TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1915-09-03

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tempting 10 outline tbs course Of
conduct tbis nation ought TO follow
In such a Crisis.
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selves, II We have been thus mat
tentiye 10 this possibility and have
thus disfsgarded this contingency It
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mature thought be taken now that
the accomplished fact stares us IN
the face.
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thus prepared Doubtless the pres
ident and his cabinet have spent
many hours IN discussing what their
action should be in the event of just
such a happening as the sinking Of
the Arabic.
But the nation at large is not thus
prepared. The great mass Of the
citizens have not spent any adequate
amount OF time in such discussion or
such thought. Ii is generally agreed
that the junction OF the legislator or
an executive is to obey the wishes
Of the people 70. whom he is acting.
The Administrations wisest course
is TO await not only full reports on
the facts of the loss oil the Arabic
but also the sane expression OF
American public opinion.
In such a crisis it certainly is the
duty OF the greac public press OF this
natIon, the greatest power in the
nation, to be sane and impartial, to
be calm and deliberate, and to re-
frain from melting war. Unfortun-
ately it must be admitted that a
large part Of the press does not thus
conlport itself.
A perusal Of the editorial columns
of some newspapers would indicate
that the editors who there express
their views land who would be full
filling a higher and more useful
destiny if they there expressed not
so much their own views as the
views which they believe the major
ity of their readers to hold) are fire.
eaters and fighters, captains in some
American army or admfrals in some
American naval squadron, eagerly
awaiting a chance to volunteer their
services as fighting men and to
shoot and be shot. This probably
is far from the truth. 1t is likely
that many or most of these who
write so belligerently are neither
fitted for warfare moi anxious to do
any fighting themselves.
IF this assertion Chat Americans
were lost and that the liner was
sunk without warning) is true then
is the issue made" says the New
York IIerald's editorial column.
IF American lives were lost then
the situation is as grave as when the
Maine was sunk" is a sentence in an
editorial in the st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Similarly serious views, and more
serious views, are taken by some
other newspapers.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer today
editorially says the sinking of the
Arabic is beyond palliation. 1t holds
that the fact that the liner was
bound from Europe for the western
world destroys the German excuse
in the Lusitania case that the Lusi-
tania was carrying war munitions to
the allies and proves the ~insincerity
of the German officialdom which up
held military expediency as mitigat-
ing the Lusitania offensc against
humanity"
American sentiment, despite the
heated assertions OF the hyphenated
press, is unanimously against a ma
ton which stands sponsor for the
policy of a stealthy murder. Sem
timent which is not against such a
policy 10 not American" closes this
Cleveland Plain-Dealer editorial,
which, in its first paragraph says
mo conceivable, no possible harm
could have come to the German
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