Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-08-14
Germany's Contempt
For Us Evident
Colonel Harvey Speaks Some Blunt
Truths

The most fortnight ana candlu
presentation of our case against Ger
many that has yet been published is
from the trenchant pen of George
Harvey, Editor of The North Ameri-
can Review, and appears in the Au-
gust issue of that periodical Colonel
Harvey minces no words in the mat
ter. What Germany has replied to US
amounts to this, says Colonel Harvey
with vivid directness: "The United
States of America and her President,
and her Congress, and her people,
can go to hell. Just that; nothing
more and nothing less" Colonel
Harvey continues as follows:
She disavows none of her crimes;
she makes no suggestion of repara-
ton; she recognizes no rights of neu-
trails; she reiterates her reputation
of all treaties and of all laws, whether
among nations or of civilization and
humanity, which may conflict with
her own conception of military neces-
sity; she apologies for nothing; she
comedies nothing; she acknowledges
nothing; she seeks only to secure our
approval of her lawless practices
through our acqulescence in her pro-
posal that we waive our unquestioned
rights upon the high seas and sail
so many of our ships as she may per-
nit, under her surveillance and sub
ject to her dictation; having injured
us, she would wrong us; having in
suited US, she would humiliate us;
that is all there is of this insolent
declaration.
Not one of our moderate demands
is accorded even the courtesy of frank
recognition; all are in effect denied;
each and every one is either tacitly
spurned or impudently ignored.
Never before has this country and
seldom, if ever, has any country been
treated so contemptuously Why is
this What has happened to convince
even truculent autocracy that this
Republic can be fouted with i'm
punity? Surely history warrants no
such assumption. 1ripoli at the out
set was taught her lesson by Jeffer
son, England first by Madison and
again by Cleveland, Mexico by Polk,
France by Lincoln, Spain by Nc
Kinley, and Japan, more decisively
than is commonly understood, by
Roosevelt. What now induces Ger
many to believe that President
Wilson does not mean what he says?
That "strict accountability" signi-
fies nothing?
Obviously there is an insidious
cause back of the Imperial Govern
ment's misunderstanding less than a
fixed belief that the sentiment of this
country is not only divided but is
veering in their direction. Feeling
in the United States" placidly re-
marks the inspired Morgen Post of
Berlin, "is changed from what it was
at the time of the Lusitania sinking
and President Wilson will have to
satisfy this new feeling in consider
ing and answering the present note.
That the note will meet unrestrained
approval at the hands of large part
of Americans is certain" For this
impression undoubtedly, as we for
saw, the resignation of Bryan, supple
mented by the traitorous utterances
of hyphenated editors who write as
Germans, not as Americans, is di-
rectly responsible. And it is because
of this conviction beyond question
that the Imperial Governments adj
dress was in no sense, categorical or
| otherwise, response to the American
Government; it was a stump speech
swer to the President, but an appre-
citation of Bryan.
Germany is fighting for existence"
of her own volition. So, involuntarily,
are the peoples of England and of
France. So may we be compelled to
do to withstand the Imperial Govern
ment's ruthless endeavor to place
Deutschland uber"-not m e e y
France and England, but-"uber
Allies" Let their words be ours. No
more than they, and never so long as
patriotic spirit animates American
beings, shall this free Republic be
found guilty before God and his
tory of violation of those principles
of highest humanity which are the
foundations of every national ex-
istence" and of all civilization.
We can but believe that, when those
American men and women were swept
to their doom from the decks of the
Lusitania, after vainly trying to save
1.-The kiddies," their hearts were COM
forted by the certainty in their minds
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