The Independent . t onesuggests disloyalty or resistance to theAmerican Government even if Presi-dent Wilsons action should lead to governors of many states havetelegraphed to assure the Presidentthat their commonwealths would notbe wanting in the hour of trial. President Wilsons Republican pre-decessor Mr. Taft and his recent Re-publican rival for the presidency have emphatically indorsed thestand which he has taken. ColonelRoosevelt has volunteered to raise anarmy division if war is declared, andto go to the front with his four the leaders of public opinionalmost
The Independent . t onesuggests disloyalty or resistance to theAmerican Government even if Presi-dent Wilsons action should lead to governors of many states havetelegraphed to assure the Presidentthat their commonwealths would notbe wanting in the hour of trial. President Wilsons Republican pre-decessor Mr. Taft and his recent Re-publican rival for the presidency have emphatically indorsed thestand which he has taken. ColonelRoosevelt has volunteered to raise anarmy division if war is declared, andto go to the front with his four the leaders of public opinionalmost the only opponent of the policyof maintaining American rights at seaeven by war is William J. Bryan. Hesuggested a number of alternativecourses to an immediate declaration ofwar: the postponement of the contro-versy till the end of the Great War;forbidding Americans to travel on bel-ligerent ships; forbidding Americanships to enter the war zone, and sub-mitting the question of war or peaceto a popular Representatives of both labor andcapitalist interests have assured thePresident that he can count on theirloyalty and hearty cooperation. A fewlabor leaders, however, especiallyamong the Socialists, oppose entranceinto the war no matter what turn thesubmarine issue may take. The con-fidence of capital in the Governmentspolicy is well reflected on the stock ex-change. When the German threat was firstmade public there was a sharp slumpin the prices of most of the stockstraded in, but President Wilsons speechto Congress was followed by a strongupward movement in the very stockswhich had declined most rapidly twodays before. TakingPrecautions The international crisiswhich threatens theUnited States with warhas compelled the local and nationalauthorities of this country to take dras-tic precautions against any injury tothe war time efficiency of the is now considering a numberof measures, introduced several monthsago but never pressed to passage, im-posing
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