Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-03

way. There has been no discrimina tion. The challenge is to all mankind Each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it. The choice we make for ourselves must be made with moderation of counsel and a temper edness of judgment befitting our char acter and our motives as nation. We must put excited feeling away. Ouf motive will not be revenge or the vic torious assertion of the physical might of the nation. but only the yindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion.
 Peace impracticable
 When I addressed the congress on the 18th of February last. I thought it would suffice to assert our neutral rights with arms, our right to use the seas against unlawful interference, our right to keep our people safe against unlawful violence. But armed neutrality. it now appears, is imprac' ticable. Because submarines are in effect outlaws when used as the Ger. man submarines have been used against their attacks as the law of nations has assumed that merchant men would defend themselves against privateers or cruisers, visible craft giving chase upon the open sea. IL is a common prudence in such circum- stances, grim necessity indeed, to en- deavor to destroy them before they have shown their own intention. They must be dealt with upon sight, if dealt with at all.
 German Defiance
 "The German government denies the right of neutrals to use arms at all within the areas of the seas which 1t has prescribed, even in the defense of rights which no modern publicist denies their right to defense. The in timation is conveyed that te armed guards which we have placed on our merchant ships will be treated as be yond te pale of law and subject to be dealt with as pirates would be. Armed neutrality is intellectual enough at the best; in such circumstances and in the face of such pretensions it is worse than ineffectual; it is likely once to produce W haiti was meant to prevent it is liable to draw us into the wal without either the rights of the effect 'iveness of belligerents.
 "We Cannot Submit"
 There is one choice we cannot
 make, we are incapable of mak-
 ing; we will not choose the path
 of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our nation and
 our people to be ignored or vio- 1 lated. The wrongs against which we now array ourselves are not common wrongs; they cut to the very roots of human life.
 ASKS FOR WAR
 ] "With a profound sense of the
 solemn and even tragicaI char l acter of the step l am taking and
 of the grave responsibilities which i it involves, but in unhesitating
 obedience to what l deem my con
 stitutionaI duty, | advise that the
 congress declare the recent course
 of the imperial German govern
 ment to be in fact nothing less
 than war against the government
 and people of the United States; that it formally arcept the status
 of beliigerent which has thus
 been thrust upon it, and that it
 it take immediate steps not only
 to put the country in more thor
 oueh state of denfense, but also to exert all it's power and employ
 all its resourcs to bring the gov
 ernment of the German empire to
 terms and end the war.
 Ally With Entente.
 What this will involve is clear. will involve the utmost practicable cC operatiOn in counsel and action wit the governments now at war with Gel maUy, and. as incident to that, the Q, tension to those governments of tn most liberal financial credits, in ol der that our resources may, so far a possible, be added to theirs. It vii luNOlNt lut Dl SdhlLdNiOu dHu IuOUillLe tion Of all the material resources 0 the country to supply the material of war and serve the incidental need ,Of the nation in the most abundant and yet the most economical and effit tent way possible.
 WANT 5oo,ooo MEN NOW
 1t will involve the immediate full equipment of the navy in all
 respects, but particularly in sup
 plying it with the bost means of
 dealing with the enemy's submar-
 ines. It will involve the imme-
 diate addition to the armed forces
 of the United States already pro- vidsd for by law in case of war.