Arizona republican., 1915-08-21
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ranged of any munitions or other fac | tory and none is in contemplation. While Germany and Austria -Hunl garia had hoped that there would be an embargo and have been expecting | that the action of Great Britain in seizing control of the seas against neu- tral countries and in destroying neu- tral commerce in violation of interna- tional law would result in prompt re- prisals of that character we have still considered it our right and duty while Great Britain continues it's piracy on
 the high seas to endeavor to protect ourselves against this course of inter- national brigandage by stopping the exportation of war materials to the all lies wherever it can be accomplished whether by our purchase of factories or of war materials even though we are not in a position at this time to make further use of them in our own defense
 ''l am unable to understand on what theory our action in that direction should be the subject of criticism. If we had the means and the opportunity we would buy every munitions factory
 in the United States in that way we COulI httD tOllS lIpll lilt tIItliy , we should, however, still earnestly urge and insist, as we do that it is unjust to require us to protect ourselves in that way if it Were possible to so which it is not, and that your government should protect it's commerce with us I and should not permit it's citizens to be
 made the Chief instruments of the | wholesale slaughter that is now devas- ftarr Tf n in
 the nature of bad faith or inconsistency in that attitude I confess to being too obtuse to be able to appreciate it. As further evidence of the utter l worthlessness and misleading charac- ter of the publications of which I com = plain, I beg herewith to quote from an 1 official document filed by the German embassy with the date stamp of June E. 1915, from which you will note that so far from our then contemplated pur- ! chases of war materials having been l secretly conducted, our intentions are | fully explained to the state department accompanied by the offer to resell to 1 the United States government any or
 all of the materials purchased. If the | German government during the course ! of the war should consider it advisa ble
 
 | war material in the United States it could do so for no other purpose than Ito prevent it from falling in the hands | of the allies her enemies, the right of Germany to effect such purchases | could not be questioned. Such pur- chases could not form a danger to the | United States but would, to some eX- | tent, serve as a limitation upon cas- ualties of war, thus serving humanity, [ such purchases would further more serve the particular interests of the | United states. For it must be renem .
 bered that if the German government | should ever consider it advisable to | purchase war materials in the United l States it would do so knowing that de- 1 livery in Germany could not be secured | and that no use of the purchased ma
 terial could be hoped for during the
 war.
 It will readily be understood, there | fore. that the German government
 would at any time be willing, and in deed. glad to sell and transfer to the l United States government any or all of