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The overwhelming chorus of agreement
which has greeted ex-Senator Root's par?
allel between Venezuelan and New York
lions will be more gratifying: to Mr.
Boot*! pride of perspicacity than of local?
ity. Hut does Mr. Root think he was quito
fair to Venezuela? At the least our South
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WwsaW.
Wliile there remains the {?treat problem
as to whether the Russians will success?
fully os-ape from the German net and re?
establish their lines behind the Niemen
and the Buk, ?s the French did behind the
Marne, it is a good time to review in some
detail the history and the strategy of the
Warsaw oampaigns, which cover the whole
period o? the war on the eastern front.
What the Germans are accomplishing now
is what they expected to do in the third
month of the conflict. Their present suc?
cess represents the fourth effort.
ir liack to the beginning of the war,
it is e?:-"ntial to recognize that there was
no settled Russian expectation of holding
any line west of the one to which they are
now retiring:. Students of military affairs
wi.l recall the protest made in Paris a few
years a>*o when the Russians changed
their plans for mobilization and decided to
make their concentration back of the Nit
men and the Bus instead of along the Vis?
tula, that ?8, with Brest-Litowski instead
rhe centre
This imana the probable evacuation of
ically all of Poland. The French pro
due to the fear that this change
? have the Gorman? free to crush the
ii armies before the Russians could
effective demonstration in East
m. Some modifications of the Rus
plan were imposed by the circurn
? ing weeks of the war,
member that Russian
- mudo years before the present con
lid contemplate abandoning what has
now been abandoned, and that what the
sen compelled to do now
;;n high i onimand considered a pos
rst weeki ?f war.
R . . ? ; | map discloses,
actically indefensible ii attacked from
both the ... an and East Prussian prov
rime. The reason lies
in the f titutes a salient.
ful attack from both aid
nut merely break in the side of the sa]ie..t,
but it wi anger the safety of all
? - of the break, that is in
about Warsaw, because the enemy,
having penetrated the salient, will he in
their rear on the line of their retreat.
But an attack from one side is not dan
do of the salient
is attacked at the same time, because as
long ai one side of the salient holds firmly
there is a reasonable hope of escape for
'ho Warsaw troops along the northern
the southern are broken.
In the opening 4lays df the war th*'
mpted to break in the Polish
?t by sending their masses north from
Galicia upon Lublin with Brest-Litowski
as the ultimate objective. As all the Cer
man corps but a few covering formation!
had ?t was impossible to exert
prtt uro on the Fast Prussian side of thi
?alient at the same time. Accordingly the
Russians practically ignored the Lublin
thrust and countered by sending thei/
masses into Galicia south of the Lublin
army, and, having compelled the Austrian.?
to flee Lemberg, actually threatened the
?Ml* of the Lublin army, which narrowly
id destruction.
At the same moment two armies wore
tent by the Russians into East Prussia,
and one of them pushed west almost to the
Vistula south of Dantsig. Had this ad?
vance boon maintained, it will he clear
from a glance at the map, the Polish sa?
Kent would have been abolished and the
Russia? front would have run straipht
from the Baltic to the Carpathians. Bu1
the defeat uf Tannenberg ended the at?
tempt to break ilown the East Prussian
salient for some months. On the other
hand, Russian successes in Galicia
straightened out one side of the salient,
(?no flank now rested on the Carpathians.
In this situation German high command
two separate attempts to drive Rus
mu out (if her Polish kingdom. The first
omprehended in attempts to take
Warsaw by a frontal attack advancing
rit against the Russian position,
which was the blunted apex of tin
old triangle. This failed ; at the line of
jra-Kawka th*- Russians repulsed
il attack with terrific lo
The ? tried again in East Prus?
sia. Early in the year the Russians had
mudo otii- moro effort to char East Prus?
sia of the German corps which defended
it. had pushed west to the lake district
and there suffered the severe defeat of
Masurian Lake?. Hard on this victory
the Germans undertook to strike south
from East Prussia at the northern side of,
the Polish salient. They made some proi
rers, but were at last heavily repula?
tloDg ?M Whole front from Ossowetz I
Noto G.vtyicwisk.
