Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1915-02-22
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The London Spectator of January
%, contained an article which was
a yelled threat that If the United
States insisted upon its neutral rights
on the seas, there would be trouble
with England Here is a sample
sentence from the article If the
Washington Government think our
difficulties viii make us more COM
plant than in peace time, they are
mistaken" In it's issue of January
80 the London Spectator defended
its threatening article, which some
of its readers criticized as being in
judicious, inasmuch as it might in
terfere with the plans for inveigling
America into the war as an ally Of
England. This criticism has ELECTED
tho following reply:
"Our main object was to make the
American people and the American
Government il ears so mighty can
catch the feeble whispers of the
press, understand how great is the
danger of a collision Of spirit be-
tween those who at their ease con-
template the legal subtleties con-
nected with contraband and neu-
trality and those who are fighting
them with q powerful and remorse-
less enemy. 1t is always difficult for
Two nations to understand each
other 1t is doubly difficult when
they are moving in worlds of feeling
so different and so far apart"
Such is the manner in which this
country is informed that, if it inter
feres with English piracy on tho
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We use the word piracy advisedly.
BY what other term can you describe
the boarding Of American ships by
English naval officers and the arbi-
trary confscation Of American car
goes by the same officers? England,
in violation of the rules laid down
by herself, has made food stuffs
contraband Of war; This she has
done with the avOwed purpose of in
flicting upon Germany all the terrors
of starvation BY so doing she con-
demns, so far as it is in her power
to do so, millions Of non-combatants
men, women and children-to the
most terrible Of deaths.
England would have America her
co-partner in the commission of this
crime against humanity. America
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tamely submitted to having American
ships with cargoes Of food stuff held
up on the high seas. That is what
the London Spectator, voicing lGng-
lish sentiment, demands OF Washing
ton. In true English style it insists
that Americans shall consider it their
moral duty to be England's partisanS
in all that she may do in a war begun
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crushing commercial rival our
complaint" says the London Specta-
tor, is against the cold indifference
of the United States Government on
the moral issue. VIII not the Amer
lean people see to it that the attitude
Of Washington shall not be AS long
as we can keep a strictly balanced
neutrality there are for us no rights
and no wrongs in this way?''
The view here set forth is shared
by our Anglomaniacs who are only
too willing TO popularize it on this
side Of the Atlantic. Their organs
in the press are repeating constantly,
in another form, the statement we
have quoted above. They are doing
their best to persuade the American
people that England in this war
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that, therefore, the United States
should be ready to stretch a point in
her favor In other words, this
country should not object to having
its commerce ruined by England's
contemptuous disregard for our
rights as neutrals. While this is
done we should maintain an un-
broken silence lest the moral issue
Of starving Germany in the interest
of English sea supremacy should be
affected injuriously. q. W.)