TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1917-03-01

shameful and cowardly to ADAM
don trade with England for fear
Iof German blockaders.
Nor can anybody else sllow
o reason, other than a quibbling
sea-lawyer' technicality, worthy
only Of a sea-lawyer's intclli-
gence.
Our shipowners have very
prudently avoided British cap
ture and destruction of their
vessels by keeping them out Of
the forbidden zones marked out
by the British Admiralty, and
they will act prudently and per-
haps periodically, too, if they
keep their ships out Of the
danger zones marked out by the
German Admiralty, and so re-
move all danger Of their own
country being dragged into
war.
There is neither any standard
of honor nor patriotism nor
self-interest which does not APP
ply with exactly equal force to
THE OF
AMERICAN
WITH GERMANY BY THE
BRITISH and to THE INTER
RUPTION OF AMERICAN
COMMER WITH ENG
LAND BY THE NJ
The argument is made, OF
course, that the Germans sink
American ships and drown
American citizens that try 10
run their blockade, while the
British have not done so.
But the common sense am
swer, and the sufficient answer,
is that the British have fred on
no American ship and injured
no American citizen because no
American ship has ever armed
itself and tried to run the Brit
ish blockade.
II American ships paid the
same heed to the German block
AIDE that they have paid to the
British blockade there would
he no American ships sunk and
no American citizens drowned
by the Germans.
The German submarine block
ade is illegal, and the British
cruiser blockade is also illegal.
British Order in Council
that no American ship can
voyage to Norway, Sweden,
Denmark or Holland without
first calling at an English port
and being searched, and that
the United States can only ship
just the amount Of goods pre-
scribed by the British Admiral
ty to such neutral nations, Is
letter for letter a copy of the
British Order III Council OVER
WHICH WE WENT TO
WAR WITH ENGLAND IN
1872.
That blockade and those or
ders were illegal then and are
illegal now, but while our
fathers fought such insolence
with arms-and won their fight
submit tamely.
If we were to act with scrups
ulous fairness,w WI would EITHER
LAY AN EMBARGO OR DE-
ICLARE WAR AGAINST
BOTH GERMANY AND ENG
LAND for i~dentically illegal tres
passes upon our rights on the
free seas, or else we would put
up with both until they had
ceased fighting and then carry
our case against both to an in
ternational tribunal, as we did
against England in the matter
of the Alabama.
The President is a historian,
as we'll as a statesman, and he
doubtless recognizes the force OF
these truths and would be more
than delighted if American ship
Ipers and American citizens
would keep themselves out oil
danger of destruction and their
country out of danger Of wal
by staying away from the dan.
ger zones of the German block
ade, exactly as they have stay
ed away from the danger zones
of the British blockade for more
than two years.
The European war viii end
in a few months.
The representatives Of the al
lied governments, who met {
few weeks ago in Rome, know
that we speak the truth wher
we say that it was then ane
there agreed that this Spring
land Summer campaign shoult
HE the last, result as it might
II afx