Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-18
PRESIDENTS REPLY
WIDELY APPROVED
BY NATIONS PRESS

/ ing of the German imperial chancellor.
/ and that funct.onary reply, was unnec-
! essary as it was futile. II III
| any respect the presidents reply seems
| inadequate TO the American people, II
| will be III the absence from II or any
mention of reparation and punishment.
New York Tribune: Why, III our
| growing correspondence with Germany,
| IS the word surrender taboo? Why IS
| il tnat We cannot talk as We .nSht!
! We are negotiating with Ger,
many toward an armiStce-toWard
! peace. Does the American government
| know the heart of the American people,
and how it sinks as each further sA-
! pectatiOn is 50 vaguely Disappointed!
! Louisville COur er-J Ournal: Again the
! president spoke with the voice OF
/ America and for the civilized nations
OF the earth. . . g.. The answer OF the
( president is an ultimatum to a defeated
/ power Its terms are so clear that only
/ two courses lie open to the Germans
submission. which means present sur
| render, or resistance, which means I'LL
| innate destruction.
| Cleveland Plain-DeaIer: There can be
| no peace There can be no armlstlce.
| There can be nothing but war, so long
| as the Hohenzollerns sit on the throne,
| Once more the issue OF war ana peace
! is put squarely up to the German peo-
| pie. They must make their choice be-
| tween Wilhelm and peace.
| Chicago Tribune: The president S re-
| Spouse to the German proposals rlscs
| inevitably from the logic Of those cote
worthy communications and actresses
which have marked our controversy
| with the imperial German government.
| 1t expresses with force and unequlVo-
! cally the connection and purpose OF the
| American people in this war and VII
receive their unhesitatlng, UNDIVIDED
| and enthusiastic approval.
New York Herold (German): The
principal point in Mr.. Wilson s note IS
that part in which he insists on
change of government in Germany
. If the German military party
thinks to win by camouf1age, they are
hopelessly mistaken Mr.. wilson wilson
note will find thunderous applause
wherever it will become known.
Salt Lake City Tribune: The presi-
dent has once more done the right thing
at the right time.
Denver Rocky Mountain News: The
nation will feel immensely relieved that
It has been freed for the time of any
association with the barbarian.
indianapolis Star: The presidents
answer to the German peace bid means
in plain undiplomatic language "uncon-
ditional surrender"
Philadelphia Press: The president has
seen a new light. There is something
more to be considered than the fourteen
peace points that the German govern
ment so quickly accepted. We can
now believe at any rate that the allied
armies are not going to be halted in
their advance to the Rhine and the dan
ger of a premature and inconclusives
peace without victory is happily averted.
Buffalo IN. " Express: This note
will be met with a shout of enthusi-
astic approval throughout the United
States and throughout the allied world
| Hartford Comm Courant: The public
would have welcomed a brief, direct, un-
conditional surrender. That is the senti-
ment of the civilized world today. There
is growing Impotence of letter writ
Springfield (Mass.) Union: The presi-
dents reply to the German government
lacks two words that have an important
MD in
absence of these two words means, in
all probability further correspondence,
which will be ended when the president
bluntly and curtly says our terms are
| unconditional surrender
. Springfield (Mass.) Republican: The
salient, the supreme feature, of the pres
idents reply is the blow now openly
and directly struck at kaiseriSm. The
opportune moment has come. The
president refuses to approach the asso-
ciated governments with Germany's
peace proposals and he could do nothing
else.
St. Louis Globe Democrat: The presi-
dent has not misinterpreted the spirit of
the nation in his reply. He could not
have said less and remain in accord
with the American people; it was unnec-
essary to have said more.
Omaha World Herald: The president
has spoken with wisdom, with great
ness, with power.
Los Angeles Times: Germany will
nave to come to it, She must accede
to the presidents ultimatum sooner or
lateT-and the sooner the better for
Germany. AutOcracy is doomed.
Salt Lake City Herald: Now that
President Wilson has indicated that
note writing has adjourned, let us go
on with the war.
Memphis Commercial Appeal: The
German empire has sinned its day
away 1t was born and it must die
dent Wilson has pronounced it's death
sentence. 1t is now up TO France.
England and the one hundred and ten
million people of the United States
to execute the sentence. 1t is a war to
the death or an unconditional surren-
der. But we cannot win this war by
Our first duty today is to back the
president by over-subscribing the Lib
erty Loan.
Dallas (Texas) News: If. after the
still eft some doubts as to the deter
mination of our president to make Il
complete job of it, that doubt is dis
PEELED by his last answer. That docu-
ment makes it clear beyond cavil that
we will have no dealings with the kaiser
or his military party.
Houston (TeXas) Post: The presi-
dents reply is a command of Forward"
| to the allied nations and their superb
armies in the field, and it is COM
mand to the American people to rally
the war.
Nashville Tennessean: The presi-
QGnI latest nOIe TO 06THdny Is the
frankest, and at the same time the
most complete diplomatic document OF
history. 1t is so simple and uncom-
promising in its terms that Germany is
left without a leg to stand on before
civilization if she fails to surrender
promptly and Internationally.
Washington Post: Humanity cannot
fail to applaud the decision taken by
President Wilson in behalf of the
United States and the allies and CON
veyed TO the German government in
manner that gains terrible significance
and fnality by the restraint of the
language employed The note is moth
ing less than a sentence of death upon
the Hohenzollern military system, pro
uounced by the spokesman of the civil
lied world, now in arms and actually
executing the sentence.
New York World: The president at
one stroke has swept away the whole
German structure of a paper peace
without guarantees. He has also swept
away the foolish fears melted by I'M
scrupulous politicians who have been
trying to conjure up a superman trick
in the German offer of surrender and
have been shivering lest civilization be
cheated of the fruits of victory by su-
perior German intelligence.
Providence Or. y Journal: The
American people will heartily approve
Boston Globe: President Wilson
trained his guns upon the very heart
and centcr of German autocracy. He
has fired a broadside straight at the
kaiser" or "to Berlin"
Philadelphia Public Ledger: Nothing
could be clearer, nothing could meet