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Admits More Vigorous Deal
ings With Germany Than
With England.
THEIR OFFENSES AGAINST
THIS NATION NOT ON A PAR
One Violates Natural Right OF
Life and Other Legal Right
Of Property.
SOME WOULD HAVE THEM EQUAL
Pleads for United and Determined
People a Only Way 10 Make
Protest of Value.

wATERTOwN. y Y. June 3--Scc-
retary Lansing. before the Jefferson
County Bar Association here. tonight
ecored critics If the administrations
foreign policy who would have /, do
more than has been done IN the ne
Eot!ations arising from the war. and
repliad to those who complain that tho
United States has been more vigorous
in it's dealings with Germany than with
Great Britain.
The Violation Of the natural right
OF III. Is much more serious oftcnsc
against IN individual and against his
nation" said Secretary Lansing. than
the violation Of the legal right Of
property. Can YOU doubt for n moment
which one gives this government the
greatest conccrn?'
That there was an influence IN Amer
lea, and even in Congress. which put
right Of property and right OF life on
par. Secretary Lansing declared
showed that the great heart OF the
republic IS threatened with fatty de-
Eeneracy. through those who have lost
their patriotic visor: that many Amer
leans have become lovers OF ease rather
than lovers of national honor"
READS ADDRESS. THAT NE NIGHT
NOT DE misunderstood
Mr. Lansing read his address He
said he felt compelled TO DO so that
he might not bc misunderstood The
address in part follows:
The great war has caused so many
conditions. which are entirely new. and
presented 50 many questions which
were never before raised, or even
thought of. that it has hccn no easy
task to meet and answer them
The peoples and governments at war
are blinded 10y passion: their opinions
are unavoidably biased. their conduct
frequently influenced by hystcrical i'm
pulse. which approach TO madness Pa
tience and forbearance arc essential to
neutral In dealing with such nations
I'm "A nutshell, the situation of our
rGlatioSS7 with Great Britain and Ger
many, tie two powers with which we
have had our principal controversies,
is this:
Germany. having developed tho sub
marine aa an offensive engine OF de-
struction, asserts that she cannot on
account OF the resulting conditions, con-
form to the established rules Of naval
warfare. and we should not. therefore,
insist on strict compliance.
'On tho other hand. Great Britain de-
clares that. on account of the new con-
ditions resulting from submarine activ-
ity and the use OF mines and from the
geographical position Of Germany, she
cannot conform 10 the established rules
OF blockade and contraband, aud We
should not, therefore, hold her TO strict
compliance with those rules
ARGUMENTS BASED on
MILITARY NECESSITY
"Both governments have adopted the
same arguments, based primarily on
military necessity, and offer the same
excuses for their illegal acts. but
neither will admit that the other is in
any way justified for it's conduct. If
we admit that the arguments advanced
are sound-and / am sure no ono will
deny that they aro more or less rea-
sonable--and submit to changes in the
rules Of naval warfare, we, will be
without any standard of neutral rights.
1.-The only alternative therefore, Is
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