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TI-IEi ‘F‘AT‘HERL‘AND.
D ITO I2. I AL 3
.... .. NEW-YORK. JULY 19. 1916
“HAIL DEUTSCHLAND”
HE arrival of the super-submarine is ,Germany’s
heroic reply to England’s repudiation of the Dec-
laration of London. The United States is also a party
to that basic recital‘ of international law on the high-
ways of the deep. Would to God that the response of
our government to the lawless act of the Allies will be
no less inspiring. The rnatchless achievement of Ger
man courage and German efliciency quickens the heart of
every German throughout the world. Loyal Americans
hope that when the protest of the United States against
the denial of our rights as a sovereign and a neutral is
dispatched to Paris and London, we shall have reason to
be equally proud of our own government. '
,Not all the armadas of Great Britain can debar Ger-
many from her place among nations. What power can
defeat a people who combine the vision of the dreamer
with the strength of the warrior and the skill of the en-
gineer? The Allies have attempted to parody Ger-
many’s national anthem. To “Deutschland ueber alles"
they scoflingly opposed their own maxim: “Deutsch-
land unter alles.”
Germany heard and turned ridicule into triumph. Not
contented with smashing English dreadnoughts at Skag-
errack on the surface of the sea, her submarines dive at
their leisure under the entire British navy. If England
rules all over the waves, Germany unquestionably rules
all under the waves. To her who has wrested the Tri-
dent from Neptune under the billows, no navy in the
world can indchniely deny her legitimate share of mari-
time power on the face of the seven seas.
If England’s illegal blockade persists, Germany will‘
break it. She will break it over the sea and under the
sea. We look for the immediate inauguration of a sub-
marine traflic and passenger service. The submarine
merchant marine, so as to give no excuse for British
assaults, will be unzirmed. In the beginning the sub-‘
marine merchantman will carry few passengers, and
only the most precious of cargoes. If the war should
last much longer, sub-Atlantic ocean liners of the size
of the Vaterland will carry the mails and the cargoes of
the Central Powers across the seas.
At this writing huge amounts of dyestuffs, of which
. our manufacturersvare sorely in need, rest idly in neu-
tral wharves because England has withdrawn her pet. .
. mission for these harmless non-contraband goods to be
shipped to us, even though many of our industries
perish. The sub-Atlantic merchant marine will carry
these treasures to our shores. Yet we cannot disguise
a feeling of humiliation in the face of such dauntless
courage. Where we protest in ineffectual words, Ger-
many acts.
Our complaisant attitude is hardly in accordance
with Yankee traditions. We are not one of the nations
, at war. We should not need the protection of the sub-
marine to carry our innocent cargoes and our innocent
mails to any part of the globe. We should be able to
help ourselves. We should not be compelled to rely
upon Germany, beset by enemies on every side, to se-
cure for the American flag the freedom of the seas.
The Germans have been called a nation of poets and
thinkers. They‘still are a nation of poets and thinkers:
where England clings to the surface. Germany penc-
trates to the depths and rises to the heights. The trans-
atlantic submarine traversing thousands of leagues un-
der water and the Zeppelin rising thousands of feet into
the air. are supreme vindications of German culture.
Wherever our sympathies lie, we cannot but exult in the
brilliant dash of Captain Koenig and his courageous
crew: it marks a new chapter in the history of the world
and the history of the sea.
GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK.
- THEODORE ROOSEVELT WANTS AN ARMY
ND now here comes Theodore Roosevelt demanding
that a special army be. raised, containing 20,000 men,
fully equipped and officered at the tax-payers’ expense, so
that the Rough Rider may have a good time parading up and
down the land swashbuckling to his heart's content. Colonel
Roosevelt also demands that he be appointed Major General
of this army. If the authorities permit this feudal lord 10
gain such a power we might as well cease to call the Unitcd
States a republic. Even in darkest Russia. such a. thing
would be impossible.- Certainly in Germany, which is sup-
posed to be the home of "militarism," the request of :1 pfi‘
vate citizen for permission to raise an army of‘ his own
would be booted down by the Teutonic democracy. Such I1
proposal would instantly ‘become the subject of the bitterest
scorn and condemnation; it would meet with the same ‘recep-
tion throughout the entire civilized world. But strange to
say in the countrygof Jefferson and Lincoln the munitions
trust has so cowed the people that almost no protest is heard
against Mr. Roosevelt’s violent attempt to seize one of the
fundamental weapons in the possession of the people. If
Mr. Roosevelt and his associates feel that it is necessary for
them to become soldiers in the service of the United SW95-
why do they not enlist in the militia or,in the Federal Army?
Uncle Sam is spending millions of dollars in advertising fol‘
men. The response thus far to the War Department’s 0P‘
pcal has been sadly disappointing. Here is a chance for thc
jingoes to show the measure of their patriotism.
PROF. SCOTT NEARING DRAWS BLOORD
IN New York ‘City there was recently held a great confers .i
ence of school teachers. All America was represented.
Every phase and condition of our vast educational system
had at least one spokesman at this congress. But ever)’
man and woman present-‘cheered when Prof. Scott Nearing
uttered these sentences: V ‘'
You know that during the last eighteen months the newspaper‘
of the United States, without exception, have been carrying?“ 9”‘,
of the most ‘scandalous propagandas that has ever been Cafrltd 9”’
they are deliberately suppressing news regarding the Germs“ 5 d"
They have been suppressing arguments and facts and deliberatcl)'
Putting forth facts that would make for preparedness and mil“
for war. ' p
