Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-10
Submarine of Pence

THAT message from the Kaiser to President
Wilson, brought into the port Of Balti-
more by giant submarine merchantmen,
may we'll prove an appeal to the President to
use his good Offices to effect an honorable
peace, In the absence of positive evidence,
indeed, this conclusion would appear inevi-
table
Prince Buelow, according to report, has
sought the intervention of the Pope, and more
recently a German submarine, docking at
Cartagena, carried a similar message from
the Kaiser to King Alfonso Of Spain Now
comes the letter to the President OF the United
States
There is a certain poetic proprety in the
use OF Il submarine the bearer of this APP
peal if appeal indeed there be. The instru-
ment OF naval warfare, whose devotion to
frightfulness time and again has forced this
country to the verge of war with Germany,
now brings Il message which may restore
peace to IL war-stricken world. Despite the
clamor OF extremists in the Reichstag, despite
all the positive avowals of soldier and states
man that President Wilson would be un-
acceptable to Germany as a mediator between
the German government and people and their
enemies, the Kaiser, in the midst OF his wan
ing hopes and crumbling ambitions turns
longing eyes to the strong, wise man in Wash
ington.
They are not fools in Berlin. They know
beyond peradventure. as NIaXimilan Harden
and other publjcistS have admitted, that the
stand OF this country for humanity and neu-
trail prerogative is buttressed in the fixed and
accepted principles OF international law.
They know when they yield to cool renec-
ton, that only passion can controvert the
statements that have emanated from the
White House. They know that in this weller
of blood and destruction the hands of Wilson,
and OF Wilson alone have held aloft the
standards Of justice, peace and right.
hoy t11rr 70 I, h,,t;
ability they turn in vain. The allies will
scarce be willing to listen to peace proposals
now. For nearly two years they have pre-
pared themselves for the great offensive now
in progress, the while they watched the oc-
cupation of their territory and the opprcs-
sion of their people. They have poured out
treasure in an unceasing flood to make their
material equipment rival or better that OF
their enemies, they have called all Of their
manhood to the colors, they have wrought
nightly and suffered much, and 1t is not
likely they will surrender the advantage they
appear at last to have attained AS it takes
TWO to make a quarrel, SO also 1t takes two
to make Il quarrel up. Germany however
dismal her prospect, is as yet the conqueror
with her armed foot on alien soil. She will
offer no terms the allies will accept and the
President would make mistake and invite
a rebun II he offered mediation at this time
The trip OF the submarine across the ocean
of course, is Il great exploit. If her cargo
is OF drugs, chemicals and dyestuffs, of the
sort which have increased in value tenfold
since the British blockade cut off exports from
Germany, 1t may be worth millions of dollars
The voyage this craft has made may be re-
peated by Others like her, and scarcity thot
has impeded the progress or America NAV
we'll be relieved