Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-01-14

seem that the very meanness of Civ
ing support to such a combination
would have been resented by Amer
lean manhood Instead it may as
we'll be recognized that we have so
managed as to retain the old rival
ries OF Great Britain, and to make
another enemy Of Germany Pro-
Tossing to fear the German military
spirit We have done all that il has
been possible to do to bring her
wrath upon our heads. We have
been boisterous in our condemnation
OF Germany We have hidden out of
sight and condoned the far more
grievous offenses Of Great Britain.
In all Of our history Germany has
never crossed our path. We have
never made q step forward that the
British have not endeavored to
thwart.
How Great Britain Has Damaged
American Commerce.
Let no man fail to observe that in
those matters affecting ourselves
whore VIC have given blame to GER
many in this war, her efforts were
being directed against her enemies
and the injury to us was incidental,
but that, on the other, the injuries
inflicted by the British have been
directed against US. The British
have closed the North Sea to our
commerce. They have used our flag
TO cover their belligerent efforts and
thus given an appearance OF justifca-
tion for assaults upon boats sailing
under our colors. They have block
AIDED our ports, seized our vessels
and conhscated the cargoes General
Grant informed France that we
would regard the lowering of bel
ligerent men-of-war around our ports
as an 'unfriendly act" but we have
forgotten American traditions and
have become like the quack doctor
in the old French play, who said,
the heart used to be on the left
side, but all that we have changed"
They and their allies have dared to
overhaul our boats in the high seas
and carry away men found on them.
We fought the war of 1912 to pre-
vent such aggression. and some Of us
well remember the attitude of the
British when Wilkes seized the rebel
emissaries, Mason and Slidell, on a
British boat, transporting them on
their errand of destruction to Amer
such facts we have shown the teeth
OF tiger toward Germany in her
time Of stress, and cooed our obiec-
tons to tho British with our blandest
notes. We have supplied the British
with the means of conducting their
warfare We have been silly enough
to lend them the money to pay for
the munitions they buy from us.
In, xrrffh
events as tho sinking OF the Lusita-
MIA, and the execution OF the treach-
erous nurse, has not hesitated to use
the ugly word murder" in senselcss
fashion Mr. Wilson notified the
Americans who had been invited to
Mexico and had there invested their
substance and taken their families.
to leave the country He had no
word for those Americans who heed
lessly went ON board the Lustania,
and being on the vessel of a belligcr-
cnt, loaded with munitions of war,
lost their livcs. II should have been
u warning given before and not after
the event and might have saved them
from the results Of their indiscretion,
but he failed in his duty.
II England Wins.
In his first note to Germany Mr.
Wilson declared that submarines
could not be used against the vessel
of belligerent carrying munitions
OF warfare without violating inter
national law, and therefore, must be
abandoned In his recent message
to Congress, with strange inconsis-
tcncy, he recommended the construc-
tion OF submarines by the United
States. OF what service viii they be
IL our possible enemies may with inn
punity, transport cannon and ball to
destroy us by adopting the simple
device OF taking on board some neu-
tral? We have been loud in our con-
demnation Of Germany for making
preparations during the last forty
years for her defense. MI Wilson
has wisely recommended to Congress
that in America we follow her ex-
ample and do precisely the same
thing
If the British win in this war they
will tighten their hold on the seas,
who're they even now threaten New
York and our whole coast. The Cos
sack viii be in Constantnople and
perhaps In Berlin, and the Japanese,
their ally, who they have agreed
must be satisfied before peace is
made, will be crossing the Pacific
What good will all this do to Amer
ican, even though Schwab, du Pont
and Morgan are more wealthy?
If Germany Wins.
If the Germans win, then in all
probability Canada, with the Great
Lakes, the ST. Lawrence River, and
the Manitoba wheat fields, which the
British wrenchod from us in tho
Democratic days Of Polk, Will enter
tho union Of the States. Canada win
be unable to protect herself in any
other way, and can do no otherwise
What Charles Carroll tried to ac-
complish during tho Revolution, and
would have succeeded in doing hadit
not been for the Canadian dislike Of
the Puritans Of New England, will
have been realized and the hope Of
Washington and the patriots who
founded the government, be fulfilled.
When that time comes, and it may
como, the United States Of America
Will occupy continent and its rep