New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-15

established by lawful act of Parliament
passed by Lords and Commons of this
realm unanimously, and signed there
after by our august Sovereign George, by
the grace of God of the United Kingdom
Of Great Britain and Ireland and of the
British Dominions beyond the seas, King,
Defender Of the Faith; but that act of
Parliament has received the Endorsement
Of our glorious allies, the great French
Republic, the illustrious Kingdom of
Italy, the vast Republic of the West;
Portugal and Japan, the oldest and the
youngest friends of this country; the
gallant Republic of Brazil, the dim mill
ions of Cathay as the sands of the sea
in number; tortured Belgium, ravished
Serbia, desolated Rumania, and every
other state joined together to vindicate
civilization, which you outraged, and free
dom, upon which you sought to set your
heel.
Therefore never in the chronicles of
man has justice been more omnipotently
authorized than in this court. Nor can
you, descended as you are through YOUR
august mother from the royal house of
England, pretend to an ignorance of the
majesty of English law or the inviola-
bility of English justice. The reverence
for justice is living force in the life of
every man born in this favored land, and
many generations of men have treasured
in their hearts the famous apostrophe to
justice that fell from the lips of the
great Hooker:
"Her seat is the bosom of God, her
voice the harmony of the world; all
things in heaven and earth do her
homage, the very least as feeling her
care, the greatest as not exempted
from her power"
Such is the justice that all of us in this
great commission have long administered
publicly before the world in the high
courts of this country Such is the JUS
tice that we sit here to-day to administer
without fear or favor, untouched by in
suit, unmoved by emotion, infexible as
fate, and to such justice, sir, your pride
must now submit.
Never since civilization was established
in Europe has one man committed so
dread and awful an accumulation of pub
lie iniquities. You have spat upon the
ancient chivalries of battle; you have
prostituted the decent amenities of d.
plomacy; you have polluted with murder
the splendid comradeship of the sea. Of
these horrible deeds the proof stands I'M
challenged, and for such deeds the world
has cast you out and thrown you down
from one of the greatest thrones in his
tory and left you here stripped of all
your power and splendor, your crowns,
your crosses and your diadems.
The English are a generous people
and have shown even in the memory or
us all that they can extend the hand of
friendship freely to an honorable and
gallant foe when the sword is sheathed;
and had you fought this people as gal
liant and knightly king should, you
would not now be their prisoner, but
their guest.
In declaring you to be a debased and
treacherous enemy, who turned your back
on no infamy in the wanton attack you
made upon mankind, this high and puts
SAINT court delivers upon you the iudg-
ment of all the nations gathered together
from the ends of the earth to overwhelm
you-and unanimously we find all the
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