UNITED STATUS WAKNS GERMANY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13973, 20 April 1916, Page 3

UNITED STATUS WAKNS GERMANY

IMME 1)1 ATE AN SWER DEMANDED. PRESIDENT SPEAKS OF NATIONAL TRAnii'IONS. THE SERVICE OF HUMANITY. (Received April 20, 0.5 a.m.) WASn.INGJ.UN', April 19. President Wilson 'has despatched another Note to Germany, warning her that unless attacks on merchantmen parrying Americans cease, diplomatic Delations will be severed. l A Reuter message adds that an immediate answer is demanded. Addressing a meeting of Directors of the American Revolution, President Wilson declared that tho only excuse the United States had ever to fight would be m th? cause of humanity. He added : "America will have forgotten her traditions if she fights merely far herself. She must not fight under conditions that show we have Iforgotten the traditions of a nation which was formed for thje purpose of serving, the test of mankind as much as itself, and to afford an asylum to all men. "The birth of this nation was significant, because no other nation had ever been born into the world for the pur- . poso o4f so serving mankind. "If Me forgot the traditions of our fathers, \\w at once change- our characters and become unconscious to those principles wherein the life of the nation is rooted.

"What a splendid thing it is to have so singular a tradition of unselfishness. "When the United Statrs ceases to be unselfish, she ceases to be America. When she forgets tradition and devotion to human rights m generaJ, she has lost the titlo dwds of her nationality."