Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-11-01


This weeks food campaign is nationwide. It will have
worldwide significance and effect 1t will bring this to
every man woman and child Vermont and every other
every soldier Of the eighteen nations united in this struggle
against the Kaiser for the right to live and have being
" entire s people States are thus engaged
in the most primitive method Of warfare and in
lesson that is lingering but not fatal By the rules Of war
Chooses between submission and starvation The Kaiser has
complained becauses the entente allies refused repeatedly to
They did not know they beaten So in this war Of smash
ed presidents and treaties and ruthless warfare
picaons Of old methods Of wasng hosities A' '" "p
The present situation unusual owing to the fact that liz
ing each other That is why we are a regardless
Of sddG Rdsn Wilson to
send food supplies s to allies and supply our
fare the snd ohren as
we'll against our commerce and that Of all nations of the
land and the other allies s uope TSe
Kaiser knows he not starve but hopes ae
succession finally becoming able subduo the United State
We all thus directly interested in the outcome Of this
send to England more than offset. bullet Every
barrel Of sent is successful stroke against German
counting thrust against Hun fghtulness Unless thus
aid cur allies on the other side Of the Atlantic shall be
Of the Atlantic and without allies.
Are within international rights ard the rules Of
civilized warfare in adopting this primitive mode Of fighting
against woudbe worldconqusrer and exemplar Of the
y? In view Of the Kasers discarng of every dictate
humanity and his destruction Of living thing
be obliged 10 this question in any attempt SELL
usts s 4sss1 is well to act inteigenty however
have conquered in succession all the nations aayed
against him. he had followed single provision Of inter
ing the all that respect for their flag for their
IN o e Ssy sv when
# the Kaiser had applied this international law or usage
the Atlantic ocean, we would not be in the to-day Meth
ships sunk rutess the whose
It is now plain that if the Germans had confined their
concerned she would have the struggle The
K s1 cSS then have to the United States and
Of the allies with all Of supplies Despite
the fact that &c sold Enssnd supplies same
British S fleet S beea
and other American communities This work. but
posss Of S Ame
can to Germany passed Let the Kaiser first force Italy
WITH that situation one Of two things must follow
Either we must bleed white in against the Kaiser with
Belgium has paid and suffer loss Of sovereignty as nation
The Kaiser by ignoring the rule of international law
land opportunity aty os forces s w with
host Of allies and this international mailman under re-
from starving allies.
in law the other ha4 Of the
against world is through the stopping food and other sup
plies In short fully warranted under the crcun
stances in resorting to starvation of the Kaiser.
Retaliation right under international law and yet
this limited by considerations of humanity. For in
STANCE General Washington had right to execute Captain
Asg the prisoner drawn be shot in retaliation the kill
ing of Captain Huddy, but Captain Asgi ultimately
free The use Of poisoned the poisoning OF springs
and wells and under the category although
Germany has resorted to of these things
For references on retaliation Davis $685. Hail. 1885,
Boyds Wheaton, 347 Woolsey 1922 Walker D. 349;
Buntschi SGT; Vatta, lv. iii, chap. viii al.
If there other consideration involved retaliation
would give the allies the right resort to starvation bring
the Kaiser to terms As matter of TACT however, estab
sh blockade of the Southern States Civil War
and supplemented it by Shemans march the sea- which
cut off the of the south from the the confed
eracy
We within rights from the standpoint of in
ternatona law then just to-day in stopping the
supply of necessares o. life in order period
boodshed and force ultimate submission Germans In
1906 Prussia then i'll vassaage to Napoleon issued decree
announcing that the ports and rivers sea region
we're closed to English shipping BY way of retaliation the