Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-04
ENTRANCE OF AMERICA
IS MONENTOUS EVENT
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tRy Associated Press.1
LONDON. April 3.-That tho British
press regards :he 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 st;tosmanship.
The Daily Chronicle. giving it's edi-
toriai on this subject the unusual
honor OF lcaded type and double col
umn breadth With tho caption. Amer
lea at War; Wilson's Magnificent APP
peal" says:
1T is impossible to read Presiden
Wilson'S speech without being struck
BY its statesmanlike breadth and ele-
T"sion OF tone. His long patience and
caution. his determination to advance
no faster than the mass OF opinion in
his country. only render more impress
sivc his final crossing of the Rubicon.
Tho moral effect of such speech, made
With nation of 90.000,0OO behind 1t.
must be great throughout the world.
III is strange. impressive phe-
nomenon--this tardy. but weighty. in
tcrvention OF tho United States In the
death struggle of Europe. Here is a
nation composed OF settlers whose
migration from the days of the May
flower onward has been largely In the
nature of flight from tyranny. For
the first time on any considerable scale
they now stretch out the:, hand.
The new movement has the same
motive as the old. II Is not inspired
by national ambitions. and has no
aggressive quality. 1t is fight for
freedom and for moral principles, and
we, the hard-pressed nations 10 whom
this help, with all it's vast potential
tiles, is offered. cannot but feel first
ana foremost the moral uplifting and
precious moral Endorsement which
comes from the advent on our side Of
forces inspired by such an ideal"
IT'S sPECIFIC PURPOSE
TO DESTROY POTsDAM
The Express says:
America is entering the war for the
one specific purpose of destroying
Potsdam, II the Presidents speech
means anything. it means that Amer
lea will never treat with the Kaiser
and will resolutely oppose any peace
that leaves the Hohenzollerns OH the
German throne"
The Daily Mail. In an editorial under
the caption Of "No Peace With the
IIohcnZollerns," says:
president Wilson's speech will stand
beside Iincoln's' greatest speeches FOR
It's gravity and pathos. 1t is, in effect.
an appeal to the American people to
take UP the task for which Lincoln
laid down his life, Tor the Issue is to-
day as 1t was in lS6i--fre edom-thouEh
1t would be sovereign injustice to
compare the South. whose soldiers
fought like gentlemen. to the Kaiscr's
murderouS myrmidons. The Pres
idents speech is Il plain warning that
pirates shall hereafter hang In the
executive dock under condemnation Of
the whole world"
The Mail argues that the destruction
of I'russian militarism requires that the
German people themselves must be set
free, adding. though to tell the truth,
they show no desire or aptitude for
freedom. and. therefore, the despo,s
who inoculated the German people with
the passion for slaughter and cruelty
must be removed"
Under "Brothcrs in Arms. the
Pail Mall Gazette says to-day of
President Wilson's speech:
THE President frames the issue in
a setting calculated TO stir the deepest
emotions OF the American people. The
revolution enables him to COM
mend it to them as conflict between
the virtues OF democracy and the
crimes of autocracy.
America enters the war without
reservations. Her action will be well
coined both for the substantial aid
which she Will bring and for the COM
of spirit which she will fur
ther among tho free nations OF the
world. 1t is great satisfaction to be
Joined thus with the nation carrying
so much OF our blood In crusade
worthy OF its best traditions and ours"
The Globe says: German statesmen
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