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Show t m jWar by Assassination J From our dopartmont of stato thero must go to tho Imperial government . at Berlin a domnnd that the Gormans shall no longer make war llko savages savag-es drunk with blood, that thoy shall ceaso to seek tho attnlnmont of tholr ends by tho assassination ot noncom-hatnnts noncom-hatnnts and neutrals. In tho history of wnrs thero Is no slnglo deed com-parablo com-parablo In lts Inhumanity and its horror hor-ror to tho destruction, without warning, warn-ing, by German torpedoes ot tho great steamship Lusltanla, with moro than 1800 souls on board and among thorn moro than 100 Americans. Our demand de-mand must bo mado and It will bo . heeded, unless Germany In hor madness mad-ness would havo It understood that Fho Is at war with tho wholo civilized civiliz-ed world. . . Tho sorloa ot acts which Includes the attack upon tho dishing, tho sinking of tho Falaba by which tho llfo of an American passenger was lost, and tho destruction destruc-tion of tho American ship, Gulfllsht flying tho American flag, now reach- cs Its culmination In tho sending to their denth by dastardly assassin methods of a largo number of American Ameri-can passengers on tho Lusltanla, It Is a matter ot tho gravost Import for Germany that In this caso thero can bo no disclaimer of responsibility. While thoro may havo been somo among us who, up to this moraont, woro Inclined to hold a suspoudod Judgment as to tho Justifications and procedures of Germany, now tho American Am-erican peoplo will bo ot ono mind. Wo nro proverbially a peoplo not easily nrousod to passion, thero wilt now bo llttlo ot that. Tho Amorlcnn peoplo will feol that It Is tholr duty to bo calm, hecauso tho occasion Is too sorlous for Indulgence In vain oxcltemont. And happily there Is at tho head ot tho nation a man ot proved strength and balanco. President Presi-dent Wilson, hecauso of his strength and tho habitual soberness ot his . J H judgment, will resist all promptings ; H to unrcasonnblo or hasty action. But W ho knows tho peoplo who havo put .H him at tho head of tho nntlon, ho will H lnBttnctlvoly know and understand S W tho foellng that pervades tho country H today and ho will respond to It by i'-l taking tho firm, wlso course which 'tH Justtco, right, and honor demand. 'il New York Times. 11 |