New Britain herald., 1915-11-08
lREAT BRITAIN GETS TT.

Edition, of the proper sort, al-
 stands in good. stead either for
 ndividual or for the state when
 Fure must be brought to bear in fcing some measure for justice
 onor. Thus it is that when the
 fd States in it's note to Great
 in protesting the illegal blockade
 Iermany and Austria Hungary
 it cannot submit to the curtail-
 of its neutral rights by measures ] h are admittedly retaliatory and
 hfore illegal it falls back upon
 wn good record as a belligerent
 challenges England to abide by
 lined law and order. Ther ein
 the effectiveness of the
 e American note protesting hst Great Britain's unlawful in- ' |rence with neutral trade. Secre-
 Lansing brought out the ethics
 lining to the whole affair when
 enned the following paragraph: The government of the United
 s desires, therefore, to impress
 earnestly upon his majesty's .rnment that it must insist that Relations between it and his maj
 s government be governed, not
 policy of3expediency, but by those
 blished rules of international con-
 upon which Great Britain in the
 has held the United States to
 unt when the latter nation was
 elIigerent engaged in struggle national existence. It is of the
 lest i'm mportance to neutrals not
 of the present day but of the fu-
 that the principles of interna- Al right be maintained unim- ed." hat is nothing more nor less than
 golden rule, the doctrine of do
 others as you would have them knto you" and it can be followed nations in their friendly relations 4 one another just as we'll as it 3 be practiced by individual per-
 This England is not doing with
 Limited States and has not been 1g since her illegal blockade was into effect under the Orders on |Incil of August 20, 1914, more than lear ago. Secretary Lansing has Iforth the case in it's entirety. He
 proven, that England is wrong.
 note needs not the threat or Sict accountability" or any other bnd reserve measure, for it shows I lat Britain the falsity of her ways 2such graphic style that child { ng might know and, having
 wn, rectify. The notes to Ger zhy had to undergo the process of Ihslation into foreign tongue, all
 which made for intense trouble. note. written in English, will be zsented in English and will have 3 final reading in English. There be, therefore, no chance of the Ztisn government mistaking the pur- #t or intention of the United Ites. All the charges against Great |tain are set forth in plain Eng h. If there is one charge that can made against the note it is it's tem- late language throughout, but this Inc way weakens it. Rather is the lire fabric made stronger by the he legal language employed by the Eretary of State. He has shown clear, concise terms that England E been guilty of outrages against Is nation and other neutrals. That holding up our ships upon the ghtest pretence she Is but fostering h strengthening her own commer- D welfare the world over, thus be- ming little better than common Ief. Now she IS called to the bar justice to answer these charges ainst her. If England still preserves 5 reason that is supposed to be hers ere is nothing left for her to do bur " her proud head in humiliation q admit her wrong, at the same 1e making proper restitution. When s American note warns England 1t it cannot "with compIace2ce e. further subordination of it's ,hts and interests and at the same ne brands the English blockade as defective, illegal, and indefensible, /" can be readily seen that the crisis at hand, that the issue must be ought to an end. that the United ates has declared itself once for all ne. Even though it be the wish every nation now at war, interna- . onal law will never go to the scrap a