The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-15

have leader whose broad humanity is l based on those national instincts which | guided the course of the United States from the beginning. There are no neu- trals in America now. We are all earn est supporters of the President. who by patience and fortitude has established his right to lead free people, 1 Chicago News: Every one who reads the note should bear in mind that the | cause represented by the authority in ] Washington is not alone the cause of Americans and of all neutrals. It is the cause of civilization. The ruinous doc Urine that international law is whatever l a belligerent power chooses to make 1t. | had to be challenged in unmistakable terms The note is admirable in spirit and substance. The people of the United States stand firmly behind the propo- | sitions thus laid down by their govern ment.
 A Red Blood Message
 Baltimore Sum There is all the red 1 blood in the message that red blooded nation can ask. It is the voice of a statesman speaking the mind of great I people most anxious not to break the peace, but determined not to tolerate | further
 | Baltimore American: It has evaded nothing; it has mitigated nothing and it shows no spirit of trucking Ger 1 many must now either concede the posi- tion of this country or stand outlawed before the world.
 Kansas City Starr President Wilson has said what was in the hearts of his coun trymen. He has said 1t with dignity with consideration, but with unmstaka bls | orderliness. His words embody the ideal ism of the American people and the ob ligation of maintaining the principles oi high humanity The President has noblS met the demands of this critical stua tion.
 Cleveland Plain Dealer: Three paths ar, open to the Kaiser. One will remove from Germany the stigma of outlawry and re store her to her former position of honoi among the nations. One will definitely confirm her voluntary withdrawal iron the brotherhood of civilization. The thirt one is a crooked path of bubble ant procrastination. There is ground for hop, that German will choose the best way.
 Must Now Decide
 Richmond News Leader: Germany mus now decide whether she will accept tn, American protest as ultimatum or al an opportunity of resembling an ndefen sible proclamation. If she is determined to continue her submarine warfare sh, must favor at least an immediate sev erance of diplomatic intercourse with thi country. If she is willing to abandon { policy of wholesale murder and cowardl, | assassination she can do so with no ab sence of prestige by a simple disavowa of the acts of her naval officers. Gu protest is equivocal and was meant t, i be so.
 Milwaukee Wisconsin: There is no mis taking the frmness of the note returned nor it's purpose, if possible. of avertin, an irreparable breach of friendly rela tions. Even hair-triggered Americans a well as all who would have been impa tient with any sign of weakness, mus recognize it's dignity and adequacy. Ii its stand adverse to the use of the sub marines against merchantmen. the gov ernment at Washington will command tn support of every neutral nation.
 Milwaukee Journal: The note assert rights guaranteed American citizens un der the laws of citizens extended als, to neutral vessels, and on merchant yes ses of belligerents. ' The Presi dents firmness and desire for friendshi are sure of final support from all Amer jeans.
 Germany's Next Move
 Milwaukee News: The note puts matter where 1t is Germany's next move. if an, move is to be made. The Presi dent has placed this nation where it moral attitude will need no explaining no matter what necessities 1t ultimately be called to justify.
 San Francisco Chronicle: Unmistaka bI, firm. the note is yet friendly in tone ant though this latter qualification may b. displeasing to the jingoes, it comments it self to the common sense of people un affected with inf1ammabl hatreds
 Sacramento Bee: The American peo pie today have rich reason to be proud O their President Woodrow Wilson ha, met grave crisis splenddly, facing i with frmness without fireworks Los Angeles Times: It Is apparent tha the feeling and attitude of the Presiden and his advisors is conciliatory. That i the state of mind of the country. Bu America will insist to the last page tha there be no more murderous attacks or merchantmen carrying noncombatants women and children.
 Seattle Times It is a temperate ans meanngful note. Ninety per cent of th American people will stand behind tn, President.
 Seattle Post-Intellgencer: It is no jing, utterance; mo mere scrap of paper" bu cool, calm ation-ultimatum, ulti | matum if you please to call it of thi l American nation, and declaration if vol like i'll support. There will be no haltinf or division
 indianapolis German Telegraph Tribune We believe it impossible for the German government to comply with the Presi dents extravagant demand, whicl amounts to German disarmament on higl seas.
 Houston (Texas) Chronicles: It Is moi Germany's right or Englands right oi any other warning nations right tha constitutes the crux of this situation, bu the right of the United States of America me President practically asserts tha American citizens have the right to navi. gate the high seas and that they have the right to sail on belligerent merchan, vessels. He is right
 Minneapolis Journal: The strength oi fresident Wilson's note lies beneath ths surface Outwardly it is almost too calm put upon examination it is seen that ths formal civility of expression is in real ny mask for grave and final proposi ton to the imperial German government And then comes the last strong paragraph Could the President have said more? Tho 1 American people will stand by these words.
 Evening Post President Wilson ha, splendidly met the just desires of tn. American people His note to the Ger. man government is both in form ant substance all that the crisis demanded It is studious courteous and polite se the determination behind it Is not con. cealed. We go no further at present thar expressing the belief that the case is not entirely hopeless and that the re- sources of diplomacy are not exhausted Washington Star: The President note meets and thoroughly satisfied tho national expectation both in it's substance tion that the United States will mo omit any word or any act necessary te the performance of it's sacred duty c, maintaining the rights of the Tinted