Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-07-30

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the accepted practices of regulated
warfare. The whole world has looked
with interest and increasing satisfac-
ton at the demonstration of that pos
sibility by German naval command
ers. 1t is manifestly possible, there
fore, to lift the whole practice of sub
marine attack above the criticism
which it has aroused and remove the
chief causes of offense
Germany Admits ilIega! Acts.
IL view of the admission of il
legality made by the imperial German
government when it pleaded the right
of retaliation in defense Of its acts
and in view of the manifest POSSIBLE.
ity of conforming to the established
rules of naval warfare, the govern
ment of the United States caanot be
lieve that the imperial German gov.
eminent will longer refrain from dis
ayoWing the wanton act OF it's naval
commander in sinking the Lusitania
or from offering reparati0n for the
American lives lost, so far as repara'
ton can be made for needless de.
struction Of human life by an illegal
act.
U. S. Cannot Accept Suggestion.
The government of the United
States, while not Indifferent to the
friendly spirit in which it is made,
cannot accept the suggestion of the
imperial German government that
certain vessels be designated and
agreed upon which shall be free on
the seas now illegally prescribed.
The very agreement would, by impli'
cation, subject other vessels to IL
legal attack and would be a curtail.
ment, and therefore an abandonment
of the principles for which this gov
eminent contends, and which in calm.
err cOunsels every nation would CON
cede as of course.
Contends for Freedom at AIRY Cost
The government of the United
States and the imperial German gov
eminent are contending for the same
great object; have long stood to-
gether in urging the very principles
upon which the government OF the
United States now so sOlemnly in
sists. They are both contending for
the freedom of the seas. The govern
ment Of the United States will con
tinue to contend for that freedom
from whatever quarter violated, with
out compromise and at any cost. II
invites the practical cooperation OF
the imperial German government al
this time when cooperation may &C
complish most and this great common
object be most strikingly and effec
lively achieved.
Object Can Be Attained.
The imperial German government
expresses the hope that this object
may be in some measure accomplish
ed even before the present war ends
It can be. The government of the
United States not only feels obliged
to insist upon it, by whOmsoever VIC
lated or ignored. in the protection Of
it's own citizens, but is also deeply
interested in seeing it made practic
able between the belligerents them
selves and holds itself ready at any
time to act as the common frienC
who may be privileged to suggest g
way.
AS deliberately Unfriendiy" Act.
In the meantime the very value
which this government sets upon the
long and unbroken friendship be
tween the people and government Of
the United States and the people anC
government Of the German natior
impels it to press very solemnly upor
the imperial German government the
necessity for a scrupulOus observ
ance of neutral rights in this critica
matter.
Friendship itself prompts 1t to say
to the imperial German government
that repetition by the commanders O.
German naval vessels of acts in con
travention Of those rights must be
regarded by the government Of the
United States, when they affec
American citizens, as deliberately un
friendly.
LANSING.