St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 20, 1915
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> - — - €4°%8° “=| . this demand of the note it is impossible to fulfill SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1915. -=——/_ bh. we ee ee -——_— oe eo er Fe or! © « THE CASTAWAYS. —~Rollin Kirby, in New York World. ee German Newspapers Now Conciliatory TAGEBLATT SCORES “JINGOES.” Berlin Tageblatt: The editor of the Tage- blatt, Theodor Wolff, publishes an article in favor of a policy aimed at the avoidance of new con- flicts and the bringing in of new adversaries. He urges, as a:suitable method for giving German - diplomacy adequate authority and prestige at _. diome,.to stand firm against “jingo ahd whip-the- world erithusiasts,” the creation of an;advisory council to the Foreign Office, in which former Min- isters and Secretaries of Foreign Affairs, Ambas- padors and leading members of Parliament should ~ have seats. ~~ SUBMARINING MUST CONTINUE. . Berlin Kreuz Zeitung: “Under the present circumstances, however, as long as travelers use ships which carry contraband and possibly. are armed and, in conformity with the orders of the British Admiralty, attempt to ram submarines If we are to give in to the demands of the note .Great Britain first would have to make serious changes in its previous practices and guarantee the changes satisfactorily. President Wilson must busy himself about this next. He must be able to ‘comprehend that we are not going to let subma- rine warfare out of our hand as a weapon in order that American travelers may cross without danger to Europe on British ships, perhaps with the in- tention of insuring the freightage of ammunition and other war materials for our enemies. SUGGESTS CARGO INSPECTION. Frankfarter Nachrichten: The Nachrichten proposes as a method for modifying the hardships cf submarine warfare that the United States Gov- ernment consent to the stationing of German eommissioners in American ports to examine ships ‘sailing for Europe, so that those which carry no armaments, munitions or troops may be exempt from attack by German submarines. The newspaper cites as a precedent for such action the fact that similar commissioners are ruaintained by the British Government in various neutral countries to examine and certify with re- gard to cargoes bound to neutral ports. DEPENDS ON ENGLAND. Berlin Vossische Zeitung: George Bernhard a political writer, in an article in the Vossische | Zeitung, declares that the Germans are too jubi- lant over the tone and contents of the note. “There is no justification for the joyfulness,” ; ese Herr Bernhard, “because of the essential dif- ne ferences which exist between Germany and the » Salted States. Not one of these differences has _ been removed by the exchange of notes. Of course, Se we are pleased that the United States ia willing ee submit to England all of our commissions, but we have no new commissions. “America told us she would take the initiative Pe ereing: Maghend trou 8 tock wieaie aeval wartare. This we greeted thankfully. ¢ time to the German public that there may ‘ee a sec- ond side to the question of arms shipments, on which the press for months has been harping. Herr Zimmermann pays his respects to what he terms “‘typewriter heroes, who, far from the front are preaching war to the knife against everybody,’ and concludes: ’ “We wish to act and write with blood and iron, but just because we are fearless and determined we may look for possible ways by which to ar- rive at an understanding with America. We need not close up our department of incoming and out- going declarations of war, which heretofore has worked nobly, but it seems to me that we can cur- ail the output somewhat without incurring a repu- wtion for excessive caution.” CALLS US HYPOCRITES. Hamburg Fremdenblatt: ‘‘The spirit of boast- fulness and hypocrisy of the Americans is a factor the consideration of which we should not neglect, constituting as it does the greatest peril to the peace of the werld. Religion, virtue, temperance, kind-heartedness and honor, these are the words which the Americans are taught from their childa- hood to scream out with parrot-like insistence. After all, however, there is really no occasion for the German people to worry themselves about what the Americans