It is mnv clear thnt with this seoor
failure Gorman bi>rh command at last re
ofjrniMd thai there could Ik* bo il<structi<
of the Polish position until it hn?l boon i
ilucoil to its original state; that is, urn
Ku-sian ?n?? ii'iatioti of Galicia had bo?
, terminated ami the attack upon Warsa
could be made from the north nn?l so ai
al Cha saine time. As long rr the Russit
line ran straight from Wnrsaw to tl
Carpathians tlieiv was no salient, and a
tacks from the north and west were mer
ly frontal efforts ending in battles on pa
iallel fr?>nts, with all the advantage wi'
the Kussians.
Meantime the German campaign in tl
watt had ended in nimpleto strategic d
feat. France had not l>een destroyed, ar
! there was no mil prospect of ?lestroyir
her. Hut the Cern?an position in the we
had become so strong that there was ec-ua
!y httle chanco that the Anglo-French a
?mies could force it. Accordingly early :
the year German hitrh command turned i
attention to the oast, le?) partly by the fa?
thai Austria was plainly tottering und?
Russian Mows.
The tirst step was to check Russian a?
vanee in the Carpathians, l'util the mei
ace to Hungary was abolished there coul
?be no safe offensive. This was done h
Rending some (ierman formations, draw
1 frmn the west, to stiffen the Austro-Hui
i carian armies from Czernowitz to Cracov
Early in April the world became awai
'that Russian a?lvance toward Hungar
had been effectively halted in the hig
Carpathians.
The second step was to clear Galicia c
the Russians. This was accomplished h
the direct blow at the Russian flank alon
the I'Unajec, where the Germans concer
trated a tremendous park of heavy arti
lory, an enormous store of ammunitio
'and all the new formations, which liad jui
been turned out of their training campi
With a superiority of numbers and muni
itions and with far better led troops, fh
Germana struck the Russians about Ma
I 1. and by the closing w?yk of Juno ther
were left only a few Russians defendiii]
I the eastern corner of Galicia.
Germany was now back at the begin
ining of things. Poland was again a sa
j lient. It could be attacked from the nortl
by troops coming from Fast Prussia, fron
tho south by troops coining from Galicia
?It could also be menaced frontally nea
Warsaw *by troops that had held th
IRawka-Bzura line since December. Al
i this time there had boon gathering nev
(.i-rman masses under Hindenburg in th
north. Now these were turned south
while at the same time the mass of th
troops Mackensen had employed to clea
Galicia, reinforced by the main Austriai
masses, were sent north just as th
first Austrian army had gone north tow?
ard Lublin in August.
The Russians were now in the precis.
position which Russian high command ha?
foreseen long before the war. They wer?
actually defending a great salient, whil?
upon both sides of the salient wen
closing the jaws of the Teutonic nut
cracker. To hold Win saw meant to rut
the risk of losing all their armies. To re
treat, if retreat were still possible, mean
?the surrender of a position which the;
?ha?l expected to surrender nearly a yea
before, which was immensely valuable
?both because of its strategic position a
?the centre of roads, railroads and bridge
, over the broad Vistula, but was not vital
not the capital of the country, ha?
lost its offensive value, since German an?
? .an armies now possessed a decisiv.
superiority in numbers and in munition
an?! Russia was condemned to the defen
, sivo for many weeks, perhaps months,
.Such, briefly, is the history of the War
saw campaign from August 1, 1914, tl
August 1, 1915. Had Germany succeed?
in disposing of Franco a? she hoped in th?
first six weeks of the war, it is clear tha'
the concentration of her musses in th?
east would have compelled the abandon
ment of Wnrsaw and the Polish salien
very soon after. Rut she failed. On tli?
11 other hand, had the French and Englisr
been able to hold German masses in th?
to menace German possession of Rel
gium an?! Northern Prance ao*gravely ai
? to make it impossible for Germany to di
? vert her attention to the east, Warsaw
i would have been held, the Russians might
1 have penetrated the Hungarian Plain
11they certainly would not have lost Galicia
l Not Russian failure, but the failure of the
? British to get their minion on th?- field ol
' Flanders, and the coin.-??lent failure tc
?force the Dardanelles and thus open the
? way to munition Russia's masses last
.?spring- these explain the fall of War aw
??and the success of German strategy.
I But the extent of this success is wholly
contingent on the degree to which Russian
military power is permanently crippled.
Losing Galicia was a severe blow to
Austria, but was not fatal, and Galicia was
presently won back. II Russian armies
now escape there will simply be a change
of advantages; the Teutonic allies will
hold Poland, instead of Russia's holding
Galicia. Rut both Russia and Austria
realized at the outset of the war that these
frontier provinces were pawns that might
be lost, and made their plans with a full
realization of their possibility.
What it is essential to recall il that
any has only now succeeded in doing
what she hoped to do ten months ago, and
:tha* she has not disposed of her enemies
?in the west, which, as German high con?
: mand saw it, was the first essential step.
; if there ?rere to be a victory in the whole
?war. Anything ?ess than an approximate
'annihilation of Russian military power
will be an empty success for Germany,
however splendid, for it contributes noth?
ing in the military way to ending the war.
Americans will naturally recall the con?
ditions of the last campaign in Northern
Virginia. The capture of Richmond was
a shining triumph, but the escape of Fee1
,would have made it an empty triumph.)
The end of the war was the consequence
of Appomnttox, not of Riehmoml, and
Lee's army, not the Confederate capital,
was Grant's objective. Warsaw has no
such importance as Richmond had. but
otherwise the conditions, so far as Russia
alune is concerned, are fairl) analogous.
The annihilation of the larger part of the
Grand Duke's army may not moan Rus?
sian submission, but it means a long, long
delay before the Russian offensive can*
begin again.
By Train to Fez.
In any other yenr hut 1916 the announce?
ment that a railroad had reached Fez and;
the Empire of Cook had acquired a now
tourist headquarters would have earned at
least a mention in the public prints? Bui
this yenr only those conquests of civilisa
tion expressed by slaughter claim atten?
tion.
Still the railroad is done, a military rail?
road, to be sun-, bul Ulis is only the first
stage of all African railroads. From
ICasablanca by Rabat and Mequinei it is
now possible to travel by steam, and l-'ez,
with its hundred waterfalls, its palace.?
and its gardens, waits for a world that has
no time to waste with African adventure
to-day.
Nor is the mad to pause at Fez. From
Oran the line is pushing wist and is at the
gate of Tonta. It will presently roach Pes
from the east, and when next we go to
Europe--if we arc ever able to favor the
Atlantic again without fear of submarine
or floating mine we may be ?ble to land
at Tangier and journey to Tlemcen and
Kaernain by the ancient road of the Sul?
tans, the road by which Arabian conquer-j
ors came to Europe-the road that runs
between the Riff and the Atlas.
France, despite her sufferings and her
efforts in Europe, is still faithful to her
greatest task?still loyal to that French
future in Africa that has been the droam
of the New Prance, which has abandoned
the Napobxmic dream for the far finer
aspiration to restore civilization to \
Minor.
"Gross and Deliberate."
The following inquiry comes from a
known anti-vaccinationist who gravely de?
clares that as far as she is aware those
of her persuasion "confine their argu?
ments to the discussion of principles,
medical and ethical":
To the Editor ni Th? Tribune.
Sir: Arc you ?ble t<> f*iv? an exasnpl
the "irros.? and deliberate pervej
(quoting your editorial attacks upon
the anti-vaccinationists in to day's issue
upropos of Dr. Anderson's inquiry nto the
occurrence of trt.-.nu? after vaccination for
mallpoxt of the words of Dr. Roaenau's
conclusion? upon his "inquiry into the
bacterial contamination of dry points, etc"?
Will we arrive anywhere by bombarding
opponent? with "bail name.?"?
