Middletown transcript., 1916-05-13
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STILL WRITING NOTES !

~ He has Just begun a new series o.
German notes, ''ultimatum' notes, ht
calls them, which may keep his type
writer busy till November, possibly ever
till March 4th, 1917, tho not later.
April 18th, Mr.. Wilson boldly free
the first of his ''ultimatums" at the
Kaiser, wherein among many othel
words he said:
''Unless the Imperial Government
should now Immediately declare and
effect an abandonment of its present
methods of submarine warfare
against passenger and freight
carrying vessels, the Government
of the United States can have no
choice but to sever diplomatic rela-
tions with the German Empire alto
gether."
Had not Germany already "called"
just eight other "bluffs" of this phrase
maker, this demand for instant action,
-''now Immediately declare and effect
an abandonment" &c. would surely
have alarmed that nation. But Is
months ago Germany concluded that if
the miserable greaser "generals" one
after another had for three years
treated Mr. Wilson's cheap bluffs with
contempt, she, the greatest military
nation in the world, could also safely
do so.
So the Kaiser, after as usual dis
honestly quibbling for week or two
over the sinking of the Sussex, deny
ing what now he admits, namely, that
it was German submarine that sank
the Sussex, quite at his leisure-16 days,
to be exact-and with ill-concealed in
science, refuses Mr.. Wilson's ultima
tum" demand, and puts him off with a
fresh lot of lies and conditional promise
the identical one used in the Kaiser's
reply way back last May 1915, to the
Lusitania demand, ''that he would quit
numbering Americans if America would
make England quit blockading Ger
many p
But this lying, lmpudent bubble,
given, too, over two weeks after Mr..
Wilson's absurd demand for an instant
answer, satisfies that feeble executive,
so willing to subject his nation to any
indignity rather than to fight for its
rights. He is still too proud too
cowardly-''to fight.
Nor did his disgusted countrymen have
to wait long for the bloody proof of
Germany's lying, for almost before the |
ink had dried on the false German an
swer, that dlshonorable, bloody-minded
assassin had sunk the unarmed Cymric
without notice, killing five men and
nearly drowning over a hundred others /
whom, with characteristic German
brutality, the submarine murder-boat /
refused to aid.
Mr.. Wilson, not content to defend his
own country against German piracy-for
him, one would say, quite big enough /
job-must needs also forbid "the use of
submarines for the destruction of an
enemy's commerce"
That his bold "ultimatum" included
the sinking of any freight or passsen-
ger ship without notice, is shown also
by his concluding words: This action
(the severance of diplomatic relations)
the Government of the United States
feels constrained to take in behalf of
humanity &C."
But it did not require this further and
proof that Mr.. Wilson was
once more indulging his cheap, wordy
buncome. All the world knows, GER
tainly Germany and the greaser know,
that we have a lily-livered president
whom no amount of insult and injury to
and the nations honor can
stir to any other action than silly note
writing.
Thus after Is months of ferocious
underwriting Wilson's ultima
tum" No. has just been sent-this
horrible massacre of unarmed Ameri-
cans and others. while lawfully using
the high seas, is proceeding as usual,
Germany torpedoing and Mr.. Wilson
with his typewriter
The awful Lusitania murders are !
neither apoIogized for nor avenged, and
he whole business stands just where it
lid one year and three months agol I