Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-04-05

" cllpioy Us II IL employing tnem
without throwing to the winds all
scruples of humanity or of respect
for the understandings that were
supposed to underlie the intercourse
of the world.
Wanton Staying Of Submarines.
am not now thinking of the loss
of property involved, immense and
serious as it is, but only of the wan
ion and wholesale destruction of the
women and children engaged in
pursuits that have always, even in
the darkest periods of modern his
tory, been deemed innocent and le-
gitimate. Property can be paid for;
the lives of the peaceful and inno-
cent people cannot be.
The present German submarine
warfare is warfare on mankind
1t is war against all nations. Am
erican ships have been sunk. Amer
ican lives taken in ways which has
stirred us very deeply to learn of,
but the ships and people of other.
friendly nations have been sunk and
overwhelmed in the waters in the
same way. There has been no dis
elimination. The challenge is to all
mankind. Each nation must decide
for itself how it will meet it. The
choice we must make for ourselves
must be made with a moderation of
counsel and temperatures of judge
ment befitting our character and
our motives as a nation. We must
put excited feeling away. Our mo-
tive will not be revenge or the VIC
torious assertion, of the physical
might of the nation, but only the
vindication of right of human right,
of which we are only a single cham
pion.
Have Spies Here.
One of the things that has served
to convince us that the Prussian au-
tocracy was not and could never be
our friend is that from the very out
set of the present war 1t has filled
our unsuspecting communities with
spies and set criminal intrigues
everywhere afoot against our nat
ional unity of council, our indust-
ries and our commerce.
Indeed it is now evident that its
spies were here even before the war
began and it unhappily is not a mat
ter of conjecture, but fact proved
in our courts of justice, that the in
trigues which have more than once
come perilously near to disturbing
The peace and dislocating the ind
ustries of the country have been
carried on at the instigation, with
the support and even under the per-
sonal direction of official agencies
If the imperial government accredit-
I'd to the government of the United
States.
German People Not Our Enemy.
Even in checking these things and
trying to extirpate them we have
sought to put the most generous
interpretations possible upon them
because we knew that their source
lay, not in any hostile feeling or
purpose of the German people to-
ward us (who were, no doubt, as
ignorant of them as we ourselves
were), but only in the selfish desi-
gns of government that did what
it pleased and told its people moth
ing. But they have played their
part in serving to convince us at
last that that government entertains
no real friendship for us and means
to accomplish we know not what
ity at its convenience. that it means
to stir up enemies against us at our
very doors, the intercepted note to
The German minister at Mexico City
is eloquent evidence We are acc
epting this challenge of hostile pur-
pose because we know that in such
government, following such meth
DDS, we can never have friend;
ana that in the presence Of its Or
ganized power, always lying in wait
to accomplish we know not what
purpose, there can be no assured Sc
curity for the democratic govern
ments of the world.
We are now about to accept the
5age of battle with this natural foe
% liberty, and shall, if necessary,
spend the whole force of the nation
20 check and nullify its pretentions
and its power. We are glad, now
that we see the facts with no veil of
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