The Republican journal., 1917-01-25
Can the U. S. Stay Out ?
T alifax, N, S, Chronicle

Yesterday we considered tine podsibih-
ty of the United States entering Toe war
to secure saiisi action from Germany for
tue murder of United States cinz-as,
the DIES ructi5n ~ United States proper
", and the repeated violations OF the
Sussex pledges. i would almost APP YEAR
that the Government of Toe U llted
States can not much longer maintain us
Seii-respect and stay out OF the var
The final break may come the moment
GERMANY commits some fresh outrage
uoOn United States nationals, or offers
some turther atfront to the dignity of
oar nearest neighbor. If this is the true
situation, 1t becomes OF interest 10 us 10
KNOW now the entrance OF the United
States you'd affect US.
At the first glance, it seems that tn
Allies have everything to gain and moth
ing 10 lose by adding amos her powerful
enemy to the rank OF Germany 5 foes.
Al tae same time, the United States
axes very little risk in mourning the
kaiser's enmlty So long as the British
N IVY floats and the North Atlantic ocean
ntervenes, the Huns will be unable to
set hostile foot upon this Continent. The
participation of the United States III
actual warfare can be as e eat or as little
as 1t peaseS 1t can be rendered by lis
navy or by the creation OF an overseas
eXps dictionary force for services IN one OF
the theatres of the war. Immediately
upon the declaration Of war Germany's
shipping in the United States ports,
something over million tons, could be
seized and added to the merchant marine
Serving the Allied unsries or used in
transporting and pr visoning an Ameri-
can overseas force
The addition of million tons Of ship
ping TO the carrying trade of the world
would be of immense benefit to the Allied
cause, and its influence in reducing the
cost of transportation and increasing the
volume OF goods transported, would be
of great and immediate Importance to
the Mother Country as we'll as the Over
seas Dominions and the friendly neutral
nations of the world.
The entrance of the United States into
the war would, even If it never sent
single unit overseas, be of great advan-
tage to the Allied cause, for it would at
once put a stop to the contraband trade
now carried on between the United States
and Germany through neutral countries,
particularly through Sweden and Den
mark: 1t would put into the control of
the Allies most effective weapon to
prevent the expectation to the above
neutral countries of supplies which take
the place of supplies locally produced
and exported to Germany, 1t would put
amend to further trips of the Deutschland
and of the export of Canadian nickel
for the manufacture of German ammuni-
ton. 1t would open vast recruiting
ground to the Canadian drill sergeant,
and would undoubtedly encourage sub
scrlption to further Allied loans. 1t
would permit American shipbuilders to
furnish torpedo boats ard such small
craft as they are able to build for the
Allied Navies. 1t would, in sense, pe
trial by fire of the United States from
which she would emerge with the dross
of selfshness and aloofness from the
cause of humanity purged away-a bet
ter and purer nation All this is, of
course, on the assumption that the Unit
gun, or ship overseas to fight in the
cause of humanity, which is hardly con-
ceivable.
1t is next to mpossible to imagine that
great, rich, vigorous and prosperous
meekly submit to the continued murder
of their property, and the added affront
to its dignity which would ensue if Ger
many continues her submarine campaign
and further ignores her Sussex pledges.
In view of the threat ito sever diplo-
matte relations altogether" made by
President Wilson after the destruction
of the Sussex, and in view of the fact
that on at least three occasions since,
that the Sussex crime has been re-
peated, to the injury and loss of Ameri-
can lives and damage to American prop
erty, il would seem inevitable that the
United States must take a part, and q
vigorous part, in the punishment of a
country whose crimes and breaches of
international good faith are unparalleled
in history.
If, therefore, the United States should
come in, it is reasonable to expect that
she will come in to the full extent of her
great resources. In the first place, then,