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doea not.
The Capture of Warsaw.
months ago, when the German armies
Antwerp, the moral effeel of this
? -i was fdl all over the
It was a supreme achievei
? anical skill, of German ean
? mighty fortifications.
The rapture of Wai aw will have an
moral effect, and it is a
r'h of men even mere than machines.
]? : ot too much to say it is the culmina
"f the must gigantic strategical
operation military history has known, the
end of a campaign in which millions have
fought and whole provinces have been
crossed by the battle fronts.
But the capture of Antwerp proved an
empty success, because the Belgian army
ed. It completed the conquest of
Belgium, but it was only the hist step in
bringing the whole western operations to
a deadlock. The true importance of the
latest German feat must be measured in
the same fashion.
If the Grand Duke's army lia? escaped,
Germany will have missed a SUprem?
-, and only supreme success
could justify the cost in men and material
of the lasl two months. If she has dis-'
persed or raptured the hulk of tin- Russian
army her victory will pass anything in
modern histury aril constitute the gravest
..' the Allied cause has known. It is
fur t; oncerning Russian r
that th.?' world must wait before pa
judgment on the Warsaw campaign.
Strained Home Rule.
I- ... ?? of home rule which would
i 'iii'-s by th?- plan of th?- Con
ommittee is not,
.. unstrained. Legislatures would
Mill : portant pa?t in city gov?
.
power over charters
by the
d thai they would be aide to
ral laws governing municipal
communities. Government
of New York City by Albany, then
, y no means be ended by thi
plan pul forth by Mr. Low's com?
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Nevertheless, this plan offers promise
of practical advance in the handling of
city affairs ovei conditions now existing.
The ? , uniler it, would have no
1 schoolteachers, court clerks
and other department employes lobbying
jit Albany for salary raises or civil service
of appoint
advancement and compel
? entirely with the municipal
authorities, on whom would rest also the
responsibility for the size of the budget,
including their pay. City officials could not
apped by special laws obtained
an ill-informed Legislature to serve
? ical or individual ends.
In other words, this plan has its merits
its, just as it is hound to
have its advocates and its adversaries by
the hundreds. "Home rule" ia so indefinite,
a term that anything definite
put forth in its name cannol help arous?
ing controversy among the fifty-seven
varieties of home rulers. The Low pro?
posal is not likely to arouse any wild en?
thusiasm, but ?it least, if adopted by the
convention, it will he likely to he half a
step onward.
An Executive Budget.
plan for a state budget prepared by
the Governor which Mr. Stimson'a commit?
tee has just presented to the Constitutional
Com i bit of work of genuine im?
portance. Jt is the more noteworthy be?
? liseworthy, which many of
a. .?? hitherto discussed
by this convention have not been,
plan tra ibility
:. . ation of the state's finances
from the Legislature, where it does not be?
long, to the Executive, where it does.
1 : i- the proposed Bystem the Gi ? ?
g studied and revised department
estimates of needed funds, w >uld prepare a
t and submit it to the Legislature.
That body might reduce items, but
might tiot incrca e them. With this pro?
posed budget would Ko to the I egislature a
? nent from the Governor
showing the condition of the ?fate's funds
and giving an estimate of it> revenues for
the ensuing fiscal year. Having passed the
budget, the Legislature might initiate and
'-thef appropriation mils, each per?
taining to only oi e subject, ami ai!, of
ibject to the Governor's veto.
Thus the Governor, who would make the
budget aril who would have tlu- last word
.. about othi-r appropriations, would
have ??adequate power over public expendi-l
tuns, whereas now, though having to
? sibility for an overloaded appropria?
non bill, he can stop such overloading only
hy extra-legal dickering or violent vetoing
of items which might at tun. s produce al- ?
most as much harm as good.
Legislative budget-making begets ex?
travagant, ine?ktucy "pork bills'' which.
