Show I ALIKE BUT DIFFERENT a few v curbstone disputants N NOT NOl have professed Jr themselves unable un- un ablo able to understand wh why tho United States should take severe Se cognizance of ot the murder of or Americans upon the Lusitania while practically Ignoring for tor several years ears tho the murder of AmerIcans Americans Amer Amer- leans in Mexico The They consider that having endured the one wo we should as ns uncomplainingly endure the other They affect to consider the two t cases as ns precisely similar There Is a n. nast vast ast between although the course COUlse of oi the national administration as regards Mexico has not greatly commended Itself to the thc country countr Americans In Mexico who v ho remained after aCter disorder became general general general gen gen- eral were In a zone of or war wal The They accepted the hazards of ot occupying t territory territory ter ter- r- r traversed u b by belligerent armie armies They could not enjoy enjo and their government government government gov gov- could not hope to obtain for or them hem safe sato conduct The They wore entitled en- en titled as American citizens to protection protection pro- pro from rom their own flag wherever It t could be extended but they were contributing to their own danger b by frequenting frequenting- localities where danger abounded The Tho Americans on tho the ere were not in a c. zone of ot war since their government go declined to consider aa as legal egal or effective e tho the German proc- proc constituting It as such The They were following their proper avocation under circumstances that guaranteed their heir safet safety The They had not contributed contributed contributed contrib contrib- in any wa way to the fate tate which overtook them The laws and precedents precedents precedents prece prece- dents of warfare united In hl assuring them hem they would not bo be molested The They were sailing the tho free tree seas and their their heir taking off oft wa was as unlawful as though hough each had been slain on his own doorstep |