Connecticut western news., 1916-04-06
Running Amuck

IL IN Nhlh liit lAtSlhl1ht htil hlN 1hh@ inet are now convinced that German submarines are running amuck under orders from higher mp. Each day adds to the formidable evidence accumulated of ruthless persistence in policy, every move in which ia violation of the pledge of Germany to the United i States. The United States now con- fronts the gravest crisis in the history of the war and there seems to be no way out of it except through sever. ance of diplomatic relations with the Teutonic empire that has forgotten how to keep its pledged word.
 The strain that has been put on the friendship of the two nations has been applied by Germany. The outragcs and the insolences have been wholly
 hers. With unexampled patience we
 have endured things which would have
 meant war declaration at once from
 almost any other nation on the globe.
 The limit has now been reached. Ger.
 many has even gone beyond it and the
 only explanation of her course, in view
 of her pledges freely made, k that the
 advocates of frightfulness have the
 upper hand in her councils and that
 she is determined to drag us into war.
 Such course savers of the desnern-
 tion that accompanies despair but it is
 something that we must consider. It
 Is quite plain that, unless Germany
 completely changes her plan of opera.
 tions. the time is not far distant, when
 we shall break with her. And there is
 not the least indication at the present.
 time of her giving us the assurances
 that we require for continuance of
 our friendship. The time for diplo.
 matic parleying is over, The president is now as convinced of this us is the
 average citizen.
 If such a break must come it could
 not come at more opportune time nor under circumstances of greater justifi- cation. The United States has played
 fair under the gravest acts of injury with the Teutonio empire. That empire has not played fair with the United States. Fairness, it seems, is something that has been deliberately
 rejected by the leaders of German thought. Broken pledges strew the
 path of the central powers toward
 place in the sun and the time has come
 to call them to account for what can
 not be considered other than an obvious plot to involve the United States in
 the European armageddon.
 We should prepare now not only for the ordinary eventualites of world poli- tics in this time of unfolding history but, specifically, for dealing with any threat that may come to us from Ger many in the future. She has chal. lenged us by open injury and covert conspiracy to take up the gage that she
 has cast down. We have no other self. respecting course than to accept 1t and abide the issue.
 Perchance in the not distant future the realization will come to the kaiser and his followers along the paths of schrechlichkeit that the friendship of , the United States is som ething of an asset. Perhaps they will more clearly see then what the more clear sighted among their numbers see now that they have lost a pawn in the great world game that might have been of mighty influence in its just settlement.
 The president is not to be ooerced
 into the course of surrender and humiliation by this latest revelation of
 Germanic faithlessness. He will keep
 on in the even tenor of his way and in due season he will present to Germany the accumulated evidence of promise breaking that we have against her. We shall no longer be contented with promises that were never intended to be fulfilled. By her acts must Ger many show us that she really has in
 mind to line up with other self.respect. ing nations under the aegis of law, Until that time it is all offense for patriotic Americans, with the memory
 of their dead unavenged and unatoned,
 to have any faintest contact with her.
 Already here open perjuries smell to
 heaven. We will be compelled to re-
 move ourselves from their vicinity : ADsonia Sentinel.