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FOSS A CANDIDATE
For G. 0. P. Nomination
WRITES LETTER TO BIRD
Ex-Governor Says He Has Been “Real
leader of True Republican Idea”
in State—Clark Will Op-
pose Shaw
Former Gov Eugene N. Foss announced
formally at Boston Sunday his inten
tion of seeking the republican nomination
for governor in the primaries next fall.
In an open letter to Charles S. Bird of
Walpole, candidate of the progressive
party in 1912 and 1913, he expresses re
gret that Mr Bird has determined not to
become a candidate for the republican
nomination, as the ex-governor suggested
some weeks ago. The letter adds: “It
must be apparent to you. Mr Bird, that in
offering to support you I was attempting
to interpret the popular will and that
upon your declination I have determined
myself to lead the popular movement."
Continuing, Mr Foss says that the repub
lican party demands progressive leader
ship by a business man. and he declares
that, as the exponent of the McKinley
policy of tariff regulation, he himself has
been “the real leader of the true repub
lican _ idea in Massachusetts.” notwith
standing that he was three times elected
governor on the democratic ticket. The
letter criticizes former Congressman Sam
uel W. McCall and Lieut-Gov Cushing,
who are candidates for the republican
nomination, for “their refusal to stand for
national prohibition.”
Nelson B. Clark of Beverly announced
Sunday his candidacy for the progres
sive nomination for governor, saying that
he would stand particularly for the prin
ciples of the initiative and referendum. A
special committee of the progressive state
committee has already reported in favor of
approving William Shaw, the prohibition
candidate, for the nomination.
SHAW TO HEAD MOOSE TICKET
Judge Hildreth of Holyoke is Named
to Be Candladte for Attorney-Gen
eral on Progressive Slate
William Shaw, prohibition candidate for
governor, announced at Boston last week
after a conference with the prohibition
state committee and a special committee
of the progressive state committee, that
he would become a candidate provisional
ly for the progressive nomination at the
state primaries. Mr Shaw’s statement
says that his decision to become a pro
gressive candidate is subject to bis previ
ous announcement, "that in the event of
the insertion of an unequivocal state and
national prohibition plank in its platform
by either of the dominant political parties
and its acceptance and advocacy by its
candidate for governor,” he will withdraw
bis own candidacy.
Leon E. Baldwin, chairman of the spe
cial progressive committee, said last week
that in addition to recommending the
support of William Shaw for governor,
the committee had decided to suggest the
nomination of Judge John Hildreth of
Holyoke for attorney-general; Russell A.
Wood of Cambridge for secretary of state
and Alvin T. Weeks of Fall River for
treasurer.
The state committee of the prohibition
party met at Boston last week with Mr
Shaw. It was announced at the close of
the meeting that Mr Shaw had decided to
accept the offer of the progressives, and he
gave out a statement in part as follows
“I have decided after several dav* of
careful consideration and conference with
the progressive special committee and the
prohibition state committee to become a
candidate for the progressive partv nom
ination for governor, subject to the' agree
ment on my pledge cards. that in the
event of the insertion of an unequivocal
state and. national prohibition plank in its
platform by either of the dominant politi
cal parties and its acceptance and advoc
acy by its candidate for governor, I will
withdraw’ my candidacy.
“The progressive party stands for certain
fundamental principles of democracy
believes that, the cure for the evils of
democracy is more democracy- that ability
waits upon responsibility; that if von can
not trust the people, all the people, then
democracy is a failure.
"A review of the past 10 ream sbow=
remarkable progress in popular govern
ment and humanitarian legislation. But
we have only made a beginning. In manv
. respects we are still far behind England
and Germany. There have been som«
annoyances and blunders in the process
of readjustment. It is easier to have
somebody else manage your political af
fairs than to do it yourself, but it is
not wise or safe in a republic.
“The prohibitionists, progressives and
all good citizens of all parties who be
lieve in our principles should stand by
them, propagate them and suffer for them
as some of us will hare tn do. We call
upon the old parties to repent of their
sins, break their evil alliances and pledge
themselves to a program that will mean
happiness, prosperity and peace to all the
people.
WHERE CLARK STANDS
Candidate tor Progressive Guberna
torial Nomination Advocates Initia
tive and Referendum
Nelson B. Clark, candidate for the pro
gressive nomination for governor, who is
being opposed by William Shaw, the pro
hibitionist candidate, issued the following
statement Sunday night:—
“In announcing my candidacy for the
governorship as a progressive. I desire
to make it clear to ail progressives
whether at present in the party or out of
it, that I shall wage the fight on the
fundamental and essential principles of
the progressive party. One of the cardi
nal principles of the progressive party
is direct government by the people through
the initiative and referendum.
“Although the democratic party in this
state has had the initiative and referen
dum in their platform for several years,
it is a fact that should not be forgotten
that upon the one great occasion when
they had the power to give this to the
people of the state they failed to do so.
their leaders thereby showing their in
sincerity in advocating this measure. The
republican party, although in full control
of the Legislature during the past year
on a promise of progressive performance,
has deliberately refused to give the initia
tive and referendum to the people, al
though the voters have overwhelmingly
favored this measure whenever the op
portunity has been given them. The re
actionary leaders of the democratic party
and the equally reactionary leaders of the
republican party bare combined in a sub
marine warfare against this great princi
ple of popular government.
“This year, for the first time in the
history of Massachusetts, the voters of
this commonwealth can go into the pri
mary on September 21 without the collar
of any poliieal party around their neck.
The un-American custom of making them
declare what ticket they wish to vote has
finally been abolished. I therefore urge
every voter in the commonwealth, whether
in the party or out of it. who believes in
the principle of the initiative and referen
dum to enter the primaries on primary
day and register his rote in favor of my
candidacy as a protest against the failure
and deliberate refusal of the dominant
parties to give the people this reform.
COL GOETTING NOT TO RUN
Decides to Keep Ont of Lientenant-
Governor Race This Year
Col August H. Goetting will not be a
candidate for the republican nomination
for lieutenant-governor. He made his
definite announcement Friday night, as
signing no definite reasons for his deci
sion. He simply said he had considered
the situation from every possible angle
and concluded late Friday that it would
be inadvisable for him to run. His an
nouncement did not become known until
after the "night before" which republic
ans from all over the state held at the
Hotel Worthy Friday night preliminary to
the big party clambake at Riverside park
Saturday.
There was no particular surprise amons
the party leaders when they heard of Col
Goetting's decision. They were, however,
interested to know where the colonel would
throw his support of the substantial fol
lowing which has been ready to go into
the political arena for him if he became a
candidate. His answer was to the point.
“I don’t think I should be asked that ques
tion.” said he. Thus a new and more or
less unknown force is released in the pri
mary campaign which will have a decided
effect on the split-even fight which- -s de
veloping between Senator Calvin Cool
idge of Northampton and Councilor Guy
Ham of Milton.
A BIG REPUBLICAN OUTING
M’CALL AND CUSHING SPEAK
Senator Weeks Talks on National Is
sues—Over 250 Enjoy Party Clam
bake at Riverside Near This City
Heat, vast and sweltering, blanketed
the clambake of the republican party,
which occurred perspiringly at Riverside
park in Agawam. Heat baked Main street
in the city when the procession of loyal
party men from all over the state paraded
behind a blaring band to the steamer land
ing at the foot of Elm street. Heat
.almost suffocated the 250 politicians who
went coatless to the gorge served by 20
streaming waiters on "clambake island"
at the park, and heat reduced to damp
flimsy the linen of United States Senator
John W. Weeks, the two candidates for
the republican gubernatorial nomination.
Samuel W. McCall and Lieut-Gov Grafton
D. Cushing, and a half-dozen other
speakers who addressed the crowd massed
on the bleachers overlooking the park
dancing pavilion. "I came here look
ing for a hot time, and I found it,”
wetly remarked Charles E. Burbank, re
claimed progressive, mopping his brow at
the beginning of a speech which rang the
bell with his audience. Everybody sighed
acquiescence and wriggled stickily.
The crowd at the clambake was even
more representative of the state-wide
grand old party than the "night before"
held Friday night at the Hotel Worthy,
Practically all of the men who hope to he
on the state ticket were there. Chair
man Edward A. Thurston, of the state
committee prophesying a hard campaign
and victory, came leading a half-dozen
of the committeemen. Delegations from
Pittsfield. Holyoke. Worcester, Fall River,
and the down East section swelled the
ranks. And the variegated aggregation
was supplemented by more than 100
Springfield men. Arrangements for the
big “powwow" were well made by Chair
man “Jimmy." ’Walls. Jr-, of the city com
mittee and his assistants so that not a
hitch in the whole day’s doings was notice
able.
W. Murray Crane Gets a Hearty Wel
come
Party honorables other than the offi
cers and candidates were not lacking-
There was M. Murray Crane, who motored
down from Dalton in time to avoid the
clams and lobsters, and whose appear
ance aroused many evidences of hearty
welcome. Co] Goetting. who likewise dis
likes clambakes on smothering days, timed
his. arrival to match the speaking pro
gram only. Christopher Clarke of North
ampton. 89. and keenly alive to every
thing that was doing, was present as the
grand old veteran of the party. He was
the only man In the gathering who voted
for ZachaA’ Taylor for president of the
United States, He expeetes to help elect
another chief .of the nation from the re
publican party, to which he has devoted
his political life.
Good Fellowship Prevails
Great good fellowship prevailed from
heated start to overheated finish ,of the
day. the big black Cushing umbrella add
ing its quota. Under it stood the two
candidates for the governorship. Cushing
and McCall, arm in arm. and smiling
while a photographer showed them the
birdie. Under she same umbrella stood
the two candidates for the second place
on the ticket. Councilor Guy Ham and
Senator Calvin Coolidge. And after the
photographers were finished and the speak
ing began, Mr McCall had the audacity
to refer to the huge backwoods sunshade
as an “old cotton" institution. “Cotton?"
protested the owner in high indignity,
down in the front row. “Cotton, indeed!
It’s, silk.’’
"'Well." answered Mr McCall, who was
trying to address the crowd. “Anyway, it
stands for harmony. Mr Cushing and I
began by borrowing each other's fur coats
one night last winter. Now we're stand
ing under the same umbrella." The lieuten
ant-gOvernor subsided and tried futilely
to fight his stubby little black pipe with a
funny match he bought Thursday in Fall
River. The match fizzed and went out.
The remarks he addressed to the match
were drowned ip McCall oratory. It may
he the unctions “harmony” which ap
peared to prevail between the two candi
dates for governor was responsible for the
squelching accorded a couple of young men
who started to give a boisterous “ThiYe
cheers for Cushing, the next governor!"
Little SprtnKfleld Convention Talk
Little state convention talk and noth
ing remotely resembling a Springfield boom
was heard during' the whole day, or at
the "night before” Friday evening either,
for that matter. Most men took it for
influence for Springfield for 1916, even if
this city loses out now.
The Speaking; Program
Chairman Walls of the city committee
opened the program of speaking with a
brief welcome. George A. Bacon of the
granted that the party platform building
session will be held in Boston, in spite of
the large amount of aimless Springfield
talk which has circulated up to the pres
ent. The state committee will not decide
before next Frida y. "Boston thinks it
ought to get the convention ar least once
in every three years, and I confess that's
my idea, too,” said State Chairman Thurs
ton “A large majority of the party vote
is east within 20 miles of there, you
know." Which may mean Springfield need
not hope to entertain the state delegates
until about 1918 even though George A.
Bacon of the state committee stated Fri
day night that he would use his utmost
state executive committee introduced first
Mayor Stacy, who extended the courtesies
of the city, and the other speakers, who
were Lieut-Gov Cushing. Chairman Thurs
ton of tile state committee. Samuel W.
McCall, Senator Tohn W. Weeks, and
Charles E. Burbank.
Chairman Thurston’s address was full
of the usual rigor and party fire for which
the energetic state machine leader ia
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THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN; THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1915
famed. He expects the increase in the
republican vote this year to be double that
of last year over 1913, he said. This
growth of party strength presages victory
this fall.
Mr McCall assured all business men.
big and little, justice and a square deal
if he is elected governor and he asked
justice and a square deal of the republican
party. Mr McCall assailed the high-mount
ing state tax, extended a cordial welcome
to returning progressives and prophesied
a sweeping republican victory all along
the line.
Lieut-Gov Cushing spoke earnestly for
15 minutes on the constructive qualities
of the republican party, and touched upon
the question of national defense, advo
cating that service in the militia for every
man be made obligatory by the pressure of
public opinion, if not by law.
Mr Burbank of East Bridgewater, erst
while progressive leader, made it clear in
his aggressive, concise speech that he had
not given up one of his progressive prin
ciples. He has simply perceived that the
republican party is the best tool by which
to practice them- He looked down at the
two candidates for governor, sitting near,
one tall and youthful, the other gray with
service, and said they were both young
men. full of vigor and political, fire. “Mr
McCall, if he is nominated, will,have to
fight every moment of the, campaign ,from
now until election night, if he wins." as
serted Mr Burbank. “He needs the as
sistance and co-operation of the progres
sives if he is to attain victory.”
SENATOR WEEKS OF MEXICO
Criticism By the Senator of Adminis
tratlon’s Policy
Disapproval of President ilson s course
in Mexico was expressed by Senator John
W. Weeks in his address at the republican
clambake at Riverside park Saturday aft
ernoon. He said that in his opinion noth
ing but the distraction of the European
struggle had prevented the United States
from being placed in a humiliating posi
tion through the administration’s course.
He also discussed the tariff, currency and
shipping questions.
Senator ’Weeks's address was in part as
follows: —
When a guestion connected with our for
eign relations arises, especially one in
which there is involved delicate issues and
which may develop serious complications,
at least during its consideration, it is not
of the first importance whether one agrees
or disagrees with the position which the
president takes. The administration at
Washington is supposed to be representing
every American citizen. From the foreign
viewpoint, it is doing so. and. therefore, a
criticism of the action of the administra
tion may embarrass it and prevent it from
carrying through its negotiations success
fully. Most people feel that it was most
unbecoming for a democratic secretary of
state to retire from office at such a time
in order to show his dissent from the presi
dent’s position in the Lusitania incident,
thereby creating, in the German govern
ment. an impression that, the president is
not being supported by the American peo
ple; but, even if that, were not so. I think,
speaking as a republican, that criticism or
adverse comment on the president's action
should not be made during the continuance
of negotiations which are now being con
ducted by him through the state depart
ment.
I wish the president would call into his
council, when delicate foreign questions
are involved, those American statesmen,
without relation to party, who have had
long and intimate familiarity with intri
cate foreign problems. In that way there
might be brought to bear on the question,
not partisan influence, but the judgment of .
those whose experience, is of value and
which might be used in determining the
course which he is to take. The names of
some of those who would naturally he
called to Washington. if this idea were
carried out. will naturally recur to you.
They would include former Secretaries of
State Foster. Olney, and Knox. Mr Root,
Senator Lodge, and doubtless many others.
As the president does not see fit to call
these elder statesmen into his councils, we
must accept for the time being his course.
But the withholding of criticism need
not necessarily mean approval of it and,
in the ease of the administration's policy
in Mexico, I wish now. as I have in the
past, to express my vigorous disapproval.
However, even that phase’ of our foreign
relations may be laid aside for the moment
with the hope that some intelligent and
reasonable action will finally be taken
which will bring about a restoration of or
der in Mexico and the protection of Ameri
can. lives and interests there without
armed intervention. In my opinion, noth
ing has saved us from being placed in a
humiliating position in regard to Mexican
affairs and in our maintenance of the Mon
roe doctrine, as far as Mexico is con
cerned. but the distraction of the atten
tion of European countries by the great
war which is now being waged.
Withholding criticism of the president
and his policies in connection with foreign
affairs does not present any reason why a
similar course should be followed in con
sidering domestic affairs, but a fair crit
icism cannot be indulged in without taking
into account the position in which the dem
ocratic party finds itself as a result of its
propagandas and declarations when it had
nor the responsibility of power. Unfor
tunately for it and the country, in recent
years it has largely represented those wild
eyed theories which are always more or
less in evidence relating to the relations of
different sections of the country and dif
ferent classes of our people. There is am
ple evidence in democratic platforms and
in the utterances of the responsible men
in tbe democratic party of the tendency
to appeal to class prejudice and sectional
feeling. They have stimulated the preju
dice which is always in the minds of the
unsuccessful and unfortunate—that the
reason for their lack of good fortune has
something to do with the laws and meth
ods and policies for which the republican
party is responsible. This has been a
purely demagogical appeal, not only in
these times, but in all times. Yet, it has
sometimes been sufficiently potent to- influ
ence a very considerable vote and the hope
has undoubtedly been in the minds of
democratic leaders that their party would
profit by making that kind of an appeal.
I believe it is fair to say that it has
no foundation in fact. but. on the contrary,
that the laws and policies of the republic
an party have been such that they have
provided ample opportunity for the individ
ual and employment for our capital and la
bor. It is not difficult to demonstrate the
truth of that general statement, while the
evidences of the correctness of my declara
tion that democratic leaders have fre
quently indulged in that kind of an appeal
are on every hand. The president’s state
ment In his speech made in New York, just
before the beginning of his term, relating
to the hanging of business men higher than
Hainan: the declaration made by Mr Red
field to the shipping interests, that if they
were just and reasonable, all would be
well, but if in the miiid of some bureau
cratic officer they were not just and rea
sonable. the government would crush them,
and the constantly repeated declarations
of Mr Bryan to the same general effect,
have, with innumerable other instances,
conspired to give the impression that the
democratic party was a sectional and class
organization and that it depended for its
success on the stimulating of antagonistic
and pffljndieial sentiments in matters re
lating to the administration of our laws
and the passing of new legislation.
The result •>£ this i* quite apparent
when the party finds itself in control of
the government. It must then carry out
its pledgee and platforms and. to some de
gree, the declarations which have become
the fixed opinions of the unthinking every
where. This is reflected not only in admin
htrative action hut in legislation which
the democratic party has attempted since
It has come into newer. and in the carry
ing out of its policies democracy has de
pended on declarations previously made
rather than on the expert advice and evi
dence which was on every hand.
MOOSE GOING IN TO WIN
SAYS MURDOCK AFTER CANVASS
Convention Battles of 1618 Over Can
didacies, Not Platforms, Saya Pro
gressive Committee Head
Victor Murdock of Kansas, chairman
of the progressive national committee,
made the following statement at Mount
Pleasant, la., Sunday:—
“I have just completed a three-months’
personal canvass of the situation with the
progressives in the central West and on
the Pacific coast and after making it I
am ready to say flat-footedly that we pro
gressives are going into the 1916 fight
as a party and to win.
“Moreover, a meeting of representative
progressives held this month in New York
city reported the same conditions in the
East that I found in the West, and they
are lining up for the next battle. This
also is the sentiment of the progressive
national committee. We will hold our na
tional convention early and nominate a
ticket.
“The great convention battles of 1916
will not be over candidacies, but will be
over platforms. The storm will rage not
in the convention on credentials, but in
the convention on resolutions. The bour
bon leadership will not only insist on a
standpat candidate, but will fight for an
unstinted and unequivocal indorsement of
the administration of William H. Taft,
including the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill.
"The democratic leadership likewise will
point with pride to the equally lamentable
Simmons-Underwood tariff bill and against
a Bryan insurrection of the first magni
tude, will cancel the one-term presidential
pledge and other Bryan propaganda and
the progressives will reiterate and re
emphasize their Chicago platform of 1912.
That platform remains the most nearly
perfect utterances of the principles of
Abraham Lincoln of modern times.
“The democratic leadership, after 2%-
ycars’ trial, has signally failed in solving
the nation's economic questions. Its tariff
law, slammed together under the old log
rolling leadership; is utterly unproductive
of any of the results previously claimed
for it. Its trust legislation flounders, its
attempts at development of American
ocean-going craft have fizzled. That this
is the judgment of the voter is amply
evidenced by the tremendous antidemo
cratic sentiment that has developed at the
polls at virtually every election in the
last two years. At many of these elec
tions the voter cast a republican ballot
because he believed that the republican
leadership had learned its lesson and would
hereafter take the progressive path.
“But now the voters know for a
certainty that when the’republican leader
ship has been restored to power it has
shown more, not less reactionary ten
dencies. ag is notably evidenced by the
actions of the Legislatures in New York.
Ohio and Massachusetts.
"The spectacle of republican reaction in
New York and Ohio in contrast to progres
sive achievement in California under Gov
Johnson, is a dramatic portrayal of the
need of the. new strong patriotic party of
public service. Therefore the progressive
will go on with its fight straight out and
natfooted.
COLONEL WON’T GO BACK
Will Enrol as Progressive —But Roose
velt Has no Criticism tor ex-Pro
gressives Who Re-enter Republican
Ranks
C’nl Theodore Roosevelt, who wuhed
his home in Oyster Bar, N. Y„ Monday
from his western trip, issued a statement
relative to the recently-published
announcement—of some of the progressive.
party leaders- inNew York that'they intended
to enrol with.the republican party this year.
Col Roosevelt'S statement follows :—
"As regards the progressives who have
announced their intention of caroling as re
publicans in this state. I have nothin’ tn
say except that I think it has been "fine
of them to have made the great fight thev
have made during the past three years
for progressive principles, and I am'sure
that they are acting conscientiously in the
step they now; take, and with the purpose
of doing what they regard as most useful
to the community. Holding the convic
tions I do. it would be an impossibility
for me myself to take that step. I shall
enrol as a progressive, and if anv man in
this state asks my advice I shall advise
him also to enrol as a progressive."
Advocates of peace at any price were
scored by Col Theodore Roosevelt at San
Diego. Cal., Tuesday last week when he ad
dressed a large crowd at the Panama-
California exposition. Mr Roosevelt's ad
dress came as a climax to Roosevelt day
at the exposition—a-program of entertain
ment which kept the former president
busy all day.’ After holding a reunion
with 77 members of his former rough
riders regiment, Col Roosevelt visited one
of the attractions at the exposition where
live several bands of Indians. He ex
hibited much pleasure at a ceremonv of
christening a newly-born Indian boy
“Theodore Roosevelt."
“If after his Gettysburg address Lin
coln had listened to those who said war
was the worst of evils, we would not bo
here, to-night.” said Col Roosevelt. "Um
an extremely domestic man, but should
there be war I and my four sons would
go to it. We should he prepared. We
should have a standing army of 200.000.”
BELGIUM DOCUMENTS QUOTED
TO SHOW GERMANY WAS RIGHT
Berlin Newspaper Publishes Alleged
Secret Diplomatic Reports
The Nord Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
began the publication at Berlin Thursday
of a series of documents purporting to be
secret Belgian diplomatic reports found in
Brussels by the Germans and describing
international political events from the time
Of the Moroccan crisis until the beginning
of the present conflict. The purpose of
their publication is to prove that Germany
maintained a proper attitude throughout
this time.
The papers contain alleged reports made
to Baron de Favoreau. former Belgian for
eign minister, by Count de Lalaing, for
mer Belgian minister to Great Britain:
Baron Greindl. minister to Berlin; Baron
Leghait. at Paris, and Count Dureel,
charge d'affaires at Berlin. These reports
date from 1905 and deal with European
politics, especially the attitude of the
triple entente toward Germany.
Count Lalaing and Baron Greindl are
quoted as having reported in February,
1905. that British hostility to Germany
was caused by jealousy of the latter na
tion's commercial and naval growrh. Lala
ing is said to have asserted that the
British feared the days of their naval
supremacy were numbered. A statement
attributed to Baron Leghait, writing un
der date of May 7, 1905, was that while
King Edward was in Paris he said the
confidence existing between Germany and
France had disappeared and conditions
were like those 20 years earlier.
Baron Greindl is said to have been the
author of a letter written September 23,
1905, praising the triple alliance, led by
Germany, for having maintained European
peace for 30 years and declaring the new
disposition of' the British fleet was un
questionably directed against Germany.
The same minister is quoted as having
asserted in a later letter that King Ed
ward was hostile to Germany, and that
Germany's isolation was the aim of Brit
ish policy. All the letters printed em
phasize efforts said to have been made by
Great Britain to form a coalition against
Germany* — .. ..„
TRIAL OF ENDURANCE
ASQUITH’S VIEW OF WAR
PAYS TRIBUTE TO RUSSIANS
Their “Indescribably Gallant Efforts”
—Confidence in Dardanelles Cam
paign—Work of Navy.
The war has become and is likely to
continue for some time a contest of en
durance, Premier Asquith told the House
of Commons at London Wednesday, last
week while making a general review in
moving the adjournment of Parliament
from to-day until September 14. The pre
mier remarked: “We should be ungrate
ful and insensitive indeed if we did not
recognize at this moment the indescribably
gallant efforts being made by our Russian
allies to stem the tide of invasion and to
retain inviolate the integrity of their pos
sessions.
"I don’t think in the whole of military
history there has been a more magnificent
example of discipline and endurance and
of both individual and collective initiative
than has been shown by the Russian army
in the last seven weeks. Our new allies,
Italy, are, with carefully prepared move
ments, steadily gaining ground, making
their way toward the objective which we
believe in a very short time will be with
in their reach.”
The premier declared that the British
government's confidence in the results of
the Dardanelles operations was undimin
ished. The premier emphasized his con
fidence in the victory of the French and
British armies in the western field.
Referring to the fact that this week
would seo the completion of a year of war,
Mr Asquith remarked that the world had
never seen a more miraculous transforma
tion in this country, not in its spirit and
heart, but in the outward manifestations
of its life, than had taken place here in
those 12 months. The British fleet to
day was far stronger, the premier contin
ued. than at the beginning of the war.
“and to its quiet and unobserved but
übiquitous and all-powerful activity is due
the fai t that the seas are clear, or sub
stantially clear.
“For. after all,” said the premier, "this
submarine menace, serious as it has ap
peared to be. is not going to inflict fatal or
substantial injury on British trade. The
seas are clear. We have our supplies of
food and raw materials, upon winch we
and the rest of the country depend, flow
ing in upon us in the same abundance and
with the same freedom, and I may say
without much exaggeration, judging from
the insurance rates and other matters, with
the same immunity from serious hazards
and risks as in times of peace.”
Continuing, Premier Asquith said: "The
navy so far has been denied the grim and
glorious fight, but it is through its unre
laxing vigilance and the supreme skill with
which it has been handled that this coun
try to-day can .'augh at the scare of an
invasion and that we to an extent un
known by any other of the belligerent
powers are immune from the actual rav
ages and dangers of war.”
Glancing around the House, the prime
minister remarked; “This is a sight un
known for a hundred years, this aggre
gation of members equipped in military
garb, but there is not a family represented
in the House, and the House is typical of
the whole country, which has not given its
hostages in sons or brothers."
Speaking of recruiting, which he re
marked bad been in progress for 12
months with undiminished activity, Pre
mier Asquith said: “The latest reports
are among the best we have had for a long
time.”
The premier concluded with a note of
caution to the country, saying: “Do not
let us suppose that our national duty is
discharged either by sending an adequate
influx of recruits to the army, or to the
various industries engaged in the fabrica
tion of munitions. The duty has been cast
upon this country not only of maintain
ing the freedom of the seas; not only
of supplying large contingents of well
equipped men for the battlefields, and
trenches, but also Of financing to a large
extent the whole conduct of the war. We
cannot do that if we continue to import
and to, increase our indebtedness to other
countries, and unless we maintain our
great manufacturing industries."
Premier Asquith urged the accumulation,
of a large reserve of gold and the use of
paper currency by householders and em
ployers. He characterized as calumny the
statements in a section of the press,
which he described as melancholy and
notorious exceptions to the newspapers as
a whole, that the people of this country
had failed to rise to the hight of this great
occasion and that the allies did not ap
preciate the great effort Great Britain was
making for the ultimate triumph of the
common cause
“Don't lot us give any encouragement
to the faint-hearted and still less to the
backbiters who are disheartening our al
lies and encouraging our enemies,” he said.
"Let us in this House and in the country .
nt large with the same spirit of energy
and determination which for 12 months
has inspired us continue to persist and
persevere to an inevitable triumphant is
sue.”
A TALK WITH LORD BRYCE
Small States After War—Larger Re
sults Foreseen
[Correspondence of the Associated Press.]
London, July, 1915.
The noise of war is all-pervading here,
and little but war is in the minds of peo
ple. But out of the blackness of war de
tails, accounts of battles, long casualty
lists, war loans, recruiting and ammunition
supplies, the student habits of Viscount
Bryce, in viewing the historical value of
events, permit him to detach himself from
the day-to-day turmoil and take his bear
ings on some of the larger results that may
come out of the struggle.
When seen in his study by a representa
tive of the Associated Press Lord Bryce
showed the same Jseen interest in American
affairs that has made him an authority on
them since his “American Commonwealth”
appeared, and the same intimate acquaint
ance with American men and affairs, polit
ical and party questions and public issues.
He is little changed from his days as em
bassador at Washington; the same alert
ness and intense keenness of manner; his
shaggy full beard and heavy eyebrows, now
quite white; every movement having the
vigor Of a man of middle life. Since he be
came a member of the House of Lords he
gives much attention to the pressing oum
•ions now crowding on Parliament, taking
quarters within easy reach of the upper
chamber at Westminster, where he often
joins in the serious and rather heavy de
bates of that august body. And yet he finds
time for his literary work and for gauging
some of the historical results likely or pos
sible to survive the conflict.
Tile interest taken in America in Lord
Bryce's notable report on “Alleged atroci
ties committed by the Germans in Bel
gium" was a source of much satisfaction
to him, “Ibe fioinmittse wet which Xjßr
Sided reached conclusions very slowly and
reluctantly,” he said. “I personally have
many friends in Germany, and I could
hardly believe that such things could be
true or that they knew such things were
happening. But beginning with an open
mind, and even in doubt, the truth of the
charges was finally forced upon all the
committee by the accumulation of evi
dence. As it is. I cannot believe the Ger
man people know what is going on. They
receive only the military version and the
people are not aware of the real condi
tions, not only as to Belgium, but in the
whole range of events connected with the
war. The military party, with its Von
Bernhardi spirit, is still completely domi
nant”
Reference was made in the course of the
talk to Lord Bryce’s pamphlet on “Neutral
Nations and the War,” and to some in
terpretations drawn from it on some of
the larger results which might come out of
the war. Although these interpretations
were not intended'at the time for publica
tion, Lord Bryce later approved their use
as expressing his view, as follows: —
“It is too soon to say what the war will
bring in eoofl or evil. But we can at least
hope, and perhaps see dimly, some of the
things to be gained. One of the most de
sirable. I should say. will be the territorial
integrity of small states—Belgium. Servia,
Switzerland. Holland. If this war means
anything it means that a group of great
states are banded together in protecting
the small states against absorption and
annihilation. The small state has been
as useful in its way to the world's prog
ress as the great state, and of incalcula
ble value as a pacific barrier between an
tagonistic races.
“And yet the small state cannot exist
under the rule of force and the survival
of the strongest, as it has not the re
sources for vast military establishments',
its very existence depends on the good
faith of the great and powerful states in
dealing with it. So that either the small
state is going to disappear in this conflict,
or is to emerge with far greater security
than it had before, and with lasting as
surances of its territorial integrity anfl the
good faith of great states dealing with it.
1 do not doubt that the result will be in
favor of the small state, and that it will
be one of the most beneficial results to
come out of the conflict.”
Lord Bryce was asked if this would not
lead to some internationalizing of treaties
so that it would become the duty of the
great states to uphold treaty obligations
toward the small state.
"Yes. that is what we all desire, that is
what the article referred to was meant to
advocate; it is one of the larger results
which we may foresee with some hope of
realization." said Lord Bryce. “This war
has increasingly shown the need of an in
ternational code under which treaties are
not alone respected by states partv to
them, but are part of an international
code of honor which all states are bound
to uphold. Under such a code any state
disregarding a treaty obligaticin it has sol
emnly undertaken, offends not only the
other contracting party to the obligation,
but also the entire international bond of
states leagued to uphold the sanctity of in
ternational compacts. And once that prin
ciple is firmly established, as I trust and
believe it will he. then it follows that some
means will be, found by which the interna
tional code will be made effective through
the universal moral influence, and if need
be the universal force of the civilized na
tions of the world."
WHAT THE VORWAERTS SAID
German Socialist Paper’s Editorial
Shows Why Kaiser Had Edition
Conflisacted
An entire edition of the Vorwaerts, the
official organ of the socialists in Germany,
was recently confiscated by the German
government. The Vorwaerts is a daily
newspaper that speaks for Karl Lieb
knecht and the social democratic party,
known in this country as the socialist
party, says the Philadelphia Evening
Ledger. The other day Karl Liebknecht
was sent into the army because of his anti
war speeches in the Reichstag. He will
not be permitted to address an audience
outside the Chamber in which he sits by
vote of the people, and as he goes to the
front in Alsace he may be killed.
The reason why the Vorwarts was vis
ited by the wrath of the government is
disclosed in a translation of the editorial
which was printed in the suppressed edi
tion. It will be seen by this editorial that
there exist in Germany some men who
have ventured to question the righteous
ness of the present war. and even to crit
icise the German attitude How wide
spread may be the sentiment this edi
torial reflects it is impossible to say. ow
ing to the measures that have been taken
to prevent its expression.
The editorial follows:—
“Man does not display all his strength
and all his weaknesses sav e in exceptional
situations. On the day of battle certain
giants fall, like rotten trees before the
tempest. The peoples, like individuals, re
veal in times of crisis their hidden vir
tues or their unknown failings.
“The present, crisis is terrible. . . .
It shows ns that the German people is
stricken with a malady which in the end
may prove fatal; and this malady is jin
goism. Thus one names a diseased na
tionalism which sees neither virtue nor
courage in any nation but its own, and
which has only insults and suspicion for
ethers.
“Unhappily, this disease appears to have
seized on the German people at a time
when the empire was in a particularly
flourishing condition, and it was in full
blast, even before this war broke out.
“When war was decided on there was
an eruption of jingoism of the most fever
ish sort. Violent articles appeared iu the
press. In the great cities inflammatory
speeches were made, and war songs were
chanted. The conflagration was regarded
as a fete. The campaign was to be a
simple promenade to Paris and to St Pe
tersburg.
“To argne, the contrary was to risk be
ing lynched. As soon as war was actu
ally declared the people of other nations
were subjected to every insult. We were
honest Germans: our adversaries were
‘brutal Russians,’ ‘perfidious English,’
‘insolent Serbs.’ The mob tore down the
signs of shops that bore a few words of
English or French. As to who began the
war—we were the innocent lambs, while
the French. Russians and British were
the wolves of the fable. Those who for
merly had imputed to the Jews all the
faults of our social state now discovered
in England the cause of everything.
"At the first victory the flags appeared,
the bells rang, perfervid speeches were
delivered in public, places. In the restau
rants nothing was sung biff ‘Deutschland
ueber alles.’ The public, hypnotized,
recked nothing of the death rattle of the
wounded on the battlefield, of hundreds
of villages in flames, of thousands of peo.
pie robbed of their belongings, of German
families who waited with anguish news
of their tons engaged in the combat.
“Then one heard the atrocious details
of the war in Belgium. The in habitants
had fired on our soldiers. The Belgians
were ‘assassins,’ ‘savage beasts,’ unworthy
of any consideration. They must expiate
their crimes by sword and fire. No one
troubled to explain the uprising of the
Belgian people. Our perfervid patriots
conld not understand that a people must
lose its calmness on seeing itself unex
pectedly attacked, its fields laid waste, its
towns and villages occupied, its men sac
rificed iu battle,
“Those who desire war ought to accept
the evils that it brings. To be enthusi
astic for war and then to descend to petty
stories abont dum-dum bullets is simply
to grow besotted. Our jingoes have yelled,
a hundred thousand times since the war
began. ‘The duty of every citizen is to
defend Ms country to his last breath.'
Those poor wretches of Belgium und
France—have they done anything else?
Have they not defended home and father-
I I£ thus,, aux; conduct
would be heroic; On the part of our ad
versaries it is rebellion and murder.
‘‘Ah! Don’t let ug throw stones at
others, we who live in glass houses! Let
us not look for the mote in our neigh
bor’s eye, but take the beam out of our
own. In this way we shall make the
first step toward I’entente international
and toward peace.
“Let us understand, then, that we are
not merely Germans, French or Russians,
but that we are all men, that all the peo
ples are of the same blood, and that they
have no right to kill one another, but
that they ought to love and help one an
other. Such is Christianity, humane con
duct. Man does not belong to one nation
only, he belongs to humanity.”