B. E, STORKS.
New York, July 27, 1915
A few years ago an anti-vaccinationist,
who described himself as president of the
Brooklyn Philosophical Association, what
ever that may be, contrived to secure a
good deal of free advertisement in the
papers by attacking the practice of vac?
cination. He quoted Bulletin No. IJ. of
the United States Hygienic Laboratory by
way of supporting his opinion that
tetanus following vaccination WS
the presence of spores in the virus. In that
tract Dr. Rosenau observes thai tetanus
spores may live for a long time in \
virus, but h? makes it quite clear that bo
convinced himself of this experimentally
by deliberate introduction of the spores,
?and states explicitly that neither he nor
! any of his assistants had ever found their, j
in any of the dry points or glyeerinated
r ibes examined. In spite of thi- plain ex
. planation and the further conclusion thai
! in case? of tetanus following vaccination
the infection wa.? probably subsetpient, the
| Brooklyn anti-vaccinationist maintained
that Dr. Rosenau's investigation justified
his belief.
Another eminent opponent of vaccina?
tion has misused Dr. Rosenau's papi
more daringly. In a letter to the pr<
dated March 18, 1911, Mr. Harry Weir,-1
, berger alleged that it was there "stated
that there is no vaccine on the market free
i from bacterial taint and that irerms of
i tetanus (lockjaw) sepsis, etc., aie [ri the
i vaccine." In this case BS well as in the
?other the misrepre entatkm of Dr.1
Rosenau's inquiry is gross. As his own
conclusion is suppressed and the nature of
his experiment.? BO distorted as seemingly
to justify an opposite conclusion, it i
1 clear that the perversion is as deliberate
I as it is gross.
Sympathy for the delep-ites to the Ci
tutlonal ? ei. '? torrid si
son in Albany will be limited to the
1? any or.?- now alive sufficiently familial
with "Thaddens of Warsaw" to recall that;
other evacuation of the Polish capital?
?
Will Confer on MttlM Hfwdlla?
Isn't this a hit too violent?
An Awkward Translation.
. ??'..,. i . ... ......
Sir Ian Hamilton, it is said, ust-.l to m '
known as the unluckiest man in the British
army on account of the frequent accident.?
that disabled him in various part.?
body. Hut the gallant general's ill luck went
further than physical injuries when he was
in Japan. On one occasion he wa?
banquet BCXt to a vivacious and pre!* .
anese girl, who might be calleil in thi
trv "The Ron Misi Sparrow." Sir Iai
she C"t on ti'nother most admiro .
length he desired to pay hi i ?ment
for which he knew her knowledge of English
and his of Japanese was Inadequate. A
ingly he enlieted the service? of a aavs
eel who prided himself on his fluency, and
rl.it he would translate the following I
eho ce sentiment for the h. lady:
"I wijh. most honorable Miss Sparrow, that I
had a beautiful golden cage i rito which I
mij,-ht put you and carry you off home." The
member of the senmr service readily ander?
look the ta?'?., and performed it to his osrn
satisfaction, but apparently not to thut of
the lady; .?he instantly ruse and di
Sir Ian. It wa?. only some time afterward
that he learned, from a Japanese general,
?nat what Miss Sparrow heard wu.? th
you are a sparrow, Sir Ian Hamilton wishes
that you would,*hut yourcelt up in a box!" J
"THE ANTI SUFFRAGE MIND"
Answering: a Letter of Mr. Everett
P. Wheeler in Tho Tribune.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Si i : Sin.e Everett P. fTheeler ha?, with
?.-rent courte y of phrase. addr?'?sed his let?
ter in your paper of July -- mainly to BBS,
may I, if you please, ?peak ?nee more for th?
democracy which includes women?
Without meaning the ?lightost disrc peri.
I should say that Mr. Wheeler's own letter
evidences "Ihe anti-suffrage mind." This
should, of course, he complimentary to him.
He fays: "The object of government is
tho grentest good to the greatest number.
There ?re over 17,884,687 mother? in the
i nited States.*1 Now. here i? where the anti
Buffrage mind begins to work: "We believe,"
Mr Wheeler go? s on, "that such and such
things are (rood for these mothers." This is
te state that some other persons 'han tin
mother? themselves are to have the say ?s to
what is the "greatest goo?l" for them and
their children. I will put it to Mr. Wheeler,
or to any other anti-suffragist, to tell me
what would happen if 17,000,000 men in the
United State? had their greatest good out
lined for them by any group of Individ?ala,
im matter how well meanintr ?
Mr, Wheeler says he believes in American
democracy. This is SOI American democracy.
1 elasa control. No aati-suffragiat be
. ? in real democracy. He cannot an?!
continue to be ?n "anti.".
The an ti su grace mind is a reluctant mind.
I? feats to trust humanity to go climbing up
its hill of progress to the greater freedom
that lie? beyond. It even fears to tru '
itch* fundamental lawa of life.
The "nntis" write lotted headed ";'
ir Ballotsf "Franchise or Family0"
alliterative terror shows that they think the
i'. it human instinct of motherhood too
:haky to stnml alone without anti-suffrage
prop-. "Mile and female created lie hem"
mtracl made by God and Nature. It
0? paper" to be torn up next
fall when women get the VOtl as pies S God
i hey will in New York State.
"All good women are loyal to their homes,"
says Mr. Wheeler. They are. And the) want
to show it by voting to protect thc-e homes.
The things anti-suffragists rire everlast?
ingly prattling about suffragists are doing.
" call themselves the "mother,
home ami heaven" party. Vet some of the
la? n tu?- states commended for rel
th?' voie to women are driving mothers out
of their homes. Some of these laa
even hurrying the mothers into heaven. Read
the labor laws of Alabama. Connecticut and
Georgia and see.
Suffragists will go riirht on ?loing their
part in bearing and rearing cltiiens, .1 I
they have been doing it from Lucretia Mott'a
time to tins. Two of the most rigorous
''antis" I know are an old maid and a woman
who hns abstained from being a mother for
children would interfere with a I
marital experience. I do not
tiii - ti k-.. ii 'hat all ant
frag. are at one extreme or the other of
V on ial \ ei ? Many "anti"
unmarried. Many sufl ;
married, i'lus is all of it their own busi
? - or "nnti," women will "con?
tinue their vital function-." Thev will have
ds ami babies or they will refrain
from having them as God nnd their own
hearts decree. Votes will not have one thing
to do with it either waj I nature are
nol fra| ile. Neither are laws of libertj
"The univei is fi reproof; It I;
M. ?i. W
fork, Jul) 28, 1915.
German Press Utterances.
To the Kditor of The Tribune.
Sii ; I know it is doing too much I
to that repreaentativ? of Kaiaerthum an?'
? 'bum in i . ? 'he "New-''
." to mention its name, but nee
compels n notice of its y and
'?'le work in ? : ue ?
?Horning.
In th? ? i ? eolumn of the first pa
.Miele m which it suggeati the
po libility ol the rising <>' a mob
Germans in New "fork in the event
of "the calling on of
The article says: "If mol
occui in a city like New York, where
1 German rotera, the mobs
will hear something to their disadvantage."
"And so we would have
. tine imitation of a civil war."
?tike terror" into the
is eharacterlsticall) Ger
ill. The u nter of this
ir <?<?!
man brothers tell yen plainly that they ar<
In
plain English this means thrit in the pi
of a w.u between the Ul
ind Germany the (?ermans would \)P fmini
on 'be side of the enemies of our ??
nnd giving them aid and comfort. We hope
foi their own sakes that such ara. not the
? ? of the Germana living in the Knifed
Mates. AMERICAN.
New fork, July 28, 1915.
Presidential Possibilities.
? e Editor of The Tribune.
inder certain cor : I
favor the nomination of Woodrow Wilson. I
."?'?' ? If the war in Kurope last..
until next -,
Hav '< d Illinois, Missouri, Iowa,
and Nebraska, and having talked with
in all walks of lift, I am convinced
Prcsid? has the confidence of the
people. I say i Republican. 'I h
.. demand that I can discover calling foi
if the many favorite .sons in a the
party. Bryan has killed himself, and
' Oted for him now call him
a "quitter" ami denounce him for running
away. I have only nut three out of hun
.in da who indorse his action.
the war ends this fall, and the Kepubli
ire wise, they will early next year begin
to name state delegations and in
for Jn-tiee Hugh? | Ellhu
? rond choice. With a short, clean
?'form on the failures of the Demo
party and a teturn to protection, neve
making mention of Wilson unless to
him, I think the people will once more cal!
the Republican party back to power. Wilson
is the only . lats have. Bryan
CSU, if he wiP? def'-at hi- party.
? 8, HAMMOND.
Fostoria, Iowa, July 2~, \
A Business Career, or Poorhousc.
the Ed 'or of The Tribune.
Sir. I have been a business woman fi
I am also an Bnti-auffragist, so there
may be hope for me My bualneaa earner was
I the sudden death of my
i and the consequent loss of home and
rt Will some of the kind and sei
gentlemen who feel so strongly on this sub
? 11 me what I should hive done'' I h.ul
whom I could graft a liv
! ; ? only place in which I mlgl
preserved ray femiaii
views ? th- almshouse.
was too young and able-bodied tu he a.
there. s my own .
- again, what would I
? vf minds BUgge I ander these circum?
stances" If it la no: too late I would be glad
?pt any suggestion and make a last
? :utch at my womanlr
New fork, July 88, li*15. L. L. U.
"KILL MORE BABIES!"
THE PROSPECT OF PEACE
Germany Wants Her Kind <is Muel?
as the Allies Want Their3.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The article, "An Honorable Pead
?According to the Allies," by Sir Thomas Bar
ared in yesterday's il US o
your paper. I lire read with the greates
While S.r Thomas'? hopes for at
honorable peaci among the belligerent na
'ions am gri
avoid misunden I the pari of youi
readers to acquaint you with the true senti
ut' the German people with reference t<
'the present war and the pi of ar
? honorable pi
I receive by almost every mai! report? fron
! leading German citizens not belonging t<
|the militar'. i ..I from the??
'which clearly mirror the sentiments of th*
people, il is ?? dent thai the Germans an
firmly determined not to make
the Allies admit their defeat und are read-,
i to conclude peace at Gi
I am naturally unable to judge what th?
of tiie German governa-est are wit!
ual terms of pi I
I am in a position to prov? through ? numbei
i.' letters from some of the leading Germai
stand like ?
? any peace which doe.- not
? . of the Gei i lan poi
and an as
i will be made on thi par! of theii
the future to endanger tl
of Km
Should Sir Thomas sincerely belie.
the German penile would ever entertain an\
,' '"i. ii do not insure the in
of all German pos ad thi
? ? .. I? ting peai t, then he c
irdmg German spirit, Ger>
. ind, shove all, regarding
A : Gei m mi are firmly eon.
vinced are waging this war in the
i freedom and civi I
and that they must not think of peace until
their ? bed.
Coi dering th fact thai Germany at the
nf the v. ar i victori?
ous on both batl ? ha? m far
, taken JOO.OOO prisoner?, and In the
neighborhood of 10,000 guns from the enemy,
that all the many time.? heralded sfforts on
Ithe part of th? Allies "to drive the German
I armies out of France and Belgium" have in
?every instance proven to be idle boa?!
i ealli d Ru lian steam roller has suf?
fered tiie mo ? terrific ci'- nsl be
Iapparent to ?nj geni observer thai .-\r
Thomas's hopes for an honorable pi
. ommendable from a humani?
tarian poinl of view can only be full
.'? frankly admit their defeat and show
their willingness to submit to Germany's
i terms
What Germany's attitude will be when the
Allies approach h-r with sincere offen o?
I am unable of course to judge, but I
feel sure that she will grant the Allies in
I that ease a pence with honor.
I wish to ?dd that the letters I referred to,
'which show the sentiment? and the
mination of the German people, can be seeu
-. i.f your repre i who wish to
become acquainted with the true npirit of the
nation.
Knowing your fairness and good will to
listen to both sides, I thought it advisable in
the interest of'truth and justice to acquaint
>ou with these sentiments, so as to give yog
B clearer understanding of th- true .
rh" German mind. WALTER SCHMIDT.
New York, July 26, 1911.
The Real Mollycoddles."
To the Fditor of The Tri:
America is a pacific nation. The fact
I that the nation has led the world in the per?
centage of armament lacrease during the .ace
! ?t th.- ears, a policy of in?
ternationalism superinduced by the nations
?of the Old World, but which we have adopted
solely in self-defence, and have not utilized
as have they for national snri'hmena, nl
expansion at the expon.-.- of less b?-l!igerent
or of weak?! .1 nations, does nor on
?the one hand make us a defenceless nation
'nor on the other pledge nj to the policie? of
| the old school expansionist jingo now clam?
oring for war with some one or other.
1 The be 11 us?rent*, of America. aX *-????.
RoOMvelt and Maxin are conspicuous as
clamor for th: expenditure o
ticient money to enable us to tak? advantage!
.if the world's misfortune for a mud career
| of conquest in precisely the same way which
Europe has gone, To please these men
1 America is urged to tread the bloody path
of world eonquest, which leads to inevitable
(ultimate national extinction if persisted in.
and to resist inch s uggeation is to expo.?e
'heorisin and "molly
ocacy.
The real "theorists" and "mollycoddlee"
il advocates of a system of
overarmament, which would lead America
into th.- pi?. ity which has befallen
the Old World nationi with few exceptions,
and which . - g it! toll of death
and d< ? in ? futile orgy of blood
? e till of the armorer and of the graft-,
'er on the future of the human race through I
recourse to needless war to shelter method
ent 'unrighteous gain in every depart
i ment , lif
ter in their ?nous task of induc?
tor the shambles the edvo
,- of the prepoeterous theory of d?volu-1
m hail the plans of the ad?
ministration to reorganise the army and,
reforms for defence
?' 'he nation's having fallen into
] the cai nil ipread ?'or it i
feet i ? thOM who believe in ade-1
.1 defence, such as Secretary of
; War Garrison and Secretary of the Navy
Danii leek, are now, it is alleged, beaten
n to the higher will'
of militarism. The ht.pe is that we as aj
nation will in some manner or other be j
hustled dised pies., ultimatum I
. of human pas?ion and
the other nations,
iry of shooting the falls of in'er
irehy. All this is in full view sf
'the ei I, unconvinced public of our
1 country.
E PARSONS, R. P. K. A.,
National Peace Federation.
Detroit, iulj 58, 1915.
For a Single Life.
? The Tribune.
Sir: 1 quote from your issue of this morn-;
"Had ?i single American life been lost
.? of the work of the German sub-1
marines the situation between this country]
and Germany would have come perilously I
near the breaking point " A single American
life, Irrespective which, to bring about aj
break between two great nation?, with war
no doubt in its wake, causing death and
misery to thousand?.
; now what caused Aus
tria Hungary to break with Serbia, when
the imperial heir to the throne and his con
erately murdered through a
deep Lud plot hatched in Belgrade? You as
well as many other American papers have
condemned Austria-Hungary's action, and yet
you advocate a course which closely follows
the one taken by the Huai Monarchy.
How is it that so many Americans do not
see the beam in their own eves?
AIS n:<> AMKRICANTS.
New York. July 26, 1911. ?
troubl? with the above analogy is that
i the impel.ai heir and hie consort were mur?
dered on Austro-Hungarian soil by an Aus
tro-Hungarian subject We should not hold
Germany responsible for the killing of one
American by another American. Bd.]
"On Bastile Day."
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Here, in the ( atskills, I am daily read?
ing my Tribune and note with pleasure the
wide attention attached to your editorial, "On
Hastile Day." For my part, I ?ent the dip?
ping of the same on the day of its appear?
ance to the editor of the Pari? "Temps," with
a personal note, expressing hope to .?ee a
French translation of it in the jrreat paper.
M SIMBAD GABRIEL.
big Hollow. X. Y., July 28, 1915.
Congratulations.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Bir: Kindly let me congratulate through
your medium to your correspondent who
If "Boh?miens" on the very In
tereeting and educational article* published in
this morning'? ??sue Also please accept my
for your admirable articles which ap?
pear daily. CECH. I
Elizabeth. N. J., July 26, 1915.
WHAT THE BALLOT CAN DO
Another Discussion of the Question
That Never Down3.
To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: It is really most ai If whit
wild and impossible interpretations are ad
vanead by the anti-su'T: the ^mplitt
and clearest ideas and the ?uf
f rapista. In your i>su,> of I there sr?
two letters side by side -one. ?rhieh I har?
already commented " P
Wheeler, in which Mr. Wheel? I rets the
demand of women for the iniver
"i.l desire on their part to !;tici,"
and one from Annie Rile y Hale, in ?rhieh sh?
interprets the phrase "p?1l ? of th?
ballot" as a belief on the ? rr?giiU
m f cer*ain miraculou ' la th?
ballot, which instantly endows ita iortunst?
posseaaor with the ability to do "readitT,
?ven ?
c? m pie te university education.
Suffragi ita are n? I h
aa well as do the ai i '?? th?
?- not a modern ??>. iddia*i
lamp. I know practically not I Mor
mo.i wonen, and the phraa?
i irle voters in the West" il tar too indeftaJtS
to waate time and space ov? ??now
something about the "vena! - n oar
ive ?1
'owed a vas* number of mi -i orally
8 enter
country and become Th?y
1 ne\er have been allowed to do so, but,
unfortunately, it w;as mad- | I them
!.;. .'? i ? up: bosses ami p
them in order to stren powtr.
aliens form the class of which Mr?.
Hale il ag. We do not pretend that
? m h people can be educated to be intelligeat
Jld worthy citizens, either I ef th?
ballot or by anything else. 1 I the la
ant and morally fine W? I
try to them is ridiculous tthst
-.'? do elaim is that th? ballot
to women who are ?ntelli| -.orally
sound ??ill stimulate them, as it ha* stimulat?
ed the women voters in most of out sjffrsp
. to take a greater interest in question
of public welfare.
As for training women to be ? ' ? " aaa
intelligent mothers and home makers, how il
libia for women, who for decades have
lt?n carefully shut up with B the "home
sphere" and shielded from ail knowledr? of
the progress of the world. * >d the
modern developments in ?giaea
scientific food preparation I I other
eea in knowledge which 1 IVO b"B
during that period?! The anti -u'rsgists
de re to r.eep women in that "hi m? spher?.
The Bttffragiata want lo fot. It of it
tc take an active part in the world, ?her?
i they will have the opportu- lira the
knowledge which will make them efflelentaad
linttlligent mothers and give them the vsri??i
equipmen. required foi Blag el
the young minds and souls ' > their
care. And this can only I giving
them the ballot. It is too late for anything
else.
There is only one other point in Mr? Hale*
letter which I want to mention, and that i?
1 her obvious perversion of the meaning of th?
sentence which she quotes from E lea K<y ?
"Renaissance of Motherhood." "The socially
pernicious, racially wasteful and soul-?*i'her
ing consequences of the work.ng of mothers
or tide the home" does not refer to tbeil vot?
ing, but to their slaving for their daily bresd
in factories and sweatshops.
JAMES R. KEENE TAYLOR.
New York. July 24. 1915.
Clearing the Way for the Future.
To th? Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: None of the infinite variety ol
Jekyll and Hyde? seem to expatiate in joar
columns upon the number of their own
daughters who flee from unholy home? to th?
independence afforded by busir.es? offic**
Their name is legion, however, and stnW
times they take with them mothers or little
sisters to protect.
This vigorous young band represent? tas
individuality of the age, the ?pint of tie
times. The real men and women are watch?
ing, admiring and protecting; it i? time '?r
the evil-minded to confess their blinda???
and cease their ?landers.
New York. July 28. 1*16. ?*- *. *