The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-05-11

countries with you. you come with the
purpose of leaving all the other coun-
! tries behind you, bringing what is best
of their spirit but not looking ovel
your shoulder or seeking to prepetu-
ate what you leave in them. 1t is one
thing to love a place where you were
born and another to dedicate yourself
to the place where you go. You can't
be Americans and think of yourselves
in groups
The president was constantly inter
rupted by spontaneous outbursts OF
applause. He spoke clearly. and sc
quiet was the audience of $4,000 that
he could be heard distinctly in al
parts of the great hall, ~
There was a tremendous ovation as
he finished his speech and returned
to his private car. due to arrive in
washington early tomorrow,
Applaud Loudly.
Some of the passages IN his speech
which the crowd applauded mos
loudly were these: 49,
II am sorry for a man who seeks
to make personal capital out OF the
passions of his fellow man. He has
lost the touch and ideal of America
for America was created to unite man
kind by the passions that life and
unite. and not by the passions that
separate and debase mankind.
Man who seeks to divide man from
man, group from group, interest from
interest in the United States is strik-
ing at its very heart" f2
IT was born in America. You
dreamed of what America was. to be,
end hope you brought the dreams
with you. No man who does not see
visions will ever realize any high
hopes or undertake any great enter
prise"
Berlin, via London, May 1.-THE
following dispatch has been sent by
the German foreign office to the Ger
man embassy at Washington:
Please communicate the following
to the state department: The Ger
man government desires to express it's
deepest sympathy at the loss of lives
on board the Lusitania. The RESPONSE
bility rests, however, with the British
government, which through its plan
of starving the civilian population of
Germany, has forced Germany to re-
sort to retaliatory measures.
In spite OF the German offer to
stop the submarine war in case the
starvation plan was given up, British
merchant vessels are being generally
armed with guns and have repeatedly
tried to ram submarines, so that a
previous search was impossible.
They cannot. therefore, be treated
as ordinary merchant vessels. A re ;
cent declaration made to. the British
Parliament by the parliamentary sec
retary in answer to question by Lord
Charles Beresford said that at the
present practically all British mer-
chant vessels were armed and provided
with hand grenades.
Besides, it has been openly admit
ted by the English press that the Lusi-
tania on previous voyages repeatedly
carried large quantities of war ma
terial. On the present voyage the
Lusitania carried 5,400 cases OF am
munition while the rest of the cargo
also consisted of chiefly of contra
band.
IF England, after repeated official
and unofficial warnings, considered
herself able to declare that that boat
ran no risk and thus light -heartedly
assumed responsibility for the human
life on board steamer which, owing
to its armament and cargo was liable
to destruction, the German govern
ment, in spite of it's heartfelt sym
pathy for the loss of American lives.
cannot hut regret that Americans felt
more inclined to trust to English
promises rather than to pay attention
to the warnings from the German side.
(Signed) Foreign Once"