The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-10
Germany's Move for Peace.

lie kept us out OF war;
How admirable the formula OF shame
sounds this morning, while an Amerl'
can warship plays tender to the G-5d
Il and keeps her safe within the technical
tiles of the American presidents notes
| by picking up the passengers and crew
| Including the Americans wherever the
doubty Geman raider sinks a ship.
| AT any rate Josephus Daniels may be
congratulated on finding at last a con
genial use for the vessels of the Ameri-
can navy They may be employed from
now on, indefinitely, picking up the WON
en- and children while the German sea
wolves blockade our coast and wreck our
commerce. Here is indeed noble en-
ployment for the lineal successors OF
Oliver Hazard Perry, Isaac Hull Stephen
Decatur David Glasgow Farragut and
George Dewey
Plainly Wall street had a straight tip
on the German overtures for peace. Lieu
tenant Captain Hans Rose brought them
in at Newport Now he fourishes olive
branches over the waters of the Atlantic.
Ask the president to become mediator
and present the kaiser's terms to France
should he not be made the messenger OF
frightfulness, since our coast is to be
henceforth its principal theatre?
But what can President Wilson do?
the worried crowd of adulators wall Oh,
nothing! Every one realizes that Presi-
dent Wilson can do nothing except, per-
haps. write another move. The Ameri
can people expect nothing from him.
They realize that he allowed the interna-
tional situation to get away from him,
so far as Germany is concerned, nearly
two years ago Indeed what he has done,
net result. is define for the German gov
eminent the limits within which it may
commit piratical crimes all over the seas
and still enjoy the forbearance if not
precisely the approval of the Wlsonian
administration Seemingly Lieutenant
Captain Rose is well coached on the terms
of Mr. Wilson's notes and is prepared
to keep within their specifications, even
though he have to leave a vessel afoat
here and there, What, indeed, can the
president do now? We repeat: Moth
ing
The events of the last two days are a
splendid product Of the presidents dip
lomacy. He is keeping us out of the
war with a vengeance. We shall now
have an opportunity to experience the
feelings with which Norway, Sweden,
Denmark and Holland have found their
neutral coasts blockaded and their COM
merce curtailed for the convenience of
belligerent Their impotent chatting has
aroused sympathy in some quarters here.
Mr.. Billiard grinds at it in his Allan
tic Monthly article From this time for
ward we shall have something to divert |
our attention from the wrongs of Eu-
ropean small powers. We shall find out
what our own greatness amounts to,
Woodrow Wilson being president.
Very likely, too, we shall be less gusty
in our wrath over the detention and ex-
animation of mails by the allies, the de- |
av and diversions OF cargoes of ultimate |
German destination and even the black
listing of Germany's commercial agents. |
We shall have. at least, other occur !
noes of somewhat sensational interest |
% occupy our attention and concentrate
,ur emotions.
One question occurs to MS with partie
liar urgency at this conjuncture: What |
will be the proximate fate of our much |
fsunted prosperity should the Z boat
blockade prove efficient enough to kill
'ur munitions industries and put a short
top to our shipment of all supplies to
france and England We wonder if the