AMERICA'S DUTY TO HUMANITY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 36, 18 January 1916, Page 6

AMERICA'S DUTY TO HUMANITY

mr seth lqvj oh german piracy, At a banquet in New York on November IS., attended by a, large number of leading business and financial men, loud cheers greeted the declaration of Mr Seth Low that; it.was tnc duty of America to solve at any coti the crisis for humanity-caused by the, sinking of the Lusitania, the and the Ancona. / j After recalling that in the Civil War the American Hag was almost swept off the ocean by the Confederate cruisers, Mr Low observed :—' 'ln • all those years, so far as I know, no life of any non : cqmbfitant belligerent was -lostlas, a result of these upera- ' tions, much desk any''neutral life/ [ ask you to place that picture beside that of the Lusitania, the Arabic, the Ancona, and ask' yourselves whether this nation " not charged with the duty of standing at all hazards for the old practice and the old international law. "We have been in complete sympathy with the efforts of the President teTsolve this question peaceably if possible, but I believe it to be the duty of the United States, with or without other neutral nations, to see the problem solved now." While the banquet was proceeding a mass. meeting of German-Americans was held at the Cooper Union to listen to speeches denouncing President Wilson. : The sneer-bos were punctuated, with cries of ','Shoot the President." The New York "Herald" describes . the'German meeting as "the most traitorous ever held in this country."