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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 25
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by the destruction, at the risk of life, of industrial and tf h r establishments. As a far-seeing people we are called ° to interpose ourselves to prevent the growth of an automatic government to a point of strength where at its leisure Monroe and the western hemisphere. But even more specifically: W e were insultingly told that we must not sell munitions of war. Apparently it was the high prerogative of the German nation to do this to any belligerent, but we might not do it if it injured or even displeased the German autocracy. W e patiently pleaded our cause, showing the reasons for our action. The German Government tried to sentiment against us. She then We sinking essels or of any vessel in ways contrary to maritime onal law endangering the lives of the crew and passengers. Pretending to acquiesce, the German Government waited for an opportune time, when she had increased the number of her submarines, and then defied the request and the wish of the United States. She sent to an untimely death innow u mnaren ana women as well as men, and in too many instances her submarine commanders sank vessels in such a way as to make it almost impossible for passengers or crew to survive. "Sink them so that not a trace will be left behind" seems to have been the order of other representatives of the German Government than the fool who spoke for it in Buenos Aires. "Public policy prompted by the emotions is stupidity. Humanitarian dreams are imbecility. Diplomatic charity bewron gins at home. Statesmanship are notions indispensable in private life. The German people they number But why prolong the horrible story? If in the face of the evidence easily accessible to all, and only part of which I have touched upon, there is any one among us who still is in doubt about the wisdom and necessity of our entering the war, then he would not listen if the country were covered with the ina t A A 1 . • « . . • -.— •*.-*,*. rs.rs.^x 1_ 9f 33
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