Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-05-13

THE wORLD's LOATHING AROUSED.

THE WORLDS IOAIHlNG AhOUhED.
VSFOM Washington comes unofficial information that
President Wilson has sent to Emperor William
emphatic note bearing upon the destruction Of tho
Cunard line steamship Lustania and the killing and
drowning of between 100 and 200 American men, women
anu children. All Americans who value human life and
national honor hope the information will be borne
out by the official text that will be forthcoming
in few hours If our Federal Government is to
its face in this great emergency must least
pei Germany TO make PREPARATION for its murderous
work and give full and sufficient guarantees for the flu
ture safety of American citizens land and Pres
ident Wilson cannot afford to do less than that He
might do much and still meet with unquali-
ned approval from Americas Millions whose feelings
have been wanonly outraged by Germanys destesable
naval policy
1t is useless for Germany to attempt to explain away
or to justify the wholesale murder that it
mitted when It sent death-deang torpedoes HURTING
into the defenseess side of the Cunard line steamship
Lusitana
1t is adding cowardice to crime when it attempts to
unload upon the shoulders OF Great Britain and of
the innocent victims OF German brutality and blood
lust the burden Of responsibility for that monumental
slaughter of neutras and non-combatants.
The destruction of the lives Of those neutrals and
noncombatans represents deliberate. cod-booded muir
der, planned in tho German Foreign Ofice and Admit
rally and carried by assassin Of the Prussian
military system whose name II it be revealed, will
stand in history black spot that will never
fade
What Germany did off Old Head, Kinsae, has aroused
the loathing Of the world With that oathng is in
Rgnaton that nation that processes to be the scat
" civilization and culture could stoop to despc
able crime that Of disegarding the rules and
OF civilized warfare and making a murderous attack
upon men, women children who had nothing to do
with the war. Their death could avail Germany in
no particular except stamp it. the of civliza
!. ton, as a brutal and murderousminded nation that
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mes to blood-letting.
Germany had a right to seize and to sink the Lusi-
tana and-her cargo To that extent what she did
within the four corners of the of civilized war
fare
Before doing So however. it was her duty to remove
from the ship her passengers and and to place
them in place Of safety.
II was in that particular that failed fact she
was brutal that she did not give them warning
that they might make of the lifesavng appliances
the Lusitania provided. With reckless disregard Of
consequences the torpedoes fred the side the
ship was blown out, and the grewsome tragedy fol-
lowed
Many of the mon, women and children killed
and manned by the explosion. Most of those who
capped that fate went down with the ship or died mser
ably in the death-laden water that surrounded her.
Those who had committed the crime did not wait to
lend hand at the work OF Tho infants. the
little boys the little girls the panc-srcken and
the helpless men were nothing to them. Like common
murderers, they sneaked off from the of their
crime to report its commission to Tirpitz and
others who had sent them to do IT,
Perhaps Trpitz and those higher up in the Ger
man Government thought. when they had the crime in
contemplation that would hailed by tho world as
great naval achievement With diseased and distorted
maginations they may have felt It would nure to
the fame of the German navy. BY this time they arc
disillusioned They being denounced by the world
as baby-uers as grl-kers as boy killers as woman
I,r,,
What was to have been halo of glory has changed
into halter of shame. The civilized world would like
to draw it tightly about the Of that brute beast
that boasts the name Of cultured Prussian marism.
Every wind that blows from the East brings to the
of Americans the dying cries Of the men, women
and children who persisted off Old Head Kinsale
Every wind that blows from the west carries {,
the those who committed that crime thos
who directed it the cries of detestaon that being
raised in every American city town agains
a nation that could be guilty Of such a monumental
offense against civilization.
Germany has expressed regret Does she expect L
get away with that? Does she think the people tn
United States are to become reconciled TO a premedi
tatcd crime by the apology of the criminal who com
mitted it? II the deliberate murder of than 10
American men, and children is to call for moth
ing than expression Of regret from those VIII
planned that crime and designated the agents Nh
were to commit It, why should ordinary mul
derer * Krakus, for instance go scot-ree in retur
s for apoogzing to the relatives Of his victim?
81 A New England Progressive picuresquely describe
the return of his co-paftsans the Republican rank