Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1914-12-29

strict neutrality on the part Of our
government in Washington q calling
down for daring 70 do such a thing,
the Evening Sun concludes its lecture
with these words
we repeat thar this Is the United
States OF America, and that every
Americans first and supreme allie
glance is due this country and to no
other'
That is precisely what those meet
ings ia the HlppodrOme and in the
Palace emphasized II was q re-
minder Of the seemingly in some
quarters forgotten fact. that the
United States are not colony OF
Great Britain or France or Russia.
The people who at that meeting by
resolutions asked Congress to pro-
hibit the oxportation Of arms and
ammunition are true Americans,
truer Americans. in their own esti-
nation, than those who defend that
act OF assisting one part OF the
belligerents..
In the same article The Evening
Sun says:
What each Of them (the Allies
and the Germans) want is not that
We should be neutral, but that we
should join them openly and help TO
turn the scale Of war IN their favor,
and neither side loses any oppor-
tunity to prejudice us against its
enemies or to influence MS IN favor
OF its own cause"
With ell duo respect to the TRUTH
fulness Of our neighbor, in this case
tho exact path Of the real truth has
f.. 3 ft4,t
English writer's have urged the
United States to make common cause
with tho Allies but never has the
suggestion come from German writ
ers that this country should assist
Germany The pro Germans would
be the first ones to resent such q
suggestion. What the Germans ask
for und what the pro Germans IN the
United States ask for, is fair play.
Speaking Of the same meetings Gin
the IlippOdrome and in the Palace)
tho Baltimore News says:
AT tho beginning of the war we
adopted a certain line OF conduct,
warranted by all past precedent, and
by international law Even at that
time 1T is doubtful whether the de-
clarat!on OF an embargo on the ex-
port of ammunition could have been
considered impartial; for the almost
Immediate closing OF the German
ports was practically a certainty,
and our action would have been
accepted as multiplying England's ad-
vantage IN her superiority at sea-.
That argument holds good on tho
other side also. BY furnishing Eng
land and Russia with guns and am
munition we nullify Gormany's
known advantage Ia her superiority
on land When tho war broke ont
All the world knew that only France
was on land equally as weli prepared
as Germany, and that on sea no other
power was prepared like England.
Granting that we We're not neutral
either way; should not IN that case
the humanitarian aspect OF the
situation dictate our course? We
want peace we pray for peace What
bettor act could we oin the interest
oi peace, but to refuse TO sen ann
munition Of war 20 any one of the
belligereut countries?
Ono Of our morning contempora-
ries choose TO report tho neutrality
meeting as q pro German meeting
and the other called it a German
gathering. 1t was neither pro
German nor q German meeting. It
was o meeting of American citizens
in the interest OF strict neutrality Of
their country. That anti English re-
marks were made was due to the
fact that tho reason for calling the
meeting and for the resolutions to be
adopted had to be set forth And
that tho administration ia WASH
ington aid not faro well is not tho
fault of tho speakers and the meet
ing Tho thousands and thousands
Of citizens who attended massmoct-
ings in tho interest OF strict neu-
trality in Baltimore. New York
Chicago. So. Louis, Pittsburgh and
other cities are not the only people
who do not think that tho admi-
nlstration ia Washington is doing tho
right thing TO this country ia the
neutrality question. Governor Cox
quit of Texas for instance says:
The Administration foreign po-
Icy has been imbecilc II has
allowed England to dictate condi-
tions as TO cotton shipments to
European countries that enabled the
English spinners 10 rob the American
cotton growers OF half the value Of
their crop,
England stopped American ship
mcnts until tho English spinners had
bought thcir supply at s "a cents q
pound and stored 70 IN Texas and
other Southern warehouses; Then
England consented TO declare cotton
not contraband, and France followed
suit o day or two later Our Gov
ernment weakly submitted TO Ens-
lands dictation, playing into tho
hands OF tho English spinners and
bcsrayng the American cotton-grow-
crs as completely as if this country
were sn English vassal State.
III had been president I would
have served notice on England's Pre-
mier that our foreign trade in cotton
and other non-contraband corlmodi-
ties was going forward with or with
out England's consent, and if neces-
SarV [ would have sent American