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SuHh, our pOFSl iiiliSlit Sdiu, oiicoo
you stop this, We'll sever our re-
lations.' Germany stopped for a
time, and went to work building
submarines, until March 81, 1917,
when she thought she had enough,
and issued her famous statement
defining the pathway for neutrals,
certain strip some nine hundred
miles north and south, and three
hundred east and west, outside of
which all vessels commercial or
otherwise, neutral or otherwise,
would be sunk. About this time
that great statesman. Count Won
Bernstorf was sent home, and
after the Kaiser had duly embrace
ed him, he sent him on to the
Turks where he belonged. Ger
many then sunk five of our ships,
making a total Of two hundred
lives that had been lost.
SIN international law there is a
certainty that doesn't occur in
other things. There are rules of
law governing the high seas as
there are laws governing real es-
tate in Delaware. Belligerents
must see that crew and passengers
of merchant ships are put in
a place of safety. Admiral Sims
in the Civil War sunk many YES
sells, but he prided himself on the
fact that in all this destrr ttion not
a single human life was lost.
Germany knew that her sinking
under those conditions must cause
death. Therefore our case against
Germany is murder. That we were
forewarned and should have kept
away is just as SenSeleSs as 1t
would be for a man to seize re-
volver and stand in the middle of
Newark street, shouting if you use
this highway | shall kill you. If
Smith walks down the street to at
tend to his business, and Jones
shoots him, will any court III the
land hold Jones guiltless of muir
der? Some have said Germany was
not after the United States, the
blow was aimed at the British ma
ton. That reminds me of letter
that Theodore Roosevelt once re-
ceived from one of his Rough Rid
ers, who appealed to the Colonel
when in trouble. He wrote: I'm IN
prison for shooting a woman, but i
isn't my fault this time. | didn't
intend to shoot her, | meant to
shoot my wife. tell you my
friends of all the warehouses
which Germany has for war pur-
poses. the biggest is that in which
she stores her lies. Our govern
ment is organized for the protec-
ton of our citizens; to protect the
citizens rights, in his relation, one
to the other. and his rights abroad
Therefore when Germany murder
ed two hundred of our people, and
threatened to murder more, II We
didn't protect them there was nc
use in our being a government
The Republican party criticised
the Democratic administration fol
being so slow to act, but now there
are no Republicans and no Demo
Gratis. we are all Americans. The
delay should satisfy every paclilst
We entered only because Germany
allowed us no loophole. We mus
either surrender to her lnterna
tional suzerainty or fight. Ih'
worlds happiness, the world
liberty is at stake.
"Pro-Germans have said thi:
war was a conspiracy, war o.
aggression, growing out of Jeal
ousy over her business progress
In retropect, as we see how utter
" unprepared any of those con
spirators were, the thing is aosurC
on its face. Russia had no strate
gle railway, France had no art!l
lery: and England was as utterl!
unprepared as we were. Therefor
this was an attempt to Cypress
nation ready to the last button
Germany was, on the contrary, IN
dulging in her usual camotiage
The Emperor, you remember, wa
on vacation in the fjords of Nor
way when the trouble occurred
and putting on steam in his Hon
enzollern yacht, he hurried to Der
lin to fix the awful mess. But it ha
lately been learned, through on
ambassador at he time, to Tur
key, that after the assassination
of the crown prince of Austria, a
a conference, the emperor calle
his counsellors together at tn
palace at Potsdam. He summone
the ambassadors, the military mer
the financiers, the whole hlel
or,bv nf tho ap,,,ira Are yO