Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1915-01-30
BRYAN APOLOGIES FOR ENG
LISH OUTRAGES.
LdltoriaI from Inc Irish World
OF this week.

OF this week.
Secretary Of State Bryan, in let
ter addressed to Senator Stone,
cones forward as an apolcgist for
the outrages England has committed
On the high seas upon American
commerce. If he were a hired at
torney for the British Foreign Office
he could not have indited o better
plea for ignoring the insults heaped
upon the American flag since the
present war began. Read the story
of Captain Farley the commander
Of the Greenbrier, and form your
own opinion Of the news set forth
by the person who holds the Office
once administered by such Americans
as Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Webs
ter. Seward, Blaine and other dis
tinguished American statesmen, who
placed the interests and dignity OF
their country above all other con-
siderations. Think you chat any
one Of them would have framed
pro-English brief, as Secretary
Bryan has done, in which the prac-
tice of holding Up American ships
on tho high seas is excused?
The case of the Greenbrier is o
sample or the contempt England has
been showing for American rights
The story as told by Captain Farley,
when epitomized, is this; tho Green
hrier with a cargo of cotton was
stopped by a British cruiser. A Brit
ish officer went on board and inn
pcriously commanded Captain Far
ley to show his papers. After read
ing them, the Britisher ordered the
Stars and Stripes to be hauled down
and the Union Jack TO be run up in
its place. The next order was for
Captain Farley to bring his ship
into an English pert.
But the man who was asked to
become a co-partncr in this act OF
English piracy had the blood OF the
fighting raco" flowing in his veins.
By this time. to quote an oft used
phrase. "hc had his Irish up" and
in emphatic language told his Eng
lish captors that they might 30 to
"Dayy Jones locker" before he
would obey their orders. His flag
was the Stars and Stripes and under
no other Gag would his ship proceed
with his consent. Seeing that he
could not be swerved from this fixed
resolution. the English officer put an
English crew on board and the
Grennbrier. with the Union Jack at
her masthead, proceeded on her
way.
From the moment that piratical
flag was hoistod over the Greenbrier
till the moment the Stars and
Stripes were again run up, an Amer
lean captain and an American crew
were English prisoners arrested on
the high seas for being engaged in
Legitimate commerce. A nation that
would humbly submit to having it's
citizens subjected to such indigni-
ties, would part voluntarily with its
self respect. Yet with the details
OF the outrage we are dealing with
before him, Secretary Of State Bryan
fashions this sehi-apolOgy for them:
THE fact that the commerce OF
the United States is interrupted by
Great Britain is consequent upon the
superiority OF her navy on the high
seas History shows that whenever
country has possessed such super
iority our trade has been interrupted
and that few articles essential to the
prosecution OF the war have been
allowed to reach its enemy from this
country"
What do these words mean2
What other Interpretation can be put
upon them except that might makes
right? Mr.. Bryan says: 'The fact
that the commerce of the United
States is interrupted byGreat Britain
(The seizure of the Greenbrier, for
instance, and the substitution of the
! Union Jack for the Stars and Stripes.
Ed. T. W) is consequent upon the
superiority of her navy on the high
seas" Such statement as this has
never before proceeded from the
State Department; and, for the honor
of the country, it is to be hoped that
never again shall any such be put
forth by any future Secretary Of