Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-29 | Page 8 | We Will Not Stand for Repeal by One Nation of Laws Made by All Nations

We Will Not Stand Stanc for the Repeal by by One Nation of Laws Made byAll by byAll All Nations r Alls All's fair in arar ar is the m maxim that moves the countries in conflict to tear up up We laws Jaws of or- nations and humanity But when then the world gets back to normal what shall be sa said q of ot I th the United States the greatest neutral the peaceful bystander if 1 I it throws hr ws to the all that civilization has built up up by consenting t to s such ch violations Y It is our task to keep a semblance of sanity alive m it the world while while J ile the of Europe are arc in bedlam Thus President Wilson Vilson refuses to stand for the violations of international law and humanity a at sea sea We Ve will not permit the blowing up of armed or unarmed merchantmen without duo warping warning and the removal of passengers because that is against humanity and international law as it was before the war var started started before before a part of the world went staring stark crazy We will not even warn our countrymen against tak passage on merchantmen armed or 01 unarmed because that at would be marked recognition of the unreasoning irrational assumption that on one nation can change rules made by all at its own sweet will THIS IS THE POLICY Of O THE UNITED STATES GOVERN GOVERN- MENT l WE ARE ABE TAKING THIS STAND BECAUSE FOR FOE ONE REASON WE KNOW GERMANY WOULD HAVE APPROVED IT BEFORE THIS WAR WE KNOW SHE WILL APPROVE ITS PRINCIPLE AFTER THE WAR Imagine an international conference in peace times passing a rule permitting any government to change the laws of nations ns during war var and to kill permitting any group of officeholders rs illegally ruthlessly innocents at sea in any manner frenzy suggests Germany at peace would itself be the fiercest opponent of such a mad mall proposition International law is not dead because all the countries at war h have ye violated v it any more than the law against murder is dead in inthe inthe inthe the United States because persons were murdered in this in 1915 International law can cart only be killed by the thc neutrals neutrals by by the p c countries at peace becoming accomplices in its assassination on I