Bisbee daily review., 1915-05-14
By W. K. Album

By ". \. Album
 On the evening of the dayNhat the Lusitania va, torpedoed with loss of 1900 noncombatant lives than 100 of them American newspaper men circulating through New York city observing public sentiment re ported these astonishing tacts
 A popular German restaurant on Fourteenth street was packed with GermanAmercans and their families celebrating whet they victory" The orchestra played only patriotic German tunes, and there was tremendous outburst of enthusiasm for Germany
 At the fashionable German club, according to th New York Tribunes report there joyous toasts the kaiser Admiral Trpitz and the submarine and the deed was pronounced "a masterstroke"
 There were similar expressions the Ho5rau Haus Broadway. The cashier heard to shout that he willingly have given $1O00 to hear this greatest b of news in many day" and patron, ordering drink for all around him. rejoiced loudly amid applause tha the passengers who dared to go to the warnn of the German embassy had "sot it good and plenty. At the Kaiserbof another well known German resta,. rant in the White Light district there ezhuberan satisfaction over the strategy" displayed and the ctr umph" attained
 A German catchng the bulletin board in Time. square shouted "Hurah for Germany" he read tn. lossof-fe bulletin and then complained that Amerlc was not free country when. after the inevitable hgh he preciptated. policeman took him away.
 Many Germans seemed saidened and distressed; bu generally where GermanAmericans gathered there wa. music and feasting and rejoicing if the news ha, come of great victory Amid the mourning of an Am erican city over a worldcalamity and the murder o scores of American citizens there such spirit O "Deutschlaud Uber Ales" would have been in ques onable taste even in Berlin this spirit t have been shown not only h New York but in seyera other cities of the United States.
 It is a melancholy thing to record these facts. | is hard for plain American-even one whose fathe was German as tho writer's was-to understand them The attitude revealed is as serious thing to the m ton as the deed that shocking expression of it.
 It is but a few weeks since many leading German Americans throughout tine United States were decar ing in spite Of their pronounced Teuton sympathies tina if it ever came a test real issue between German and their adopted country they first of al Amer icans." The testing time has oSme
 When American citizens, men, women and children going about their affairs in a purely innocent and eg innate way, are blown up and drowned by scores, b the deliberate of German vessel under order from the German government, it is time to draw tn line between things American and things German.
 The gravity Of the occasion demands no mincing o words The killing Of those Americans was murder It was an act Of war. Even if more such outrage occur it is going require the coolest and con duet and leadership in America to avert war. In an event. there is such need there has been b' fore for American unity.
 It should not be necessary to point out the cleo completeness Of Che American case against German, We have never recognized Germanys so-caled war blockade because it has standing in internation' law or practiye. Even if it were recognized we ca not admit Germanys right annul law and abolish h manity by destroying beigerents' merchant ships wl out giving the non-combatant passengers and crews chance to escape As for the presence Of Americans the Lusitania. British liner they had precisely much right there they would have had trolley running on the streets of their own cities. which ha penod to be owned by English capital The tl worlds free highways, in and for those goi1 about their own business. German fiat Berlin cann abolish immemoria law and egalize murder. No inte national authority in the world justify this crime
 It is an act of the sort concerning which Presde Wilson said in an official note Berlin "If such a porabe situation should arise,.... the government the United States would be constrained to hold u German government to -trict accouutsbilty.....