Middletown transcript., 1915-09-11
n1DDLETOwE, DEL, SEPT. IL, 1915
WILSON'S SILLINESS

talk craftsmanship IN lne WmJe
House familiar to us all for nearly
three years in the "watchfu waiting"
fizzle in Mexican NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
are with impunity being murdered on
land and on sea by "greasers" and by
Germans.
Some three hundred of our citizens
were massacred on Mexican soil-where |
according to Mr.. Wilson they had no
business to be-and now our peaceful |
citizens living in the border states and
our soldiers, are being slain by Mexi-
cans raiding across the border The
Wilson logic only little extended,
would claim that Americans have no
business living so near Mexico!
A week ago when the whole Democra-
tic press was jubilating over Mr.. Will
sons weak swallowing of Germany lat
est treacherous lie as "a great moral
victory, "the greatest diplomatic
triumph in a generation" and lot more
like fulsome stuff, The Transcript, re-
membering Germany's Infamous record
of broken promises from the violated
scrap of paper" Belgium treaty to
the last cowardly under-sea assassina-
tion of the Arabic, ventured to prophesy
as follows:
"Yetonce more the impudentGer-
mans are pulling the wool over the
eyes of that astute statesman in the
White House! More dishonest qulb-
bles for delay-more lying promises
never meant to be keptI Mean
while the German assassinatlons,
like the Mexican murders, will go
on, unless finally the disgusted peo-
pie themselves end the disgrace or
Congress assemble.
Sure enough before the ink was dry
that composed some of the silly eulo-
gies of Mr.. Wilson'S cowardly peace
at-any-price" policy, the lying German
government had torpedoed another
passenger ship, the Hesperian with $50
souls on board a number of them
Americans; and that the crippled ship
did not sink in a few minutes and
drown hundreds is because the assas-
sins aim was poorl
And this latest under-sea assault on
a passenger ship was like all the rest
of these brutal deeds without warning
of any sort, and in the dark These
brave German pirates only managed tc
massacre tWenty-six victims in this lat
est illustration of Germanic "Kultur'
anumber of women among them-whch
fact renders the exploit more praise
worthy in the opinions of these chival
rous Germans who applauded the Lusi
tania slaughter of 1850 innocent travel
ers, as also did our German Americans,
and as they again did in Chicago, Sept.
9Th. at a peace meeting there wher
they heard the news of the torpedoinl
of the Hesperian
Just before the meeting ad-
journed Henry Weissmann, of New
York, chairman of the General
Committee, arose and read brief
despatch telling of the torpedoing
of the Hesperian and saying 600
persons were lost.
There was scattering of ap-
plause over the house and even on
the platform and few cheers. But
before a demonstration could get
under way the German enthusiasts
were silenced by wave of Kisses
and cries of "Shame, shame Pa.
This sinking of the Hesperian is Ger
many's contemptuous answer No. 2 t.
Mr.. Wilson'S last feeble paper threat
In reply to this outrage No. in tn
long list of German submarine attack
on our ships or citizens-ou note-writ
ing president will no doubt fulminat
more of his fine phrases, and as befor
while he scribbles. the jeering German
will keep on blowing Americans agains
the moon. And, this idocy, God save tn
mark, Mr.. Wilson's panegyrsts ca
'statesmanship"