The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-07-31
eERMANY's CONTEMPT or US.
Colonel Harvey Makes Some Blunt State
ments in His Journal.

has yet been published is from the tren
chant pen of George Harvey, editor o
the North American Review, and ap
pears in the August issue Of that period
zeal. Colonel Harvey minces no words II
the matter. What Germany has replied
to us amounts to this, says Colonel Har
yey with vivid directness: "The United
States of America, and her president
and her Congress, and her people, car
90 to hell. Just that; nothing more ant
nothing less" Colonel Harvey continues
as follows;
| She disavows none of her crimes; sh'
makes no suggestion of reparatioD; sh'
recognizes no rights of neutrals; she reit
crates her reputation of all treaties ant
of all laws, whether among nations or Of
civilization and humanity, which may
conflict with her own conception OF mill
tary necessity; she apologies for moth
ing; she comedies nothing; she acknowl'
edges nothing; she seeks only to secure
our approval OF her lawless practices
through our acquiescence in her propos
al that we waive our unquestioned rights
upon the high seas and sail SO many OF
our ships as she may permit, under her
surveillance and subject to her dictation
having injured us, she would wrong us;
having nsulted 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 rec
ignition; all arc IN effect denied; each
and every one is either tacitly spurned
or impudently ignored.
Never before has this country and sell
dom, if ever, has any country been treat
ed SO contemptuously. Why is this
What has happened to convince even
trueulent autocracy that this republic
can be fouted with impunityf Surely
history warrants no such assumption.
Tripoli at the outset was taught her les
son by Jefferson, England first by Madi-
son and again by Cleveland, Mexico by
Polk, France by Lincoln, Spain by Nc
Kinley, and Japan, moro decisively than
is commonly understood, by Roosevelt.
What now induces Germany to believe
that President Wilson does not mean
what he saysf That "strict accountable
ity" signifies nothing!
Obviously there is an insidious cause
back of the imperial governments inso-
lence,-nothing less than fixed belief
that the sentiment of this country is
not only divided but is veering in their
direction. "Feeling in the United States"
placidly remarks the inspired Morgen
Post OF Berlin, "is changed from what
il was at the time of the Lusitania sink
ing and President Wilson will have to
satisfy this new feeling in considering
and answering the present note. That
the note will meet unrestrained approx
al at the hands of a large part of Amer
leans Is certain" For this impression
undoubtedly, as we foresaw, the resigna-
tion of Bryan, supplemented by the trait
orous utterances of hyphenated editors
who write as Germans, not as Ameri-
cans, is directly responsible. And it is
because of this conviction beyond ques-
ton that the imperial governments ad-
dress was in no sense, categorical or
otherwise, response TO the American
government; il was stump speech TO
the American people; not an answer TO
the president, but an appreciation OF
Bryan.
Germany Is fighting for existence" of
her own yolition. So, involuntarily, are
the peoples of England and of France.
So may we be compelled 10 do TO with
stand the imperial governments ruthless
endeavor to place Deutschland uber"-
not merely France and England, but
"uber allies" Let their words be ours.
No more than they, and never 50 long
as patriotic spirit animates American
beings, shall this free republic be found
guilty before God and history of yio-
lation of those principles of highest hui
manity which are the foundations of
every national existence" and Of all civil
lzation.
We can but believe that, when those
American men and women were swept TO
their doom from the decks of the Lusi-
tania, after vainly trying to save "the
their hearts were comforted by
the certainty in their minds that they
had a country. Shall we who live scar
The trusting souls Of those who died by
that they were our kinsmen
and were slaughtered like sheep In pen