The Republican journal., 1915-08-12
Germany's Contempt Of Us.
Colonel Harvey SPEAKS Some Blunt Truths

SoiOnei harvey Speaks some Diunt Atutns.
The most fortnight and candid pre-
sentatlon of our case against Germany
that has yet been published is from the
trenchant pen of George Harvey, Editor
of The North American Review, and ap-
pears in the August issue of that per-
iodical. Colonel Harvey minces no words
in the matter. What Germany has re-
piled to US amounts to this, says Colonel
Harvey with vivid directnsss: 1.-THE Unit
ed States of America and her President,
and her Congress, and her people, can
go to hell. Just that; nothing more ard
nothing less" Colonel Harvey continues
as follows:
She disavows none of her crimes; she
makes no suggestion of reparation; she
recognizes no rights of neutrals; she reit-
crates her reputation of all treaties and
of all laws, whether among nations or of
civilization and humanity, which may
conflict with her own conception of mill
tary necessity; she apologies for MOTH
ing; she comedies nothing: she acknowl-
edges nothing; she seeks only to secure
our approval of her lawless practices
through our acquiescence in her proposal
that we waive our unquestioned rights
upon the high seas and sail SO many of
our ships as she may permit, under her
surveillance and subject to her dictation;
h sving injured us, she would wrong US;
having insulted US, she would humiliate
US; that is all there is of this iDsoleut
declaration.
Not one of our moderate demands is
accorded even the courtesy of frank
recognition; all are in effect denied; each
and every one is either tacitly spurned
or imprudently ignored.
Never before has this country and sell
dom, if ever, has any country been
treated so contemptuously . Why is
this? What has happened to convince
even truculent autocracy that this Re-
public can be fiouted with impunity?
Surely history warrants no such assump-
tlon2 Tripoi at the outset was taught
her lesson by Jefferson, England first by
Madison and again by Cleveland, Mexico
by Polk, France by Lincoln, Spain by
Mckinley, and Japan, more decisively
than is commonly understood, by Roose-
welt. What now induces Germany to
believe that President Wilson does not
mean what he says? That "strict ac-
countability' signifies nothing?
Obviously there is an insidious cause
back of the Imperial Governments in
science, nothing less than fixed belief
that the sentiment of this country is not
only divided but is veering in their direc-
ton. Feeling in the United States"
placidly remarks the inspired Morgen
Post of Berlin, sis changed from what
it was at the time OF the Lusitania sink
ing and President Wilson will have to
satisfy this new feeling in considering
and answering the present note. That
the note will meet unrestrained approval
at the hands of a large part of Ameri-
cans is certain" For this impression
undoubtedly, as we foresaw, the resigna.
ton of Bryan, supplemented by the
traitorous utterances of hyphenated edi-
tors who write as Germans, not as Amer
leans, is directly responsible. And it is
because of this cow cti n beyond ques-
ton that the Imperial Government ac-
| dress was in no sense, categorical or
otherwise, response to the American
Government; it was a stump speech tc
the American people; not an answer &c
the President, but an appreciation OF
Bryan.
of her own volition. So, Involuntary,
France. So may we be compelled to dc
| " WllboldHu CIle 1llpeIIdi dOVSiHlllcpI :
ruthless endeavor to place 'Deutsch.
land uber"-not merely France and Eng.
land, but-''ube Allies" Let their
words be ours. No more than they, anc
never so long as patriotic spirit animates
American beings, shall this free Repub
lie be found guilty before God and his
tory of violation of those principles OF
highest humanity which are the founda-
tons of every national existence and
of all civilization.
We can but believe that, when those
American men and women were swept
TO their doom from the decks of the
Lusitania, after vainly trying to save
1.-THE kiddies," their hearts were com
forted by the certainty in their minds
that they had a country. Shall we WHO
live scar the trusting souls of those wht
died by forgetting that they were. oul
kinsmen and were slaughtered like sheer
in pen?"