The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-30
GerQrdReceiues Pres. Wilson 'sNote

ed with interest and increasing sails
faction at the demonstration q that
possibility by German naval command
ers. It is manifeatly possible. there
fore. to lift the whole practice or
submarine attack above the CRITICISM
which it has aroused and remove the
chief cause Of Of.enSe.
In view of the admission Of lie
gality made by the imperial German
government when it pleaded the right
of retaliation in defense OF its acts,
and in view of the manifest POSSIBLE
ity of conforming TO the established
rules Of naval warfare, the govern
ment Of tie United States cannot be-
leve the imperial government VIII
longer refrain from disavoWing the
wanton act of its naval commander IN
sinking the Lusitmia or from offering
| reparation for the American lives LOST,
| so far as reparatiOn can be made f0T
needless destruction of human life by
an illegal act.
"The government Of the United
States, while not Indifferent to the
, friendly spirit in which it is made.
cannot accept the suggestion OF the
imperial German government that GER
tain vessels be designated and agreed
upon which shall be free upon the seas
now illegally prescribed The very
agreement would by implication, sub
ject other vessels to illegal attack and
would be a curtailment and. therefore.
an abandonment of the principles for
which this government contends and
which in times Of calmer counsels
every nation would concede as mat.
. ter Of course.
deliberately Unfrendly.'
:. THE government Of the United
States and the imperial German gov
eminent are contending for the same
y great object, have long stood together
:, in urging the very principles upon
which the government of the United
States now so sOlenmly insists, They
are both cOntending for the freedom
~ of the seas. The government Of the
70 United States will continue to contend
- for that freedom, from whichever quar-
ter violated, without compromise and
at any cost. 1t invites the practical
ed cooperation of the imperial German
IT. government at this time when co-ope
II ration may accomplish most, and tn.
lie common object he most strikingly AM
10 effectively achieved.
re 1.-THE imperial German government
at expresses the hope that this objec
ce may in some measure be accomplished
to even before the present war ends.
to can be. The government of the Unit
ed States not only feels obliged to II
mt sist upon it, by whomosover violates
W. or ignored, in the protection of it
lot own citizens, but is also deeply inter
mt ested in seeing it made practicable be
gu tween the belligerents themselves, ant
rn- holds itself ready at any time to &C
I'd as the common friend who may b.
W. privileged to suggest way.
is an the meantime, the very valu
w. which this government sets upon tn
re. long and unbroken friendship between
TO- the people and government of tn
IT United States and the people and gov
rs eminent of the German nation impel
yer it to press very solemnly upon the i'm
ba perial German government the neces
To sity for a scrupulous observance o
3w neutral rights in this critical matter
de- Friendship itself prompts it to say t
ais the imperial German government tina
.ic. repetition by the commanders Of Gel
to man naval vessels Of acts in contrs
vention of those rights must be RI
garded by the government Of tn
United States, when they affect Amer
ny can citizens, as deliberately III
-. friendly.
Wv LANSING"