Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 180, 12 July 1915 — Page 4

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Kicking Germany, Patting England

Thanks to American diplomacy's mistakes, Germany's reply to our government's last note apropos the sinking of the Lusitania and Germany's submarine warfare on merchant ves

sels belonging to her enemies is, in the main,

unsatisfaetnrv- In other words. Germany re

fuses to relinquish her one effective - weapon against England's gigantic and smothering sea power, even though it is used in violation of international law and sometimes at the expense of

the lives and property of neutral nations, as long as England is permitted in her way to break international law and sacrifice the lives and property of neutrals with impunity. England and not Germany is responsible for the strained relations existing between Germany

and the United States today. Months ago, because the German government took upon itself

to regulate the distribution of the food supplies of the empire in order to eliminate waste and to prevent unpatriotic speculators exacting blood money out of their fellow-citizens' necessity through war . prices, England declared a food rtlnrlrari nn Hmutnv. Tha British naw was to

see to it that no foreign food sunblies arrived in

Germany either through German ports or through neutral ports adjacent to Germany. This was a direct and vicious assault on the part of England not only, upon the .rights of the nonbelligerent women and children of the German empire, but also upon the rights of such small neutral countries as Holland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It was, furthermore, in direct violation of the letter and spirit of international law. This was not surprising, however, as Premier Asquith had already announced in parliament that' neutral nations need not expect Great Britain and its allies to observe the niceties of international law. Germany retaliated in kind. She warned neutral nations, as well as her enemies, that after a certain time her submarines would commence destructive warfare against the merchant ships of England and other allied nations. The United States government protested against interference with its over-seas commerce by England and her German food blockade and

it likewise protested to Germany against the submarine warfare on merchant ships, warning Germany particularly that serious consequences would follow if American lives were lost as a result of the submarine warfare. Germany at the time replied that if the United States would use its good offices to persuade England to return to the observance of the letter and spirit of international law by giving up her food blockade and ceasing to interfere with the commerce of neutral nations, such as Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Germany in turn would give up her submarine warfare. The United States, however, refused to do this, claiming that it might "embarrass" England. Presumably England's embarrassment would have been occasioned if, after Germany's proposition had been brought to her attention through official notice from our government, she had refused it under the as

sumption that her food blockade of Germany and the adjacent neutral nations would be more ef

fective in bringing final victory to her than the

submarine warfare would be in bringing Germany ultimate triumph. Had England, therefore, been compelled to officially receive and re

fuse, through the United States, Germany's prop

osition, she would have been directly and publicly

responsible for all the horrors that have followed

in the wake of German submarine warfare. As it is, however, thanks to the American brand of statesmanship, England is able now to hide her

culpability.

Months before the Lusitania was destroyed and over a hundred American lives were lost

thereby and our peremptory note was despatched to the German government, the United States government had officially protested in specific terms to England on account of the large number

Of American vessels she had seized and, with

their valuable cargoes, amounting altogether to

an estimate of $50,000,000, was holding indefinitely in British ports to the serious impairment of our commerce and prosperity. Not until after the Lusitania affair, months after it had received our protest, did the British government deign to make reply and then its reply was a wishy-washy statement of how careful the British government had been in seizing these American boats and how she would try to release them and their cargoes as soon as she possibly could. But not one word did she reply to our official contention that she had no right to seize these American ships in the first place which were bound for the ports of such neutral countries as Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Similar action on England's part a hundred years ago was one of the main reasons for our going to war with her in 1812. Now our government which apparently is i

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRA1J, MONDAY. JULY 12, 1915,

willing to out nn with En2iandi dilatory tactics

in replying to oar protesta and leaves out all

threats over a oint for which we once fought a

war with England, expects immediate answers to

ita notes to Germany over the Lusitania atiair.

instant compliance with ita demands that Ger

many cease her submarine warfare on enemy merchant ships and does not hesitate to include skilfully veiled threats in its notes as to what shall happen if Germany does not comply with our demands. Our government's refusal to put up to England Germany's original proposition under which the submarine warfare might have been avoided, for fear of "embarrassing" that country, its apathetic or timid attitude towards England on account of that country's interference with our trade with neutral nations, contrasted with its energetic position against German submarine warfare, and its veiled but none the less bold declaration of intentions if Germany "does not cease submarine warfare; does not uphold its honor in the eyes of impartial citizens who are for the United States first as being really neutral and fair to all belligerents. - President Wilson demands that Germany observe the letter and spirit of international law in its submarine warfare. He begs England not to interfere with our commerce with neutral nations. Although it was the first question raised and is one over which we fought a war with England a hundred years ago, he permits the ex

change of notes regarding England's interference with our commerce with neutral nations to drag along indefinitely and dis-spiritedly. But

Germany's submarine warfare, for which Eng

land is directly and solely responsible through her food blockade and interference with the trade of neutrals, he makes of paramount importance. The blazing, inflammable headlines are for the relations between this country and Germany. The sleek, mild, soothing editorial discussions are

for the differences that exist between this coun

try and England.