I
almost amount to graft. Execute
budget-making, eonocntrnting power ni
responsibility, is bound to deter cxtrav;
I and wipe out tlM indefensible favoi
to loeStlities which the luesi'tit oyotOBO fo
ton. No Governor, knowing what an ir
portant part in his own political career tl
???stablishinont of a record for eoonon
?must play. \s going to have a needlessly b
tot?] of expenditures if he can help it?ar
?he could help it if he made up the btidtrr
Mr. Stimson's proposal in theory and i
Im?rita stands riffat alongside of the sho
?ballot plan. The Governor is for practici
?purposes, and is held by the people to he, tl
administration. It is only fair to him I
give him powers which will permit him I
be, so well es his ability and advisers ca
bring it about, that which his office and th
people demand.
Liege 1914-1915.
OlIC y, ar ago this morning the who
world read of the attack upon Liege b
the advance guard of the German arm;
In the confused rumors of those early da*,
what was hut a minor military opcratioi
little move than the first stray ?Irops r
?ho coming cloudburst <4f war, took on a
importance which seems hardly crodib]
now. when a year of war has accustome
ua to the battles of millions and the front
which are as long as ancient frontiers.
Vet one thing out of all the welter c
Augual r., 1914, endures. The spirit an
the emotion with which the civilized worl
greeted the first definite evidence the
Germany had induced treaties to "scrap
of paper" and abolished all consideration
save those 'if stlength remain. Indcec
is not the horror, the disgust, the detests
tion a thousandfold intensified since w
have descended by sure gradations to th
smoking shambles of Louvain and the en
during horror of the Lusitania?
In America the Gorman case was lost a
we lead the first reports, those jumbled
exaggerated, hopelessly inaccurate report
of the first Belgian resistance. We, wh?
inherit the tradition <>f Concord and Lex
ington,of Kunker Hill, read in the resist
anee of the Belgian people to their invad
era the repetilion of the story which is th?
enduring glory of ??ur nation. What ou
ancestors had ?lone the Belgians were do
ing. That they should have been drivet
to do it was, for Americans, a final indict
ment of German methods and morals
When their feeble resistance was met hj
murder, rape, arson, when women wer?
mutilated and dishonored, and childrer
were massacred or used as living screen:
for Prussian infantry advancing against
fortified lines, there was left only a com
?bankruptcy of American sympath]
for Germany.
But there is something oven more vital
i" consider now. To deal a quick and de?
structive blow to her French foe Germany
tore Up the written treaties to which she
had engaged her honor. To terrorize a
people gallantly resisting a treacherous
attack .-h? repealed all the principles
which man in centuries has accumulated
as the final evidence of a march from bar?
barism to civilization. This insured to
Germany for the ages that are. to come
the condemnation which the Duke of Alva
won for Spain, which the foreign invaders
of the Reformation time enjoy in the Ger?
many of to day. Hereafter for centuries
men will read of Louvain as we have read
Bartholomew's, and William II will
be held up to execration as history has
held (harles IX. But what men asked
themselves one year ago was: Can these
?things succeed?
Por if Germany could succeed in accom
Ipushing h?'i- enda by th?- use of the means
she had selected, if victory, final and com
plete victory, wen- attainable by the de
fiance alike of law and humanity, if the
assertion of the gospel of violence and the
doctrine of "terribleness*1 was to be fol
lowed by world supremacy, then indeed the
time had come to turn our backs upon all
we had believed and hoped and striven for.
German victory in its naked aspect meant
alike the bankruptcy of civilization and
the destruction of faith in God as well as
man. I ?>r even more than man's laws
were those of God trampled in the bloody
' slime of Louvain.
And now, one year afterward, we are
able to si'o the fact. Our doubts of other
times are not fuliy hut still sufficiently
laid at rest. One year after the vast Ger?
man horde began to send its first Uhlan
pickets against the Belgian fortress we
are aide to estimate how much of success
ha.- followed German method. And after
all, is it not a pitiful showing in the face
of the cost? The other day German offi?
cial figures fixeil at S.")(ili square miles the
portion of France which was in German
'hand.-. This, after a year, is all that Gar
many has of the Prance that she sought to
destroy, and seeking, defied civilization.
All the advantage of that Belgian viola?
tion melted into nothing at the Marne. All
the treachery, inhumanity, crime went for
i il when the French armies returned to
the charge. France was to he destroyed
in six weeks, and now after nine times six
weeks France is neither destroyed nor de?
structible. U?? armies outnumber the
on in the west, and her British allies
lowly !>ut surely bringing new levies
to the field. For the B,500 si-uare miles of
French territory now occupied Germany
has expended in casualties above 2.000,0'K).
