounced by the spokesman of tho civilized civ-ilized world, now in arms and actually executing the sentence." New York Herald "The reply sent yesterday is the. best possible proof that the Interlude consisting of the president's questioning of the German imperial chancellor and that functionary's function-ary's reply was as unnecessary as it was futile. If in any respect tho president's reply seems inadequate to the American people it will be in the absence from it of any mention of re-paratloruand re-paratloruand punishment." Idaho Statesman (Boise) "The pepple of the United States, in full accord, ac-cord, wanted an unconditional surrender surren-der and in reply the president has placed tho question so as to get that and more yesterday the kaiser could have surrendered, today his voice is mute." Des Moines (la.) Register "The president, having planted the thought of surrender in tho hearts of the sore- people, without using harsh words, brings them solemnly to consider what they must know is inevitable. The cessation ces-sation of hostilities, when it comes, must be with guarantees, and peace, when it is concluded, must bo with a regenerated and freed Germany." Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier Cour-ier "The president has done moro than safeguard the sause against the German armistice trap. He has thrown a flaming torch into the enemy's camp In the form of a reminder to the Ger-iman Ger-iman people that in order to get peace ! they must establish a real democracy." j I New York World "The president at I one stroke has swept away the whole Gorman structure of a paper peace without guarantees. He has also swept away the foolish fears incited by unscrupulous politicians who have been trying to conjure up a superman trick in the German offer of surrender and have boon shivering lest civilization civiliza-tion be cheated of the fruits of victory by superior German intelligence." Providence (II. I.) Journal "The American people will heartily approve tho declaration of hte president." Boston Globe "President Wilson trained his guns upon the very heart and center of German autocracy." St Louis Republican "The big man 1 in the White House has correctly gauged public opinion. Tho American ; public wants peace as the world wants nnnnn huf wr nrlll flrrkf ill n 111 Ut-,111. UULII 1JC1I freezes over to rip the claws and the teeth from the beast that has ravaged Europe for four years. President Wilson Wil-son has spoken for the American people peo-ple and the civilized world " Westliche Post (St Louis) "Every word of the president's reply will-bo approved by every true American patriot. pat-riot. The supremacy of the allied armies arm-ies must be maintained and German autocracy must Xall. Wide open ie, the door to peace but only to a peade by which autocracy will be substituted by democracy." Dallas (Texas) News "If, after the exchange of notes " 0 there was still left some doubts as to the determination determina-tion of our president to make a complete com-plete job of It that doubt Is dispelled y by his last answer. That document makes it clear beyond cavil that we will have no dealings with the kaiser or his military party." on |
