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where. [[red underlined]] Pacifists with white bands not very numerous, [[/red underlined]] only here and there [[strikethrough]] groups [[/strikethrough]] unimpressive groups of 2 or 3. [[strikethrough]] All. [[/strikethrough]] About 300 massed on steps of House of Representatives, [[red underlined]] mostly women Evening ^[[I]] gave address at dinner of Economic Club of Washington. Thomas Ewing [[/red underlined]] Commissioner of Patents presiding. Spoke of [[red underlined]] of our chemical industries and [[strikethrough]] their [[/strikethrough]] chemical problem in regard to preparedness for war. [[/red underlined]] About three hundred present at New Ebbit's House large dining room. [[red underlined]] Very attentive audience and address [[/red underlined]] received with much applause 
Started at about 9:10 P.M and go thru by 10:30 P.M. [[red underlined]] Very dramatic moment [[strikethrough]] J [[/strikethrough]] while delivering my address the newsboys in the streets were calling out their extras giving [[/red underlined]]
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[[red underlined]] contents of speech of President Wilson which was being delivered exactly at the same time as I was giving my address. [[/red underlined]] Later on in sleeping car read the extra edition with full speech, [[red underlined]] a masterpiece of dignified denunciation of all [[/red underlined]] the outrages of the German autocracy. At the Cosmos Club I heard even [[red underlined]] Wilson's [[/red underlined]] political enemies speak enthusiastically about it. There is no longer any doubt [[red underlined]] we are practically at war [[/red underlined]] now altho' formally we shall only be at war after the resolution will have passed Congress. But judging from what I hear and see there is [[red underlined]] not the slightest doubt the revolution will pass both [[/red underlined]] houses with an overwhelming majority and will be endorsed by practically [[red underlined]] all the people of the  United States. The [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] message of the President [[/red underline]]