Middletown transcript., 1915-07-24
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MORE GERMAN NOTES

posely delayed reply twill be naught
but dishonest quibbling. She will not re-
cede one inch from her boldly glorified
right to slaughter our citizens with her
submarines. =
But as we predicted, Germany has
indeed ''added insult to injury" in her
recent fiippant, contemptuous reply to
President Wilson'S third note of pro-
test
The insolent Bernstorff, who as Ger
many's representative, has so often
outraged all the decencies of his official
station, explains @ the dishonest fail
ure of his government to make any
reference to the sinking of the Lusi-
tania-t the very pith of the whole mat
ter-as an oversight!
Mr.. Wilson's pitiful exhibition Ct
timidity and vaciIlation in so grave a
matter as the repeated assassinations
Of our citizens, has made his country
the laughingstock of Europe! The
Yankee Korea that may be trampled
upon with perfect safety!
The news from Washington tells us
the president for the fourth time is 60
ing to repeat his weak-tea phrases of
protest, but do nothing more-not even
dismiss the impudent Bernstorff.
Since his warning note of February
II, Germany, with contemptuous inso-
lence has made five assaults upon our
ships and citizens, numbering in three
separate instances 119 Americans law
fully using their rights to travel un-
molested upon the high seas.
May 8, occurred the wholesale massa-
ere of 1l50 innocent persons upon the
unarmed passenger ship Lusitania, lis
of whom were Americans. But since
then this weak, ''peace at any price,
president of ours has done nothing but
pen chose much admired notes of protest
which though in terms brave enough,
really meant mothing-were only ode
signed for home consumption" as
Bryan informed the Austrian Ambassa-
dor, Dumba, who in turn so informed
Germany
Germany has from the first arrogant
ly justified these brutal assassinations,
and in her latest quibbllng reply to
Wilson'S note not only still justifies
them, but what is more gives this
country to understand that unless it
obeys her orders as to sea travel those
butcheries will be resumed!
Since the writing of these words,
Germany has made her brutal threat
good;one of her under-sea assassins pur-
sued and persistently sought to sink
the passenger ship Orduna westward
bound, and only by miracle was the
slaughter of rs more Americans kept
from being added to her savage toll OF
719 assassinated Americans!
A fine game, truly this duel between
the "blood and iron" German govern
ment and our timid executive! Ger.
many using murderous torpedoes anc
Mr.. Wilson replying with complimen.
tary paper notesl
Mr.. Wilson is putting into practice
the fine theory he announced in his
Philadelphia speech that "a man may
be too proud to fight, a nation so right
that it does not need to use force"l
Over three months since these re-
peated German butcheries of Americans
began, and the president is still writing
pretty notes Would Germany have
allowed even single repetition of like
murders of Germans Not for one
week would she have suffered a like
quibbling treatment of even singl,
killing of a German, far less waited
months meanwhile 119 Germans wer,
being assassinated
At Serajevo, Servia, last year a crazy
Bosnian student murdered the Austrian
Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, ano
though Servia not only repudiated tn,
act, but also at once prosecuted tn,
murderer, an Austrian subject, ye
Austria, backed up by Germany, issuet
an ultimatum to Servia giving her bu
48 hours and all the other Powers bu
"a hours, to accept the most unjust an,
humiliating terms, she offered, and tn
instant the 48 hours were up, declare
war against that guiltless nation.
But since the Lusitania massacre
the third assassination of American
remember over two months have pass
ed and although Germany not only off
rially announced beforehand its perpe
fration, but has since constantly just
hoe nav at fhis very rnnnant Ia st;