The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-04

London April 3.--That the British press regards the entry of America as one of the most momentous events of the war is shown in the importance attached to President Wilson's address and the high tributes paid to the Presidents states manship.
 The Daily Chronicle, giving it's editorial on this subject the unusual honor of leaded type and double column breadth, with the caption, America at War; Wilson's Magnificent Appeal" says:
 Tt is impossible to read President Will sons speech without being struck by it's statesman-like breadth and elevation of tone. His long patience and caution, his determination to advance no faster than the mass of opinion in his country, only render more impressive his final crossing of the Rubicon. The moral effect of such speech, made with nation of 9o,00o,00O behind it, must be great throughout the world
 Tt is a strange, impressive phenomenon this tardy, but weighty, intervention of the United States in the death struggle of Europe. Here is a nation composed of settlers, whose migration from the days
  largely in the nature o. flight from tyr amy. For the first time on any consd- erable scale they now stretch out their hand.
 "The new movement has the same mo- tive as the old. It is not inspired by na- tional ambitions and has no aggressive quality. It is fight for freedom and for moral principles, and we, the hard pressed nations to whom this help, with all it's vast potentialities, is offered ~can- not bue feel first and foremost the moral uplifting and precious moral indorsement which comes from the advent on our side of forces inspired by such an ideal"
 The Express says:
 'The Presidents speech will always be regarded as one of the great historic doc- uments of the great war. The lofty dig nifty of his language adds to the impress siveness of the enuncation of interna- tional idealism
 American is entering the war for the one specific purpose of destroying Pots- dam. If the Presidents speech means anything, it means that American will never treat with the Kaiser and will res olutely oppose any peace that leaves the Hohenzollerns on the German throne.
 The Daily Mail in an editorial under the caption of No Peace With the Hohen- zollerns,'' says:
 President Wilson's speech will stand beside Lincolns greatest speeches for it's gravity and pathos It is in effect an appeal to the American people to take up the task for which Lincoln laid down his life, for the issue is today as it was in 1861 and 1864, freedom, though it would be a sovereign injustice to compare the south, whose soldiers fought like gentle men, with the Kaiser's murderous Myr- midons.
 President Wilson's speech is plain warning that Prussia shall here after hang in the execution dock under condemna ton of the whole world.
 The Mail argues that the destruction of Prussian militarism requires that the German people themselves must be set free adding, though, to tell the truth, they show no desire or aptitude for free dom, and therefore the despots who in- culcated the German people with the pas- sion for slaughter and cruelty must be re- moved"
 The Mail credits the American people with complete disinterestedness in the course they are about to adopt and halls as one of the most glorious events of history the coming of America Into line with other free peoples London, April 3.-The text of President Wilson's address to Congress with long accounts of the scenes attendant upon it's delivery. were published in the noon editions of the evening papers under big headlines such as Americas Weight Into the scale. An Indictment of Ho- henzollernism," "The United States at War Money and Munitions for the Allies"
 1 All the comment is in the most flatter- | ing terms and the Westminster Gazette says:
 "The stirring words with which the | Presidents address closes should remove all hope on the enemy's part and all | fear on the part of the allies that Amer
 ica having made her choice, will pursue | it half heartedly. It is no limited lia- biity warfare she offers. She sees from the beginning that in this war all must Igo in. all risks be run, all liabilities ac- cepted. She comes as great ally With | immense reserves of man power to be
 used as she tells us, without stint to sup
 plement and fortify the heavily drained resources of the other nations who are 1 fighting in their cause.
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