The Washington times., 1916-01-28
See HINT At KAISER
IN WILSON'S SPEECH
New York Defense Plea Believed
to Have Direct Bearing on
Lusitania Case.
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that Germany desires to reach settle
ment but from hints dropped today IN
official circles, the patience OF the Ao-
ministration is beginning to wane.
Secretary Lansing expects to nave
longstaIk with the President come time
today before the latter leaves for his
speaking tour In the middle West on
behalf of the national defense. Al TINS
conference the whole LusitRnia contro-
Versy will be carefully gone over. II the
next communication from Berlin is not
more satisfactork than its predecessors
there Is believed to be a strong possi-
bility that the negotiations Will be
broken Off
poets to carry his warning to prepare
into other parts of the country. and It's
repitition, officials say, Will take on
added significance both in it's notice
70 the American people that the tnterna-
tional relations of the United states
NAV suffer a rupture at any time, and
in Its indirect notice TO GERMANY that
the United States is not too proud TO
fight" but ready to defend itser
against every contingency that may ar
feet or impair" it's intresests.
President Wilson returned to Wash
ington today eager and ready Tor ms
swing through the Middle West.
Unexhausted by strenuous day
spent in New York yesterday, where
. he addressed three gatherings, the
President worked rapidly today clear
ing up official business preparatory
to leaving tonight for Pittsburgh.
Within the coming week he VIII speak
at Pittsburgh. Cleveland, Milwaukee,
Chicago, Des Moines, Topeka, Kansas
City, and st. Louis, not to mention
brief stops all along the road for
rear platform addresses.
Mrs. Wilson. who accompanied the
President to New York. Will be with MN
on the Middle Western trip. Happy
over the rousing greetings which met
her husbands straiRht-from-the-sh -shoul-
der talk in New York. she is looking
forw ard to the coming triu eagerly.
From the time the President reached
Now York until he left ne was in fight
ing trim. In taking up the cudgels for
national defense he did not hesitate to
admit that a year ago. in opposing any
large increases in the military forces. he
was wrong. Since then, he declared, he
had seen the light.
Sounded Grave Warnings.
Grave were the warnings he gave OF
the dangerous position in which the
United States is placed. surrounded on
all sides by war. Where the prospect
of attack may spring forth he did not
profess to say. Hidden dangers there
are on all sides. he declared; America
must be prepared to meet them.
The audiences which heard the Presi-
that the Presidents phrase of a year
ago, too proud to fight" was not in
tended to represent hts ideal of the
American attitude. This country, he
declared, is ready to fight at any time
that the integrity of her principles 1s
threatened. The American people, ne
made it plain for the world to hear. are
not towards.
Will Not Avoid Contest.
"They are ready" he asserted amid
outbursts of widest enthusiasm. Ito
fight for tile indication of their char
acters and Of their honor. They will
at no time seek contest. but th9y
will at no time Cravenly avoid It, Be
cause, IL there is one thing that tho
country ought to fight for and that
every nation ought to fight for it is
the integrity OF its own convictions
We cannot surrender our convictions.
I would rather surrender territory thGn
surrender those ideals which are the
stan of life for the soul ITSELF
Time and again throughout his ad-
dresses. the President hammered home
the need of a reserve army of 400 900
men, How these men are to be raised,
he declared. he did not care, but what
he said convinced the audiences that he
believes they are needed. and needed
badly. In official circles here It was de-
showed that the President had every
intention throughout his trip OF get
ting down to brass tacks."