Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-11

lend himself to any arrangement
encroach upon the sovereignty of
terrorism Of submarine warfare. Amer
lea is pleading for humanity.
Escape Not Always Desirable.
Columbus Dispatch: To the Ameri-
can appeal in the interest of wide hu-
manity. the note offers some conces-
sions that impute to US mere selfish
ness. Ways are offered. by adopting
which Americans can be safe at sea,
while the slaughter of other non-com-
batants goes on.
Germany tells the United States how
it can escape. But it is sometimes
worse to escape than to suffer.
Louisville Times: Two months after
the sinking of the Lusitania Germany
not only ignores every request made
for reparation, but imposes rules and
regulations of it's own making, in dis
regard of neutral rights and interna-
tional law, with which no self-respect-
ing government can comply.
1t is impossible to see how negotia-
tfons between the two governments
can continue on this basis. 1t would
seem that the time has come for Mr..
Wilson to act.
LOUISVILLE Evening fost: Nothing
more arrogant. nothing constructed
with more studied offense has
ever been sent in note to any indie
pendent power. If the kaiser had
swept the navy of the United States
from the seas If he had bottled up the
navy of Great Britain. as his own is
bottled up, he could not have added a
single word of offense to the note yes
terday sent to Ambassador Gerard.
Yesterday the President refused
not he will do so today.
Deems Politeness Offensive.
Boston Transcript: Without equivo-
cation and with politeness extensively
insinuating, Germany rejects each and
all of our demands and attempts to
bargain with respect to the future.
What right have we to retain.
seat among the seIf-respecting ma
tons of the world If we abandon our
dead to their fate and bargain with the
murderers for the safety Of our living?
Rochester On " Post-Express: The
irreducible minimum of the Presidents
demands having been rejected in prin-
ciple, it seems reasonable to conclude
that the next note of our State Depart
ment will be dispatched at once and
will be concisely worded reiteration
of our contentious. Unless the two
the principles involved, any discussion
of details must nlanfestly be fruitless.
Hartford Comm Times: The spe-
cious trickeries of the German note
which now again forces us to confront
serious situation are hardly worth
discussion. The pretense of co-opera-
ton in the refinement" of human de-
struction is thin. The suggestion of
neutralized ships is in the nature of
condensation and a bride The salient
a in sta h
insisted Germany should abandon sub
marine warfare against merchant ships,
and Germany has refused.
War Not Chief Business,
Chicago Daily News: The latest Off
cial German reply discloses that in
Berlin the safety of American lives is
still minor consideration as compared
with the safety of German crews of
submarines. This nation can
not concede that war is now the worlds
chief business and that peaceful ma
tons have few or no rights that
nations at war are bound to respect
st. Louis Post-Dispatch: No matter
how profoundly one may sympathize
with Germany in her present situation
with regard to ocean trade, it is i'm
possible to accept either the reasoning
or the terms of the imperial govern
ment's note to our government. The
German government abandons law,
logic and ethics in her treatment of the
United States. We have confidence in
President Wilson's insight and judg-
ment. We believe he will find a way to
compel respect for American rights.
. Civilization hangs in the ball
ance.
ST. Louis Times: 1t would be idle to
say that the relations between the
United States and Germany are not
strained: They are at the breaking
point. The American public has a right
to comment and that there will be few
to deny. but any attempt to stir the
nation to a fever heat of unrest and
nervousness over the situation until
after the President has given the mat
ter his mature elaboration will meet
minded and sound-thfnking men.
Speech to American People.
Minneapolis Journal: Won Jagow. in
stead of answering the American note,
has made speech to the American
people He has nothing to say OF in
ternational law and the rights of neu-
trails. 1t remains only for the United
States to reiterate the principle for
which 1t stands and then to act toward
Germany as shall be found necessary
in the light of German acts following
that final assertion of right.
Peoria UllD Journal: Germany ig-
nores the question of reparation for
the killing Americans aboard the Lusi-
tania and frankly denies the Presi-
dents contention that the rules of civil
lized war must be observed on the
hight seas. The note is disappoint-
ment, but there is no reason to assume
that it spells immediate severance of
relations between the two countries.
Peoria Gll) Star: 1t is evident Ger
many cares very little what the gov
eminent of the United States may say
or do in this matter and the people
of that country are evidently of the
opinion that nothing will be done to
avenge the lives of the Americans who
fell victims to German torpedo when
the Lusitania went down.
What next?
Plain Answer to Demands.
Chicago Abenpost: The German an
swer to the American note of June 10
is friendly and firm. AS an answer
to the demands made by our admin
istration the note is what was expect
ed-unsatisfactory. In form it is
more of a justification of the German
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