The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-07-31

whole practice of submarine attack
above the criticism which it has aroused
and remove the chief causes of offense.
RENEWS DEMAND FOR PREPARATION
''In view of the admission of illegality
made by the imperial government when
it pleaded the right of retaliation in de-
fense of it's acts, and in view Of the
manifest possibility of conforming to
the established rules Of naval warfare,
the government of the United States
cannot believe that the imperial govern
ment will longer refrain from disavOW-
mander in sinking the LatsitanaiG, or
from offering reparation Of the Ameri-
can lives lost, so far as reparation can
be made for a needless destruction of
human life by an illegal act.'
WILL INSIST ON FREEDOM OF SEAS
The German government is then no.
titled that the United States will con-
tend for the freedom of the seas, in the
following language:
''The government of the United States
and the imperial German government
are contending for the same great OBJ
ject, have long stood together in urging
the very principles upon which the gov
ernment of the United States now so
solemnly insists. They are both con-
tending for the freedom of the seas.
''The government of the United States
will continue to contend for that free
dom, from whatever quarter violated,
, without compromise, and at any cost"
DELIBERATELY UNFRIENDLY"
The closing paragraphs are, per-
haps, the most significant:
"In the meatime, the very value which
this government sets upon the long and
unbroken friendship between the people
and government of the United States
and the people and government of the
German nation impels it to press very
solemnly upon the imperial German
government the necessity for scrupu-
lous observance of neutral rights in this
critical matter.
Friendship itself prompts it to say
to the imperial government that repeti-
tion by the commanders of German
naval vessels of acts in contravention of
those rights must be regarded by the
government of the United States, when
they affect American citizens, as de-
liberately unfriendly"
In the language of diplomacy, the
words deliberately unfriendly'' have
very distinct meaning, we'll understood
by every statesman, and these terms are
employed only upon extreme occasion.
The Stats Zeituag, a Chicago Ger
man paper, in commenting upon the
note, says: Germany can never sub
NIT to the tone of it, and will, as much
as we are sorry for it, find no other ans
wer than the breaking off of diplomatic
relations" Further on, the article
makes the following comment: "The
note shows the president will break with
Germany at all hazards. He should
first ask the people of the United States
If they are satisfied to be driven into
war. The note is unworthy of the re-
public. We hope Germany will not
blame the people for the present govern
ment's action"
AMERICAN PEOPLE OPPOSED TO WAR
The American people are a peace-lov-
ing nation; the masses are opposed to
war, and would only view such an event
with intense regret.
The great American Civil War, cover
ing a period of four years, and the
struggle for independence, lasting eight
years, were brought on by real issues,
vitality affecting the welfare of the en-
tire nation; but the present contention
Of President Wilson seems almost a bur-
lesque and travesty. That great ma
tion of people, with no desire for war,
should be plunged into this world con-
fict merely for the sake of few people
travelling in English ships, seems almost
incredible.
Why can they not travel in American,
Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish
ships?
If this nation is so hide-bound to
mere technicality of international law,