Consequently the situation has arisen which

is extremely favorable to England's diplomacy and interest. Because of President Wilson's spirited handling of the differences between

the United States and Germany and his fainthearted efforts regarding the difficulties be

tween the United States and England, because of the terrific newspaper publicity given his policy

with Germany and the lack of it towards his pol

icy with England, large numbers of our people

have been inflamed with a warlike feeling against

Germany. In other words, the situation is al

most ripe through which England's diplomacy can at one stroke bring this nation, with its great resources, into the war on England's side and at the same time wipe out the differences that exist between thiB country and England on account of her obnoxious actions towards our commerce with neutral countries during the war

to the present time. At war with Germany, the United States no longer would permit trade with Germany through neutral countries. Therefore, England would no longer be compelled, according

to her viewpoint, to interfere with our trade with

neutral countries.

If President Wilson cannot or will not see that

his course of action which is becoming increas

ingly unAmerican, anti-German and pro-British,

is driving his country into hostilities with Ger

many, then those (of his fellow-citizens who are for their own country first, last and all the time,

who are neither pro-British nor pro-German when the true interests of their own country are

at stake, must unite in patriotic endeavors to nullify the effects of our President's policy and

prevent its drawing us into the terrible European tragedy. A vote of Congress is necessary before

the United States can declare war on any nation.

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irue Americans oi sane judgment and with a proper perspective of their country's rights, as well as of the rights of the different groups of

belligerent nations abroad, can exert their influence through Congress to prevent the war that their President's lack of good judgment and true perspective might otherwise precipitate. All sane citizens unite in desiring not to be drawn into war on either side. They wish not to sacrifice hundreds of thousands more lives because of the hundred lost on the Lusitania or on account of $50,000,000 worth of inanimate American property interned in British ports. They are determined to make the last compromise possible rather than make such sacrifice and pile up billions of dollars of indebtedness to crush down the backs of the unborn children of future American generations if they can help it. They recognize that nations, as well as individuals, when fighting for existence, as Germany and England are, are compelled to modify during the course of combat rules for the combatants determined upon during times of peace. Such Americans are willing to modify their ideas as to what constitutes their rights during the course of a great war between two great nations for existence.

But when such Americans have reached the irreductible minimum of modification of what they believe to be their rights, then before they go to war to protect those fundamental rights, they are going to be sure that they war on the real instigator of the violations of those rights. In the present case, the government of the United States has not done its just duty in pro

tecting the rights of its citizens. It will not have done so until it asks England in the strongest terms to give up her food blockade of Germany

and to cease all interference with our commerce with all neutral nations. If England, upon re

ceipt of this demand, complies, .then we have the

assurance of the German twvenusstnt that its submarine warfare will immediately cease. In this way and in this way alona can the United States government show its good faith to its citizens and to the citizens of the warring nations. When England osases her ilfcjal blockade and interference with neutral commerce, Germany will cease her illegal submarine warfare.

Cause and effect are so plainly shown here that we cannot see how any sane man, be he ordinary dtizen or president of the United States, can fail to grasp the point and follow or inaugurate a policy of action based upon fundamental justice and the fundamental law of abolishing effect by first eliminating cause. :

CITT HECSVES DIOS ON COALFOR PLANT Board Will Make Labrrtcry Tests in Boilers of Municipal Utility. Bids on coal for the Richmond mu

nicipal electric plant were received

by the board of public works today. Th bids Wfcl-fe AB If) AAA tstna

and alack, either washed Or unwashed.

w caw prices ranged from 91.90 per ton to $127. No contract will be awarded until the board has had time to consider the various bids. Laboratory tests were submitted with each bid but President Bavie stated that only consideration would

siren io actual Doner test at tne plant. "The coal which will provide the greatest number of kiiowat hours

at the switchboard on tha last

amount of fuel is what the board is primarily interested fo,n he said. The original specifications provided that only bids for washed nut and slack -would be received, but Inasmuch as this dilcrtminar a w

of the dealers bid -war re-advertlsed for, the specifications providing for both washed and unwashed nut and slack, these bids being the ones opened today. The lowest bid, $1.90 per ton. was on an unwashed coal, submitted by the A. Harsh company. The lowest bid on washed coal was $2.10, submit ted by Mather Brothers company. Washed nut and slack ha been used for the past few years by the plant, being supplied by the Harsh company, which submitted a bid of $2.20 for "Black Nut," the same price as Quoted last year.

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