The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-05-21

tons have been spoiled by mice and
other rodents.
Such conditions spell irretrievable |
disaster in spite of all any govern
ment can do. Such conditions would
have prevailed in this country. from
the outbreak Of the war until now,
gradually growing worse and worse.
and deepening in disaster from hard
times to universal stagnation and
widespread famine. II our Govern
l,ment had not first resisted with very
diplomatic weapon the encroach-
msnts Of the German Government
had not firt resisted with every dip
iomatic weapon the Entertainments
OF the German Government. and
finally, when Its cruel. piratical. and |
ruthless policy moved ON from ILL., |
egal restrictions to open and ruth
less murder. II our Government had
not drawn the sword.
Why did we draw the sword? Was
1t to keep up the price Of wheat and
cotton, and to protect trade only?
II someone should order you to rem
ain on your farm, and not to use the
public highway, would your resist
ance be based only on the fear Of
loss in property. the profits from fail
ure to market your crops. the incon-
venience In not being able to buy
your supplies In town! BY no means.
You would fight to the last gasp. not
to make money. but 70 be free.
| When a man IL enslaved. all he
loses In money IL his wages; but the
white man has never been success
fully enslaved. There rises up in him
terrible at loss of his ownership Of
himself that death has always been
preferable to slavery.
What the Imperial German Gov
eminent offered the farmers of
America In its ruthless submarine
warfare was not the loss Of profits,
but slavery to the saber RATHER Of
Potsdam. He pLrposed to make us
slaves by numbering the people who
take our products to market. BY all
the laws of civilized warfare COM
merce under a neutral flag was free
from any hindrance except the legal
interferences justified by war; but
the Germans not only stopped mere
, hant vessels, but sunk them. They
not only sunk them, but they sunk
them without warning. They not only
! Isunk them without warning, but they
/ sunk them without trace the most
devilish thing war has seen since the
savages scalped our ancestors and
threw screaming babies into the flam-
es OF burning cabins; for the German
without trace Is based on the murd'
erer's maxim that dead men tell nc
tales; and It was executed by the
massacre Of men. women. and chill
dren. who, having committed them
selves to the awful dangers Of small
boats in the open sea Nfter their
ships were torpedoed were then
mercilessly raked with gun fire. and
exterminated to the last poor unprot
j Itected, implied wretch!
These are the murders that stair
the hands of the Kaiser and his ad
uIvisers and minions. These outrage
| were perpetrated on neutral vessels
| kwhen all that civilized warfare CAV
| the Germans right to do even witt
the merchant vessel under hostil
| flag, was to stop 1t at sea and unde
proper circumstances make 1t . priz
of war; but to kill the civilians o
board, even under hostile flag. wa
II nothing but stark. plain unmitiga'
] ed murder.
I'll And these murders were commit
ted in order that we might be ensla'
Cd! Having the right. according
the laws Of war. to take the sea wit
his fleet. and fight the thing out. gu
to gun, but being afraid to do 80 Il
iii fear that he might lose his fleet. b
ing afraid or unable to stop the sci
ing Of our products to his enemies
to open his own ports to US by IA
means, he declared that he would
it by the foulest methods ever resol
ed to In war. He declared the
closed: and that he would keep
closed not by war, but by murder.
m To have submitted would ha
cost us dear In prosperity; but tt
would have been the least OF Q
loss.
We should have had to grovel
ulfore the German Government.