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NOME, ALASKA. APRIL 5, 1917.
GERMANY DECLARES WAR.
Germany's answer ‘.o President Wil
sons' address to the senate is, in ef
fect, a declaration of war against the
l'in|ited States
The imperial government does not
call it war, but war it is nevertheless.
Xn resuming the Tirpitz policy of ruth -
less submarine warfare, Germany pur
poses to destroy peaceful American
citizens on the high seas, and to sub
ject American life, American property
and American commerce to the self
same hazards to which the life, prop
erty and commerce of her enemies arc
subjected.
The paltry exceptions to the policy
of frightfulncss which the imperial
government has patronizingly tossed
to the United States only accentuate
the wrong and the insult.
Speaking to congress of the United
States on April 19, 191ti President
Wilson said:
1 have deemed it my duty, there
fore, to say to the imperial German
government that if it is still its pur
pose to prosecute relentless and in
discriminate warfare against vessels
of commerce by the use of subma
rines, notwithstanding the now dem
onstrated impossibility of conducting
that warfare in accordance with what
the government of the United States
must consider the sacred and indis
putable rules of international law and
the universally recognized dictates of
humanity, the government of the Uni
ted States is at last forced to the con
clusion that there is but one course
it can pursue, and that unless the im
perial Get man government should
now immediately declare and effect
an abandonment of its present meth
ods of warfare against passenger and
freight-carrying vessels this govern
ment can have no choice but to sever
diplomatic relations with the govern
ment of the German empire altogether.
i 4 Germany has now deliberately defied
‘ 'ilk president's ultimatum of April 19
, -tend thrown it back into our teeth.
The act of nullification was commit
ted at a time when the discussion of
peace had progressed to a po'nt at
which the end of .he war was in sight.
Nothing stood in the way of formal
negotiations except on honest reply
<n the part of Germany to President
Wilson’s note of December IS. The
entente powers had definitely an
nounced their terms, and an qually
frank statment on the part of Ger
many would have compelled negotia
tions.
Instead, Germany has dealt with
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the president's proposals in precisely
the same spirit in which she dealt
with Sir Edward Grey’s proposals for
a conference in the troubled days
immediately preceding the war. When
a settlement was then possible, Berlin
made it impossible. When peace is
now possible, Germany again starts
to run amuck. As the war came like
a bolt out of the blue, so comes this
resumption of ruthless submarine and
floatitig-mifie warfare.
There can be only' one unswer on
tin jiait of the l’nited States to the
new German submarine proclamation,
l that answer should be made to
day. The German ambassador must
receive hs passports forthwith and
diplomatic relations must cease at
once. There should be no proscras
tination until the hand of the United
States government is forced by pre
mediated murder and depredation.
The (president must carry out the
terms of his own ultimatum, and do
it so swiftly that Berlin can have no
excuse for misunderstanding the pur
pose and policy of the American gov
ernment. Having done that, the Uni
ted Stales must adopt such measures
as circumstances require for the pro
tection of the lives and property of
its citizens on tile high seas. If this
means actual war with Germany, so
be i t.
We have made every concession ot
Gel many that self-respect will per
mit and all those concessions have
proved to be in vain. To acquiesce
in a resumption of ruthless subma
rine operations is to subject ourselves
to the losses of war while depriving
out selv es of the means of self-defense.
That Is intolerable. No peace is
worth the price of abject national
humiliation and degradation. No peace
is worth the surrender of a nation’s
sovereign rights.
If Germany wants war with the
L’nited States, let Germany have war
with the United States. Our hands
are clean.
There are ninety-live German ves
sels interned in American ports, be
sides the warships of the German gov
ernment which have, from time to ,
time, taken refuge here.
Under the rules of international law. 1 ,
which the l’nited States, it may safely ,
tie said, will continue to follow, how ,
‘ver much other nations may depart ,
therefrom, those vessels aro not sub- i .
jeet to seizure and forfeiture, in the' ,
event of war, as they would lie were
they on the high seas. But, if cir
cumstances require their uses, as |
doubtless they will, there is a method
of utilizing them. While the vessels
are not subject to forfeiture, they can
be used by the government, subject
to the i>oi v ision that, when peace re
turns, the owners of these vessels are ,
entitled to bo compensated for the use ,
made of them.
If Germany sinks, without warning,
American vessels engaged in legiti
mate trade across the Atlantic these
German ships wlil bo commandcerod
• >> the government and chartered to
American ship owners, the govern
ment retaining the charter money and
turning it over to the German owners
of tlie vessels when the war ends and
peace is restord. That would bo fair
and equitable and even to the advan
tage of tlie German owners for the
vessels now are earning nothing, but
are in the contrary a heavy charge
upon their owners.
Hut if, while engaged in the carry
ing of American trade under such
conditions, these vessels or any of
them should be sunk by German war
ships, submarines or raiders, then the
charter party should be canceled and
the loss permitted to fall upon the
German owners, who could look to
their own government for reimburse
ment. That also would be equitable
and fair. Ninety live shops of half a
millions tons register would furnish
more tonnage than the German sub
marines are likely to sink.
A BROKEN TREATY.
While the sinking of the liousatonic
l>> a German submraine was not in
violation of the general rules of inter
national la*, because tlie vessel had
fair warning and provision was made
'or the safety of the lives of the crew,
t did flatly violate the provisions of an
xislitig treaty between tlie United
States and Prussia, a treaty with the
Herman empire. The existence of this
treaty and tlie German obligations un
it r it were admitted by the German
government in tlie first ease which
nose after the war started, the sink
ing of tlie American ship Frye, laden
ivith wheat from Puget sound.
When tIris ship was sunk in re
sponse to representations made by tlie
government at Washington Germany
freely admitted that the act violated/
lie treaty and promised to make full
eparation to the owners of the ves
iel. That treaty provision admits of
lo two interpretations. It is as fol
ows: „
‘And i:i the same case of one of the
wo contracting parties being engaged
n war with any other power, to pro
mt all of the difficulties and rnlsun
lei standings that usually arise re
peeling merchandise of contraband,,
inch as arms, ammunition or military
itores of every kind r.o such articles
carried in the vessels, or by the sub
jects of either party to the enemies
if the other, shall be deemed contra
band, so as to induce confiscation or
condemnation ant a loss cf property
:o individuals. * * * But in the
use supposed of a vess, i stopped for
u times of contraband, the master
if the vessel stopped will deliver out
tie goods supposed tc lie of contra
band nature, he shall be admitted to
do It, and the vessel shall not in that
case bo carried into any poit, nor fur
ther detained but shall bo allowed to
proceed on her voyage,”
This treaty, after Us validity and
binding force had been conceded with
in two years’ time, bocomes to the
war lords another scrap of paper.
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