Bisbee Daily Review/1917/04/03/Press Comment
PRESS COMMENT
Baltimore Sun
We hope that congress will no delay a day in passing the resolution.
New York Sun
There may be minor divisions of opinion in congress, as in the country but any major or obstructive decision after the adoption of the Flood resolution will be a division not as between Democrat and Republican, but as between American and traitor.
New York Herald
Congress will lose no time in placing the stamps of its approval on the President's recommendation.
New York American
We must win this war and ear an honorable peace, and wars are only won and honorable peace is only earned by intelligent service: by enormous preparations: by the united sacrifice of the whole nation, and by freely pouring our treasure and blood.
New York Journal of Commerce
America will fulfill its obligation and assume its full share in preserving the world's political freedom.
Springfield Republican
Never was a war message couched in terms revealing a more earnest and sincere love of peace.
N. Y. Staats Zeitung
The New York Staats Zeitung prints an editorial dispatch from Washington signed by Bernard Ridder, its editor, in which he says:
"The President need have no concern as to the loyalty of Americans of German ancestry. That question has been answered definitely and finally. I trust, however, that in the days of trial and bitterness to come it will be understood in a spirit of sympathetic appreciation."
New York World
President Wilson has driven straight to the heart of the issue, and congress must respond.
New York Tribune
No praise can be too high for the words and the purposes of the President.
There can be no criticism of the President's course except from two sources—those who thing he should have assumed the non-conformity of Prussianism with the principles of human liberty earlier, and taken steps to combat it, and the ones who would be slaves to a military tyranny than fight to be free. The nation will follow the lead of its chief executive in the pathway he has blazed toward justice for all mankind with care and a whole-heartedness that will make all the world wonder. The answer to his call for support will seal the doom of autocracy and make democracy everywhere supreme.
Albpquerque Journal
The President could not do less and maintain the honor of the United States. Every member of congress who fails to stand by him with be branded a "copper-head."
Phoenix (Ariz.) Republican
Whatever hope there may have been that the President would find some way to avoid actual war with Germany is abandoned without disappointment for the hope was only a wish which we knew could not be granted. The President's voice today was the voice of the nation, and the nation now will be more closely knit together than it has ever been since cthe close of the American revolution.
Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftan
There can be no doubt what reply congress will make to the President's appeal. Theer is no doubt as to the duty of every patriotic American in congress to give to the President the united support of the representatives of the people and of the states. Neither should there be any shortage of unanimous loyalty in the response of the people.
WASHINGTON, April 2.—Industrial and labor leaders here today organized the committee on labor of the national defense council advisory committee. President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, chairman of the committee, Secretary Wilson and Howard Coffin, members of the advisory committee, were among the speakers.