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Admits More Vigorous Deal
ings With Germany Than
With England.
THEIR 0FFENSES 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 Makc
Protest of Value.
seth YEAR

WATERTOWN, y. Y, June 3.-Sec-
rotary Lansing. before the jefferson
County Bar Association here. tonight
scored critics az the administration s
foreign policy who would have II do
more than has been done IN the ne
got!ations arising from the war. and
replied to those who complain that the
United States has been more vigorous
in It's dealings with Germany than with
Great Britain.
The violatiSn or the natural right
or life is a much more serious offcnse
against an individual aud 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 concern"
That there was All 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-
Eenerscy through those who have lost
their patriotic NtSor, that many Amer
leans have become lovers OF ease rather
than lovers Of national honor"
READS ADDRESS. THAT HE NIGHT
NOT DE MIsiNDER STOOD
SIR. Lansing read his address He
said he felt compelled 20 DO 50 that
he might not be misunderstood The
address in part follows!
THE great war has caused so many
conditions. which are entirely new. and
presented so many questions which
were never before raised. or even
thought Of. that IL has been no easy
task to NEE, and answer them
"The peoples and governments At war
are blinded by passion: their opinions
are unavodably biased; their conduct
frequently influenced by hysterical i'm :
pulse. which approach TO madness Pa
thence and forbearance are essential to
neutral in dealing with such nations.
I'm nutshell. the situation of our
relat.o1s with Great Britain and Ger
many, the two powers with which we
have had our principal controversies,
is this:
Germany, having developed the sub
marine as an offensive engine Of de-
struction, asserts that she cannot, on
account Of the resulting conditions, con-
warfare, and We should not, therefore,
insist OH strict compliance.
"On the 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 to the established rules
of blockade and contraband and 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 tina, the other is in
any way justified for its conduct. If
we admit that the arguments advanced
are southland / am sure no ono will
deny that they arc more or less rea-
sonable--and submit to changes in tho
rules Of naval warfare, we, will be
without any standard of neutral rights.
THE only alternative. therefore, is
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