Iditarod pioneer., 1917-03-17
OUR QUARREL WITH GERMANY

 congress and the faced the possibility of an abandonment of all neutral rights searghs which had maintained and recognized international law for President Wilson boldly put the question square to the eg aors whether they wished to abandon those rights The answer emphatic "No and subsequent developments showed that the represented the wishes of the nation The abandonment by United States of principles well estab shed as rights neutral time of would have stamped the action of the great republic cowady in the ex As the powerful of the neutral nations the United looked take the lead in this matter In other words it was the duty the the world international anarchy To have adopted the Mclemore resolution would have been of betrayal part
 surprising that individuals and newspapers should still be found advocate the cowardy of submitting to illegal demands of warning nations that vessels shall avoid lanes travel the threat that they Will be tor pedoed NewMner discussing the question: puts forth rather startling proposition and one which we are per suaded be justified neither patriotic grounds purely ouburst of pachsm That newspaper says
 "The ocean and the along the British coast
 highways and of the word and all have un-
 questioned right o them The question is Is
 it good travel trouble-nfested and disputed
 routes? Is it worth while bet the lives and the
 property of nation upon the belief that the fighting
 nation will dare land upon neutral? In the ab-
 sence of further encouragement it is enough for us to
 know that the United States not today at with
 Germany We may be excused for expressing the hope
 that she never will be-wth Germany any other for
 eign naon.'
 In extenuaon its position the Fairbanks newspaper hypothetical of fight in which the combatans block travel citizen desiring exercise his rights to pass along the killed injured The NewsMner decides that the citizen while perfectly within his rights and concedng that the begeents would be fault his injury death would be alone responsible for what happened to him
 The given all analogous Under the circum stances suggested would be fool to endanger his life quarrel But suppose the fighting continued Suppose begeents kept the blocked indefinitely while they feud and each warned neutral citizens that they must not use the during the the quarrel and further that they must have with the other belgerent The argument of the pacsts that the residents of the city must patiently the of the poracted fighting that the suffer and they be denied unquesloned rights of mourning the dseasure of the other Of the parties to quarrel which they supposed to be inter ested perhaps unnecessary that the czen thus deprived his rights would immediately provide himself with shotgun and clear for himself through the streets which he is entitled To do otherwise would be to acknowledge mponcy of law and lack of the part of the individual demand what his ownn other words to invite further encroachments his rights and store for future generations heritage of injustice and tyranny
 The position of United States this matter clearly de fined There has undue haste procaming that ton But the his advisors have spoken the gress of the United States has backed them and the people themselves shown their determination in the matter The questioning the nations attitude in the matter past Like the NewsMner, would deplore with Germany, 0. any other but the hope that be avoided coupled with the wish that peace be not bought by abandon en of rights which the reversed Germany would ss upon just strongly does the United States.