New Britain herald., 1916-04-20
GERMANY MUST DECIDE.

M " Il4dI I1lS 1uIl text Ol LHo IIeSl- Hs note to Germany, in effect an s #atum, is before the American #le and they may compare this x en document with the spoken # S he uttered before their repre- # tives in the nations Congress, #realized that within the next few M grave and terrible happenings s be in the air. The die is cast. #mains for Germany to choose Fay, to select between two courses, @donment of her present method # bmarine warfare and a break in #natic relations with the United @s. There are those who fear that X e latter course is pursued the @ able will happen,-war.t
 fly has the limit of patience been 8 ed. There was no other step Re President to take. During the of many long and weary hs he has guided the ship of lover the treacherous waters filled # many rocks and ever his hand Y cen steady on the helm. Criti- on all sides for the actions he Taken, he has looked straight needing not the wild orations ' litical partisans nor paying at Sn. to the cries for vengeance set & the bowling jingoists. Had the Efs that guide the destinies of hny met him half way, had they ' stened to the rnisrepresenta- "a of those professional propa- ets and distorters of public opin- ho painted the picture of Ed America, a people drawn up It themselves, there would be no crisis as that brought between Two nations today. Whatever zses Germany made at our in- ee were ruthlessly broken be- of the Won Tirpitz element; in-
 onal law was swept off the
 at every turn; the rights of can citizens on the high seas cast into the discard; the lives ocent men, women and children
 nuffed out without warning; in @ non-combatant ships were sent
 bottom seemingly for the mere
 it; and all this went on with @ rupture between the two na- W But there had to be an end
 here and now is the time.
 re is one paragraph in the Presi-
 note that tells the whole story. his:-
 Government of the United @ has been very patient. At every E 8pf this distressing experience of y after tragedy it has sought to yerned by the most thoughtful & eration of the extraordinary cir
 noes of an unprecedented war
 be guided by sentiments of & enuine friendship for the people Dvernment of Germany. It has 35( ed the successive explanations Bsurances of the Imperial Gov nt as of course given in entire ty and good faith, and has
 even against hope, that it
 prove to be possible for the @ al Government so to order and
 the acts of its naval com-
 ITS as to square it's policy with
 ognized principles of humanity bodied in the law of nations.
 made every allowance for un-
 ented conditions, and has been
 to wait until the facts became
 akable, and were susceptible
 one interpretation"
 patience attributed to Job is
 indeed when called in review hat which the United States
 rnent has exercised all along in lings with Germany. If the al Government will place be-
 e people of Germany the note sfdent Wilson together with his
 before the Congress of this na- 8 the plain people of the street
 owed to consider all the facts
 case, there can be nothing to
 the future, and we may be sure
 ermany will recognize the jus
 our demands and meet them
 spirit in which they are made"
 sny and it's people want no war
 e United States, no more than
 bpIe of this country want war
 ermany. But if the veil of W is allowed to shut off all the
 rom the people of Germany, as
 done in the past, or if things
 ored as has also been done in bt, the dreaded thing may hap < It is solely with Germany to lat must be done. A severance
 omatic relations followed by Sert act of war means the
 Of these two great nations, FAv, 1nrou into tho fnry.ihIa