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Show NEW YORK WORLD ANSWERS BRYAN William J. Bryan, intensely devoted to peace, continues his campaign against this country committing an overt act of war. Bryan is a remarkably remark-ably resourceful, sincere advocato of the theory' of world-wide amity, as de-tined de-tined in his famous lecture. "The Prince of Peace," but in his latest appeal ap-peal to the people, the Nebraskan has met his equal In the editor of the New York World, who says Mr. Bryan is a good man who lives in a world that does not exist, and then proceeds: pro-ceeds: "When Bryan tells us that the way to avoid war with Germany Is through his peace-treaty plan, he might as well tell us that the way to avoid sorrow and suffering and death is not to be born. " 'Is it unreasonable or unpatriotic to urge as a means of preventing war the employment of a plan urged by the prealdent and approved by the sen-- sen-- ale, the United States and nearly all the rest of the civilized world9' "The answer to that is that the Bryan Bry-an peace treaty plan was never ratified rati-fied by Germany, and that even If it had been accepted bj the Imperial government, gov-ernment, Germany is making war upon the United Stales in defiance ol I American ports are blockaded by German Ger-man submarines operating in the Atlantic At-lantic American ships aie tied to their piers Those that sail take the risk of being sunk without warning, their passengers and crews to be murdered mur-dered in cold blood by German submarine subma-rine command'Ts "In the face of that situation, Mr. Bryan insists that the right course for the United States to pursue is to propose to the German government thai nothing shall be done about it until the end ol n jwr. In the meantime mean-time Germany can continue to blockade block-ade American ports and massacre American citizens. It can continue to make war upon the United States, and If the war is not profitable at the end of twelve months it can offer to pay an indemnity for American lives, as it did in the case of the Lusitania ic- tlms. 'We do not question Mr. Bryan's sincerity sin-cerity or doubt that he faithfully represents rep-resents the sentiments of all those muddle-minded Americans who are SO infatuated with a paper peace that they will joyfully submit to th' aggres-sions aggres-sions of war provided the United States does not resist. What they object ob-ject to is not war. but seli-dH use n the part of the United States. For ourselves, we should rather be a dog and bay the moon than that kind of American. "In a speech that must always rank amon? the classics of American oratory. ora-tory. President Wilson has thus described de-scribed the American f la l; " 'When I think ot the flag that those ships carry, the only touch of color about them, the only thing that moves as if It had a settled spirit in it in their solid structure, it seems to mi-I mi-I see alternate stripes of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood spilt to vindicate those rights; and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene Into which every nation na-tion may swin which stands for those great things' "But If Mr. Bryan's view is the correct cor-rect view, those stripes of parchment are lies; those stripes of blood might as well have been spilled in a drunken brawl, and the 'blue serene is something some-thing in which the nation may swim only when imperial Germany graciously gracious-ly permits. Is that what all the sacrifices sacri-fices of tho fathers have come to? Is that the last word that government of the people, by the people and for the people has to offer mankind?" |