New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04
Country United in Stand
with the President, Be-
lief Expressed
NOW AWAKE,
ASSERTS 1.-THE SUN"
Government Has at Last
Spoken the Voice of
the Nation

The editorial comment Of New York
newspapers on the situation follows:
The World-President Wilson has
been patient indeed, but it is patience
that he has shared with majority OF
the American people, and il is not TO
be regretted. The Presidents desire
70 keep the country out of war, II hon
orable means could be found, has been
their desire, and il is nothing that re-
uuires apology or extenuation. Il ne
has failed. it is a noble and enlightened
failure which does honor TO the Presi-
dent and to the nation. We are not
alone in that misfortune. Other ma
tons endeavored to keep the peace
with Germany and failed, and at worst
our failure merely testihes to a ma
tional idealism that was willing to sub
nit even to wrong and insult IN order
to keen the res Of peace burning some
where upon the affairs of civilization.
II ali our efforts have come 70
naueht. and we, too, must be plunged
into the crater Of calamity. let US at
least thank God that we shall enter
the war on the right side; that We snall
be fighting the fight Of democracy; tnas
we shall be battling for the principles
of human liberty that are the mesh ana
hone and soul Of the Republic; that we
shall be UNFOLDING the faith OF the
fathers who gave to mankind a new
birth of freedom.
The Sun-The blood Of the citizen
who is first of all things an American
pulses more firmly and proudly this
morning. His government has at last
spoken the voice of the nation. he can
now hold his head upright and thank
God and the President for the old
fashioned American perpendiculsrlty
OF il.
Let the memory Of long continued
paltering with a plain duty be buried
as deep as are our dead beneath the
seas; and let US join in thanksgiving
this Sunday morning that whatever the
consequences of Germsny's mad enter
prise may be, whatever the future may
have in store for US as the custodians
and champions Of neutral rights on the
ocean highways, America is now awake
and erect.
The Times-If Germany contem-
plates surrender the hour has struck
for her declaration to that effect. She
has put down her last stake. already 1t
is lost. She did not expect England
TO enter the war. At it's beginning she
felt that our sympathies were with
her She sought to win them by her
propaganda. IL we may accept at their
face value the words OF her recent OF
fetal communications, she believed
that the government OF the United
States would understand and accept
her reasons for a resumption OF sub
marine warfare IN violation OF Law.
The response to the Presidents sd-
dress has been immediate. II has beea
made with one voice. He has the sup
port Of united people. he will have
it in whatever measures ne may nnd IL
necessary TO take.
The Herald-The confidence OF the
American people in their President has
not been misplaced. Mr.. Wilson has
made his decision, and it is for the
right. In severing diplomatic relations
between the United States and Ger
many he has done the thing which
Washington would have done, which
Lincoln would have done and what any
other American President would have
done. He has upheld the rights, the
dignity and the honor of the American
people.