White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-10-31
War on Women.

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hands of German executieners was a
foolish bit of barbarism. even though
it should accomplish the desired end
of terrorizing all others who might
contemplate offenses similar to hers,
saws the Salt Lake Herald-Republi-
can. The good opinion of the world
ought to be worth something even To
a German superman, whose only law
is exDediency. One wonders whether
to marvel more at the cruelty, or al
the faulty, of the German authori-
ties in Belgium.
Won der Lancken, the Christian Of
ficer and gentleman, who, as German
governor of Belgium, approved Miss
Cavell's death sentence and lied about
it to the American ambassador, could
have done Great Britain no greater
service than the murder of his I'M
fortunate woman. What British pa
triotism could not effect for the re-
cruiting officers, British eagerness
for e may possibly accomplish.
If there existed in England any
doubt as to what might be expected
if Germany eonquers, visions of a
terror-stricken woman bravely facing
a German firing-squad should re-
move it. If civilization has question
ed whether a German triumph would
be an unmixed evil. it need question
no longer.
1t is not greatly material what
course Berlin selects to stem the
rising tide of world mitigation as 1t
SLOWLY learns the terrible details of
Miss Cavells taking off. Whether
the German government prefers to
follow the familiar custom of deny
ing the facts, or admits them and
pleads military necessity as justifica-
ton, the result will be the same.
None can forget that Germany first
denied responsibility for the murder
of the Lusitania women and children
by citing the alleged explosives that
vessel carried, then when that excuse
proved baseless, justified the whole
sale crime by the plea of necessity.
Stimulating of recruiting in Eng
land is not likely to be the only price
Germany will pay for her cruel act.
That nation has frequently before, by
barbarism that aroused world horror,
Numbered into protecting Great
Britain from the logical consequences
of British interference with neutral
commerce. The United States gov
rment was preparing its protest to
England against the unlawful re-
strictions imposed upon commerce
when the Lusitania horror stopped
all preparations and turned American
indignation against Germany. With
the adjustment of the questions that
outrage created, Washington was re-
newing Its attention to British illegal
methods at sea when this new afro
city again aroused wonder whether
the allied cause as the apparent
champion of civilization, should not
be actually permitted without pro-
test to use every means at its COM
mand to defeat Germany.
1t is the essence of Great Britain's
defense of her unlawful circumscrip-
ton of neutral that her
measures are essential to Germany's
defeat and that such result Of the
war is as necessary to American as
to British interests. Americans have
been slow to accept this view. but the
latest revelation OF German ideals
and habits of thought, as exemplifed
in the execution of Miss Cavell, will
quicken the process. A nation that
makes war in that way should be
thoroughly beaten by somebody and,
though American commerce may suf-
fer during the operation, the per-
manent good should outweigh the
temporary inconvenience.