may say, write or think, so long as the German arms continue to be victorious, themselves to be beaten. Their alleged pro-British sympathy is a sym- pathy founded on dollars alone. The moment that Germany definitely succeeds in turning the at- tack on their pockets, through the permanent stop- page of American war supplies to the enemy; the United States will become the fanatical supporter of the German arms. Let us therefore await a further shower of notes from across the Atlantic because the Americans never feel the slightest sympathy for those who are silly enough to allow {a particularly sane two-column., .editorial, with undisturbed equanimity. A FRENCH VIEW. Paris L’Homme Enchaine: M: Clemencean discusses the American note in l'Homme Enchaine in a two-column editorial, that he considers it courteous in tone, but really uncompromising and not devoid of irony. While putting the issue squarely up to Germany, he says; the note leaves a loophole for diplomatic conversation, of which the Germans are sure to take advantage to gain time. “Nevertheless,” concludes the editorial, “the final phrase demanding assurances that Germany take measures to satisfy the American claims, forces Germany to seek by what sort of withdraw- a* she can escape from a cruelly embarrassing sit- uation. GERMANY MAY ACCEPT. Berlin Morgen Post: The Morgen Post, in ex- presses Germany's genuine satisfaction over \ America’s hearty offer of good offices, and says: “There is no tinge of threat of high-handed tone toward Germany in the note. On the contrary its tone is quiet though earnest throughout, and in several places it strikes a note of whole-hearted friendship and seeks to leave a way open for fur- ther friendly negotiations. No doubt the German Government will accept America’s proffered good offices with pleasure. It will be interesting to see what attitude the English will now take. If they will revise the contraband list set up by them- selves and desist from making difficulties for neu- tral commerce with Germany, and above all, let ) foodstuffs and textile raw materials through un- -{ hindered ay Germany, ae ame AP che et SMARINES /} months and recent contracts to export war muni- tions, nearly all the world has bills to pay here. ance could be adjusted if foreign holders of Amer- ican securities would sell them here—but they will - ~_---— HAD TO!’?’ —sykes, in Philadelphia Evening Ledger. Dollar Still Rising Pointed Paragraphs New York Herald: A further fall yesterday in the exchanges on London and other European centers had incited the banking community to make conjectures as to how far the decline may extend. Conjectures is the proper word; for in existing }abnormal] and unprecedented international condi- tions, bankers frankly admit that they cannot even guess where the movement will end. The gold in a sovereign is worth about $4.86 5-8 buyers than sellers of drafts on London, their price may rise to perhaps $4.88 1-2—a figure beyond whieh a remitter would find it cheaper to send gold across the ocean than to buy drafts. In like manner in normal-times sight drafts on /London will not be sold here under a price at which an American creditor may prefer to order the amount sent to him in gold—say about $4.84 1-4, or 6 cents in the pound sterling above the rate at which sight drafts sold yesterday. We owe little abroad, while as a result of our enor- mous exports of foodstuffs during the past 10 The dollar, therefore, is at a premium of more than 2 per cent, measured by the sovereign and at a still higher premium over some of the Con- tinental currencies. In partial payment’the world has sent us more than $100,000,000 gold since the beginning of the year, and more is arriving every day, but it is not sufficient to settle the balance and bills have to be tendered in payment in such volume as to cause the present record-breaking decline. We don’t need the gold and the banks of this city now hold nearly $200,000,000 unem- ployed in excess reserves. How is the position to be corrected? The bal- not. Possibly a large amount of British Govern- ment bonds could be placed here, but that is a question. If the decline in exchange goes far enough it will automatically correct itself, be- American gold coin and this figure is known as the mint parity of exchange. When the trade balance , (is unfavorable to this country and there are more Do they miss his yodel at the Cabinet table? Yes, they do not.