Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-06-06
HUMANITY!

in one of his recent writings on the
war situation, which should ever be
held sacred in our political life, has
been banded about recently and
rolled succulently over Administra-
tion tongues until il lost its savor
This word is humanity.
The American people are gifted
with q vision They are forward
looking, and can perceive the ulu-
mate goal of that true humanity
which the whole world so sincerely
desires the accomplishment of and
mankind so sadly needs. They are
willing to prepare against that goal,
and the day when it may be ar
rived at.
The humanity" Of the lip. and OF
diplomatic notes, cOnnotes for Amer
lea little or nothing We have had
quite enough OF it, We are ready for
the gospel of real humanity
The present Administration in
Washington seems unacquainted,
however, with this text When the
British government first announced
its starvation campaign" against
Germany, and later lncepted its IL
legal. ineffective and indefensible
blockade" we protested.
We protested, however, not in the
name Of humanity" but in that Of
the rights of American shippers
Yet no more inhumane or Illegal
practice has ever been conducted
over the impotent protest of friend
ly nation than that exemplifled in
the action of the British Authorities
In insisting upon their fright" TO
blockade" neutral ports and "be-
siege a nation"
We registered our disapproval, and
allowed the matter to lapsel
With the miseries of Poland the
Administration showed even less con
sideration than It did for those im-
posed upon the women and children
Of the Central Powers by q "block-
ade" which the Government made SO
bold, on one occasion, as to con-
denim.
ITO the everlasting shame and dis
grace OF our government" says the
N. Y. American, alluding to the con-
sent Just given by the British gov
ernment for food supplies from
America to penetrate stricken PO-
land, this tardy recognition Of the
claims of humanity and the rights
sentations, protests or movement OF
our pro-British State Department"
1t was due to the individual initia-
tive of private American citizens,
who know what humanity" means.
The Administration has been still
more derelict in its duty to the
wounded in Germany and Austria
Hungary, and to those who have
,t,srf 10,
them. 1t has permitted the inhum-
anity of a British Privy Council to
override every sense Of humanity in
our own Government. 1t has stood
by and watched Great Britain dictate
to us what hospital supplies shall so
into Germany, what the roll of death
shall be among American physicians
and nurses bent on missions of mer-
cy, and what the toll OF death shall
be of German babies, doomed be-
cause we decline to insist upon our
right to send them the great neces-
sary of infant lifel
Yet the Administration can prate
Of "humanity"l
We are compelled to look on while
Greece Is raped on her national SOW
oroignty, and when every voice raised
in her defense is silenced by a coun-
ter charge.
We cannot pick up a morning
newspaper without seasoning our
coffee with the tale of another Amer
lean murdered on the Mexican bor-
der. Sull "The steady pressure Of
moral force viii before many days
break the barriers OF pride and pre-
iudicc down, and we shall triumph
as Mexico's friends sooner than we
could triumph as her enemies-and
how much more handsomely, with
how much higher and finer satisfac-
tion OF conscience and of honorW
(Creat applause.)
These were the concluding words
of an address to the Congress deliv-
cred on August 27, 1918, by Wood
row Wilson, President of the United
States, and, incidentally president
of Humanity"
There is something higher, how
ever, and something more immediate
ly necessary to the welfare of the
human race than humanity.
That something is sincerity, COM
bined with common sense.
The present Administration may
be endowed to excess with the latter
gift, but no thinking American Will
ever credit It with having displayed
any sign of sincerity when the word
humanity" has been on its lips.
Wherever the eye turns, whether
toward the stricken and starving in
Poland, toward imposed-upon and
compelled Greece, toward German
and Austro-Hungarian babies dying
i'm their mothers arms for want Of
milk denied them by His Most Ex-
cellent Britanic Majesty's govern
ment. toward our own men, women
and children slaughtered in border
states to satiate the lust for blood
Of Mexican bandits. or toward Brit
ish firing squad, lined up to send to
the eternity of martyrdom an Irish
patriot "who had to be CARRIED to
his execution wherever the eye
turns. backgroundod by humanity,
it rests upon the dismal canvas OF
hypocrisy.
Give us humanity" that is