The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-09-09
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Arbiters Of the War.


ask such feliowcountrymen Of mine as have
been impatient with the Government at Wash.
ington whether they have fully estimated the
value OF the moral support given to US by the
people OF the United States. ID there no ma.
ter1al power In sympathy The voice that says
outside the ring. Your cause is Just, light on
gives higher voltage Of energy. Sympathy
maketh for understanding. and that understand.
ing was never more valuable than when wa do.
parted from the old traditional blockade ana
relied upon the United States to see that our
Interpretation Of the principles OF international
law had not been changed by the new practice
we were compelled to make, Sympathy dis.
withholding Of that sympathy BY the An,ert
can people would mean q reduction in our M.
uona! strength. would close up avenues Of
moral .as support worth twenty army corps.
Of the American Civil War living in Boston.
and owning name familiar to all Americans.
He; said: You want our sympathy. can
understand how much you want it by the ex.
tent we wanted yours In our Civil War; and
were not secure Of It. Well. you have our sym
patty with all our hearts,"
matter OF international sympathy and moral
support has the meaning and poignancy Of the
reply OF Abraham Lincoln to an address from
the workingmen of Lancashire
Americans should remember what Iancashir.
suffered in the American Civil War through the
blockade enforced against the South. and that
employment and on the verge OF starvation
still had the courage and magnanimity to offer
their sympathy to Lincoln's Government. which
was cutting them of from work and food. 10
their noble utterance. this was Lincoln's reply:
II know and deeply deplore the suierinKs
which the workingmen OF Manchester. and in
1t has been often and studiously represented
that the attempt to overthrow this Government
which was built on the foundation Of human
rights. and to substitute for 1t one which should
al v ~ h~rS
was likely to obtain the favor of Europe I'm.
der the circumstances. l cannot but regard
your decisive utterances upon the question a.
an instance OF sublime Christian heroism
which has not been surpassed in any aee or n
any country. do not doubt that the
sentiments you have expressed will be sus.
sa oy your great nation; or. on the other
they will excite admiration, esteem and the
most reciprocal feelings Of friendship amone
the American people. l hail this Interchange
may happen. whatever misfortune may befall
your country. as my own. the peace and friend.
ship which now exists between the two ma.
tons will be. as it shall be my desire to max.
them, perfected"
Here and there In this country It has been
said that the United States kept silence OIL.
agitated and vocal when American commerce
was touched; that she was chiefly concerned
IN making money out OF this war II is NOT
really necessary to reply to such foolish state.
minded that again and again. when othe,
countries have been at war. Great Britain has
been charged with commercial selhshness and
anxiety to secure advantage and make money
out OF other peoples troubles: and it is per.
fectly true that in the early part and the mid.
die OF last century Great Britain did profit BY
the wars which upset the trade and commerce.
and industry of other countries.
The almighty heart Is still stronger in the
United States than the almighty dollar. The
American people may rest assured that in this
country the immense majority are deeply and
profoundly grateful to them for their chival.
rous and genuine sympathy: not only be-
cause It is sympathy. but because the American
people have made up their minds that we
right and that our enemies are wrong in this
war: that our aims were peaceful aims. and tho
purposes Of our enemy were purposes Of war.
fare for territorial and material gain We
should have had many searchings of conscience
II the Judgment Of the American people had
gone against at this time: Removed from
European complications. the United States II
q great court Of equity. and its judgments are
invaluable to the nation that wins its approval
and secures from 1t the verdict Of acauittal Of
crime against the peace OF the world