Bisbee daily review., 1915-12-26
CLUBBING AUSTRIA.

Our controversy with Austria represents new method
that have dropped the raper and taken club
It remains to be seen whether the big stick will prove
more effective than legal fnesse diplomatic courtesy
Certainly this seems more in consonance with this
straightforward American character
The Austro Hungarian capital, the most punctiliou'
place in Europe for diplomatic regularity fabber
gaated by the language of the note Washing
tcs Dec. 6. That demanded:
That the Austrian government should "denounce the
sinking Of the illegal and indefensble act
"That the submarine commander who perpetrated The
deed be punished;
THAT reparation by payment Of indemnity be made
for the citizens of the United States who we're killed OF
injured by the attack on the vessel"
That our government should make such imperative de
mands right off the bat without any mung of phrases
citing Of precedents choppng of logic unthnlS
able But far astounding the fact that the
proceeded administer to the imperial and roya
Hungarian government such a "bawling out" it ha,
probably never received from any otner power in all M
devious diplomatic history.
The attack on the Italian liner described ivan
slaughter of defenseless noncombatants" and "ar
act which is condemned by the world inhuman anC
barbarous which is abhorrent all civilized nations
That the rebuke stung the proud Austrian statesman
to the quick evident in their reply and s eyi
dent in the unofficial from Vienna, with echoes
from Berlin Much is made of the "crudeness and "ds
courtesy" of note
We might have Austria any crime under tn,
SUM- if had only politely But after one of he
fenseless ocean liner Smelling the helpless men, wome,
and children they tried scramble into the boats
Smelling the boats when launched and then torpedo
ing the ship before all the passengers able
hereafter all that exhibition of sheer brutality which the
Austrian government itself has formally sanctioned
condemned that feels bitterly agreved whor
verbal brutality drive the truth
her blind phrasemongering statesmen.
This the thing to understand about both Au
stra and Germany in the present war-their apparen
buntness of feeling useless and inexcusabe rrua
titles in their military methods, combined with alb
normal sensitiveness to words. Here in Americ,
less the slaves Of words and phrases, and pa.
more attention to the substantial facts the bottom
our controversies. There is question that the Amer
public viii support the government following al
its first harsh with virtual umatum. Austria
reply has been to the American mind pettfoggine
Of the sort by which Germany has long delayed settle
ment of Lusitana controversy and other matters
dispute The public like the president has patience
There is neither disposition repeat with Austria thu
tedious German negotiations of the past year Their
need
Austria bubbles when She processes ignorance Of on
Lusitana demands She equvocates when she professe
to be acting independently Germany And she is hope
lessy wrong both the facts of the Ancona case ant
the principles involved
the Ancona, variance with all the Austrian state
ments. The Austrian government, moreover, is con
demned even out OF its own mouth
It defends the Ancona attack first the ground tina
an enemy boat approaching; second that Their
was danger Of the Ancona escaping which according
the commanders Instructions was to be prevented in al
circumstances"
OF the first defense, there is evidence the
supported word Of the Austrian admiralty AS to tn
second it is illegal and barborous to act in the assumJ
tion that defenseless merchantmen may be prevente
from escaping under all circumstances" and by an
means whatever, not TO mention the murder tina
! accompanied the sinking of this ship
The club is the proper diplomatic weapon for this cas-
Austra-who started this brutal war-would not sui
NIT to mere argument She may, after little squirmini
submit to the clubbing If she doesnt-we can stand
severance Of diplomatic relations better than she can
THE FARM MORTGAGES