Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1917 — MEASURING THE DIFFERENCE [ARTICLE]

MEASURING THE DIFFERENCE

a thirty-three word dispatch from London presents the entire issue which has brought the United States to the verge of war with Germany and left the United States and Great Britain friendship and peace: London, March s.—The American schooner John G. McCullough has been captured on the charge of attempting to run the .blockade. She was taken to Falmouth, where iher cargo is being removed for the prize court. Now/it may be that the schooner was well within her rights and that the charges are wholly false. But whether so or not, there is due process of law on»the part of the Britislh admiralty. The schooner was not sunk. The crew were not murdered. The cargo was not destroyed. The ship and her cargo go before a prize court to be judged according to law, and if injustice is done, the United States government can intervene. . The difference between a prize court and a torpedo measures the difference between British and German treatment of American citizens, commerce and rights in this war, says the New York World.