TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1915-09-03

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teutiys 10 this possibility and have
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thus prepared. Doubtless the pres
ident and his cabinet have spent
many hours n discussing what their
elton should be IN the event OF just
such i happening AZ the shaking oil
M Arabic.
Bur the nation Al large Is not thus
prepared The great mass OF the
citizens have not spent any adequate
noun OF time In such discussion or
such thought. 1t is generally agreed
that the function OF The legislator or
an executive is 10 obey The wishes
OF he people To-. whom he is acting.
The administration wisest course
Is to await NOT only full reports on
the facts Of the loss OF the Arabic
but also the sane expression 81
American public opinion.
In such a crisis ii certainly is the
duty OF the great public press OF this
nation. the greatest power in the
nation. TO be sane and impartial, to
be calm and deliberate. and to re-
frain from melting war. Unfortun-
ately il must Be admitted that a
large part OF the press does o thus
comport itself.
"A perusaI OF the editorial columns
Of some newspapers would indicate
that the editors who mere express
their views (and who would be full
filling a higher and more useful
destiny If they there. expressed not
So much their own views as the
views which they believe the major
ity of their readers to hold) are fire.
eaters and fighters, captains in some
American army or admfrals in some
American naval squadron. eagerly
awaiting a chance to volunteer their
services as lighting men and to
shoot and be Shot. This probably
IS far from the truth. Ii IS likely
that many OF most OF these who
write So belligerently are neither
fitted for warfare nor anxious to do
any fighting themselves.
aIf this assertion Chat Americans
were lost and that the liner was
sunk without warningl IS true then
is the issue made says the New
York Eferald's editorial column.
"If American lives were lost then
the situation il as grave as when the
Maine was sunk" IS a sentence in ali
editorial in the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat.
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serious views, are taken by some