Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-12
One of tho Days Best Cartoons

LOUISVILLE, KY. May ll.-Under
the caption. The Heart of Christ
the Sword OF the Lord and Gideon"
Colonel Henry Watterson says in the
Courier-Journal:
THAT which the Courier Journal has
fearcd--which it has been for weeks
forecasting as likely to Happenings
passing peacefully TO ana from an
American port. carrying harmless
ships company of noncombatants. men.
women and children. many OF them
American citizens has, without chance
of escape or time for prayer. been
ruthlcssly sent to the bottom OF the
deep and some thousand or more gone
to their death, drowning and man
Eled by the murderous onset OF
German submarine.
Truly, tho nation of the Black
hand and the bloody heart has got
in its work. II has got in it's work.
not upon armed antagonists, in fair
fight on battle front, but upon the
unoifcnding and tho helpless. sailing
what has always been and should ever
remain, to the peaceful and peace
loving, Gods free and open sea.
Nothing in the annals Of piracy can,
in wanton and cruel ferocity. equal the
destruction of the Lusitania.
"Buc comes the query: What are we
going to do about it? Are we at the
mercy OF the insane Hohcnzollern, not
only through his emissarics sending
his odious system of government and
dcbasing theories OF castcism affect
ing superiority to our doors and pro-
claiming them, but bringing his war
OF conquest and murder across the line
of our transit and travel over the high
seas which arc ours to sail as we
list, without let or hindrance from
man or monarch. from him from
any one on land or water?
Sovereign or VnssaIt
Must we. as q people, sit down like
dogs and see our Ia US defcd, our flag
fiouted and our protests whistled down
the wind of this iordlings majestic
disdnin?
Must we, as a nation, emulate at
once the impotence and the docilty
Of China. and before such proof OF the
contempt in which arc held by him
and his. throw up our hands in on
treaty and despair. saying 10 the in
sistence Of autocracy. TO the insolence
OF vanity, Thy will is law?
What could the President have
meant when he declared that the gov
crrment of the United States would
hold the government of Germany to
strict accountability in the event that
its war zone pronunciamento resulted
in the loss Of the life OF single
american? How did he intend that
his countrymen should understand him
when he put forth his supplementary
protests? Are we a sovereign or are
we n vassal?
please God. as all men on earth
shall behold. We are 2 nation. Please
God, as Europe and all the world shall
know. we are Americans
TOO long already have we submitted
10 the free hand OF the foreigner at
ri oh
the FanGerman opaganda. Issuing
from the German embassy. led by the
German ambassador, erecting in the
heart OF our country 2 reasonable or
ganiZation TO support the German foray
upon Belgium and France and to con-
troll our own domestic politics, have
been ended.
"Rernstorff should have been severe
ly rebuked and warned to proceed at
his peril. For less Genet, the French
man. and Champion, the Englishman.
had been ordered away.
"Dcrnburg should never have got
beyond Ellis Island Harvard should
have sent Munsterbcrg packing. Rid
der should have been put under bond.
Tho followers Of these among the Ger
man Americans should have been given
the option of repeating their oaths OF
allegiance. with fresh guarantees for
good behavior, or being returned to
tho Fatherland they had fled TO es-
cape military service. to fight for their
blessed Kaiser directly under his i'm
perial eye and eagles.
"Bartholdt should have been prompt
~ expelled from Congress and driven
back to IIesse, where he came from
and belongs.
Some Good Americans.
"The poor and honest Germans of
the United States-those who came
here to better their fortunes and es-
cape despotsm and casteism; those who
when they took out their naturaliza
ton papers. confessing republicanism
and democracy, meant it: those who
have no interest, part or lot. with
Kaiserism, who ceased to be Germans
and became Americans should be res
cucd alike from the teaching and con-
tamination of the newly rich of Ger
mans, whose dearest hope is to 90
home and built castles on the Rhine.
and from the highbrow writer's and
herr doctors who worship at the shrine
OF the Iiohcnzollern, having learned
their lesson from the highbrows of
Heidelberg. Gottingen and Bonn
The Courier-J ournal will not 60 the
length of saying that the President
should convene Congress and advise
IL to declare against these barbarians
state Of war. This may yet become
necessary. Whilst actual war is not
nOSSt bln--Gerp,a having No Noo.