The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-11
AMERICANS SHOULD REMAIN CALM
 DURING THE CRISIS WITH GERMANY
(F'rom the New York Evening Post)


 for Americans to remain calm. If the Germans have gone
 mad all the for keep heads The duty o our government cea and it for the people to let the President know that in the discharge of he has behind him nation that without passion camor resoute and strong As the facts officially asceranedas the mournfu list of American lives sacrificed knownthe Pres dent should make the dearest and rmest representations Germany He should demand full dsavowa of the lawess and nhuman act of the commander of the German submarine with promise of complete reparaOn If the German govern et IS not entirely to strong deusion and e 1t will not aughly refuse what President Wilson will be right in insisting upon, not alone in the of the American people, but in that of humanity
 To see what grounds government has already prepared itself to proceed in the of such crime has been committed have merely turn back to the first announcement of the German admiralty and the grave protest which 1t drew from government On February the Chief of the Admiral Staff Von Poh, published It proclaimed he all around Great Britain and Ireand Ca heater of war;; declared that every hostile merchaman met in this regon would desroyed and that Git will not always be possible the danger thereby threatening the and the 1t added that neutra ships also risk theater of war; since Cit always be avoided that attacks intended for hostile ships may also hit neutral sps this noce government replied February TO- It informed the German government that it viewed the proposals of the German Admiralty with 'grave The course of action indicated unprecedented in warfare" and an ndeensbe violation of neutral rgts and added that Tn the case of the destruction of an American vessel the loss of American lives by the of commanders of German vessels o war; this government could not fail to hod the Imperial German government to a strict accountability"
 This issue between the two governments, thus sharply marked out m advance the thrust to the front by the taking of the lives of Americans the ustana Be they many few high ow the obligation laid upon govern men imperative Such acts have been called pure piracy Strictly speaking, they that Pirates do act under ordes but the officers of German submarines do throws the responsibility back upon their which issued the order to sink without warning with 2O00 noncombaants and neutra aboard In the act govern ment becomes pratca and outlaw It is this truth which the indignant voice of this mighty naton joining the chorus of reproduction rising from all parts of the earth should now seek to bite into the consciousness of the German people
 Nc sober mind fail to grasp the extreme gravity crisis forced upon the United States It time shouting threatening All the sefresrant of which are capable should now be exercised We ought to to the world and especially to Gemanythe spectacle people too firmly planted on right to be hysteca and too determined ing justice to buster It is dark and heavy day. but not doubt that the light will finally break through If it is true that Germany has drunk too deep of the wine of military nsOence to be turned from just yet; if the bodern example of what the Greeks called Hubrsa made defiance God and manthen may be that the righteous Judgments of the Lord will be visited upon her. And part that divine judgment will certainly be sentiment written into will make the horrors and crimes the past nine months impossible for evermore.