The Washington herald., 1917-03-09
What Leading Newspapers
Say on the War Situation
Judgment Has Been Rendered.
New York Sun

New York sun-
None Of the explanations put for
ward by the Senators who prevented
vote on the armed neutrality brn
satisfies or deceives tho nation they
betrayed
Their record made in the closing hours
OF the sixty-fourth Congress estab-
fishes their purpose and reveals their
design No sophisticated reasoning, nc
appeal to technicalities, can avert from
them the condemnation and scorn Of the
states they shamed. From the Atlantic
to the Pactne, from the Canadian border
to tho Mexican frontier, the indicnation
OF the citizens they misrepresented dis
owns them and their labors against the
common cause and condemns to futility
their service to disloyalty.
Judgment has been rendered on them
wherever patriotic men congregate, and
from that Judgment there Is no appea,
and no ingenuity Of mendacity can help
their case.
Germany's Senate Allies.
NV York World
The German newspapers are quick to
pay tribute to Germanys allies in the
United States Senate.
There is high praise for Senators who
boldly refuse to have their countrymen
involved In the European slaughter
merely for the sake of gratifying Will
sons vainglorious ambition" but to give
helpless American non-combatants, men,
women and children alike, over TO Ger
many's merciless submarine warfare is
noble and pariotic proceeding.
The Frankfurter Zeitung cannot re-
strain its rapture over the example of
these fine Americans who remained un.
contaminated by Wilson's blind devotion
to England" Senator Stone and Senator
La Toilette are selected for special COM
mendation for their work in frustrating
the Presidents plan ito wrest from Con
gress privileges vested in II by the Con-
stitution." Even Senator OGorman Is
not more sensitive than the German
press to the dangers of intrusting too
great power to the President OF the
United States in dealing with a policy
Of submarine massacre directed against
neutral lives and neutral ships.
In the same degree that the Senate
f1libuster is an inspiration to Germany,
the Presidents inaugural address Is
anathema. The Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger,
which is the official organ of the gov
ernment. declares that:
Never has the Capitol at Washin ston
been more profanely desecrated by q
speech than on this occasion The Presi-
dent reveals himself the most un-
righteous and dishonorable man who has
vet stood at the head Of q great state.
And when he states that there is moth
ing that can alter his thoughts or his
intentions. a million voices shout back
armed ships, no declaration OF war, will
again open up our blockade zones to
American Commerce"
Closure In Respect to Foreign Affairs
Now Yrt Tmea
hn
do not feel that the use of the filibuster-
ing power that was made last week was
an evil that calls for a remedy; that
when the whole country headed by the
President, and nearly tho whole mem
bership Of House and Senate are desirous
Of protecting our citizens from foreign
attack, a way must be found by which
pitiful handful Of dissenters cannot
annul their strength. Whatever oppo-
sition there Is to cloture proceeds from
the fear that in some matter Of purely
political legislation the majority party
may at some time make use of It to jam
through a measure overriding the rights
Of the minority. This would actually
have been done in the case OF the Force
bill II there had been cloture then.
New York Tribune.
Armed neutrality Is only another name
for unbelligerent belligerency. 1t is a
fraud and a farce. 1t might be eXcusa-
BILE under extreme circumstances to en-
gage in 1t as the briefest possible tenn
porary expedient-as an irregular and
hasty transition process between peace
and war. But under any other circun-
stances and for any other purposes it is
an expedient outlawed by modern condi-
tions and to meet the German challenge
any self-respecting nation.
We can see no circumstances now
VIII inh iIIaf ba mi
in taking refuge in a make-believe mode
Of war. Germany is already at war with
US The only reasonable thing for US to
do is to put aside all twilight zone f1c-
tons tond to meet the German challenge
honestly and manfully. And that means
war on our part as well as Germany's.
1t Is high time for the United States to
issue a declaration Of war.