Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-05-15
SAVE GERMANY FROM GERMANY

What President Wilson described in his speech at the Associated
Press luncheon as the splendid courage OF reserve moral force has
lever been 10 commercially displayed than by the American people
in relation to the Lusnana, says the New York World.
Outside the inner circle of a subsidized German propaganda, there
seems to be only N opinion in this country. nat OPINION Is tn'
the torpedoing OF the Lusitania as cowardy an mmo'S ana 'n,
the American citizens who lost their lives we're urder IN cold oiooa
by deliberate act OF the German government.
AS Oscar Sraus says, the incident puts a tremendous strain upon
our neutrality" yet there is little froth or fury. The very gravity OF
the case has produced a corresponding soberness OF public OPINION
There is n o sentiment anywhere in favor OF nasty action; III mere Is
sentiment everywhere in favor OF a firm, dspassonate, uncompromsms
vindcaion OF lawful American rights o the part Of the United States
government
There is no disposition ito rock the boat" to use President Wilson's
expressive phrase; but there is a genedal disposition to insist that the
German government must stop rocking the boat.
The fact is commonly recognized, as the World expressed 1t yester-
day morning, that morally the sinking OF the Lustania Is II o worse hah
not lie merely in the destruction of this single passenger ship, how
yer great the loss; but in a policy of warfare that respects neither
friend or foe, neither neutral nor noncombatant' neither mn LOT
without discrimination OF ra or sS Or ano status App ~n~;uy U +o
German government, in its worship OF "schrecklchet is determined TO
recognize no law OF God or man, unless uch eeosh""h suits 'N "N
date purpose OF Berlin.
The main thing that concerns the American government today is
not the subordinate question OF reparation for the ASSASSINATION o
American citizens who we're travelling N thu Lusranra. 1t is tn
broader question of whether Germany al D re brought to lei senses
and induced to abandon methods of warfare that are crime agMnst
civilization and an ahont to humanity. That is great service whie'
the United States perhaps is Immediately capable in this cnsis Of render
ing OF only to its w people and to mankind in general ut to of-
many herself.
do not know whether Berlin a be made to understand that Germany
- ,o,terrc On te edge Of 4 moral pr@pice, AMI is menaced by a dis
aser more terrible and farreaching than anything which hostile arn
could bring. We do not known whether hi German eop e"ser
can be brought to realize the significance of hate and 'nfamy nat hs
are repairing to bequeath to their children and to their chhdrehs
children.
Nevertheless the American people and the American government
w it to their ideals and to their traditions and to their responsible
tiles as the greatest Of neutral nations to make asst ehort TO Drms
Germany to reason. All the injuries that hostile armies and hostile
navhs a nhict upon Germany are reparable. What now menaces
her is an injury OF her W connivrng' winch, II 1t Is ne INSTANT
checked, is bound to be irreparable. al the president OF te O"t0A
States save Germany from Germany? The importance OF nat service
is 10 great that it demands the utmost effort that NJ d"hlS"'no"
a exert.