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THE FATHERLAND.
her. right toadopt such reprisals as long as England con-
tiniies her unlawful blockade. In the Mediterranean Ger-
many is conducting no campaign of reprisal; hence, in that
region she subscribes in full to the interpretation of inter-
national law that would prevail everywhere except for the
piracies of Great Britain.
The entire submarine question is, however, by no means
settled, and it cannot be settled, as we pointed out last week,
until the American Government obtains from the Allies
certain pledges. lVhile Allied mercliantment carry guns or
attempt to resist search, there can be no safety for Ameri-
can passengers on any ship. Until the President, “gently
liazed" by Congress, succeeds in obtaining from the Allies
pledges similar to those obtained from the Central Powers,
travel under any belligerent flag remains suicidal. Until
this is accomplished, we urge Congress to pass a law for-
bidding travel oii belligerent ships. No doubt the muni-
tion press will attempt to create new troubles between the
United States and the Central Powers, but if the President
listens to its siren voice, he will find himself in conflict
with the people of the United States. VVhile Congress is
in session, and we trust it will remain in session indefinitely,
one-inaii power in VVashington is at an end.
For months, with every chicane at the command of ‘un-
scrupulous politicians, the Democratic and the Republican
wings of the British Party have attempted to embroil us
with Germany. If they have failed, credit is due ‘mostly
to the uiiceasing labor, to the unfailing diplomatic skill, and
the unending patience of Ambassador Bernstorff. For
months he conducted an uphill fight against the most pow-
erful forces of crooked politics and crooked finance in this
country, and against the hot-heads in his own. That he
succeeded in keeping the two countries out Of “'37 ““de’
those circumstances was a diplomatic triumPh Comparable
to the military victories of Hindenburg. In the future his
work will be easier, for Congress will be in session. Hence-
forth the policy of the United States will no 1.03%“ be
guided entirely by munitioii makers without conscience and
bankers without country, speaking alteI’11?1t91Y “’“h the
voice of Roosevelt or of Wilson.
' MR. BRYAN
ll not see, that M‘'-’B‘'Y‘’“‘ 5'
was a timely: W9“'3d'
has greatly availed to
T is now clear to all save those who wi
act in resigning the Portfolio of State
vised and powerful demonstration which
keep us out of this foreign war.
This inestimable service not alon
ill’ at large, may well compensate 1t'lr.. l31'Y3“ for thehabgsg “H:
section of the press and the (lcPrec““‘0‘l 0‘ ‘the. fat‘ :ate 1'; h“
has been long iiiiired to the one and lie is wise enoug bro I 8 ti):
regard the other :‘-for neither interested mallffj "Or 9" mlnieg ‘
tude will have the smallest weight in ‘letermlmng the mm 1“ g
ment of the nation upon the course he P11"5“ed- ‘. I t in et
1 am not a blind follower of Mr. BrY““' and mndcer a lfpin
theories of his-as to prohibitidn, for examDl9‘”I fin miiseent ‘of
radical disagreement. But I rate him the foremps1tiv!i=::0perSom1
true democracy in our country to-d:IY'."th" grsafes
force in holding this Republic to its iust traditions. as the biggest
And so regarding the man, I think his resignzmo“ iv iew of the
act of his career, as it was assuredly’ "he waves; mbvld intuitive
Obloquy sure to be encountered. It signahzed ‘ 3 .::ci Ie which
genius of the man-and that absolute devotion t0fpl:I- Enemies to
has illumined his entire public life. The attempt pd ‘I3; disgrace
show 3 pgtty or unworthy motive for it has reac e
“Don their own heads.
e to our countr)’ bl“ ‘0 humar"
A419
READERS OF “THE FATHERLAND”
Subscribe to the fund for a permanent memorial to '
MISS EMMA DUENSING,
the American nurse who met her death through the refusal
of the British Ambassador to permit Red Cross supplies to
be sent by Americans to Germany.
For six months she nursed American soldiers at Porto
Rico, during the Spanish-American war. For one year she
nursed American soldiers in Manila. .
Let this memorial record the everlasting shame of the
English who committed this crime upon a brave, self-sacri-
ficing American woman, and the undying hatred of Ameri-
cans for the people who connived at and condoned the act.
Send all contributions, in whatever amounts, however
large or small, to
THE EMMA DUENSING FUND,
Care of the Transatlantic Trust Co., No. 67 hVilliam ‘Street,
. New York City. ’
Nori-:.-The British Government, since Tm: FA'rm:iu.ANn's expose
of the inhumanity of its action, has permitted the despatch to Ger-
many of one set of Red Cross supplies, asserting, however, that
this release does not apply to future shipments. This temporary
lifting of the cruel embargo, however, still did not apply to rubber
gloves and other rubber implements identified with surgery.
He saw the war tide rising and threatening to carry the Admin-
istration with it. He measured the powerful influences that were
seeking to push us into the abyss of war. He estimated the clamor
of a stupid or sinister press pretending to voice the sentiment of
the whole people. He knew that the conventions of ofiiee held him
to a certain subordination as well as silence. He realized that he
must meet this great public danger in the open as a free man,
without party or official trammels. He acted accordingly, and per-
haps we shall never fully know how much reason we have to be .
I think there is one person who entirely’
glad of his decision.
realizes it-the President of the United States!
Mr. Bryan Hung himself into the breach with characteristic yet
sagacious daring, and instantly, effectively organized the counter-
revolution against war, that has dashed the hopes and foiled the
plans of the jingoes. It was a brilliant, a masterly, an incomparable
piece of work, showing Bryan the patriot and the tactician at his
best; and as a public service I believe it cannot well be over-esti-
mated. ’.
Always hated by the press of New York, which has failed to
write him down in twenty years of perverse and outrageous depre-
ciation, sounding the full gamut from caricature to calumny,-the
'raneor of these honest editors, in view of their latest discomfiture
at the hands of the Commoner, is scarcely to-be realized. The Sim
and the Times, for example, are almost Sadistic in their freshly
exacerbated spleen against their old enemy; they clearly extract a
voluptuous pleasure from it; nay, they will never have done show-
ing the ugly sore and squirting the pus at their readersl The
meanness, the malice, the littleness of the exhibition go to prove
that American journalism has not bettered remarkably in char-
acter since it was stigmatized by Dickens according to its just
deserts. '
Mr. Bryan can afford to be magnanimous, to smile on these em-
bittered pressmen-nay, even to pity them. For indeed some of
these pens of privilege merely write the thoughts of their em-
ployers, and the writers themselves hold very different views.
The glory of having done much to avert the horrors of war
from this country by an act of supreme courage and patriotism,
will doubtless reconcile Mr. Bryan to these minor irritations. And
the deep praise of a grateful nation, of which no malice can de-
prive him, may well drown in his ear the insect chorus of the
malignant press.-By Micimrzi. MONAHAN in The Plioemlr.