Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-04-03

perty can be paid for; the lives OF
peaceful and innocent people cannot |
be.
THE present 1srnan subma-
/ rine warfare against commerce 10
q warfare against mankind. 10
a war against all nations. Amer
lean ships have been sunk, Amer
lean lives taken, in ways which
4 IL has stirred US very deeply TO
learn Of, but the ships and people
of other neutral and friendly ma.
tions have been sunk and over
wheIn,ed in tho waters In the same
way.
CHALLENGE TO ALL MANKIND.
There has been no discrimination
The challenge is to all mankind. Each
nation must decide for itself how 1t
will meet 1t. The choice we make for
ourselves must be made with a mod
Grafton of counsel and a temperatures
of judgment befitting our character
and our motives as nation. We must
; put excited feeling away. Our motive
will not be revenge or the victorious
assertion of the physical might of the
nation, but only the vindication OF
right, of human right, of which we are
only single champion.
when 1 addressed the congress on
the twenty-sixth Of February last, /
thought that it would suffice to assert
our neutral rights with arms, our right
to use the seas against unlawful inter-
ference, eur right to keep our people
j safe against unlawful violence. But
armed neutrality, it now appears, Is
impracticable. Because submarines
are in effect outlaws when used as the
lTs ID hAA
|, against merchant shipping. It is impos-
:, sible to defend ships against their at
= tacks as the law of nations has assum-
e ed that merchantmen would defend
t themselves against privateers or cruis-
n ers. visible craft giving chase upon the
J, open sea.
DEALT WITH ON EIGHT.
: TT is common prudence in such cir
q substances, grim necessity indeed, to
g endeavor to destroy them before they
: have shown their own intention. They
y must be dealt with upon sight, II dealt
d with at all.
e "The German government denies the
X right of neutrals to use arms at all
i within the areas of the sea which 1t
has prescribed, even in the defense of
o rights which no modern publiclst has
It ever before questioned their right to
d defend. The intimation is conveyed that
Re the armed guards which we have plac-
- ed on our merchant ships will be treat
: ed as beyond the pale of law and sub
d ject to be dealt with as pirates would
Ie be. Armed neutrality is Intellectual
> enough at best; in such circumstances
l. and in the face of such pretensions II
Re Is more than Intellectual 1t Is likely al
p, once to produce what 1t was meant tc
prevent; 1t Is practically certain tc
ID draw us into the war without either
a the rights or the effectiveness Of bel
n ligerents.
o. AT THE ROOTS OF HUMANITY.
"There 10 one choice we cannot
n make, we are incapable of making.
&c We will not choose the path Of
~ ~ submission and suffer the most
=, = sacred rights Of our nation and our
!" people to be ignored or violated.
Tho wrongs against which we now
70 array ourselves are not common
u wrongs; they out TO the very roots
A. of human life.
r with q profound sense Of the
solemn and. even trasioaI char
% aeter Of the step | am taking and
~ Of the grave responsibilities which
= il involves, but in Undertaking
10 obedience to what | deem my con-
~ stitutionai duty, | advise that the
70 congress declare the recent course
of the imperial German government
to be In fact nothing less than war
against the government and people
Of tho United States, that II
formally accept the status Of bel
Ii Iiserent which has thus been thrust
n upon it. and that Il take immediate
steps not only to put the country in
a moro thorough state Of defense,
but also to exert all its power and
employ all its resources to bring
the government Of the German em-
pire to terms and end the War.
"What this will involve is clear.
II will involve tho utmost prae-
ticabIe CO operati On in counsel and
faction with the governments now
at war with Germany, and, as In
cident to that, the extension 70
those governments Of the most lib
eraI financial credits, In order that
our resources may, SO far az pos
sibIe, be added to theirs.
n at will involve the organization
81 and mobilization Of all the material
resources OF the country TO supply
the materials of war and serve
the incidental needs Of the ma
ton in the most abundant, and
yet the most economical and effl-
cient way possible.
at will involve the immediate
full equipment Of the navy in all
respects, but particularly in sup
" plying il with the best means Of
a dealing with tho enemy's subma-
7I rines.
VII at will involve the immediate
addition to the armed forces Of.
tho United States already pro-
vided for by law in case Of war, by
n at least 100000 mon, who should,
In my opinion, be chosen upon the
m principle of universal liability to
A. service, and also the. authorization
Of subsequent additional incre-
ments Of equal farea 90 aoon a.