The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-04

Washington, April "A proud and elated Cabinet surrounded the Presi- dent yesterday and discussed plans fo. waging a successful war against Ger. many.
 The Cabinet had reason to he proud >:-.S, elated. All through the day it's members ant .As rcs:dent had been receiving messages. some oral, others by telegraph, that showed the patri. otic depths to which the country had been stirred by the war address de- hvered to Congress by MT. Wilson. It was evident that united country administration.
 In the satisfaction that came from this knowledge the President and his official advisers gave consideration ts measures for bringing an end to the Prussian autocracy, feeling that the nation would stand behind them in formulating a program of aggressive hostile action. They realized that the war was not to be mere struggle for reprisal against Germany for sinking American merchant ships and causing the loss of American lives. The situa- tion. in President Wilson's view, had gone beyond the sinking of ships. That issue. in his opinion, has been rele gated to the background. His position is that the trouble between Germany and the United States has already de. veloped into the issue of democracy against autocracy.
 The President, 1t is understood feels that if he had let the nation go to war at the time the Lusitania was sunk a great error would have been made The country, he holds, was not then ready for war, psychologically and, oi course, not in a military sense. Cross currents were at work Diverse feel- ings growing out of the fact that America is 8 great melting pot of hu- manity would have interfered with unite nopinion and action It was said that the President believed that while the country might have entered the war with enthusiasm on account o1 the indignant horror aroused by the act of Germany, in sending the big Cunard liner to the bottom with the loss of more than hundred American lives, there was likely to have been a reaction that would not have been well for the conduct of the conflict But by Wo1eiuS tHe COuFCIy came to reai1Ze the fnhumanity of German methods and to understand that the United States had a great mission to perform in battling against a merciless autpc. racy that sought to substitute it's of. fensive system for the rule of the peo- pie that fas the foundation of the American government.
 1t was it the belief that this senti- ment had come to prevail in the United States that the President went before Congress last night and called on the National Legislature to make war on Germany. That he made no error o1 Judgment was shown by the reception ne received at the Capitol and the en- thusiastic response that has come to. day 6rom the press and the people.
 To Purchase Bonds
 The President and his Cabinet are greatly interested in the scope and character of measures that they be. neve should be taken to carry out the Presidents recommendation in his address to Congress of an extension to the Entente governments "of the most liberal financial credits in order that our resources may so far as DOS sible be added to theirs.'' It has al. ready been determined. and the French government is understood to acquiecce, that there shall be no out