The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1915-05-13
REINSURANCE OF INFLAMMA
BILE SENTIMENT.

BILE SENTIMENT.
According to dispatches and to If
dividual mental expectancy, seldor
has a public pronouncement bee
awaited with SO much interest a
that delivered by the president las
night. This expectancy was not due
among responsible thinkers, to the
slightest anxiety that the pronounce
ment would be truculent or provoca-
tive, but as to the sort of moral judg-
ment that would be declared concern
ing the recent catastrophe produced
by German arms. The address, on
an occasion so excitative and tense,
has fully justified the nations conf
dence in the presidents profound
wisdom and miraculous divination of
the composite national conscience.
The widespread Importance of the
event consisted, as we understand, in
the fact of the United States now be-
ing in singular degree the exponent
of the world thought and world NOR
atty in International relations and
conduct. Here, for the first time
since Rome decayed and fell, is an
authority to which the universe looks,
and must look, for right feeling and
right doing in the stupendous crash
of nations and continents by which
morality is beset. Here, no less
than on the battlefield, history is be-
ing made and law written which in
time will be the law of nations.
1t is right and it is necessary that }
this nation, SO free and so unafraid,
should speak and should declare the Q
law on one subject as we'll as on an 9
other where there is now chaos and c
eclipse. We declare the law as to q
cargo of copper or as to the disposal c.
of hulk. Truly there is no less v
reason as to why we should not de- u
clare the law as to great shipload
Of innocent and happy human life, C
If strong men, tender women and "
little babes, plunged into III
eternity as candle is snuffed out or Gu
Is fire consumes dry grass. DC
Certainly this law is not accepted, WI
or the moment, by those at whom it nc
$ directed, for very obvious reasons, pu
lst as other law is, for the moment, re-
esisted or rejected by those at whom etc
is directed, but it becomes law pa
evertheless and becomes the voice PEI
Christendom. In the present case, EST
lpreme considerations of national col
trivial prevent the affected nation nat
titles from observing any law save TWO
e law of might and destruction, but VIII
at does not weaken the validity or pre-
e necessity for such a law but In
Their renders it more imperative. Oen
aerefore the United States is simply sue
rforming its plain and its highest pee
ty In the recurring circumstances aOi'
herein the distracted peoples of the wne
world betray themselves and yea
,ir very Creator in the paroxysms be
their mortal extremity. men
The president, it is noted, while croe
erving expressions of direct treat N.
mt to the customary channels of r.
lomstic procedure, treasures the L
rid as to the meaning of such ers,
atment as will hereafter be pre- has
ibed, and that reinsurance is all case
t is needed. 1t is needed for O.
poses of domestic tranquility as CT
! as for foreign opinion. It is !. A.
ely and it is sufficient The rest,
ltever it is, can now follow in due
rse without being misjudged and 80
aout misleading public sentiment -
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