Her killed, ?'. lunded and captured on thej
western from, the flower of her manhood.
. " i equal in numbers the population of!
the conquered district, and her total cas-1
unities number above half the population
of the Belgium that was before August
;, 1914.
And so. after all, it has not worked, this
Germ?n principle* this German idea. It is
conceivable that a nation may gamble!
away its honor and its title to the respect
of mankind for victory. It is conceivable
because Germany has first preached and
then employed this doctrine. But what if ?
the result is failure? What if the success
that was sought slips away'.' And the suc
h.is slipped away. No victory beyond
the Vistula can blind men's eyes to th<;|
fact that the stake for which Germany i
sacrificed all of h?r moral assets hy invi
mg Belgium has heen lost.
There is a God in brad after all. Tl
and this beyond all else, is the convict
that nuint rise in men's niinda on this an
versnry. All the things that men have
lieved, trusted, reverenced in the ye)
and the centuries that have gone befo
are not empty superstitions, vain hop
They are not dead wood thai Prussian e
cieney can sweep into the lire. Right
right, even though the Kaiser send l?M
000 men armed with 4li-centimetre gu
and sustained in the air by hosts of Z<
pelins to disprove it.
Curlyle is ford of repeating the stc
of the long years in which the Duke
Weimar steadily refused to accept Na|
leonism, although the thing rose and fill
Kurope and there seemed no limit to
p4i\ver. "It cannot last," he insist? ?I, "it
not just." And it did not last.
After a year "f war, after 4,000,(1
(?crmans have been killed, wounded a
captured, after the advance to I'aris li
faded to the retreat to the Aisne, aft
ten months when the western battle li
of the Germans has not moved forward
inch from the place to which it was flu
back one month aftiT the first shots und
?he walls of Li?ge, one thing is certa:
From the Belgian venture there wn?
profit, there was do military gain, the
-.vas nothing to offset in material profit t
moral loss to Germany.
But even the German aspect is less i
teresting than the main fact. We were ?
of us most vitally concerned in seeing ai
knowing that ?he appeal to lmrlaris
ended i:r defeat. Appeal to massacre at
terror, the translation to the sanctuari
of old civilization of the code of the n
Indian, this must fail, or all was wrong
the world. All that we love, believe, ho]
for in Spiritual things was placed in jeo
ardy a year ago, when the first wave?' i
the flood lapped against the walls of Lie?
and Fort Flor?n took up the challenge T
mankind. After a year we see the safei
of most of these things assured. It is po
sible now to believe that it is not only di
honorable, but unprofitable to lie, to ehen
to break faith, to abolish pledges. It
possible to believe now that even thoup
numbers are with you and by murder at
flami-s you sei-k to terrify the few wl
face you. the victory may y?-t escape yo
Since time began there never was
more wholesome lesson than that writtf
in the six weeks that lay between the opei
ing shots of Li?ge and thi- closing guns <
the Marni'. And in all the years to con
will not many millions of men and worn?
believe that the answer to the challona.
of the Kaiser, the insolent challenge of tl
man who commanded the h?ists of a poop]
in arms, was the answer which since th
beginning has come not alone, not chief!
from man, the answer without which fait
wouM go out of life?
The German Note.
In the matter of the latest German m t?
that discussing the Five ease, The Tribun
can only repeat what it said of the Leels
naw case. The ?litference between th
Germans and our own government affect
only property under treaty rights. To set
tie this diff?rence the Germans imw pre
pose two courses, both wholly reasonabl
and honorable. It is a matt<-r of no on
se<|tience whether we and the German
settle our dispute by reference t?i expert
of our respective nationalities or go to Th
Hague. <>ne of the two courses our gov
eminent should adopt, and doubtless will
We .?hall settle al! disputes growing ou
of treaty and property right.? with Grea
Britain by arbitration. We should aim!
larly dispose of questions of the : am<
character with Germany. Germany's BUg
gestion to this effect is proper, is a friendl'
act and can provoke no criticism, rathe
it shoulti invite general approval
The only question that no nation car
leave to arbitration is one which affect
its honor or the lives of its citizens, .V
such (juestioi, is raised either in the Fry
or the Leelanaw cases and they may there
fore be left to diplomacy and arbitration
Such differences of opinion as are involve?
are inevitable in war. They do not gros
out of wanton disregard ?if America]
rights and cannot affect our relations wit!
