TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1915-04-13

national as the result Of critical res
view OF the series Of occurrspces that
finally led on the one hand 70 the burn
Ing Of Washington by the British and
on the other to their final defeat.
The author has made close anaiyt-
ical study OF the best sources OF infor-
nation, the pamphleteers OF the period.
To the revered fathers of the constiti-
ton, the Jeffersons. Adamses and Mum.
roes, he pays sardonie tribute for their
cringing attitude an attitude o.
accepting any rules and restrictions
England chose TO Impose. These ex,
actions finally became so humiliating
that the young radical element forced
the hands Of the elder statesmen and
almost as promptly humbled the brag-
CART who had not the wherewithaI to
make good his pretentions. The navy Of
the mistress OF the seas in those days
was even then little more than com
merce destroying instrument. Excerpts
from this article follow
France Then Dominant Power-
England was fighting. as she has al
ways been fighting, the dominant pow
er on the continent OF Europe. This
particular series OF wars began early in
1893. Tho way in which the United
States was Involved was this;
II had always been the law OF the
sea that only the mother country mrr-
chants and only the mother country's
ships could trade with her colonies.
England, who has made all the laws OF
the sea, and ma,le them all in her own
Interests, made that one and added the
ingenious corollary that. since what was
unlawful In peacr was unlawful in war.
an enemy could not in time Of war keep
mp communication with its colonies by
means OF neutral ships. France broke
the rule in 1856, and again during our
war OF independence il was not enforced.
But in 1923 England got Russia 70 Join
her lin accordance with her settled
habit Of dragging allies into all her
fights and getting them TO do all the
land fighting) and began anew 70 en-.
force her old rule: Neutral ships We're
not to be allowed to carry goods bs.
tween France and French colonies.
Searching American ships
BY 1906 Great Britain had taken TO
ward the United States an attitude no
insolent that il Is monumental wonder
that il could hafe been endured By any
people. The prae,iec OF searching our
ships for British deserters was the ex-
cusc for intolcrablc insults. In April
the sloop Riehard vhen lees than
quarter of mile from the beach at
sandy Hook was fired ON by the British
warship Leander, and her heimsman was
killed. There were great public
funeral and much eXcitement in New
York. President lcfferson issued Il
proclamation commanding the Lesnder
and her companions, the Cambrian and
the Driver, 10 leave the Territorial wa
tiers of the United States and never re-
turn, forbidding the people 70 supply
them with provisions or water. But
within few months the Driver at
least was back, insolently denouncing
the president as pirate. Her captain
demanded water and got II and wa,
permitted to sail away, as ne said he
would, when he got ready.
The same month the Three Brothers
was made BRUSH Prize "s'"in w"
mics from t'e shoff OH Sape h"nI!.
In May a revenue cutter carrying '"e
wee president OF the enitea ssa,es was
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