Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-07-15
DANGER OF INCAUTIoNs EXPRESSIONS CONCERNING
GERMAN NOTE.

GERMAN NOTE.
The German reply President Wilson note due tol
arrive Sunday July It'll Speculation
dged by the representatives of newspaperdom yellow jour
mails and others which sometimes have sembance of reason
and judgment but where the spirit of ngosm and the yellow
tint outcrops and appears occasionally
Now that the note has been officially received at Washing
ton the newspapers busy holy gee deciding the course
of the United States the of it's disposal Serious
the negotiations which must necessarily result from mat
ter in dispute between too powerful nations and the cool udg
and calm elaboration which should be employed by the
officials of the nation in the interchange of the several
of the nations involved newspapers little udg
men IN their comments yet in printing the bare facts
they assume to do.
BETTER BETTER that while the president those
who consult with him and advise in this of deliberations
that the people and the newspapers caution and judgment
their expressions trusting to those charge the duties
which they must and to refrain from acts and words
which make the task harder and the understanding greater
Comments at the present time njudicious they
the of the first The number of
the Review of Reviews has very wildly reviewed the
up the present time SO much of reason and good
judgment and carries such lesson it's advice which may
well apply to the present comments that reproduced below
The spirit which deprecates should be curbed 1t is fol
lows:
When the light clear Judgment prevails again there
will be profound gratitude the President of the United
for having taken the exactly opposite to that which the
newspapers through ten anxious days. had that
going to take Never newspaper headlines more
reckless of mischief making Knowing nothing whatever about
the plans of the president newspapers nevertheless day
after day. from the 3st of May the 1h of june the
entire American public stirred up and suspense by
declaring that the President about to send rigid ultima
war between the two countries The first American to
Germany, following the sinking of the Lusana borne
date of the 18th of May preliminary German reply had
been made May % and issued in the United States the
3Oh The newspapers of the 31s declared that this German
note resented at Washington wholly unsatisfactory and
that would be followed probably within forty-egh hours by
which President Wilson had Immediately prepared
and which perempoy unasurng and relentless its
cusaons and it's demands We told that Ambassador
Gerard about to leave Berlin that diplomatic relations
would probably be severed at and that Germany would
forced to the alternative of uby obeyng orders in every
particular else declaring against the United States
The most sckening thing in American history perhaps
was the reckless goatng of American newspapers dan
situation that they doing yeryhn power
President Wilson's reionder was not sent on Jnne
l. June :; and the public informed terrorzng
headlines that being held back while all the dictionaries
being searched to find words Strong and lem
phac with which to build the most crushing piece of u
diplomatic rhetoric launched by government against
another Each day. beginning with early morning and con
hnuing with hourly editions until bedtime, forth the
newspaper extras with their alarming headlines, slrekng
about 1.-THE note 1.-The Note' s'TIIE NOTE!i'' The Pres
dent had chat of few minutes with German Ambassador
and this megaphoned startling thing Finally
the climax OF ysera reached when Mr. Bryan resigned
June from his position Secretary State because he could
not affx his signature TO of diplomatic correspondence
SO likely to involve his country in the throe Of great war
Still the public was kept in the dark about the note ITSELF
while the newspapers declared with renewal of insane
JOY that Bryan action proved all that they had been saying
for ten days. Certainly the note be loaded with high
explosives; and might confidently believe be
the brink of with Germany. This would offer the
newspapers prospect of using screaming headlines for an in
definitely long time to Ut may be remarked parenhe
cay that whatever good bad effects great
other directions they render he daily hystera
tonal and keep the public renzied though
that have retained their sanity
through the past two months
AT length on the morning of June IL tortured and
nation allowed to read the they have been
told fraught with the issue of peace and
the fate OF America for generations yet It had
been dispatched code to Germany the night of the 9
hab been Withheld from Americans until the a1th more
courteous and reassurng noe far form and
could not have been conceived nsead giving the impress