The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-05-20

ISpringfeld Mass Republican
The note TO Germany meets the re-
ouirements and is such as the govern
ment Of the United States should ad-
dress to Berlin. The President leaves
little room for parley, and none other
than mouthings or rapture remains ior
lGermany.- Louisville Courier journal
We agree with the President that
the German government must explain
the loss of the lives OF American pas
senpers. but we do not think That the
death of Americans gives the President
the right to demand the cessation ol
I Germany's undersea warfare against
| British commerce so long as England
does not abrogate its starvation war
fare.-Louisvil Anzeiger
Whatever the fate of our relations
with Germany, the President undoubt-
edly has voiced the sentiment OF the ma
ton upon the use OF the submarine
and AS to the rights of neutrals on the
high seas. Chicago Tribune.
There is now no possibility OF mis-
taking the position Of our government
And it is a position in which the Amer
1 lean people will sustain their govern
ment in whatever measures may be
necessary to uphold it.-Chicago Her
aid
For the press of the whole country,
there is at present but one sacred duty,
TO leave nothing undone To avert inner
strife That we Americans of German
descent with a bleeding heart contem-
plate the possibility OF an armed con
nict between the United States and
the land Of our farefaJhers, no fair
minded person will condemn us for,
There still is hope for an honorable
understanding on both sides May
Providence grant the worst be avert
ed.-St. Louis Die WeStiche Post.
The note is disappointing in that it
disregardS the Just complaints OF Ger
many and appears TO espouSe the cause
Of Great Britain. We think that the
difficulty admits of satisfactory solu.
ton 10y advising American citizens TO
travel on American vessels Unwit.
tingly the President shelters British
ships immune TO German attacks by
taking American passengers aboard
Cincinnati Volkshlatt,
The part OF the note dealing with
! the loss Of lives In the Lusitania catas
trophe more properly ought TO have
been directed TO London. England
alone is responsible for the Lusitania 5
destruction through her brutal threat
TO starve nation. Germany cannot
stop the undersea warfare without sur
rendering herself bound hand and foot
to a brutal enemy. We are not obliged
and have no right to set up ourselves
rs The protectors of British shipping.
CINCINNATI Free Presse,
President Wilson has not shirked a
grave responsibility The American
note clearly shows that Germany must
relent or take whatever consequences
we may decide TO adopt Boston Globe,
President Wilson has never written
a great state paper more exactly suited
20 the occasion We hope most fer
vently that in spirit Of reasonableness
/ Germany will coincide with the en-
! lightened position set forth with clari
~ and power 10y the President,-Bos-
ton Herald.
The administration has spoken and
spoken to the point The German
/ government cannot have the slightest
doubt rs TO its meaning. viii Ger
many listen TO the voice OF prudence
before it is TOO late Philadelphia
Public Le'ger
The note is In every respect mas
lerIy document 1t puts the German
/ government sqaarelyin the position Of
choosing whether it will obey the die
latca Of conscience, reason and human
iIty and retain the friendship Of the
United States or accept the stigma Of
an outlaw nation and deliberately pro
woke new quarrel. There can be no
installing the concluding paragraph of
the American note i hiladelphia
Record.
We do not remember ever having
written an aryicle with heavier heart.
While we compose it, we are under
pressure Of the most cruel situation
which An American citizen Of German
extraction may have to face That
which has always appeared to us not
only rs the direct calamity that could
beialI us, but also as the most heiuous
crime that could be committed against
civilization, has apparently at least be-
come possibility a war between the
Two countries dearest and nearest TO
our hearts. On one side there is no
sentiment more natural and more beau
, tpiul than the loving attachment to he
country whore our cradle stood That
this attachment could only be deepened
and intensified by the war that has
been forced upon Germany and by the
vile ISLANDERS that have been heaped
~ upon her, every justly thinking man