—Louisville Herald. Carranza is John Lind’s choice for the man to save Mexico. But it is feared John lost his influ- ence when he found his voice.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Things can’t be as bad as they seem. A steam- er has arrived in New York with a large consign- ment of German toys in her cargo.—Cleveland Leader. The present, crop of immigrants from the old country are remarkably intelligent. The fact that they are leaving Europe is proof enough of this.— Washington Times. What with bumper. crops, high prices and big reduction in automobile cost, the calamity howler will get little sympathy from the farmer this year. —-Saginaw Courier-Herald. The newspapers of the South can no more see the reason for Mr. Bryan’s course than the news- papers of the North—and so the unity of the coun- try is once again in evidence.—Springfield Repub- lican. In Missouri the bill of fare for convicts includes grapefruit, maraschino cherries, olives and other delicacies, and the guests of Tom Brown at Sing Sing are now complaining bitterly of their lot.— New York Sun. That Missouri father who has never let his 19- year-old son have a haircut because Bryan is not vet President ought to be liable for some sort of legal action, civil or criminal, or mayhap both.— New York Tribune. The stork, anyhow, has no grudge against the Rockefellers. It made its sixth visit Saturday to the home of John D. Jr., and left another boy, who proves to be grandpa’s fifth grandson. The Rockefellers are in on everything good that’s go- ing.—Pittsburg Dispatch. cause the premium on the dollar will be so high that the British sovereign will be spent at home and in other countries where its purchasing power is not thus reduced. Cs AOR ee lean en My tee tae Bae eee gr a t he EE PRO BEGETS ess acon » + WSS a “PREPARED? NO, BUT I COULD USE WHAT I’M SELLING IF I a. _—— . — — atti ttn atin atin al — , ! } . ) } } ; : '~ Another Week’s War Comiueat saat oh ad * raz EEE, ONE POINT SETTLED. Cleveland Leader: The official announcement from the German Foreign Office that the German reply to the second note of the United States on submarine warfare, as it has affected American ships and American citizens, will not be made for weeks, is highly significant in respect to one very important point. It removes whatever doubts may have existed concerning the desire of the German Covernment for peace with this country. If Germany wished to draw the United States into the great war, as many Americans thought it might, there could be no reason for putting off such action as long as possible, or even for a few weeks. If the rulers of Germany felt that war might,as well come it would be for reasons which would not gain strength by the lapse of a fort- night or more. It may be taken for granted that Germany does not want war with the United States but, on the other hand, earnestly desires to maintain peace- ful relations with this country. That fact ought to go far toward clearing away misunderstandings and making possible an amicable agreement as to all points of difference between the Govern- ment of this republic and the men who hold the destinies of the German empire in their hands. A SUBMARINE TEST. Washington Times: A British supply ship bound for Archangel with munitions, whether sunk by mine or by torpedo, must suggest the same thought. for a supreme test of the Von Tirpitz submarine as a weapon of real warfare. The English are delivering arms and ammuni- need of the Czar’s armies. Under the waters that course to Archangel is as free to the German sub- | marines as over the waves it is to the British mer- | chantmen. If the submarines are really for war, | and not merely for murdering defenseless men, | women and children, the Von Tirpitz admiralty | niunitions now sailing into Archangel. ‘That | would be men’s business at war, and if it succeed- | ed it would come near to putting the Czar’s host { out of the battlefield. transatlantic liners, the ferryboats and the fish- angel .off from supplies of munitions for. the Rus- sien armies. } \ “GERMANY’S WHIP-THE-WORLDS.” New York Herald: Not one of the 12 great | tasks of Hercules, nor all combined, equalled in | ) magnitude the task of Herr