Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-02-11


ammunition to the bellgerens The duty of neutral to
rct trade munitions Of has been imposed by in
ternational law or by municipal statute
Finally Mr. Bryan the charge of unfriendiness
ward Germany and Austria Hungary:
1T is the business of beligeren operating the high
not the duty of neutral to prevent conraband from
reaching enemy.
'sIt the business of beigerent operating the high
not the duty OF neutral to prevent conraband from
reaching the enemy.
"Those in this country who sympathze with Germany and
Austria Hungary appear that obligation rests
this Government in the performance Of its neutral duty
prevent all trade in conraband and thus to equaze the diff
ference due to the relative naval strength Of the begerents
'No such obligation exists 1t would be unneutra act
of partially Of the part of his Government to adopt such
policy if the Executive had the power to do Germany
and Austria Hungary import contraband from this
country is not because of that fact the duty of the United
States to close its markets the Allies The markets of this
country equal terms to all the world to every
nation belligerent or neutral
Unqualified approval position here by the Ad
minsraon, tho with occasional disagreement with certain
minor details of policy it expes by such representative East
ern daes as the Boston Transcript Rep Springfield Repub
lcan (Ind New Haven journal Courier nd) Albany Jour
NAL Rep New York Wall Street Journal Commercial Journal
of Commerce. Sun nd and in the Middle West the Chicago
News nd) St Louis Globe Democrat aep) ST. Paul Dis
patch lind Rep Indianapolis News (nd and Grand Rapids
Press (Ind The London editors also we'll pleased The
Daily Chronicle calls the Bryan letter unanswerabe reply
to the pro- Germans and commends Administrations TAB
of bas and mdoubted desire keep keel be-
tween Earring elements" Here The times agrees. Broadly
speaking finds that the doctrine laid down by Secretary
The Digest then forth from other
Hearst dspeased with Mr. Bryan and that would
fecty natural So also number of papers who have in
every and critical attitude towards
the present democratic administration. German papers pub
shed in the United States do not like the position maintained
by the United States and claim that the Allies favored
The Digest the German opinion above ndcat
ed with the statement of Mr. Griscom formerly general
ger Of the International Mercantile Marine Company that Mr..
Bryan letter concusivey proves that almost every action
that taken administration
ding
ton has been the catpaw Of German manipulation long
enough
Mr.. Curtis Guild former ambassador to Russia, charges
in article published in the Philadelphia Ledger that the
Presidents guardianship the side of Germany has been
extraordnary and ntimates that the shipping bill is vir
tua an act of by the United States against the Allies
And taking these set forth in the Literary
Digest and comparing them with the attitude of the German
papers indicated above it would that there is
for complaint the part of pro German sympathzers.
The whole summing up of the different views taken by
sympathzers with the several combatants Euprope illus
rates the difficulty of the United States in maintaining her
neutrality The Digest concludes it's article statement
from the Evening Sun New York; which admirable in its
t cearness of vision and it says:
We Americans find ourselves attacked abroad by Ger
and British newspapers leaders, because government
and people steadily refused to be drawn open
active championship of either of these nations The British
would have assist them in their effort to sarve Germany
submission the Germans would have undertake to Grip
tple Allied campaign by refusing to permit arms ammunition
and supplies to be exported.
do either these things would make the United
States participant in world and nothing than
that the great of the people in the United States have
the smallest desire be drawn inc the conflict not the least
cnaon to help England sarve Germany, Germany defeat
England and Engand's Allies.
'Such campaign Dr. Dernburg and his associates have
waged for fact real affront to Americans of
alien sympathies Such maudlin sentiment William Wat
puts his preposteous propogandst tates
where it excites derisive laughter. !"
'The sole question raised by American foreign policy
emphacaly concludes this writer mus be whether it is best
: for American interests"
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