Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-12

cape. But it is sometimes worse to es-
cape than to suffer.
The Louisville Times.-Two months
after the sinking of the Lusitania Ger
many not only ignores every request
made for reparation, but imposes rules
and regulations of its own making, in
disregard of neutral rights and inter-
national law, with which no self
respecting government can comply. 1t
is impossible to see how negotiations
between the two governments can con-
unue on this basis. 1t would seem
that the time has come for Mr.. Wilson
to act.
Louisville Evening Post. - Nothing
more arrogant, nothing constructed
with more studied offense
has ever been sent in note to any in
dependent power. If the Kaiser had
swept the navy of the United States
from the seas If he had bottled up the
navy of Great Britain, as his own is
bottled up, he could not have added a
single word of offense to the note ves-
terday sent to Ambassador Gerard.
Yesterday the President re-
fused to discuss such propositions. We
doubt not he will do so to-day.
Boston Transcript.-without equivo-
cation and with a politeness Extensively
insinuating, Germany rejects each and
all of our demands and attempts to
bargain with respect to the future
What right have we to retain
a seat among the self-respecting ma
tons OF the world If we abandon our
dead to their fate and bargain with. the
murderers for the safety of our living?
Rochester IN. W Post-Express.-
The irreducible minimum of the Presi-
dents demands having been rejected
In principle, 1t seems reasonable to
conclude that the next note Of our
State Department will be dispatched at
once and will be concisely worded
reiteration of our contentious. Unless
the two governments are in agreement
as to the principles involved. any dis
cussion of details must manifestly be
fruitless.
Hartford Comm Times.-The spe-
cious trickeries of the German note
which now again forces us to confront
serious situation are hardly worth
discussion. The pretense of CO.
operation in the refinement" of
human destruction Is thin. The sug-
gestion of neutralized ships is in the
nature of condescension and a bribe.
The salient fact remains that. in sub
stance, we have insisted Germany
shall abandon submarine warfare
against merchant ships, and Germany
has refused.
The Indianapolis News.-The note
or the German government entirely
fails to meet the issues The note is
disappointingly and discouragingly un-
satisfactory.
Chicago JournaI.-The German note
gust received in Washington is one of
most inEnlanf a RI cfx
ever addressed by the government of
one great nation to that of another. It
fails to offer any reparation or apology
FOR the killing of Americans on the
Lusitania and other vessels. Clearly
the Jingo, Reventlow brand of states
manship is in control. 1t remains to
b., seen whether President Wilson can
discover any peaceful method of MAX
ing such Jingoes respect American
rights
Chicago Daily News.-The latest Of
fetal German reply discloses that in
Berlin the safety of American lives is
still! in minor consideration as COM
pared with the safety of Germa n
crews of submarines. This
nation cannot concede that war is now
the worlds chief business and that
peaceful nations have few or no rights
that nations at war are bound to re-
spect.
st. Louis Post Dispatch.-No matter
how profoundly one may sympathize
with Germany in her present situation
with regard to ocean trade, 1t Is i'm
! possible to accept either the reasoning