Germany.
A Happy Ending.
The workers, the manufacturers and
the community at large ought to be sin
cerely thankful that the garment trade
difficulties have been settled without a
disastrous strike Much hardship has beeil
averted at a time when hardship to work?
ers comes without cmnting. Business
stability ha- been preserved at a time
when increase of business, rather than its
limitation, is to be sought The principle
of co-operation between employer and
employe, rather than that ?if sinister class
conflict, has once more been uphel?!
thn'igh an arbitration which in its results
Hives promis* of di-tinct betterment! for
both classi
For thi.-? the Mayor's Council of Con?
ciliation is largely responsible, though
nothing so desirable could have come
about without a sincere and earnest de
lire on the part of the Employers1
dation and the union representatives to
see facts, even when they favored the
other si-l? of the controversy. That spirit
ought to be of material aid in interpreting
and enforcing the agreement which suc?
ceeds the protocol. It is not to be expected
that there will not be differences of inter?
pretation of the agreement's terms ?lurim*
its two years of life, such as those which
caused the employers, after accepting it,
to postpone signing the agreement until
ilefinite assurances had been given by the
Mayor's Council of Conciliation that no in?
terpretations save those of the council and
those resulting from procedure set down
in the egret ?lie considered lloth
the employer,? ami the workers, in accept?
ing the protocol, fancieil they were getting
more than they actually pot when the pro?
tocol was put into practical operation.
The important phase of this i-uest?on
now is that, after that mutual ili.-appoint
ment, after the engendering of bitterness!
sufficient to bring the inilustry to the
point of repeating the strike of five years
?go, th?' contracting parties have again
been able to get together on a give-and
tnke ba?i?. To that must be added the
fact that the Mayor's council will remain
in existence as a body to study the problem
.m which it already has given such help,
to bt in position to render such help in
future. The new agreement, therefore,
?has greater promise of success and a use?
ful life than the pioneer protocol.
It is odd that Berlin should learn the
French are exhausted just at the moment
?he Trench Chamber was hearing that Ger?
many was Ht the end of her strength.
Not being nble to get into the Great
War, Portugal has Indulged in three Con?
comitant revolutions. At all events, this
1 ,s not BOOC?
-m?
Three long Havana? and three times
?three for Warsaw-!
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How well silence becomes the ex Secretary
?.[ State!
COLONEL ROOSEVELT'S ADVICE
A Number of Things Differentiate
It from Bernhardi's.
To the Kditor of Th?- Tribune.
Sir: "Kchoes in one ear, at least, as the un?
pleasant repetition of the hateful doctrines
of Bernhard!, Traitaehko and the other
prophets of militarism." Thi? is part of the
heading of a letter by Norman Talcott in
to >lay's Tribuno. That which "echoes" is
"Ciileiiel Boooovelt'a a?l\ice to Americans."
In the first place, th" appeal ??f Bernhard!
?ras to i i.pl>' vastly dlfferedt from those
iiildressed by Colonel Roosevelt; aside fi??m
other differences that ;ire perfectly obvious,
the contrast in this respect between a democ?
racy like this country and what is practi
eolly an absolute monarchy, like Germany,
?peaks for itself; it is impossible that the
effect upon the people here could be the samo
us in Germany. In the second place, then
is a difference just as obvious and just as
great between the motive of the so-called
"militarism" of Colonel Roosevelt and the in?
herited, instinctive, traditional militarism ?>f
the prophets of might-is-right of Germany:
the former, however, pooitivol] Stated, is
purely defensive in its object and spirit; the
Pruacion type is frankly, rankly, blatantly
offenaive.
Ir Germ my militarism is a disease; here
it would be an anti-toxin and even while
using it here 4ve should hate the cure only
less than the ill. We must believe in mili?
te'y preparedness or in unprepandne?? ;
iihat eomprotniae would Mr. Talcott suggest?
