America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 51, 5 February 1916, Page 5

America

UNCLE SAM’S NEW ROLE. PRESIDENT WILSON AS THE OSTRIOH. GREAT MAN LOSES HIS SLEEP. [United Press Association.) .Received 9 i..n > New Vo la Fcbruarv I President Wilson; speaking at > c t. Louis, said the United States should build the greatest navy in the world, and it should be unconq .livable. He was striving for place, but tl e commanders of the submarines wore putting their own interpretation on intotnational law and might commit an act which would set the world afire. Speaking at Des Moines concerning the futility of messages to the work! and protests to meet the breaches of international law, President NA ilfcon said: Do you want the situation to be such that all the President can do is to write and utter words whenever in - ternational law is violated by any ol bite belligerents, America has been called on to register its insistent protest. The United States wanted peace* but the Nation’s self-respect, must be preserved. -Many, nights it was impossible for, him to sleep because of the apparently inextricable difficulties (, f the international relation which, continue to drift away. Every community was behind him in maintaining tiie honor of the Nation. I lie re were titanic difficulties in keeping the United States at peace. The position could not he disclosed, and P-' I '- hap-f never would be disclosed,*,. The) heart of all America was in the, caused of peace, but actually the men ,o| America were preaching war, while others go further than himself m preaching peace and want peace at. any price, but America cannot be an ostrich and have its head buried in the sand.

MORE WORDS AT KANSAS.

New York, February 4, President Wilson, speaking at Kansas, said; “I do not know how long die' mere work and insistence of the Government will prevail to maintain the honor, dignity and power of the Skat ion, hut I assure you not a day .vill be lost, because it is not known i day ahead what will happen. Most ,f the munition factories must be put ■n a state of readiness, as the Nation must be ready to reply to attack so as ;o avoid disaster.”

THE LUSITANIA CRIME.

illegality not admitted by

GERMANY.

< (Received 9.00 a .pi.) New York, February 4." The Associated Press correspondent itates that under no circumstances vill Germany admit that Die sinking if the Lusitania was illegal.