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tained for 400 years, and that i9 tnat
before the vessel Is sunk. which has
been captured the capturing vessel must
see 10 II that the crew, the passengers
and the officers OF the captured vessel
shall be put In place Of complete
safety.
Admiral Simms, Of the Confederacy.
sank three hundred or four hundred
merchant vessels Of the United States,
and he prlded hlmself-and he was
good international lawyer as well as an
able commander-that In all that Dum-
Der not one single human life was lost
Indeed there were instances where he
seized vessels and then released them
because he could not destroy the vessels
end at the same time perform the duty
he recognized OF saving the lives Of those
who were in the ships which he had1
captured. That illustration Is most
simple one Of the rule.
Therefore when Germany sank the
Lusitsnis, and when she sank these
other vessels, she knew that In sinking
them under those conditions she must
kill OF must drown, large part OF the
ship company. She did that without
ri9ht; she did u deliberately, and when
one kills another deliberately and with
out right it Is murder; and that Is our
case against Germany. She murdered
two hundred Of our citizens; she not
only did that, but she announced that
in fhture any citizen pursuing his right
and entering a vessel in that zone which
she had marked of on the high seas,
she would continue to murder-on the
high seas, the common pathway OF ma
tions, where she had no more right 70
fence of a zone than would citizen
OF this town have the right to 80 into
the street and put a wire fence In the
middle Of the street and station him
self behind that fence with a hair
trigger revolver and slay those who
seek TO remove 1t in the exercise OF
their universal recognized rights.
"Now Germany does not really make
any defense for doing as she does, but
she says that international law does
not apply She does say that those who
went into that zone after receiving no
tice caused their own death, because
they knew the risk they were running.
Suppose John Smith in this town were
70 send word TO John Jones. II you
come down into the street in front Of
YOUR house ! will kill you and Jones
were TO come down in the street and
be killed by Smith, and then Smith were
10 go into your criminal court and
plead, Il am not guilty. John Jones
killed himself. He committed suicide.
He knew IL he came down there / would
kiU him. He was guilty Of contributory
negligence in running into a bullet TIE
presence OF which ne ought 70 have an
ticipated in the street.
"Then Germany's other defense Is that
they were retsliating against EnBlanu :
and John Smiths defense might be that
he killed Jones because Robertson hau
dona something TO him and Robertson
was tho man he was trying TO XIII.
"It reminds me OF a letter that Presl-
dent Roosevelt read TO us one day IN
,te Cabinet. written by one OF MS
rough riders. They always applied 70
the Colonel when they got into olnl-
cuIiies. and he would read the letters 70
ne So he came into the Cabinet one
morning and he said listen TO thls II
"Larime Prison.
"'Dear Colonel: ! am in trouDl Z
again as vou see. but this time It i
not nv fault. I am in here for shoot
ing lady in the eve I was not shoot
ing az her: was shooting at my wife.
daughter and applause)
Germany saws she was not shooting
~ rs. she was shooting at England.
"Ne are q government organized foi
vbat7 For the protection Of the rights
~ orr citizens: the right Of our citizens
az between one another and the rights
~ our citizens as against an invasion
NJ foreign nations Our aim is TO pro
tect our citizens in their right 10 DC
unon The high seas Just as much as IN
their right TO be upon the soil OF tht
United states; and they are Jus1 ..
much entitled TO the protection OF lh'
United States in the one place as y
the other. Therefore when Germans llii-il
murdered two hundred OF our cltl.en'
and threatened 10 murder others unless
we offered our protection, unless W.
ylndicated our citizens rights, there wa
no reason for our being, as a govern
ment: we had better so out OF th'
government business. 49,
I'VE did not want TO get INTO thIi
war. as I say. The President was mos
reluctant. The Republican party crit
icized him for his delay in ASSERTING
American rights. That water has goh'
over the wheel and we are neither Re
nublicans or Democrats now, we ar
all American citizens. applause 4.
But the delay, the reluctance. shoul'
he evidence TO every man who con
siders himself a Paciflst and shoul'
satisfy him that we were forced mt
this war against our will and that w
entered II only because Germany, pur
suing her usual policy. gave US m
loophole in which TO escape; It wa
either submission 10 her outrages o
the vindication Of our internatlona
rights
$50 we are in the war now. we ar
IN the war for a reason that is ample
but only a phase Of the greater caus
for which we are now in the Tight; an
as | say, we did not know what tina
cause was; we did not realize It. W
did not know that the gate way TO IN
worlds happiness was the worlds lid
erty. Now we know 10.
what is the cause Of the world wa
against Germany At the outset Ger
many said that this was a conspiracy
a war Of aggression against her, grow
ing out Of the Jealousy Of England an
France and Russia because OF her bus
ness progress. In the retrospect as W
look back TO sec how little prepare
any one Of those three alleged cor
spirators were. They were utterly un
prepared in the beginning. Russia ma
no strategic railway, and was not read
for war, nor was France; and Englan
was as utterly unprepared for war
we were. Therefore the war was
deliberate attempt to attack and or
nress by a nation that was ready TO IN
last button and the last man. IL mas
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