Thedor Wolff of the } Tageblatt, if, as Berlin cable dispatches indicate, | he is undertaking to suppress the German whip- the-worlds. complished. The whip-the-worlds of the German press get | their inspiration from the whip-the-worlds of 7 ) Prussian junkerism, who not only dominate Ger- } ) man military policy, but dictate German diplo- ¢ macy. And back of them stand “Meinself und Gott?” \ ¢ VENIZELOS WINS, = ——t—i=—=«SS Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Greek election, It is that here is full opportunity tion at Archangel in the hour of the imperative : ' | So let the submarine give over fighting the | ; ing smacks and go to the test of shutting Arch- { Aimed presumably at the whip-the- | | worlds of the German press, the crusade of Herr | ' Wolff must strike higher if anything is to be ac- : : ) } } } : ; i { } } } i sion of all, and if this should prove u | be also the sentiment of the German G ) there wei ot ao be rm i further consideration. But the Germen.£ pronmitagteringhewi = be recognized on all sides that progress in m: can prove it by cutting off Russia’s supplies of | 7 as an ally of the anti-German Powers. Kipg © stantine’s opposition checkmated the , Premier, apd forced his resignation. Now, deapite the. 4 mM P 4 7 sinly 4 at nan : 3 2 4 PALIN a ‘a y 4 : : ‘ ny PEO 5 ws ‘ 2 : ‘s ss. 5 f . . ah ¢ m4 ~ =e be ‘ : Peay) q . va ‘wt OR eae , € ead ‘ . . 3 ’ x — y 3 + “" Rs pia f q P 5 st ‘ . SS Ae oa k “) a n ' ; rs , iy ‘ s yan se Z : ’ . : Ni, Sa of : ‘ 4 sz if ; Y as ; saad ‘ a , 3 2 4 . sae ,; agit f a x 5 > oS _ > ? « Ps , - _ - 4 - i> as Tad Pau t j ; 4 be , ta j ‘ + 7 , : , : Cee ae a ; j i : ' : e * ; P ’ Hi ; ry 5 ; « ‘ Fal ‘ ‘ “ % Fg ‘“ 6 5 etree ih a, its - ee . m z . ap S ay : ¥ hey : Hy : 44 ” : : Pad ‘ = ey . a 2, ‘ F 3 : BR iis EERE, 4: i OR , ' tat. er mck a : : ? ; co wees r 5 ‘ A ge att SAP ° " . 7 we , ¥ y 7 ay . , \ er F } re” ” ve ie oe: Rents! F ? fe é , Pe. » : re ie ; Oat ae . = a , . 7 OS ‘ : e ry : i. SRS i‘ sty ahh mi . x 4 = Be sg sot Ra ae ae ¥ * ei i . @ oa % 4 oh - “ah “a g ¥ rh te a ee hae ee fhe. SN A Se Rays Set. 7 Ldata to oo SS Boat a es nD 2a Pe fa) i ted Mf Pe a sate : : ; y . ‘ie ~~ ae e : sine Sta Art? 4 * oe a ; Suet? oa AVEO rs i go a ee wee oN : Siti 2s ea : Rien, Fate i MA aE yy a Beer eal alee i $233 CaS has SR i ert ee : * Se ee hs 1 Sa © ent ' a . Z Se ea As Ag Lue & oe oP. Een Pia. ee ct : P ef Se a AR ie Bit See oy gt od ay Tyee we el be 4 Se ee | “MUST SS achievement at the Dardanelles, and deusita tne continued German victories in Galicia, ms ~— nation, by overthrowing the pacificist G government and returning Venizelos to power, d clares unmistakably for war. ©§— «i... 7 During his brief retirement Ve has t very busy. In his native Crete sind “ Chios: 1G ed 4 Mitylene and the other islands of the eat c he has been raising large volunteer companies. immediate service in case of war. It is his ambi- tion to add to the Hellenic kingdom consfderable” territory in‘ Asia, inhabited chiefly by Greeks, and it is generally believed that he has secured satis- : factory pledges from the anti-German allies: The serious illness of King Constantine tay te- lay whatever action Venizelos has in mind. But the Cretan is a man of very decisive temperament, and even the King’s illness may not Se elieaee $ 45% his hand. SENSELESS INHUMANITY. © «~ Indianapolis News: of Karlsruhe by the allies arouses the same, kind” of feeling as that caused by German aerial bomb hrowing on English and French cities. The whole business of warfare on noncombatants bane ee, utterly stupid to the neutral onlooker. No pre tery advantages are attained, and the only‘ can be to arouse intense resentment and stir r otic feelings of determined defense. Perhape ¢ best recruiting agents in England have been. Ue pelin bombs, and now the allies seem bent on pet- etrating into parts of Germany not directly touched by war, only to stir up the same feeling among the German population. The effect of the error produced can never be equal to the ¢ effect of creating determined opposition at ” price. The allies call this warfare potansatlch: it is not an intelligent kind of retaliation. . 7 Barely when the pessttne St 005 OS as aay retrogression in humanity. ~~ ee? ig $4 oe . + L& nox. re
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