The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-15

While horror and rage are the key
 notes Of the editorial treatment of tho
 Lusitania tragedy In the metropou
 tan press. Q measure Of restraint va.
 exhibited In the matter of suggesting action by this nation. This restraint however. is strained ln spirit. Thus the New York Tribune concludes a stirring editorial head, "As Americans with Jhis significant paragraph:
 The Nation which remembered the Maine win not forget the civil ians Of the Lusitania
 The editorial begins:
 "For every American citizen one fact will stand out clear and beyond all else this morning. In defiance not alone of every principle of information al law. but of every dictate of com. mon humanity. American men. wo- men and children. citizens of this neu- tral nation. have been exposed Co death. have perhaps been actually murdered by German war craft For this murder there is no justification outside of that law of necessity parad- ed by the German chancellor in the opening hours"
 Likened To 8arbary Pirates
 Further, the Tribune says
 From this tragedy we shall now turn to Washington. More than a century ago when this nation was weak and its people were lacking in all the resources Of great power. is made answer to the pirates Of the Barbary coast. who asserted a prerog- alive less intolerable than that which is now asserted in Berlin. and execut- ed upon the high seas No voice will be raised, no effort will be made to force the hand to hasten the action of the President of the United States. but neither he nor any other official in our government can mistake the temper In which fellow citizens will wait. They will wait with the cas- ualty list in hand and then 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 anarchy"
 Guifllght Case More Vital
 More tolerant and less militant is the New York Sun editorial evident. | ly written before the full extent of loss of life was known.
 Technically and logically" says the Sun. the concern of our govern ment with this sensational event is almost incomparably less than in the case of the GulGight The Sun ar. sues that there is mot further req son for national excitement; no oc- ,asion for pressure upon the admin stratiou for action more emphatic han that which has already been un- lertaken in the cases of the Frye. he Falaba and the Gulilight" Still the Sun finds in it's conclud- ] ng words as follows. That lt was we know; that it was eckiess of innocent noncombatant ives We are sure, and dastardly is 2 -r "~-~ "+t A"i-AAeAo lA AAANA ANtlAA iAlo his morning.
 Under the Black Flag
 The Philadelphia Ledger heads its Piracy" and on the same age is found a cartoon showing the $ ierman spiked helmet sailing the seas nder the black flag "Only one word I haracterizes the policy og Germany D the matter" says the Ledger. that ( 'ord is piracy There is no shadow ( ( an excuse for its military 'neces- ity', but the Ledger advises the coun- Q ry to reserve it's Judgment, keep q ool and raise no sudden cry for re- 7 enge until all the facts are known" The New York World In long q ditorisl. refrains from making sug- ' estions. Predicting its remarks with T ie statement that the circumstances Q the destruction of the Lusitania 1