Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-08-18
SOUTH PAYS THE FREIGHT.
American Cotton Used as a Defense
for the British.
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The Chronical referred editorially
yesterday to an article by julius
Chambers, the well-known writer of
anti-German proclivities, in the pro-
British Brooklyn Eagle, in which the
admission was made, that but for
the Lusitania horror, American SEN
timent would, now, be largely pro-
German" Mr.. Chambers backed up
this assertion with some statements
of fact showing how the British
paper blockade"-an admittedly
unlawful thing, in itself-has Com
pletely destroyed American trade
with neutral countries" and added:
mot a reader of this column will
accuse it's writer of pro-German SEN
timent, and, yet, the admission by the
British ambassador that about 1000
cargoes of American merchandise,
bound from Atlantic and Pacific
ports of this republic to neutral Eu-
ropean ports, have been held up in
British harbors, is calculated to
raise the bile Of every true American
patriot"
does not speak as a pro- German; but
quite the contrary. Perhaps, in real
ity, he is prO-American; though this
term seems to have grown into dis
ogniZed by those "neutrals' who see
everything connected with this awful
European war only through European
glasses.
But Mr.. Chamberlain said a great
deal more than is quoted, and he said
it we'll and to the point Let us
read some of it carefully and see for
ourselves whether or not we have
Just grievance against Great Britain
regardless of anything Germany
has done or refuses to do-and whe-
ther or not we feel called upon to
make ANY sacrifice" in order to help
Great Britain and her allies crush
Germany; while, at the same time,
crushing the life OFT of the Southern
cotton planter in particular.
Let julius Chambers, in the Brook
lyn Eagle-both anti-German from
the heart-present the case as it is:
"Records at the State Department
give the names of every British har-
Dor and Of the vessels therein.
by actual count at London alone
15S steamers and sailing vessels, car
'yiNa A. .Err.n carEOes. are virtually
iniaru"u IN SLOW processes 'gIi2e
c0uHa >.e auegrG ~ r., .;rviup ia
roaah decision .s 10 values onG ~.
Du.t.es.
Meanwhile, American goods to
value of many millions are kept from
market.
This is the policy of an alleged
friend. At Liverpool 10 ships with
American cargoes are awaiting adju-
dication. At Cardiff, Is vessels. sim
ilarly laden, for Dutch and Scandina-
Wan ports are undergoing similar de-
tcntion. Omitting all the smaller
places, into which four to eight
taken, | find by actual count 2S such
ships at Hull, 2 at Leith, % at Man
chester, 4 at Viletta, Malta; 81 at
Falmouth, 20 at Gibraltar, Z at Glas-
gov, at Newcastle, s Zanzibar, 15
at Swansea, and from two to four
ships at half hundred other British
ports.
"Is this is a pleasant spectacle
for any rational American to contem-
plate?
"As the late Ebert Hubbard was
wont to say: IF this is the path of
sanity, kindly direct me to the bug
house
"One wonders how the British gov
ernment would regard the seizure Of
English merchandise at New York
by order Of the board of aldermen, or
in Philadelphia by deere of the city
council? Is it supposable that such
meddling-to give the conditions
their mildest term-would have been
allowed to continue for year with
out vigorous protest?
'Now, the American people are as
sured, firm stand against British
impertinence will be taken. This re-
calls story that Lieutenant Gen.
Huyshe, hero Of the Indian mutiny,
used to tell about one of his fellow
cOuntrymen who had entertained a
French guest. The Partisan had
flirted with the daughter and was de-
tected in the act Of eloping with the
hosts wife, when the master OF the
house called him aside and said: