Word: lusitania
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Just two years ago today the whole world was rocked with the news that the Lusitania had been sunk. The war had then been in progress nine months, yet nothing so terrible as this blind blow to civilization had occurred, save the first ruin of Belgium...
...women is less dear than their lives? And yet you would give a veiled compliment to their sex by calling your country "she". What one of you is there who dares deny the open insult of Germany's defiance? What pacifist would have saved his own life on the Lusitania, to let a child and mother drown? And yet you say "life before honor...
...inches of your space to express my humble belief that this country at this time does not want war? I do not think there is anything in the present situation to justify our rushing hot-headedly to arms? If we had declared war on Germany at the time the Lusitania was sunk, we might have claimed at least a man's-size pretext. From the standpoint of a neutral American, I cannot see that Germany's conduct during the entire war differs from that of England, except in one point: that Germany, in sinking British contraband, has sunk Americans...
...world's sake in opposing the Huns, and the German boy who was called to his colors. No distinction is made between the cause of the allies and the cause of Germany. The monument celebrates both causes indifferently. It approves the invasion of Belgium and the sinking of the Lusitania by the same act and in the same degree that it approves the men whom Harvard pretends to be proud of--her automobile drivers, soldiers and aviators, who died in true and eternal glory fighting for the right against wrong...
...have not space here to repeat my views as to the weakness of his case against the President, especially in regard to the Lusitania outrage and the Mexican turmoil, which have already been stated in a letter to the New York Times, November 5; all that I can point out hre is that in the very tone and method of his campaign, Mr. Hughes has utterly failed to exhibit those qualities of mind and heart which seem to me most needed in the present day spokeman of the American people...