From the editorial
page of the Hickory Daily
Record, March 10, 1917; S.H. Farabee,
editor.
President Wilson’s
decision to arm American merchant ships come as welcome news, as does also his
announcement that congress is called into extra session April 16.
American ships have
been tied up in home ports for more than a month and in the meantime congestion
has become burdensome at our seaports. This condition is intolerable.
We imagine that
congress will assemble at the proper time. Two or three American ships will
have been sunk by the middle of April and the United States will demand further
protection. Congress can give it.
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