Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 11, 1915, Page 2

1 BLAIR MAN HEADS THE POSTMASTERS Senator Hitcheock Does Not Attend Annual Convention, Though Bxpected There. BRADY IS ELECTED SECRETARY (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, June 10.—(8pecial.)—Senator Hitcheock Was not present this afterncon to deliver &n address before the state meeting of pestmasters, but outside of that the program was followed Clyde M. Reed of Omaha, superinten- dent of the rallway mail service, gave an imteresting talk on the relations of the postmasters with the mail clerks. B. R Hendrix of Swanton resd a paper on im- provements in the rural service and the Gscussion was Indulged in under the leadership of Otto Zuelow of Schuyler. In the afternoon reports of offlcers were read and the annual election heid. | resulting as follows President—Thomas T. Dsterman, Blair ts—F. W, Brown, Lincoin; won, Norfolk; T. A. Davis, Miller, Daykin. Brad ;Bryan Zfixis“?éople To Pass Judgment (Continued from Page One.) ia Tittle Botter than war at its wo new system contemplates an universal brotherhood established through the wp- lfting power of example. Supported by Precedents. “If 1 correctly {nterpfet the nots to Ger- many, it conforms to the standards of the old system rather than to the rules of the new, and 1 cheerfuily admit that it is abundantly supported by precedents— precedents written In characters of blood upon almost every page of hwnan his- tory. Austria furnishes the most recent precedent; it ‘waa Austria’s firmness that diotated the ultimatum against Serbia, which set the world at war, Bvery ruler now participating in this unparaileled conflifet has prociaimed hix desire for peace and. denled responaibllity for the war and it is only charitable that we should credit all of them with good faith. “They desired peace, but they sought it sccording to the rulés of the old system. They belleved ‘that firmness would give the hest mssurance of the maintenance n: peace, and faithtully following precedent, they went #so near the fire that they were, one after another, sucked into the contest. Nevor before have the frightful » r.m«m-nwnmmumm enlightened—aye, the most Christian the nations of Europe—are grapping with each other s If in n death struggie. H : ! i. il :g E't ft!}i i 2 i § { : ;u iiz H |- !i | g i : H E H g il i | it : g 23 ] it H i i i t 1] 1 il I PARIS, June 10—Great importance s attached by the morning newspapers to the resignation of Secretary of BState| Bryan from the cabinet of President Wilson. They express the belief that it explains the delay In answering the Ger man reply to the first American note of protest on the sinking of the Lusitania and forecasts the contents of the second note just sent. “It must be admitfed that such a resig- nafion and, above all, such a letter, sur. prises us in Burope’’ says Jean Her- bette, one of the beit known French writers of forelgn affairs. “It is hard for us to understand that a minister, at ® time when his country was discussing with Germany so grave a question as the use of submarines against merchant ships the Prestige of His Government » could part company with his chief execu- tive and openly declare that he is in com- plete disagreement with him as to the methods to he employed. the right to diminish the prestige of his government before foreign countries, but | Mr. Bryan has a double excuse. First of | all, ministerial discipline must seemed rather irksome to a man who so many times has almed at the presidency. Then, too, his departure does not in any way lessen the prestige of his govern- ment, for that Drestige rests on the ardent patriotism of the American peo- ple, on the deep senses of justice, honor, high character and popularity of Presi- dent Wilson and last, but not ieast, on the powerful fleet which President Wil- son reviewed last month." Text of America Note to Germany (Continued from Page One.) of the imperial German government 5 regarding the carriage of contraband of war on board the Lusitania or re- | garding the explosion of that ma- |terial by the torpedo, it need only be said that in the view of this gov- ernment these contentions are ir- relevant to the question of the legality of the methods used by the German naval authorities in sinking thet vessel. “But the sinking of passenger sh'ps involves principles of humanity which throw into the background any 2 conveyance for pasfengers and car- rying more than a thousand souls who had no part or lot in the con- duct of the war, was torpedoed aud sunk without so much as & challenge or a warning, and that men, wom and children were sent to their death in modern warfare. Duty to Speak. American citisens were among those tention of the imperizl German |etnment to the grave: which the Btatey concelves that this tragic lsputable prineiple ‘which 'at responsibility rests. - gov- ment of the United Btates is con- ing for something ‘much greator mere rights of property or privi- HH : g less high and sacfed than of humanity, which every H g by ot + o By | wiand master, M. R Brown, Soux ing and which no government is | justitied in resigning on behaif of under itd care and authority. her actual resistatice to cap- to stop when ordered i 3 g : G H ;‘ £ ] { B ¥ of interests, or In any way mitigst the terrers of the present distressi circumstances unparalleled in T e who perished made'it the duty of the government of the United States to|fignting has boen going on for mevernl y BOV={took it in the evening of the Sth, making 1ty [100 prisoners.” X ’}%fismxm | of commerce. It is contending the purpose of visit afforded the commander submarine any justification much as putting the lives of of the war upon the sea may be changed. The governmeat of the United States would consider it a privilege thus to serve its friends and ' use of its services in this way at its convenience. The whole world is concerned in anything that may bring about even & partial accommodation I i note transmitted to the imperial German government on the 15th of May, and re- lies in these representations upon the principles of humanity, the universally recognized understandings of Interna- tional law and the ancient friendship of the German nation. Rights of U. 8. Cltisdns, “The wovernment of the United States cannot admit that a proclamation of a war zone from which neutral ships have been warned to keep away may be made to operate as in any degree an abbrevia- tion of the rights either of American shipmasters or of American citigens bound on laaful errands as passengers on merchant ships of belligerent nations. It does not understand the lmperial Ger- man government to question those rights. It understands it, also, to acoept as es- tablished beyond quebtion the principle that the lives of noncombatants cannot lawfully or fightfully be put in jeopardy by the capture or destruction of an un- { specis] circumstance of detail that resisting merchant ship, and to recognize the obligation to thke sufficlent precau- may be thought to affect the cAses,|,... o sscertain whether a principles which lift it, as the Im-|merchantman is in fact of belligerent perial government will no doubt be|nationality, or is in fact carrying con- quick to recognise and acknowl- traband of war under a neutral flag. government of the United States odge, out of the class of ordinary|i,efore deems it reasonable to expect subjecta of diplomatic discussion or |that the imperial German government of international controversy. What-|will adopt the measures necessary to put over be the other facts regarding the |Ui**® principles into practice in respect of the safeguarding of American lives Lusitania, the principal fact is that &|,,4 American ships, and asks for as- great steamer, primarily and chiefly |surances that this wil be done. (Bigned) “ROBERT LANBING, ““Secretary. of state ad interim.” ITALIANS 0CCUPY - MANFALGONE GITY (Continued from Page One) ek istit. = RO regc pass, at the foot of the Sasso Di Stria. “A victorious action was fought ten “The fact that more than 100 |klometers (about seven miles) north of Cortina D'Ampesso. A plece of artillery remainad in our hands. “In the neighbbrhood of Monte Croce Is Grand Master Telegram.)—The moeting of the Masonlc grand lodge of South Dakota was concluded here after selecting Sloux Fills ds the place for the mext annual gathering, and electing these officers for the coming year: B T Elouz Falie: trecsurcr, " Noren. J rer, Harvey J. 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