Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-09

There is such thing as man be- ing too proud to fight. There is such thing as nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right"
 Popular resentment against peace at any price was rising in America. Fighting Europe ridiculed MT. Will sons policy but lated accepted the ex- planation of his friends that he was maneuvering for delay, that the Unit ed States was not prel rcd to take a big part n the strugsps. that the na- tion was not unitedly for war by req. sons of it's diverse population and di- yided s n s:ler,.
 A tragic moment :n the Prccident's life came, when sitting at the bedside of his dying wife, he penned a mes- sage to the European powers suggest ing a peaceful settlement. Mrs Will son died on August G. 1914, and the President took her body to her girl hood home in Rome, Georgia, for bur ial The family circle had been brok- en only short time previously by the marriage of two of the Presidents daughters Jessie and Eleanor, one to Francis Bowes Sayre and the other to William Gibbs McAdoo, then Secre- tary of the Treasury. Mrs. Wilson's death left the President alone except for his eldest daughter, Margaret, who was absent much of the time in well fare work.
 The Wilson family had preserved it's simple domesticity upon coming to the White House The household furnl- ture, including a sewing machine, which had been brought from Prince ton, was installed on the second floor of the mansion away from the form al settings of State parlors on the floor below. There the President and his wife and children lived among their own personal belongings and 1t was in this seclusion, after a hard days work, that MT. Wilson found comfort and rest Often he read aloud in the evening to the members of his family.
 Mrs. Wilson's death plunged the President into deep personal grief. With it came the anxiety of guiding the country alright in a world afire. To add to his perplexities, the prac- tices of the German government-par ticularly in submarne warfare were inexplicable to men of honesty and candor. He found it hard to believe that the innumerable atrocities charg- ed against U-boat commanders could be attributed to the orders of the German government but his disallu- sionment finally came after the most prolonged exchange of notes and war nings.
 On May z, 1915, the great steamship Lusitania was torpedoes and sunk oil the coast of Ireland with loss of fiji teen hundred lives, more than no of them American and many women and children. Great Britain in her block ade, had been accused of violating in ternational law but her acts involved only losses of property and damages which could be assessed in money. This situation, however, served to af- feet a large element of Americans and worked to the advantage of the Cent ral Powers. With the sinking of the Lusitania, however, sentiment chang ed. The fact that Germany was talk ing her toll in human lives of neutrals was emphasized There was a wide spread camor in the United States for war
 Still President Wilson hesitated. Formal diplomatic protests,-note writing his critics called it-contin- ued. Meantime German spies and pro- pagandists were active. Munition plants, ships and wharves were being burned or dynamited to hinder the shipment of supplies to the allies. The President was slowly reaching the conclusion that the United States was being forced into the war and that it must soon determine to defend it's rights against such aggressions on the land and sea.
 The first Lusitania note to Germany