The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-05-12
RODRRIG 0. MATHESON, EDITOR
One German, Vieu
FRIDAY, MORNING
MAY u, 1916.

- ERMANY is not unit on the submarine
question and there are enough Germans in
the Fatherland able to see the American point of
view e, permit at least one published defense of
President Wilson TO get by the ccnsors and be-
fore TIE people without rebuke for the writer.
hrs was Macmillan Harden, who, in Die Zu-
kunst published an amazing poIemic entitled IF
~ Were Wilson" His article took the form of
an Imaginary message from the President and be-
came public during the two weeks or study given
by the German government to the American note.
Max Hafdens article begins: "LiSten, mankind,
to the message of a man" Harden puts the whole
case Of the United States against his fellow coun-
trymen. The following are quotations.:
.Gernany accuses us of helping her enemies
with war material. We have the right to do it.
II is not our fault that Germany can not be a
client
aGermany, in all modern warfare, nothwith-
standing neutrality, delivered to party, and
often to both, weapons and munitions. The use
Of these was undoubted.
"The rights of manufacturers brought bit
ter reproach from Germans and many Of those
thought they must revenge themselves for the sup
posed wrong done to the Fatherand. Proofs of
the favoring of the criminal actions lie in our ar
chives
4
ing the Manchurian war. Japanese agents to work
in Prussian Poland, and by agitations and endan-
gering munition factories, to brighten GetIhaHy
into enmity against Russia?
as our demand of rights not equal to that of
Germany?
II demand that Germany publicly associate her
self from every comment from foolish patriots who
misuse Our hospitality to upset civil peace.
II demand that Germany shall, without reserve,
protect the life and property of American citizens
at sea.
mo longer may the question whether two great
peoples shall have in friendship or in enmity, to
depend the within or nerves of some young
Submarine commander, who wishes to serve the
Fatherland and listens only to his conscience when
it says, Down with everything l can catch.
4 ITO give way would be reckoned on neither side
as weakness, but only as the expression of the
reasonable wish of two peoples to preserve friend
~ Intercourse.
'"The results of a breach would be that our whole
hemisphere, north and south, would be made the
enemy of Germany, and not only for the time
Germany would lose all her ships lying in United
States harbors and have to reckon with consider
able increase of enemy tonnage.
"From the day of the breach Germany would
nave to provision Belgium and herself The whole
Of Holland and Scandinavia could scarcely hope
for more supplies by sea, and would become in
need themselves, and could give nothing more to
strangers. Whether at such high price the loss
of power to England by lack of food and shipping
could be bought, Germany alone must decide.
s. That the end of the would then disappear
into unforeseen distance is certain. That moment
we should have united front in America. The
Germans; Irish and Austro- 1ungarians in our land
would forget everything but that they
der the Stars and Stripes'