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CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1915.
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AMERICANS SHOULD REMAIN CALM
DURING THE CRISIS WITH GERMANY
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(From the New York Evening Post)
IN the face of the great crisis thrust ujhui us, it is necessary
for Americans to remain calm. If the Germans have gone
mad', all the more reason for us to keep our heads. The duty
of our government is clear; and it is for the jwople to let the
President know that in the discharge of it he has behind him a
nation that., without passion or clamor, is resolute and strong.
As soon as the facts are officially ascertained—as soon as the
mournful list of American lives sacrificed is known—the Presi
dent should make the clearest and firmest representations to
Germany. He should demand full disavowal of the lawless
and inhuman act of the commander of the German submarine,
with a promise of complete reparation. If the German govern
ment is not entirely given over to a strong delusion and' a lit*,
it will not haughtily refuse what President Wilson will he right
in insisting upon, not alone in the name of the American
people, hut in that of humanity.
To see on what grounds our government has already
prepared itself to proceed, in the event of such a monstrous
crime as has now been committed, we have merely to turn back
to the first announcement of the German admiralty, and the
grave protest which it drew from our government. On
February 4 the “notice” of the Chief of tin* Admiral Staff , Von
Pohl, was published. It proclaimed “the waters all around
Great Britain and Ireland” as “a theater of war;” declared’
that every hostile merchantman met in this region” would be
destroyed; am) that “it will not always be possible to avert
the danger thereby threatening the crew and the passengers.”
It added that “neutral ships” also run a risk in that “theater
of war,” since “it cannot always be avoided that attacks
intended for hostile ships may also hit neutral ships.” To this
“notice/*’ our government replied on February 10. It informed’
the German government that it viewed the proposals of the
German Admiralty with “grave concern.” The course of
action indicated was “unprecedented in naval warfare,” and
an “indefensible violation of neutral rights;” and it added that,
in the case of the destruction of an American vessel, or the loss
of American lives, by the act of “commanders of German
vessels of war,” this government could not fail to “hold the
Tninprinl Oortrum imvonimnui in n etvini nnonnnfuKilUir **
This issue between tin* two governments, thus sharply
marked’ out in advance, is the one now thrust to the front by
the taking of the lives of Americans on the Lusitania. Be they
many or few-, high or low, tin* obligation laid upon our govern
ment is imperative. Such acts have been called “pure piracy.”
Strictly speaking, they are not that. Pirates do not act under
orders, but the officers of German submarines do. This throws
the responsibility back upon their government which issued
the order to sink without warning a merchant vessel with 2,000
non-combatants and neutrals aboard. In the act, that govern
ment becomes piratical and an outlaw. It is this truth which
the indignant voice of this mighty nation, joining in the chorus
of reprobation rising from all parts of tin* earth, should now
seek to bite into the consciousness of the German people.
No sober mind can fail to grasp the extreme gravity of the
crisis forced upon the United States. It is no time for shouting
or threatening. All the self-restraint of which we are capable
should' now be exercised. We ought to present to the world—
and especially to Germany—the spectacle of a people too firmly
planted on right to be hysterical, and too determined on seem
ing justice to bluster. It is a dark and heavy day, but we need
not doubt that the light will finally break through. If it is
true that Germany has drunk too deep of the wine of military
insolence to be turned from it just yet; if she is the bodern
example of what the Greeks called Hubris—a made defiance of
God and man—then we may be sure that the true and righteous
judgments of the Lord will be visited upon her. And a part of
that divine judgment will certainly be such a world-sentiment,
written into world-law-, as will make the horrors and crimes of
the past nine months impossible for evermore.
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When war is over the Colonial Institute of Hamburg
expects to have on file tin* finest newspaper archives of the great
conflict. It already possesses war material in catalogued form
that would make the librarian of a newspaper green with envy.
The data is catalogued and cross catalogued down to a hair
line fineness, with thousands of clippings on hundreds of sub
jects, which are being added to at the rate of 500 clippings a
day, taken irom some 200 papers and periodicals from Germany
and other countries.
The archives were established originally to deal with
politics and economics, and contain, among other things, infor
mation about more than G,000 commercial undertakings and
organizations all over the world. The subjects are arranged
according to the countries in which they fall, and are sub
divided into more than 100 categories.
The data is apportioned by countries and subdivided so
that it is possible to get information from any angle on any
phase of the war at a moment’s notice.
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The government of the United States hus issued an order
to national banks that they must not allow any overdrafts
which has heretofore been a convenient method for merchants
and others to pursue in the conduct of their business. It is not
of record that the bankers have lost anything by'this, as interest
has been charged on overdrafts the same as on notes of hand.
The banker has not lost anything by reason of the failure of the
overdrafter to make good. If a banker knows his business and
his field he will not suffer any more from overdrafts than from
notes. It a man will pay one lie w-iil pay the other and it is up
to the banker to know whether or not the customer is good.
Curried to its logical conclusion the government may order
that only one-legged janitors and one-eyed clerks be employed
by banks, on the ground that they need the employment. The
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old idea that the constitution guaranteed the unmolested pur
suit of health, wealth and happiness has been thrown into the
discard and the time has arrived when every business activity
is regulated by some government clerk who could not hold «
job with any corporation or business house at half the salary
paid him by Uncle Sam.
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Illinois Republicans are having a hard time choosing
between James R. Mann and Lawrence Y. Sherman ns then
candidate for the Presidential nomination. The trouble being
that, under the microscope, either is of Presidential size.
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The Colonel would rather go to the penitentiary than
withdraw one word lie has said about the bosses. In this
respect a boss indifferent from a Presidential nomination.
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