Middletown transcript., 1915-08-28
riDDLETOwE, DEL, AUG. ss, 1915
THE NATIONS SHAME
New YORK. Aug. %


war with Germany. Many clergy
men believe the United States has
already delayed entering the con-
fiict too long, and several criticise
President Wilson for his pacifist
policy.
Bishop Gailor, of Tennessee, chan
cellor of the University of the
South, who spoke at Grace Church,
Broadway and Tenth street, today,
said in an interview.
''Put me down by the side of
Colonel Roosevelt. We have been
altogether too negative. We have
been so much concerned about our
neutrality that we have gone clear
over to the German side against the
allies.
Morally we are just as much
bound by The Hague agreements
as England herself, and when
England went to the rescue of Bel
gium we listened to sentimental
peace people and ate dirt. / sup
pose one ought not criticise Presi
dent Wilson; he is doing the best
he can. He wants to be reelected. "
Quite as decided in his language
was the Rev. DIR. S. D. Mcconnell,
one time rector of Holy Trinity
Church, Brooklyn, who to-day spoke
at st. Bartholomew Church.
81 was never less proud of being
an American than now," he said
just before his sermon. "Our
national administration seems not
to have felt for a moment during
the last year that it was sure of
the difference between right and
wrong. We ask merely to be al
lowed to remain in condition call
ed peace and that selfshness be not
interferred with"
The foregoing criticisms of Mr..
Wilson's weak course with reference
to Germany's persistent assassinations
of our citizens, have double force
first because they are the utterance'
of eminent ministers of the gospel
the last of all classes to suggest wal
and second, because, one of the critics
is Southern Bishop, and presumabl!
a Democrat.
The course of the chief executive O
this country, must be an i'll one indeed
when even the ministry takes it to-
task for poltrooneryl
81 was never less proud of being al
American than now! Those word
reecho the sentiments of millions o
indignant Americans this whole lam
over. Since the great Washington
occupied the seat Wilson is so dishonor
ing, no such shameful record o
cowardice, and dirt eating has marke
our foreign policy.
For the seventh time Germany ha
murdered several more of our citizen
by torpedoing without notice the Arabic
a passenger ship westward bound. Wit
deliberate insult she has let over
month elapse without deigning to repl
to Mr.. Wilson's last note calling for tn
third or fourth time for disavowal {
the wanton massacre, over three month
since, of 115 Americans on the Lus
tania.
Germany no doubt thinks the Arab
massacre is a sufficient answer. Tt
country thinks so too, but Mr.. Wilsc
sees in these repeated murders {
Americans only so many occasions f,
his display of professional rhetor
couched in terms complimentary
these Teuton assassins
Never before has president dared
suggest as does this craven chattere
that the flag of the Republic does n
protect every American beneath
folds, on land or sea. He has degrad
the noble symbol for which thousan
have died, till it has become the SEQ
and jest of all Europe-nay, even
miserable Mexico one of whose ban,
generals contemptuously trampled
under his feet
In answer to this latest murder
Americans on the high seas, will
Wilson as before patiently wait
Germany to invent some lying quib
for him to seize Upon as an excuse
doing nothing, and then jauntily full
nate his brave paper volley No. 5, me-
while those German pirates, chuckli
at the soft" Yankee president, '
proceed upon the first opportunity
perpetrate massacre No. 81
Well may every American hide
face in shame at this disgraceful fore
policy that has allowed Germany for
months- to cary on a cowardly war
un, ser. sea assassinations of our unarr
cotatrymen, where in seven or Ell
Bttaeks no less than lS5 of them wi
la)sfully using their rights to travel
molesied upon the ocean, have b