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...regard to the part the United States will play in the war, I cannot see how it will be necessary for her to do more than use her navy to its fullest extent, to build ships to be convoyed across the Atlantic, and to destroy the menace of the submarine. The building up of your navy and merchant marine, resulting in a destroying of the submarine warfare, will remove Germany's last hope of winning the war and I also believe that it will hasten the end of the war if Germany sees that America is really in earnest...
...destroy such an institution, even in these days of extreme international stress, is inadvisable unless the benefits to be gained are clear and unmistakable. In the present case we can see none. Let the reformers of 1920 organize a class fund for Serbian or Belgian relief, for they could do nothing finer, but the sacrifice of such a major class institution as the Red Book seems unnecessary...
...repeat these questions so as to fit the war issue. Will war defend American lives on the seas or destroy them? Are there no alternatives which will more effectively defend American lives on the seas and with less damage to the lives and institutions on land? Suppose there are not. Then are lives on the seas more precious than the lives and activities on land, which would be burned up by war? Against sea rights we must set the rights of those who stay at home to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." We must remember that much...
...remains important, none the less, to distinguish between black and white. So in the present case the great outstanding fact is this: That, whereas the Allied sort of illegality, if such it be, has caused reparable inconvenience and financial loss, the German sort of illegality has already irreparably destroyed 200 American lives, and now threatens to destroy more. For these lives there is no redress; and to meet this threat there is no course but that of self-protection by force...
...regard the new submarine activity not as an attempt to blockade England, but as an attempt to destroy her commerce by a host of raiders, we will be confronted by two facts. First, the submarines can make no provision for the safety of the crews of the vessels destroyed, and intend to sink merchant ships on sight. Such action of course is a direct repudiation of all German promises to America. The second apparent fact is that Germany has had the insolence to dictate to us just how many ships we may send to England, when they must arrive, what...