Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-02-12
ENGLAND'S WAR UPON OUR
COMMERCE..

The friendship Of Professor Albert
Bushnell Hart Of Harvard for Eng
land has never been called in ques-
tion. His attitude since the outbreak
Of the war has been distinctly pro-
English and anti-German Yet in u
signed article in the New York Times
of Sunday, January 80, Professor
Hart is driven to protest against the
English attacks upon neutral trade
and the supineness Of our Admins
tration in regard thereto.
Prof. Hart classifles the attacks in
FIVE groups; /, ycxatious searches Of
neutral merchantmen bound to neu-
tral ports, and the prolonged delays
accompanying such searches; 2, the
making OF arbitrary lists Of contra
band; 3, the seizing Of neutral mer-
chant vessels bound to a German
port or to any neutral port without
o previous permit, the forbidding Of
any traffic from any German port, or
Of the shipping to or from any neu
trail port ci any goods which are Ger
man property, of German origin OF
German destination 4 the stopping
OF American vessels and American
cargoca bound to neutral ports, and
the forcing OF American exporters to
deal abroad only with specially Gre
ated corporations under the super-
vision Of the English government;
| s, the forcing Of neutral countries to
| declare embargoes against Germany
under penalty Of commercial isola-
ton
This is certainly a list that should
open the eyes of free-born Ameri-
cans. 1t raises at once the question
as 10 whether we arc an English
colony or an Independent nation. 1T
looks" says Professor Hart, 'as
though we should come out Of the
war having condoned an enlarge
ment OF contraband which may be
very hurtful to ourselves" Our pro-
tests against the fake blockade and
the extension OF the right Of search
have been so weak and trifling that
we may well be said to have con-
doned these also. A virile admins
traton would stop these outrages
, and II would not need TO go to war
TO back It's protests. What is lack
Ing in Washington is not the power
but the will
Our Anglicizcd officials in Wash
ington declare that for us, in our
own interests, to voluntarily declare
an embargo on the shipment OF any
goods would be unneutral Yet. as
Professor Hart points out. the Eng
lish government had forced tho
smaller neutral powers to declare
such embargoes. and II is in Eng
lands interest that our government
I refuses to declare ono,
Prof Hart discusses at some
! length the alleged precedents for
I England's actions created by us dur
ing the civil war, and shows that
/ thoy, in fact, form no basis what
over for English violations OF inter
national law. In short, Professor
Hart. while he is distinctly friendly
to England, in this paper can not
I resist coming to substantially the
Same conclusions ad did Or. Hale in
his detailed study of the same mat
tors Professor Hart is an historian
and is capable Of rising above his
! personal bias But some Of his col
! leagues arc not On the very day
( that this study appeared somc Of tho
Harvard faculty, in true blue light
STYLE we're at meeting shrieking
! that America must so to England's s
! aid by force of arms. These gentry
would have US die for the nation
! that calmly and deliberately robs us.