Arizona republican., 1916-01-17
Inc Proposed Effective Blockade

A statement made on Saturday by MT. Carlyon velairs n member of parliament the London Tins on the subject of effective blockade of Ger many is worthy of further consideration. He said:
 'The blockade of Germany only become an effective weapon when we exert the power already possess and decline to allow neutral nations to re- ceive more than a rational allowance based on their actual national requirements of previous years If il he said that by putting stringency into being, we hurt the feelings or interests of neutral nations our answer apart from examples set by the bellgerent nations in the past that the lives of the men who are fighting for freedom in four quarters Of the globe are more to be studied than profits and commerce of comfortable citizens of countries at peace"
 MT Bellairs is partly right He is wholly right as to the general proposition that the lives of the men who are fighting freedom in the four quarters of the globe are more studied than the profits and commerce of comfortable citizens of countries at peace" We wish it possible to deprive the citi- zens of all neutral profits from the war We should especially be pleased if intuition mak CTS could be entirely off from participation in the profits that hey might not be permitted to sell to any bcligercnt country any article that might he used for the purposes of the war. We should not care every American other neutral vessel carry ing csntraband captured and confiscated We wish that no American citizen might be permitted to do anything would contribute to the prolongaton of the war for a single day. If Great Britain can establish an effective blockade of Germany neutral nation may heard to complain
 But Mr Bellairs is wrong when he declares that even for the protection of soldiers fighting for free dom i is proper for any nation disturb inter national agreement. Though thereby worthy cause might be won the safety of the whole word would be imperied Thereafter any nation powerful enough do so in time of war, might make tatters of all agreements that nations have entered into to pre- serve the peace of the world It is far important that these agreements should be kept than that the lives of soldiers if fighting for freedom, should be studied"
 It is more important that weak nations should be protected against the aggressions of the strong by in tcrnational agreement than that any single nation should stand against adversary, though it's quarrel were just. Without these agreements, or with aCreemcnts which any nation in it's extremity on any preext might break, would shortly revert to mediaevalism
 The Westminster Gazette Saturday, also dis cussing the blockade finds it difficult to believe that the democratic people of the New World would allow their influence be used dsarm democratic people of the old World in a struggle for liberty against military domination" We hear a great deal in this country about militarism versus democracy the issue of the present But this talk to a chaste and classical expression, pure bunk" Mlarsm, of course is hateful to us but it is q long distance separated from us. The broad Atlantic and the North Sea roll between. But navalism is brought close to us even the three-mle limit so that have suffered much during the from British navalsm than have suffered from German mili- tarism.
 Both are the principle and the object sought is the domination weaker neigh bors. Gcrmany's treatment of Belgium made possible by nitarism, exercise of might against right. Mir Belairs when proposing to limit by blockade the commerce that a neutral nation may receive from another neutral nation, to vaume based on it's actual national requirements in previous years, poses exercise of might against right.