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uig ull uitat niuulaa lui.a ucculiiilfc
lu yieiu me puuu ui nucleating- wuti
UeuUul cummeree, auapetleu ul tin ene
my UeaUnaliun, urge our government to
wave it. llie view moat prevalent la
tnus expressed oy the Manchester, N.
it., Union:
We tlo not atlmil the right of Ger
lnany to slaughter our citizens because
England has. inlrouuceti certain lorms
of warfare annoying to Germany; nor
can we now admit England's right to
exceed the limits of international law
** in interfering with our commerce be
cause Germany has forged a new and
powerful weapon. Absolute impartial
ity in our dealings with both these
warring powers is the only possible line
of action.
The New York Sun says the same
thing more tersely in its heading: “It
Is a Poor Rule That Doesn’t Work Roth
Ways.” Yet. as the Evening Sun points
out: "The British message is apparent
ly an honest endeavor to argue the ease
from basic facts and principles by log
) leal methods. It commands absolute
respect as a presentation of the Rritish
or allies case. It makes no claim which
offends humane sentiment or affronts
the sense of natural right. It makes
no insulting proposal for the barter or
sale of honor, and it resorts to no tricks
or evasions in the way of suggested
compromise. It seeks in no way to
enlist this country as an auxllltary to
the allied cause under sham pretences
or humane Intervention.” The Sun
» adds: f
We are far from saying that Sir Ed
ward Grey writes finis to the contro
versy by his exposition of its elements.
But he certainly assures ils oontinu
ance within the bounds of diplomatic
representation and legal argumentation.
His is not so much the soft answer that
turneth away wrath but rather the tem
perate appeal which disarms resent
ment, arouses interest, awakens con
sideration and conciliates judgment.
The Civil War Cases.
Many commentators on the British
position recognize the dilemma in which
the Fnlted States Is placed by reason
of the fact that during the civil war it
was a blockade involving some points of
similarity with that of England now—
a blockade which our highest court
loyally approved. The New York Com
mercial thus refreshes our recollections
with reference to the two civil war
cases which Sir Edward Grey cited.
In the Springbok case we seized ves
sel and cargo one hundred and fifty
miles east of Nassau, her port of destin
ation. Nassau wag In British territory
far off the confederate coast, so we in
effect .blockaded the whole Caribbean
sea and gulf of Mexico, the British
government contends, just as the allies
are blockading the Baltic sea and the
, Baltic coast of Germany. The British
government is treating Norway and
Sweden as we treated the British,
Spanish. French, Danish and Dutch
West indies in civil war days.
in tlie AlaUunoras cases we held up
cargoes consigned to a Mexican puri
which we maintained were destined for
tlie confederate states, to which they
were to he shipped overland or across
the Itio Grande near its mouth. We
also prevented exports from these Mex
ican ports of cotton grown in tiie con
federate states on the ground that it
was enemy property Tlie British gov
ernment shields itself behind these
Matamoras cases by saying that it is
treating German trade through Den
mark and Holland just as we treated
confederate trade through Mexico.
Thus, as the Lowell Courier-Citizen
aptily says, "necessity and not inter
national law rules the actions of belli
gerents.”
T ruculence.
Here and there is a hint of truce
lence, as when the Hartford Post para
lirases thu British position thus:
"While we are engaged in the noblr
benefleient and necessary work of de
stroying the German empire, German
commerce and German industries, w
ire going to hold up all American com
merce with the Scandinavian countries
and with Holland, because they are
close to Germany, and if you don’t like
what wo do you can go to court about
it either now or after tlie fight Inn is
ended."
i >r, boiled down, “What is a little
thing like international law between
friends?”
Some southernp apers show resent
ment on account of cotton though less
than might have heen expected. Indeed,
John Stuart Thompson, who has just
returned from a long trip through
seven southern states, reports to the
New York Times that despite the lack
of cotton outlets, the south, apart from
a handful of “untraveled and sp'onla
Itive editors,” is not only not antl-Rrit
ish, but is in full sympathy with th
necessity for putting a curb on Prus
sian militarism.
.
Amiable.
Generally speaking, tbe view most in
favor, the country over, judging from
[editorial opinions thus far canvassed,
[in well set forth in this quotation from
the Providence Journal:
There can he no question of tHe dif
Acuities involved in adjusting our Eu
ropean trade satisfactorily In the face
of the British insistence on the exist
ing embargo, hut we may he confident
Gat the London government will les
sen tlie severity of its policy when It
ran do so consistently with the over
shadowing demands of its own necessi
ties It has shqwn only good will for
us from the first. Its latest note is
iwritten in the most amiable of tempers.
And the n sponse from Washington, de
spite the German insistence on brusque
ness and violence, will bo th response
of a long-time and Inalienable friend,
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BOTH SIDES ASK D. S.
TO WIN WAR FOR TREIR
Forty per cent of every pound of
powder exploded on the battlefields of
Europe is made of cotton. By keeping
this fact well in mind the reader can
judge for himself tho importance of tho
issue now pending between Great Bri
tain, acting for tho allies, and the Uni
ted States over cotton shipments from
this country which are likely to find
their way into Germany.
Cotton has never been held to lie
contraband. But most inevitably its
vital importance ns an ingredient in
• explosives offeis great temptation to
the British to declare it contrabond.
*” The pressure upon the government to
that end is almost irresistible already.
It is pointed out that tho neutral
nations adjacent to Germany havo In
creased their imports of American cot
ton from five to fifteen times the
amount they were taking last year.
Germany, it is well known, is feeling the
plneh of shutting off her direct avenues
of imports, ior it is estimated that her
needs for explosives alone will be not
less than 750,000 bales annually. Today
the country is being raked for cotton
of every sort, and Its use In manufac
tures—other than of explosives—is pro
hibited by military decree.
According the German complaint that
they could win tho war speedily but
for the American exports of arms to
the allies, is now supplemented by the
British conteion that if American act
tlon could be kept out of Germany that
nation would soon be unable to prose
cute the war for lack of powder.
In other words, by striking down the
most active manufacturing industry in
the United States, throwing out of em
ployment hundreds of thousands of
workmen who are busy now after a
long period of Idleness, Germany might
be helped to win.
Or, on the other hand, by destroying
the market for the chief product of our
southern states, by leaving our cotton
planters penniless, with an estimated
stock—including the coming crop—of
16,000,000 bales on hand, the allies
might find their chances of victory ma
terially improved.
From the standpoint of the United
States neither of these aids to either
belligerent is for a moment tolerable.
Hut beyond doubt there will bo ef
forts to force both upon us. Congress
will be asked of arms and munitions by
the export of arms and munitions by
German sympathizers in this country
and the British government may yet
yield to the importunity of those who
seek to have cotton made contraband.
The second of these menaces to the
tiade of the country will he the more
difficult to avert. But it is not con
ceivable that any administration, least
of all one so largely Identified with the
south as this, sltould permit the foreign
market for our cotton to be closed by
the stroke of a British pen. Nor will
that action he taken if our diplomatic
protests aro as vigorous and as deter
mined ns have been those against the
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