The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1915-07-30
UNCLE SAM STANDS FIRM
IN HIS NOTE TO GERMANY

consent TO abate any essential or fundamental
right of its people because Of a mere alteration
of circumstance. The rights of neutrals in time
of war are based on principle, not upon expedi-
ency, and the principles are immutable. Ii is
the duty and obligation of belligerents to find a
way to adapt the new circumstances to them.
Rsiterates Demand For PREPARATION.
The events of the past two months have clearly
indicated that il is possible and practicable to
conduct such submarine operations as have char
acterized the activity of the imperial German
navy within the socalled war zone in substantial
accord with the accepted practices Of regulated
warfare. The whole world has looked with in
terest and increasing satisfaction at the demon
stration Of that possibility by German naval
commanders. Il Is manifestly possible there
fore, 10 lift the whole practice of submarine at
tack above the criticism which Il has aroused
and remove the chief causes of offenee.
In view of the admission of illegality made by
the imperial government when 1t pleaded the
right Of retaliation in defense Of its acts and in
view of the manifest possibility of conforming
TO the established rules of naval warfare. the
government Of the United States cannot believe
that the imperial government will longer refrain
from disavowing the wanton act OF its naval COM
mander in sinking the Lusitania or from offering
PREPARATION for the American lives lost, so far as
reparation can be made for a needless destruction
Of human life by an Illegal act
heJeCtS Arrangement fEopOotu.
The government Of the United States, while
not indifferent TO the friendly spirit in which IL
is made cannot accept the suggestion of the i'm
perial government that certain vessels be desig-
mated and agreed upon which shall be free on the
seas now Illegally prescribed The very agree
ment would, by Implication. subject other vessels
10 Illegal attack and would be n curtailment and
therefore an abandonment of the principles for
which this government contends, and which In
times Of calmer counsels every nation would con-
cede as of course.
The government of the United States and the
imperial German government. contending for the
same great object, have long stood together in
urging the very principles upon which the gov
eminent of the United States now so solemny
insists. They are both contending for the free
dom OF the seas. The government Of the United
States will continue TO contend for that freedom
from whatever quarter violated. without com
promise and ut any cost. IL invites the practical
cooperation of the imperial German government
at this time when cooperation may accomplish
most and this great common object be most
strikingly and effectively achieved.
Hope Expressed For Cooperation.
The imperial German government expresses
the hope that this object may be in some measure
accomplished even before the present war ends
IL can be. The government Of the United States
not only feels Obliged TO insist upon il, by whom
soever violated or ignored, and in the protection
of it's own citizens, but Is also deeply interested
in seeing II made practicable between the bellig-
erents themselves, and holds itself ready at any
time TO act as the common friend who may be
privileged 10 suggest way.
In the meantime. the very value which this
government sets upon the long and unbroken
friendship between the people and government of
the United States and the people and government
of the German nation impels II 10 press very
solemnly upon the imperial German government
the necessity for a scrupuous observance of neu-
trail rights in this critical matter. Friendship
itself prompts IL 10 say 10 the imperial German
government that repetition by commanders of
the German naval vessels of acts in contraven-
ton Of those rights must be regarded by the gov
eminent of the United States when they affect
American citizens as deliberately unfriendlv.