TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1915-05-31
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persons in Germany. At the hmt
she protested that the English
orders In council violated the rights
al ncutfals and notified the world
that II those orders stood Il would
force her 20 adop, q policy Of retail.
iation. Thst such a policy should
not inperil our rights We are al
agreed. Ii II equEIlY clear that
those same rights should not have
been impcfiled BY Englands orders
IN council. Yet they naee been and.
AZ against England, vi have voiced
only 4 weak protest which has been
forgotten while the British govern
ment has continued to treat our
commerce very much as II would II
we were at war with her. That wc
as the greatest OF the neutrals
should have called a sharp halt On
both EnFiand and Germany in the
beginning goes without saying Had
we done ihat there would have been
no submarine warfare Of the kind
that resulted in the horrible tragedy
OF the L~u.itania. Germany in her
reply is very likely not 10 overlook
that fact. She may also ask the
United States il our people are pre-.
pared to accept the consequences Of
entering INTO this war, and justify
il BY the fact that Americans fully
advised OF the situation embarked
upon a British auxiliary cruiser
which carried a cargo Of ammuni-
ton to be fired at Germans and
seven hundred British r~evergists
who were going home to kill Ger
mans. She might also ask us if we
proposed to hold a drawn sword
over her and forbid her TO interfere
with such vessels just provided a
few Americans were aboard. And
il she does ask those questions shall
our answer be that we propose to
make both Germany and England
obey the laws OF nations or will it
be that the kaiser must send his
submarines into dry dock! II We
were prepared 70 do now what We
should have done in the beginning
and call 4 halt on both IL is easy
to see that we might even now
vindicate the right and thereby as
sune the great place among nations
that we should occupy But If this
is going to narrow down to an ef-
fort to coercc Germany while we
leave England still the bully Of the
seas then the outlook we are afraid
is not %reassuring. II is moi war
that is TO be dreaded now SO much
as II is that we shall make ourselves
as ridiculous in this case as we did
in Mexico. Already II is forccasted
that unless Germany's answer salts
fees us we will not 20 TO war but
will sever diplomatic relations and
BY our superior moral attitude pill
Tory Germany In the eyes OF the
world as an outlaw. II we mistake
not that was identically the way we
tried to handle the Mexican situation
which resulted in nothing but maxi
ing us the laughing stock OF the rest
of the world.
We hope there will be no war.
We do not believe there will be
war. Germany win no doubt meet
us in a c%onciliatory spirit and will
10 as far as she thinks she safely
can to grant our demands and 10
make reparation. President Wilson
will have the support OF the Amer
lean people and only a little COM
mon sense at Washington should
speedily remove any danger OF drag
ging Us into a conflict for which we
are not prepared, for which there
is no good reason, which the people
DO not want, and from which we
could not emerge with either in
creased honor, glory or reward.