Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-29
EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS
(COntributed.)
OUR PROPHECY.

President Wilson's note to Germany
gives assurance:
That the lives of American citizens
will be respected by German sub
marine commanders.
That there will be no war with Ger
many.
That Mr.. Wilson will be reelected
President of the United States.
There is safety in the consummate
stated his demands for observance Of
a principle of war-force that is i'm
portant not only to the people of this
country but to every unarmed man
who sails the seas.
The position of the United States as
a world power may have been doubted
yesterday. Today it is known around
the world that it shrinks from no re-
sponsibility that adherence to a vital
principle may place upon it. We are
not hunting for dollars to heal the
hurt of past offences, but Germany
will understand that every American
life and every American dollar is be-
hind the Presidents demand for OBJ
servance of the principle that was vio-
lated when the unarmed men, women
and children on the Lusitania were
sent to their death, and this clear-cvt
understanding will mean peace be-
tween the United States and Germany
and safety-combatants at sea.
The people of the United States will
not permit the premature retirement
from office of the man who in the
storm and stress of gigantic war can
so vitalize and visulise a principle.
lie is too great an asset for law and
order in the world.
Here is the note, boiled down:
1.-The assumption by the United
States that Germany by declaring her
warfare to be a retaliatory
measure against the alleged unlawful
acts of her enemies, has admitted that
the destruction of unresisting mer-
chantmen without warning is illegal.
3.-German submarine commanders
already have proven that they can save
the passengers and crews of vessels
and can act in conformity with the
laws of humanity in making war on
enemy ships.
3.-The United States cannot allow
the relations between the belligerents
~ 1nnrofn in ny MO nc on ahh-oyso
ton of the rights of neutrals and
therefore any violation of the prin-
ciples for which the American Coy
eminent contends. resulting in a loss
American lives will be viewed as
"unfriendly."
4.-The representations which the
American government has made in
previous notes for disavowal of the in
tention to sink the Lusitania with
American aboard and the request for |
are reiterated with renew
insistence.
5.-The American Government re-
alize the unusual and abnormal con-
ditions which the present conflict has
created in the conduct of maritime
war and is willing to act as an inter
mediary as between the belligerents
to arrange a modus vivendi or am
other temporary arrangements which
Go not involve a surrender by the Uni
ted States of it's rights.
6.-The proposals made by Germany
to give immunity to American ships |
Lot carrying c~ontraband and to four |
belligerent ships under the American
flag, are rejected with the emphati
assertion that tO accent suc0 s.zAeS-
ton would be to admit Germany's |
to set aside the American con.
based on fundamental princi-
pies in international law-that neu-
trails may travel anywhere on the high
on unresisting ships of any ma
tionality even if carrying c~ontrabapd.