TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1915-07-26
The areatest Crime of the War.

| OF the overrunning OF Belgium, o
the injury TO cathedrals. or the drop
ping Of explosive bombs upon quie
towns, but the fact that England. II
the hope to suppress rival. has turn
ed loose the Mongol. with all tha'
this fact means In the future Of th'
world. The brunt Of the evil con
sequence will fall not on Germany
but on America. And the next most
wicked event was the agreement
England made with Japan that she
would not cease to Tight until Japan
should be satisfied.
Americas Supreme Duty.
1t is entirely plain what the course
Of America ought to have been In this
gigantic struggle. The duty imposed
upon her by the fact that she was the
most influential OF the non -combatant
countries was TO assert the rights OF
neutrals with such frmness as TO
command respect and to give proof
that she was not pretending to be
evenly poised between the belliger-
ents while really helping one OF them.
Here was her opportunity TO give
reasonable extension TO those rights.
What We Ought to Have Told Europe
She ought TO have told Germany
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tion for selling arms and ammunition
TO whomsoeyer We pleased. and II We
refrained II would be because OF those
humanitarian sentiments which Mr..
Wilson 80 unctuously upholds in his
recent letter. She ought to have told
England that II We wanted to buy
ships We would buy them from the
Germans or from any one else who
had them TO sell We ought to have
demanded the right OF neutrals to
have some part In determining what
shall be contraband Of war. and not
to have permitted the belligerents to
say that oil. copper, cotton. food and
everything else that we have to sell
were included in that class. We ought
TO have told England that the North
Sea was an open sea and that We
proposed. IL need be. to 20 there and
trade. We ought to have forbidden
the use OF our flag as means OF en-
abling belligerent vessels to sneak
safely into their home ports.
Ought to Have Warned Warship Of
Beligerents OF Our Coast.
The three mile limit OF jurisdiction
along the coast was fxed in the days
OF sailing vessels. Now that guns
send their balls and bombs fifteen
miles. Il is an obsolete and ineffective
rule. II England docs not hesitate 10
declare the North Sea closed. and
Germany TO declare the waters |
around the British Isles war zone. |
II 10 high time that something OF .
like kind be done In behalf Of neutral
interests. We ought 70 have notified
the belligerents that none Of their |
war vessels would be permitted with
in twenty-five miles Of an American |
port, and thus to have established
principle Of great Importance adapted
TO existing conditions. We ought not
10 have been humiliatetd by asking
England for permission TO got in
formation by way Of their inter-
oceanic cable. a service due 10 Ameri-
can thought and enterprise. aud by
having the request refused.
The Ravages Of the Alabama Night
Have Been Repaired.
That commerce Of which the Eng
lish deprived us by the depredations
of the Alabama while we were at war
nfty years ago might have been re-
gained with increase while they are
at war. anc i, could have been done
without sending out privateers to
prey on them. At least an earnest
effort could have been made.
II is perhaps too much TO have ex-
pected America 10 have struck the
blow necessary 10 overthrow the dom
ination by one nation OF the ocean.
three-fourths Of the surface Of the
earth. Thraldom Ia possible state
only because the thrall himself con-
codes It's propriety. The horse has
long forgotten the steppes Of Asia
over which he rosmed bidding de-
nance to wolf and tiger. and he has
become q patient beast OF burden.
Slavery in the South would have been
an impossible institution. had not the
negroes come TO regard IL as the
natural condition for themselves,
their wives and their children. And
we have had sung to US so often from
infancy 10 manhood: Britannia
Rules the Waves that we are star
tied when we hear the propriety Of
the proposition queried. Eervitude
is normal and mental a. well as
physical.
Germany Has Dcthroned the Mistress
Of the Seas.
II has remained for anathar raea of