The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-05-15
EDITORIAL COMMENT ON
SlNKlNG~OF LUSITANIA

less significance than that affair:
Yet, the. fact rena ms that no cpl
sode of the war has. startled and
aroused public opinion in this country
in greater degree. -
The deliberately advertised warning
of a week ago from the German en-
bassy, coineident with the Lusitania's
last departure from the port, combine
to intensity the horror with which
American opinion regards the German
innovation as accepted methods of
warfare at sea-:
That it was reckless of innocent
noncombatants lives we are sure, and
"dastardly'"is the word on millions of
American lips this: morning. =.
NEW YORK WORLD - IT,: -.
Morally, the sinking of the 'Lusi-.
tania was no:worse than the sinking.
of the Falaba* ,.I Nit::: ..:. H.. ::
, But both were crimes against civil
lzation in equal degree. =. $500. .
Modern history affords no other
such examples of a great nation run
| ming amuck and calling it military
necessity. J.,
1t has often happened that men in
their desperation have become out
laws: But We recall no other instance
; in which a great nation has delfber-
ately elected to become an outlaw.
That is the tragedy of the insenate
policy that the German government
Is pursuing. and eventually the Ger
man people, will pay staggering price
for their governments folly.
If the world is gain to be ruled by
barbarism that does not masquerade
as culture. civilization might better
perish than to survive in terms that
! Germany offers to mankind.
! NEW YORK TRIBUNE =.
| No voice will be raised, no effort
will be made to force the the hand,
to hasten the action Of the president
of the United: States. Bit neither he
nor any other official in our govern
! ment can; mistake the temper in which
their fellow citizens will wait
They will wait with the casualty
list in. their hands, They will wait
fortif ed each day and each hour by
new evidence and fresh details of the
manner in which American women
and children have been exposed to
! death by German submarines.
If Germany, murders Americans,
turns. her artillery against neutral
Americans, sparing, neither age nor
SEX, what worse treatment can she
reserve for an American nation re-
solved to defend it's honor, its.citizens,
its women and it's children?
What can there be left for men or
for nations>to do but to resort to that
method which in all ages has been the
last resort against tyranny and an
archy.. $500 = 40. :.,
The nation which remembered the
sailors of the Maine will not forget
i the civilians of the Lusitania. "
PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LEDGER
! The utter recklessness Of the Ger
man submarine campaign against
! merchantmen, belligerent or neutral,
reaches it's appalling climax In the
sinking of the Lusitania.- Only one
word :characterizes adequately the
policy of Germany in this matter.
That word Is piracy. There is no
shadow: Of excuse for it in military
necessity. ..@. .@.,"
LONDON DAILY NEWS -
= Nothing the Germans have done
Will send so fierce horror and indig-
| nation through the world
The sinking of the Lusitanif raises
for the neutrals in the sharpest form
question of first Importance. They,
and in particular the United States.
are bound to defend the lives Of their
subjects, though they are. not bound
to defend subjects Of other states. .
| Our concern is first to register this
latest and. greatest outrage, and when
/ IL IA In ,n1lr n li1IofSoo =.
must not content ourselves with. pun
tshing subordinate 1.
| There must be no. head to high to
fall for this, but that lies in the
future ,11ll For the present we must take
what measures We can to avert a
repetition. Of this crime and, in every
case, We must defeat the purpose
which inspired them. &
s@ q u I. dou btless the 1,opA of the en-
ssn1y IS conyert tho Imp rtance ~