Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-04-22
WHY THE CRISIS HAS COME.

Realizing that a crisis has been reached lin the relations between
the United States and Germany, the New Yorker t1ero1d is calling tor
immense peace demonstrations"
The place Tor the New Yorker Herold to hold its immense peace
demonstrations is Germany, not the United States
The United States is not violating its pledges to Germany. 1t has
not murdered German women and children in cold blood on the high
eas. 1t has not made a mocxery of its solemn promises. 1t has not
dened the law OF nations. Its hands are not red with German blood.
Nor have its hired AGENTS plotted against the domestic peace and
security Of the German people Or couspired against their government.
Or sought to intnmidate German industry by bomb and torch. No Am
criean citizens re under indictment in Germany for crimes against
German life or property in relation to this al. Nor has the United
States waged an unofficial a against Germany month in and month
out under the mask of friendship.
Great Is IL grievances re umerou as u wrongs are there y
All that is contemplated is the severance OF diplomatic relations that
have become a continuing lie by reason of the persistent bad faith of
"a o n the United States by a overt act of var, and that ISSUE is
wholly in the hands of Germany.
War may come as m OF the accidents of a severance OF diplomatic
relations If it should come the moral responsibility II rest III a very
large measure upon the so-caned German-Amercans of the United
States.
They could have made it impossible. They could have made eve
a diplomatic break impossible. They could have kept the United State
their American citizenship. 1t va 70 necessary o hem 10 refrain
from sympathizng with Germany. 1t va necessary only for them t.
nemain rsidly and unyieldinsly American in support OF their W gov
eminent.
If they had been pro-American instead of pro-German when the
submarine zone was proclaimed, Germany would never have ventured
upon this policy OF unrestricted manslaushter. IT they had been pro
American instead of pro-German after the Lusitania massacre, the
pro-American in any controversy between Germany the mite
States and Germany has relied upon them to resist by whatever means
OF American life and property. Even today they are organized against
the president Of the United States and batanty threatening HIM with
political destruction for the crime OF being pro-Amercan. Their pohu-
cal conspiraeies extend into every congressional district IN WHICH they
cam muster a handful of votes. Because OF their protessed political
strength and their fragrant disloyaty o the United States, the German
government has deluded itself into the belief that the government OF
the United States is helpless, that pledge. to the United States need
not Der redeemed and that whatever the president nay attempt to do,
Germany holds the balance of power in congress by reason OF the solid
arty OF the German vote and its answering allegiance to the kaiser,
and the republic cannot act.
1t is a sorry service that professional ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ns rem
dered both to the United States and to Germany. If its leaders have
any moral influence left let them Sc it in Berlin, where it is needed
and make a last attempt to prevent the disaster which they have invited
New York World.