Evening journal., 1915-09-10

After all, it cannot be said that the
American people have utterly chang
cd their character in half a century.
North and South we fought long and
desperate war for the things that we
on either side of the Mason and Dixon
line believed we're right. No one
wants to fight now; not any cnnsid-
cradle fraction of the nation wished
to fight then But in 1861 there we're
millions OF Americans who believed
that war, civil war at that, was more
! tolerable than the peace that was
possible Dishonor was not tolerable
after three years of war had turned
a larger area Of this country into a
desert than has yet been swept by the
great war in Europe.
We want nothing from Germany
and Austria but those things which
are guaranteed to us by all the laws
that nations have accepted in their
dealings with each other We ask no
favor, CONCESSION" special privilege.
But il despite this. Germany contln-
ues to murder our citizens on the
high seas and Austria proclaims her
right to foment strikes and disorder
within our boundaries, what Is there
left to do but TO take those steps to
protect our lives and our own peace
which are required py the circum-
stances German and Austrian acts
create
There is not an ounce of chauvin-
ism, of passion, Of violence, ir Amer
lean feelings today But the patient
man is forever proverbialiy danger
{ Gus when too long molested We have
,. In. in fc-
tory Patiently Americans are getting
/ tired Of patient which only invites
more murder, new outrage, greater
insult. Let Mr.. Wilson and his ad.
t visers look about them and a little
/ more carefully into the minds oil
p their fellow-countrymen They viii
e find a new spirit beginning to stir
r. 1t is not a spirit of Violence but il
r is a spirit of determination. If there
p is nothing to be gained by pacific
p measures-and so far the profit hal
S been measured in words and the losl
r. In deeds and lives-then the growing
r desire of the American people is tina
D there should be an end Of pacific
measures and a resort to something
r. more definite.
r. Dumba should go home He shoul'
+ be sent home without delay and with
il out the smallest consideration for hi
J. feelings or those of his country Tn
a thing he did was an intolerabl
n thing; if IL was done at the comman
e Of his government, it was an act de
p liberately unfriendly" To attempt Z
e make civil war in a friendly natio
v. is a crime against that nation. Abov
r all, when the right thing TO do.is un
k mistakable. let Mr.. Wilson and hi
,r advisers consider that Americans ar
IS more anxious that this should be don
D. than they are over the consequence
-e of doing it.
a. The frontier between an honest an
lt honorable desire to keep peace an
'e authentic cowardice is hard to fix e1
At actly. Until it is approached tn
10 Americans will give every supper
re to their President. What is becomin
Sc a cause for ap,r rehension all over tn
country is the dread lest the countr
is and the administration are gettin
Id uncomfortably close to this frontie
Mt And there is no more cowardice
IN this country today than there W;
IN nearly century and a half ag
az when a few farmers in Lexington an
ay Concord challenged the British en-
nd pire in defence Of rights which wei
he established neither in domestic n,
20 international law.
a Ambassador Dumba should ha'
a his passports without ceremony
Austria should be asked to explain.