14 OCTOBER 1916, Page 2

On Thursday week President Wilson, speaking at Omaha; said that

the United States was "as ready to fight as any nation in the world" (we take the words from the Times), but that the cause "must be jtist and important." The United States had held off the present conflict, not because she was not interested, not because she was indifferent, but because the part she wanted to play was " different from that ordinarily played by a nation at war." "The roots" of the European conflict were "-still obscure," and its "objects had not been disclosed."