KAISER WILLIAM THE GREAT
AU Germany Worships Him for Snr
cess of the Bmpaign, Writes a Cor
respondent From Berlin
The Kaiser will go down in history as
William the Great, if the events of the
first year of the war appeal as vividly to
the imaginations of future Germans ns
they do to the generation that js living
through the present world conflict, writes
Carl W. Ackerman, United Press corre
spondent, from Berlin. Frederick the
Great held Europe at bay and saved Prus
sia through seven years of strife. His
descendant, who now holds the Hohenzol
lern throne, has more than equaled Fred
erick s task, because Frederick had En
gland with him, and there was then no
United States to furnish Germany's ene
mies with munitions. Nobody expects the
Present, conflict to run seven years, but if
the allies can stand a war of that dura
tion, so can Germany with the kaiser at
the head of affairs. When the war start
ed Emperor William had fallen into dis
favor with many of his people for a num
ber of reasons. Some believed he was
too autocratic, others thought he was too
Well disposed toward the English, and still
others thought he was afraid of the mili
tary machine Germany had developed and
was too prejudiced in favor of peace at
any price ever to permit the machine to
test itself. In the early days of the war.
when enemy after enemy took the field
against Germany, people talked dispar
agingly of the emperor as an incompetent,
who had played his cards badly and had
overestimated Germany’s strength.
But wh-m the victories began to be won
and when the enemy first here and then
there was rolled back the popular opinion
of the kaiser began to change. People
confessed they had misjudged him. The
bitter criticism of Germany's enemies di
rected against the kaiser and the com
ments of neutral nations, added to his pop
ularity at home, until now- the kaiser is
the idol of his nation. He is regarded
as the embodiment of German virtues, the
representative of German might and pow
ve , nat ^ on agrees he has not abused
the absolutely autocratic power he has
wielded since last August, but has used
his authority to meet every crisis con
fronting Germany in a manner that wins
unanimous approval. If the war ends
under conditions substantially as they are
now, Germany will have saved herself and
will have demonstrated her powers sc
convincingly that the kaiser, who is now
responsible for all things in the empire,
must be given the title of “The Groat.”
The kaiser, in particular, has inspired
Germans with confidence in the 'outcome
of the war. His calm assertions of vic
tory have been followed by deeds sub-,
stantiating his words, so often that he is
not only the ruler, but also the prophet
of his people. When tho war begun few
Germans deep down in their hearts be
lieved the Teutonic empire had even a
fair chance of succeeding. That is why
there was so much hysteria last August,
and why the departing subjects of the
enemy powers were so frequently insttlted.
That is why also the Germans' lost their
heads in Belgium and adopted a system
of terrorism. That is why, too. the hymn
of hate directed against England was so
popular.
Now, however, after a year of strife.
Germany has recovered her confidence and
believes in the kaiser. The fear of last
summer has departed and she Germans are
no longer saying “God punish England."
Instead of the former hatred of England
there is now developing a curious kind of
contempt, mingled with self amazement that
the Germans should so badly have fttis
judged the English. Nothing more remark
able has happened in Germany during the
past year than the change of popular
opinion concerning England. The might
of the British empire was magnified quite
out of proportion to its actual power, the
Germans now are saying.
This war was worth the fighting, so say
the Germans, if only because it has pricked
the bubble of British strength. England
will never again occupy her old place in
the world. The. ancient spirit bf the En
glish. which the world has long been ac
customed to taking at 'its own valuation,
has been found to be no longer existent,
England,has lost the war for, the allies, in
the opinion .of German militarists, and bj
doing so, has irreparably stained her own
prestige.
The past year’s events, say the Germans,
have provided a complete test of the compara
tive merits of Germanic and British civili
zations. Germany has revealed her posses
sion of organization ability, of initiative, of
austere patriotism, of inventiveness, of an
unbroken spirit under adversity, of discip
line, of an ability to meet every new prob
lem the war has thrust upon her.
Where Germany has succeeded England
has failed. The English (in the opinion of
Germans! hare proved themselves to be
boasters, muddlers and uninspired in any
of their works. They have been revealed
to the world as a people undermined by
discontent, unpatriotic, so prejudiced that
thev cannot even now- accept tho undoubt
ed fact that their demigod. Lord Kitchen,
er, failed them in their hour of need. The
upper classes have shown bravery but no
qualities of intellectual and masterful
leadership, and their lower classes are
taking advantage, of the perplexities of the
war to strike for higher wages!
The Germans are asking what this past
year of warfare has shown the English
to possess which the world would be the
better for the keeping. What can the
world better b» rid of, ask the Germans,
at this anniversary time, the qualities the
English have shewn since last August, or
the qualities the Germans have shown?
Here is a Germany, beginning the second
vear of her war against the world, full of
confidence, with increased faith in the
destiny of the fatherland.
STATEMENT BY GREY
British Foreign Minister Predfcts
Peace Ba»e<l on Liberty
A dispatch from London says that Sir
Edward Grey, the British minister for
foreign affairs, has given the following
authorized statement to the Associated
Press:—
“I have been asked to send a message
to the United States of America at the
end of the first year of the war. The
reasons which led Great Britain to de
clare war and the ideals for which she is
fighting have been frequently set. forth.
They are fully understood in America. I
do not feel, therefore, there is any need
to repeat them now-. I am quite con
tented to leave the rights and wrongs of
the causes and conduct of the war to
the judgment of the American people. The
United Kingdom and the entire empire,
together with their gallant allies, have
never been more determined than they
nre to-day to prosecute this war to a
successful conclusion which will result in
honorable and enduring peace based on
, liberty and Wit burdenaome _