Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-09-29
IN 1910 as nv 1912.

IN IDIO 40 IN 1917.
1t might be well to recall at this
time a passage from the "Historian's
History of the World" referring to
conditions of 1912.
browning high above all these
domestic events were the aggressions
from abroad. If they sank in one
direction. they seemed sure to rise
the more threateniDgly in another
II was now the turn of Great Britain.
The system of impressment though
protested against by the United
States, had never been renounced by
Great Britain. On the contrary, it
had been extended even to the Amer
lean navy, of which the vessels were
once and again plundered of their.
seamen by British men-of-war. An
other subject on which Great Britain
set herself against the claims of the
United States was the neutral trade,
of which the latter nation engrossed
a large and constantly increasing
share during the European wars.
After various attempts to discourage
American commerce with her en-
emies, Great Britain undertook to
put 1t down by condemning vessels
'of the United States on the ground
that their cargoes were not neutral
but belligerent property; in other
words. that the Americans trans
ported goods which were not their
own, but those of nations at war
with Great Britain. 1t must be al
lowed that the American shippers
played a close game, importing mer-
chandise only to get a neutral name
for it, and then exporting it to- the
country to which ii could not be
shipped directly from its place of
origin. But the sharper the prac-
tice, the more of a favorite ii seemed
to be (1805) A cry went up from
all the commercial towns Of the
United States, appealing to the gov
ernment for protection.
In order to show that England's
position towards the United States
and that of the United States toward
England at the present time are
startlingly parallel, we quote from
the American Independent" the fol-
lowing parallel OF facts, which
brought about the war in 1922
1912
l. For impressing American Citi-
zens while sailing the seas, the high
ways of nations, dragging them on
board their ships of war, and forcing
them to serve against nations in
AMITY with the United States; and
even to participate in aggressions on
the rights of their fellow citizens
when met on the high seas.
2. Violating the rights and peace
of our coasts and harbors, harassing
our departing commerce, and wan
tonly spilling American blood, with
in our territorial Jurisdiction.
8. Plundering our commerce on
every sea, under PRETENDED
blockades. not of barbors, ports or
places invested by adequate force,
but Of extended coasts, without the
application OF fleets to render them
legal, and enforcing them from the
date OF their proclamation, thereby
giving them virtually retrospective
effect.
A. Committing numberless spoil
ations on our ships and commerce,
under her ORDERS IN COUNCIL
remember this was in 1922 Of var
ious dates. M
s. Employing secret agents in the
United States, with view to subvert
our Government and dismember our
Union.
1916.
|. There are at present over 10000
former" American Citizens fighting,
against nations with which the United
States is in AMITY. and there are
many cases where these young men
have been inveigled, forced and
pressed into the service of England
against their will. Ask the State
Department at Washington
2 Neutral vessels have been chased
within the three mile limit of the
u. S. Territorial waters. During the
recent departure OF the German mer-
chant submarine Deutschland, Brit
ish cruisers entered the three mile
limit repeatedly.
g. In 1916 the same state OF af-
fairs only in far worse degree pre-
walls Our commerce on every sea
has been plundered, from Manila to
the Mediterranean Great Britain's
blockade NOW as THEN is a mere
pretense.
A. In 1914-15 and 16. Great Brit
ain again passed a number of OR
DERS IN COUNCIL, which set aside
international Law, and NOW as
THEN these highhanded violations Of
international Law have raised havoc
with our ships and commerce.
s. In 1916 facts have come to the
surface that there exists the So
called Cecil Rhodes Society. endowed
by Cecil Rhodes With many millions