The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
Editorial Comment
 On Wilson's Addres:
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 overdue. The American people will SUD- port the Presidents action with every resource at their command.
 Tacoma Ledger: Americans will pro- foundly hope that the differences may be composed without the arbitrament of deadly shot and shell
 Los Angeles Times; Can we submit to have American citizens aSsa ssinated and undertake no measure in their de- fense? No. We do not want war. We deprecate it, and will do all that honor- able men can do to avoid it. The voice of faction will be hushed to silence and 100 OO000,0O0 of the bravest and truest people on earth will stand behind their Presi- dent.
 NO OTHER COURSE OPEN Portland (Ore) Oregonian: No other course was open to the President con- sistent with his duty to maintain the rights and honors of the American na- ton.
 Milwaukee Sentinel: President Wilson virtually demands the absolute discon- tnuance of the use of submarine Y It is most unlikely that Germany will accede to that. She will deny the right of the United States to maHe it.. It may be doubted extremely if Congress will see the Presidents right to make it. El Paso (Tex.) Herald: Only by delib- crate propaganda can the majority of Americans be brought to sanction war with Germany under present conditions Phoenix (Ariz) Gazette: As the protec~ tor of human liberty he Presdent Will som could have done no less. Pueblo (Colo) Chieftain: President Wilson's message to Germany may well be called the climax of blundering diplo- macy. Without serious military prepara- fOp the Tinted Statas ic Io1 ;r,to war with the greatest military nation op earth
 Staats Zeitung (Chicago): We are not aware that MT. Wilson ever received a mandate to represent humanity; and if he did, he ought to return his retainer, for he never represented humanity, but the interests of the ammunition manu- lecturers in opposition to the real inter- ests of humanity. Why not rather send threat to the nation whose inhuman stoppage of food products for the civil population of Germany caused the sub marine war?
 Kansas City (Mo.) Star: President Will son has waited with infinite patience Tn the hope that the intolerable conditions would pass. The German submarine cam paign in the destruction of the Sussex was as ruthless as it was in the sinking of the Lusitania a year ago. The Presi- dent can count on the backing of uni ted America. whatever the outcome
 PATIENCE A WEAKNESS
 Omaha Bee: Many of our people are convinced that severance of diplomatic relations would have been Justified long ago. Further patience would appear to be a weakness rather than a virtue.
 Philadelphia Public Ledger: The Presi- dent has been patient, more than patient, in the face of unprecedented provoca- : tions, of intolerable injuries. The posi- ton he has finally taken will have the united and whole-hearted approval of the nation. The account with Germany has been running many months. the items reach staggering total. It is now closed Nothing is left but settlement in full.
 New York Tribune: If there is defi- nite result at last-whether diplomatic re- lations are broken or our intercourse is continued on the basis of disapproval of the policy of murder on the high sea we shall owe nothing to the long orgy of words which has passed in Washing tor for the last 14 months as modern American diplomacy. Our issue with Germany can be settled now only by a display of determination backed by force.