The Green Forest tribune., 1915-07-30

warfare. The whole world has look ed with interest and increasing satis- faction at the demonstration of that possibility by German naval command
 CTS, It is manifestly possible, there fore, to lift the whole practice of submarine attack above the criticism
 which it has aroused and remove the
 chief cause of offenSe.
 "In view of the admission of ille-
 gality made by the imperial German
 government when 1t pleaded the right
 of retaliation in defense of its acts,
 and in view of the manifest possibil-
 ity of conforming to the established
 rules of naval warfare, the govern.
 ment of the United States cannot be-
 lieve the imperial government will
 longer refrain from disavowing the wanton act of its naval commander in sinking the Lusitania or from offering reparation for the American lives lost, so far as reparation can be made for a needless destruction of human life by an illegal act.
 The government of the United States, while not indifferent to the friendly spirit in which it is made, cannot accept the suggestion of the imperial German government that cer- tain vessels be designated and agreed upon which shall be free upon the seas now illegally prescribed The very agreement would, by implication, sub- I0a y1D,- oI, |. would be a curtailment and, therefore, an abandonment of the principles for which this government contends and which in times of calmer oounsels every nation would concede as a mat ter of course.
 "Deiberately Unfriendly."
 The government of the United States and the imperial German gov ernment are contending for the same great object, have long stood together in urging the very principles upon which the government of the United States now so so1enmly insists They are both contending for the freedom of the seas. The government of the United States will continue to contend for that freedom from whichever quar- ter violated, without compromise and at any cost It invites the practical cooperation of the imperial German government at this time when co-ope- ration may accomplish most, and this common object be most strikingly and achieved.
 "The imperial German government expresses the hope that this object may in some measure be accomplished even before the present war ends. It can be. The government of the Unit [ ed States not only feels obliged to iH- sist upon it, by whomosover violated or ignored, in the protection of it's : own citizens, but is also deeply inter- ested in seeing it made practicable be- Ween the belligerents themselves, and lolds itself ready at any time to act IS the common friend who may be privileged to suggest way
 Tn the meantime, the very value which this government sets upon the ong and unbroken friendship between he people and government of the United States and the people and gov ,rnment of the Gerx.an, nasiea' i'st's,s. ss' sf'e.s - . s' .s..o.a s.t llnesx xea upol' Ghs i'm eriaT German gover1A mt the neces- ity for a scrupulous Observance of eutral rights in this critical matter. 'rienship itself prompts 1t to say to he imperial German government that epetition by the commanders of Ger nan naval vessels Of acts in contra ention of those rights must be re- ,arded by the government of the United States, when they affect Ameri.