Ill the face ?if the most tremendous and
.momentous and tragic moment that the civi
'i/er* world has ever known, what equivalent
h-is Mr. Talcott to propose ?more efficacious
than throwing "paper balls at a cyclone," as
a writer to The Tribune sai.l some time ago)
for Colonel Roosevelt's plan, that Mr. Tal
i.itt ?-o "exhaustively" condemns !
\\Y all know what Colonel Roosevelt
itonds for and proposes in this connection
we always know what he stands for but as
to Mr. Talcott's plan iother than "keeping
?lui'-t. and . . . forwarding the German
I evolutionary movement, which is bound to
?? une." whatever that may mean i 1 am still
in th" dark, even after reading his column
i-i The Tribune. We "ini.uire to know." Mr.
Taleott suggests that if he "were in Gcr
iii ity to-day" ... he would be doing his
best "to bring upon that bloodthirsty old
humbug the fate he and his so richly de
?irve ..." In this laudab!?- ambition
one mipht believe that Mr. Talcott and
C( lone! Roosevelt would he quite in accord,
lut I should be inclined to suppose that
"unite some" military preparedness would I e
ii'li'iied for such an undertaking at this
particular time, and the chance? for ?access
v.? ul?! !.. ah nit that of the famous "celluloi?!
.log" chasing an "ooboatOB cut" through th?
lotver regions. However, if ! were a betting
man I should put my Status on the Colonel.
Mr. Talcott presents a point of view; it
is intetrOOting to a certain extent, but I don't
see the "point." W. II. WATTS.
Haledon, N. J., Aug. 4, 1915.
From a Grateful Sufferer.
To the Kditor of The Tribune.
Sir: Please allow me through the columns
?if your paper to express my heartfelt thanks
to Mr. Norman Tulcott for his most able and
eloquent letter of the 23d ultimo. It is the
most sensible piece of logical reasoning that
ha.? come to my attention for a long time in
this whr-cni-M"! 4v?.i !?| l'y tin strength of
his argumentation he has struck a chord the
deeper in my heart, as I stand before you.
?ir, n direct victim of feudal Kaisehsin,
greedy Greyism, bloody Czansm and nation?
alistic capitalism, a wretched companion to
many millions more of unfortunate martyrs
enchained to prehistoric philosophy and
biology.
It is only yesterday that I received a short
note from my old parents, composed to the
routs of the tire-spitting cannon and amid
the erica Of agonising mankind, and bearing
the cruel message that our old homestead I
no more, having been shot to atoms over
their fearatrieken hea.ls. Fifty years of hard,
honest labor blown to the four arlada, sacri
liced upon the blood-soaked altar of Mars
and Moloch, the eternal twin-?lemons of hu?
manity. What for, and why?
May tin.??.' responsible for this curse upon
mankind soon be delivered from their s?lti?h,
national blindness, victim? and tools as th.?v
are themselves of their times, and may (io.i
.".?rgive them, If He fan, for their unpardon-l
able acts? DR. J H H.
N?FW York, Aug. 4, 1916.
An "Admirable Letter."
To tht Kditor o? The Tribune.
Sir: There must be many reader? of that,
"popular magaslaeM referred to in the ad?
mirable letter of Mr. Talcott who feel a? hej
does justly resentfu!.
Sorel] the critical point now reached by
the affairs of this country requires a calm,
impartial stand to be taken by the pre.-s
r.uher than the useless, inflammatory one on
wh.ch Mr. Roosevelt so evidently prides him-'
self.
There is much in the article under discus-'
sion that makes one long for a more ? .
COI BOrship of the press. Sorely there i?
Bore harm in one such fervid denunciation
of the present policy of the I'nited States
than in the general suppression of much of
public opinion.
Any American who fails to realize at the
giesent moment that loyalty in thought and i
action to Mr. Wilson is his highest duty is
unworthy of the whoJeheartedness with which
our President is throwing himself into the
solution of our difficulties.
LOYAL TO WILSON
Aug A, l'.'l.V
Mr. Talcott's "Gall."
To the Kditor of The Tribune.
Sir: At last we have heard in to-day's
Tribune from that great man i ! i Norman
Talcott, who ha??- from Greenwich, Conn,
parrot persons like him get wise to the fact
that thi?. country will be prepared and armed
to protect our citizens and to resist invasion
of any foreign power? And he has the au?ia
eious gall to criticise our great American
, God bless him) Theodore Roosoveltl
IOWAR0 B. MONTAGTJB.
New York, Aug. 4, ?fit,
THE ROCK.
MILITARISM VS. PATRIOTISM
Latter, Not Former, the Basis <
Demand for Protection.
To i he Editor of Tie Tribuns.
Sir: Every now hiuI then The Tribune
taken to ta^k for It? militaristic editorial
sna ueh letter sppearing in The Tribu?
of Inly 88, written by Harry N'. Stark.
Mr. Stark aeema to be very much alarmi
b?t The Tribune should warn, or, moi
pioperl** ?-!'? ?king, advise, the people as i
what ahould be done to keep them in lir
with the signs of the times.
He -ays thai The Tribune made no effoi
ipport The Tribune'.? statement thi
| th? jieople of the United States did ni
want militarism; that he supposes "that
was to be accepted merely because it w?
.set forth by the time honore.I Tribune."
It wa-n't necessary for The Tribune t
?prove its statement, because it la aa ver
plain that th" temper of the people of th
United State? show.? they don't want mil
(srism. Not for many years has my bloo
been so stirred to the fighting point as whe
tin Lusitanla horror came upon us; but m
militant zeiii hsi been lOBSewhat soft,-ne
.?mee. ami I am reading The Tribune edl
toriuls every ?lay. I <!o not take The Trib
?ine editorial? as a signal for us to proper
to ritrht. I believe tin- masses would under
'stand that they mean for u.. to prepare fo
protection. A farmer, when he builds
?corn crib, takes the pr?caution to place tin
pana upside down on the foundation post
loi nia en'.), for what? Not to kill rats, bu
as u protection to his corn in the cri
again I rate,
Mr. Stark and the ministers of th? Gospe
of whom he speaks ,need not fear that Th
ine editorial? are ranking us crazy fo
t The majority of the people of thi
! countrv are fot true American patriotism
and evei will be, but true American patriot
! i?m is not the kind of patriotism which i
running amuck in Europe to-day. Tru<
patriotism sa spplied to the American idei
?taii'ls not only for the love of One'a coun
try but siso foi the lore of liberty, fustic?
?and human':. iiioughout the whole vorld
and not a Patriotism founded on hatred
Thia country will never- provoke a tight
when tWO-th i i Of it? people are patriot:
i of the American idea. Our boys who ar?
taught the true Ami i lean idea of patnotisrr
and who are also taught how best to protec
thv-r country when it I neeeassry will nevei
take up arms for the sake of exploiting
? pi a? practised abroar
.s contrary to our taste and honor.
Th? function of a m : ipsr, aa 1 under
stand it, i not to kc",i the people in igno
but '.'i keep tlieiu well informed and
for the purpose ol i ??changing Idea?, and I
do not -'?? how The pribu te, with it? sound
and broad editorial?, founded on fact?,
{Oil K to make the patriotic, justice loving
peuplr of th.s great and glorious country
blco.lthirsty by exhorting the truth.
One of the moat remarkable things about
the American people sine the war began
ha? been their evenly balanced tamper of
mind, their ability to keep cool. In all the
land there haa been really but one war
.recting, and that was the Madison Square
Garden meeting, where 75,000 Germans
try to heat Bryan talk on peace.
Fh-re :s not a militaristic movement on
foot in this country. Mr. Stark and hi.? min
' fr-.end? to the contrary notwitk?
ling. li.ANk I.. SOWTER.
Horn York, July 31, 1916.
To Help French Soldiers.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I wonder if you would kindly pub?
lish thi? letter to ask the splendiilly gener?
ous American public if they would help us
in a work that we began in a v. ry ?mall
way, entirely personal, and which we rind
now would develop if only we had the means.
It is to help those brave and valiant French
soldiers at the front who come from the
invaded provinces of the north and east of
Prance and who s:nee the end of August,
IS14, have had no news of their mothers,
sad children, and who daily ajo
through tl,.- agony 0f .?ting their more
fortunate eomradea receive letters and par?
cels from
We try to help them morally as well as
matenalh hy writing them and sending them
parcel.? containing shirts, drawers, IOeka
handkerchief?, t, . ... tobacco, i [pe*
mouche?, chocolate and various canned
things, trying to vary the parcels as much ai
possible.
Now there is the prospect of another win
ter campaign and woollen things will bi
rare and expensive. Any help in these, si
well a? In a tinancial way, would be mos'
gratefully received. Think of the mother.
and wives for these long months without anj
news of their sons and husbands, who the)
know are in the fighting line.
We know by *he letters we receive fron*
our soldiers what a great moral support It
- to ihem to know that some one thinks ol
them nnd is willing to help them through
this trying time. ' Anything sent to Mrs
Henry Brokman, care Messrs. Morgan, Efarjoi
?? Co., .31 boulevard Hau.ssmann, Paris
France, would be promptly acknowledged.
Paris, July 22, 1915. S. L. BROKMAN.
The Courthouse Scheme.
To the Kditor of The Tribune.
Sir: What realty men and brokers pushec
the new Courthouse scheme? There hav?
been several articles published supposed?
ly i judging by the captions of the articles
among them, "Realty Men Fight Court Site
| Plan," "Take Action to Stop Proceedings tc
, Acquire More Land for Building," "Assert
Cltj Has Title" i by brokers and realty men
i aforesaid, and the guilty ones among them
! whoever they may be, seem to have repented
! of their efforts one and two years ago to
, launch and inflict upon this almost "depleted
? treasury" city this "roundhouse" for the
rounding i p of those who have not
only claimed the assistance of the maj
esty of the lau-, pro and con, but also the
j rounding out of luxurious, splendid and cost
i ly accommodations for those who dispense
i luw and equity i and sometimes injustice!
' and likewise accommodations for the legal
! fraternity, who are supposed to help or assist
! the solons in their decisions.
The nroject and the erection of the fa
j mou.? old Tweed Courthouse, very fresh in
'? the recollection of the writer, for he was a
I voter and taxpayer in tno.se days (and be
! fore), was dubbed an extravagance I although
' an honest building was needed at that time!;
? but all that famous extravagance, including
the graft to Tweed and his associates, was as
i nothing compared to the extravagance and
i waste of the public money i of which the city
: at the present time has too little) proposed
i by, engineered by, and, up to the present
time, pushed through by, the fathers, not of
Israel, but those of the city of Manhattan
and its constituent boroughs.
Ho they suppose that the long suffering
taxpayers will assent to and put up with
this last extravagance by the party in power?
Who were the brokers in this imposition
upon the. city ?
EDWIN BARRY WILLCOX, If. K.
New York, Aug. 3, 1915.
German Love of Truth.
To ihe Kditor of The Tribune.
Sir: I have read the letter of Walter
Schmidt with th? greatest interest. It is ?o
splendidly typical of the average German's
sacred regard for the tj-iith. It is redolent
with the same magnificent condescension
which characterized the recent note from
Berlin, which nauseated in its attempts to be
caloric.
Doubtless the kindly Mr. Schmidt would as?
sure us that if we have any trouble or dis?
pute with the imperial government the impe?
rial government would extend to us condi?
tions making possible an honorable peace?
It must be remembered that the German
definition of honor differs from that of civil?
ization, just as the modern idea of "sudden
death" differs from Julius ?'?tsar's.
The unceasing attempts of Germany to
disseminate propaganda thniugh just such
channels as the kindly Mr. Schmidt cannot
affect a nation which is almost beginning to
realize what the potential dangers of Ger?
many's honorable projects are.
ELMCNDORP LKSTKR CARR.
New York, Aug. 3, 1915.
An Unjustified Assumption.
To the Kditor of The Tribune.
Sir: Reodiag an editorial in your issue of
Augu?t I show? that The Tribune realizes
that optometry has developed to a degree
that would permit of it extending and en?
larging its scope. It indeed gave me great
pleasure to read your opinion, particularly
as it was given without being sought.
E. K. HOTALING.
' New York, Aug. 3, 1911,
WHAT THE BALIOT CANDO
Views Wholly'Calcul?t rd to Inspire
Suffragists to New Miracle.
To the Editor of Th? 1
Sir: In reading the ? v:d letttn
in The Tribune this - r raj sttenti?
was drawn paiticulari) ' I
James R. Keen?? Ta;, le ttM heidm*
"What the Ballot Can :
1 have made a thor" -' I !?? ?? wosut
suffrage in the Bast SI th? W,?r, whin
it is so prevalent. I?u- : th? course of trr.
study I have been si fats, any ft*ti
that will warrant tl ?sea a? ?toot
by Mr. Taylor.
I ?gree with him M 'he "it
telligent and morally (I ??" with tit
lowest classes of eil ridiceJsSS M
insulting." On the ol 've ttln
gists like to point ' thsl the \om*0
specimens of mai ; ?bl? to rot*.
There is no shoe without .1 mat*, howew
Universal suffrage means th? ??oubliai ??
this very evil, which a rfset by li*
ballots of the ":ntel. rei I isd morslly a?
women" of his acquait.'
As regards h:- itati ment that the prtrofi
tive of the ballot will it? women t.
take a greater later? ' itiosa of P*?*
I lie welfare, I wish to pi Ha ?>*M-;
1 of your many re.. ? ?Si hy Mri
, Elizabeth ( ass Goddai ' e of the forent*
?women in Colorado, on woman ?ufTrsfe U*
its effects in that ?t?te. She aofSI "' ?M
that suffrage w.th the entrance of woBO ]
into politics ha? robbed I em of much ?
the charm which ?? tl the?***?
womanliness. They be? ?' *
so eager for off;? stoop "
pretty mean trick.? to <*n<i*
"They are 1 II 'he pro?
fessional man politic:.. tBSSBli '"?'
are quite as open to ch.ii .'?? of corrupli?8
A.? legislatera they .-?? tsbta f-nlure?
. . T!i? be-- type ? ?em ?? "?*?
like to vote, and I I * *?*&
ballots for these friend BO St 1 I"*?4*
election You can m?"1 "P*1
the other clsSSSS, '?' ? ? follow tB?
leading of sunn- man."
The next conclusion drawn is that fa*
granting of the ballot will ?id material!)' ?
training women to b? 1 ind nteUia*"
mothers and home maki ? conclu*!?1
that failure to pa ' h?? P"J*
. ented women fron, I ?? ?***?
em developments <-? shieltW
them from all knowled ; ptoftt?
and other advai ? -'?' *
-:on of the bal' '".""??j
these handii-ii !'?w '*"?' ^
it been consider. d ''0? "?;.."*
ballot ha.? influei ? ???! ,'''v,
to read intelligent:. ' n* *? j"
,fr?nchise will in a '"".?r'''?^!?: I
'sire to k?-ep up to dal "''* *""'C!,'Ja
their welfare. Thev do 'h* ?* |
yet I presume that the n
of his acqualntanei el
j manner which is 10m? " ,t!' '
if Dame Fashion I: I ? ?" ?*??:
read and andorstan? !ri*\a??l?
out the so-called ?id ol I hy' *
thev need to call ii
help them in und. il u*mZ
of life, such . l?lawaw
welfare, aaaitatioi t?*****,t
innumerable other
No man sss-tcii r,r ' u
would denv worn..-, in* i* ?W
Take the earth Bl ? bU
doe.? woman long for th? I .^
When all is said a",i ' 'h'j ac?
tion of the butcher m< "; ** ||t
home than the election ' -? "^
the employment of ? dairyman B tsl
important event rn the 1 ?ast??
the appointment of H 1 hrsfl
selection of I.? '?'.*' .' i?
more important than voting ?"?'*?,'&
? nd courthouse'' Whj i'*?*
the important th 1... ? v "'*
substance a- I .wat
It miv be ?aid m th? ei*d "' W*W^Z
It in not. as a rule, the ?*?**"? ?
cradle tk St wan I ', " e?
r?t the saaghter ?-he MJJ? ^
reign as ojasM over wme happy soma ?
longs for the uniform of a sufra*?" ? ^
is. as a rule the womsn who 'i'"'j ^s
home, neglects her chil.lren an* ^
motherhood that leads parad.- an.? ***?
windows. BARRETT ' ?RANDAI*
! Newark, N. J., kog. I, tflfc
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