Congress Will Respond
DISTRICT rumors of congressional weakness!
An indecision which creeps into the newspapers, despite veiled suggestions that the Middle West may prove recreant. The Times-Dispatch has no fear that Congress will fail the President and the nation. Freed of shackles which have bound it in the past, the Senate is no longer at the mercy of disloyalty, and the House may be depended on to heed the voice of conscience and the voice of the people.

Complete unanimity, perhaps, is not to be expected. There will be pacifists in Congress to clamor for further tolerance of German wrongs and pro-German sympathizers to condone crimes already perpetrated. There will be hidebound partisans seeking to discredit a Democratic administration, and propagandists endeavoring to extract from the national crisis an advantage for their particular "caube."

But they will not prevail. When Woodrow Wilson carries to the Capitol the story of an almost infinite patience in the face of protracted injuries; when he tells again of our property destroyed, our people slain, our territorial integrity menaced, our citizenship corrupted, our laws defied and our flag defiled; when he shows that diplomatic privilege and immunity have been used to cloak plots against our honor and our peace; when he recites the long and tragic story of German infamies, committed as well on our own soil as on the high seas, there can be but one response from Congress—and that response will be made. 