The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-08-20
AMERICAN BUSINESS
men IN PARIS PASS
ON LUS|TAN!|A Loss
Through Their Chamber Of Com
nnerCe They Condemn Sink.
+. Ing Of Big Liner

The wave of Outrage and horror that
swept over America at the sinking OF
the Busitania by 1 German submarine
dashed equally high in the American
Chamber Of Commerce of Paris, re.
port Of whose deliberations and reso.
lutions on the subject has just been re-
ceived here by AlfredTJ. Goodrich, a
member of the chamber as well as Of
the Societe des savants, and a so.
journer in the Islands. 49,. 81.
One might expect that such body
would be composed almost entirely Of
Americans Of French and English de.
scent, but Of the forty.four members
present Fifteen have names Of Nunmis.
takeatly Teutonic origin, such a Held
elbach, Loeb, Lambrecht, Berg, Selig.
man, Grunwaldt and the like.
President Piexotto's Address y
After the meeting had been called 70
order President M. p. Peixotto, who
presided, said: IS
"We are assembled here today not
to give individual expression Of our
feelings, but as body of representa-.
! tive American business men-as the
largest American organization beyond
the frontiers of our country-to ex.
press our sentiments Of indignation and
horror at the ahominahle and cowardly
crime committed in the sinking of the
Lusitana, IT,.
at is proper and fitting to state
that we speak not so much as busin.rs
men, but simply as meaA-as civilized
beings-and above and beyond Al, as
American citizens.
at is therefore equally fitting and
timely that, as American citizens, we
| give aome visible form to our solemn
| protestation by adopting resolutions
which will place on record on the one
| hand our horror of crime, our CONTEMPT
ut the sight Of science itself being de-
based to the degrading level Of an in
strument Of torture, cruelty and ba"-
| barism; and on the other hand to reg.
lister our abiding faith in the go'nrn-
ment of the United States TO maintain
| the laws Of honor and hunnaI'.y and
| the free exercise of their civIl and in
| tPrraticnal rights by American citizens
! on land and sea throughout the
! worll - r
Resolutions Are Adopted
Gen. Hereshoff Bartlett then pc.
scented the following resolutions:
| "Whereas, BY the treaty between
thu Urited States and Prussia of Iulv
| II, 1893, still in force, II is provided
| that If war should arise. between the
two contracting parties all women aud
children, and, in general all others
whose occupations are for! the. common
subsistence and beneftF H mankind,
| shall not be molested inNtheir persons,
nor shall their houses or goods be de-
stroyed by the armed force Of the en-
envy, into whose power, by the events
Of war, they may happen to fail: and
Whereas, II nou-cOmbatants of the
two nations when at war are not tn j."
molested in their persons nor their
goods destroyed, then so much more
should the citizens of the two powers
be safeguarded and protected when
neutral and not at war; and
| "Whereas, In violation and dPNh-
crate evasion of the principles of this
treaty and in defiance of everv law, nv.
man and divine, Germany has with
cold blooded generalization murdered
helpless and defenseless American citl.
| zens, men, women and children, Will"
on the high seas as passengers on b0rrl
the Lusitana, an unar med Bri ish me-.
chant shipj now, therefore. be II
| Principles Of Treaty Violated
"Resoived, That the America0
Chamber of Commerce in Paris regar Is
the killing OF American citizens, MN,
women and children, on board the Lns'
tana as nothing less than deliberate,
premeditated murder, and an inten-
tiOdal violation Of the underl ring hria-
ciDles of the treaty Of 1893. ana views
with grave apprehension this wanton
| ~ "A an.tn,,.
mensre to the lives and pronerty 1T
American citizens at time when thu
United States Is not at war; and be II
further
"ResoIved, That this. chamber mr.,
tests in the most solemn manner against
the torpedoing of the I,rsitana on the
high seas, without provision of time or
opportunity for assuring the safety Of
the passengers and crew, as 1diabnIi'.
cal act Of perfidv on the part Of Ger.
many; as breach OF every rule and
principle Of international law, and as
contrary to the moral oElig ti9n of on"
civilized nation toward anothcri and be
IL further
"Resolved. That this chPmber con
siders that the dignity Of the United
States, and it's duty toward evefv one
Of its citizens, demand that condigh
and exemplary satisfaction be e~Petnd
for the perpetration Of this criminal
act of savagerv, and that prompt an
effective measures be taken TO assure
throughout the world the safety of
American citizens wherever Aheir reae".
full and lawful pursuits may lead
them"
1t was unanimously voted to cable
these resolutions at once to the Presi.
dent of the United States.
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