TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1916-11-20
GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES EQUALLY
INTERESTED IN ITS RESTORATION.


NNAaN w NAANH&
when they talk Of the freedom
OF the seas? What are they
after1 Did they not have that
freedom before the war; What
are they really talking about Z
The answers to these questions
touch the deepest sources OF
the unrest that famed into this
war. They touch the heart OF
the problem of permanent peace
and unrestricted International
trade.
On a territory the size Of
Texas Germany has about 10,
100000 people. They cannot be
led from the products Of that
soil, even under the present
high stage of cultivation, nor
can they be employed manu-
featuring solely for themselves
They must export their manu-
features to agricultural coun-
tries in order to buy foodstufts
and raw materials. If Germany
cannot continue this exporta-
ton, then she must export her
men, expatriate them to other
more fortunate lands. Of course,
in war time, the German popu-
lation can be fed on the pro
ducts Of Germany, plus small
importations from nearby coun.
tries; but the people are sub
jected to heavy sacrifices and
jed on such a reduced scale as
they would never accept in
peace. They would emigrate
and be lost to Germany.
England is in precisely the
same situation She, too, has
an industrial population that
cannot live without oversee
markets and sources of supply
With sea law in its present
state, an industrial nation, 50
dependent, lives with a sword
OF Damocles over its head. The
: constant peril is the peril Of
having its oversee line Of
communications cue in war, and
so having its food supply stopped
The only nation which is safe
from the peril is the one with the
strongest navy in the. world
namely, England. Having safe
guarded herself by the posses
sion Of the strongest navy in
the world, England has refused
to let sea law be developed so
as to protect the commerce Of
other countries from aggression
by that navy. That is, it is
England which has constantly
blocked international acceptance
of the principle of the immunity
Of private property at sea in
wal time, whose principal ad
yocate has always been the
United States,
A chain is as strong as It's
weakest link. German foreign
trade-or the foreign trade Of
any country-is as secure as its
security in the emergency Of
war. How secure uermany's
foreign trade was, is evidenced
by this war, in which Great
Britain cut her supplies of food
and war materials. Only by
the greatest self-sacrihce and
ingenuity has Germany been
able to do without these i'm
ports or to find substitutes for
them. If German industrializa-
ton had proceeded ten years
more before the war broke, the
task Of meeting the problem Of
IN intercepted food supply
would have been insuperable.
Germany has the right to de-
nand, and will demand, that
his peril be removed for the
future. 1t is a security she de-
serves.
England, herself secure, has
been unwilling that others also
should be made secure by a sea
law which forbade navies being
ased to strike at international
commerce. No one could strike
aer; she insisted on remaining
free herself to strike. The pre-
sent order of sea law is, there.
lore, against the interests Of
every nation in the world ex.
eept England. Every other ma
ton may find itself at war with
England and, as a belligerent, bS
starved Of some or all OF thr
necessities of life. Moreover
when England is at war al
neutrals find England cutting
off their commerce with her
enemy, dcpriving them Of theiI
established markets and source,
of SUNNY. Fnpland's sea Law