The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-14
unanimous in approval Of President
Wilson's note to Germany.

unanimous In approval OF PRESIDENT
Wilson's note to Germany.
The Tribune said: This document
we may well believe will be of great
importance, not only In our history,
but in that Of international law. What
ever the fate Of our relations, the
president has undoubtedly voiced the
sentiment Of the nation. And without
question he may rely upon the full
moral and material support OF the
American people"
sibflity of mistaking the position of
our government. And it is a position
in which the American people will
sustain their government in whatever
measures may be necessary to uphold
1t. The United States has spoken.
The choice Of peace or war is Ger
many's"
An English Comment.
LONDON. May 1.-THE text OF the
American note to Germany reached
London too late for publication in
the morning papers. They published,
however. brief summary of what the
note was authoritatively stated to con-
tain, with guarded comments.
"If the summary can be taken as 1t
stands said the Daily Chronicle, ut
will show President Wilson to be adj
herring firmly to the spirit Of his orig
inal declarations about accountable
ity.' He joins issue on the whole OF
the barbarous submarine policy or
which the Lusitania case Is only the
worst among SO many examples"
Newspaper Comment.
NEW YORK, May 14.-New York
without exception had
only praise for President Wilson's
note to Germany. the World said:
President Wilson's note to Ger
many cannot fail to satisfy the high
est expectations Of the American peo-
pie. There can be no mistake what
ever as to the intentions and pur-
poses Of the American government
The Sun: "The president has spok-
en- firmly. The country. supporting
him as firmly, awaits without passion
the German reply"
The Times: To President VIII
sons communication, addressed
through the secretary of state to the
German government every American
citizen would be willing to aff1x his
signature in approval Of It's Arm, but
temperate tone and the indisputable
Justice of its representations and de-
mands."
Herman Ridder, in Stats Zeitung:
There has never been but one flag
under which the Germa has
fought There never can be but one
flag under which we will ever fight.
And that flag Is the stars and stripes.
American: The presidents letter
is undeniably vigorous, but is pos
sibly dangerous as we'll. The nation
desired that its rightful demands
should be laid before the German
but 1t did not anticipate
that the president would go SO far
beyond the plainly and soundly right
full scope Of those demands as to In
vite a rebuff. In his fundam entail de-
mands the president is wholly right,
and expresses the sentiment and the
desire OF the whole people"
Tribune: What he had to do. Mr..
Wilson has done with utmost simple
ity, clarity, completeness. Speaking
for a whole nation, he has set forth
the American case against the German
government in language that cannot
be mistaken. He has done more than
this-he has drawn an indictment
against the German nation which VIII
lie for all ages to come, IL the kats-
er's government fails now to meet the
demands Of the president Of the Unit
ed States promptly and completely"
Herald: words could not be plain
er. IN the body OF his message to
Germany, laying the ground for his
demands, President Wilson infiicts
upon the German government casi-
CATION OF a whip Of scorpions. And
yet he gives Germany the benefit OF a
doubt. It can call it all mistake"
raft Refuses Comment.
wHKESBARRE, Pa. May IL
Former President VIM. H. Taft. when
shown President Wilson's note to Ger.
many this morning, refused to COM
ment on 1t.
"It will require time to study it be-
fore a judgment can be formed.
must refuse to say more now than 1
did in Philadelphia. The whole sit
uation has resolved itself into a pol
icy of watch your STEP We must
be careful"