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"Deliberately Unfriendly.'
In every detail the German attack
upon the ?\rabie fulfils President Wilson's
d?finition of an act "deliberately unfriend
the United States.
Since this is the case only one road
romain? open to Mr. Wilson, there is only
?me course that he can follow with dignity
and with honor. Without delay, further
protest, any diplomatic exchange whatso?
ever, the German .\mbassador in Wash?
ington should receive his passports, the
.\merican Ambassador in Berlin should
bi recalled.
It is time to have done with a nation
which has repudiated every scrap of inter?
national law. It is time to have done
with a state which has adopted a policy
which is alike a challenge to humanity and
a negation of all that civilization means.
When the Germans murdered our men,
women and children on th? Lusitania,
when this whole nation stood in dumb
horror beside the seas on which a German
naval officer, to gratify an insensate
hatred and an inhuman lust for killing,
had scattered American women and chil?
dren, all helpless and innocent of all
effence save that they were between
Germany and a purpose, there went up
from one end of the country to the other
a solemn warning.
We chose not to make war to avenge
our dead, we chose not to join in a whole
world of killing to punish, as we could,
a nation whose crime against us was un
paralleled in civilized history. But in that
hour we resolved that there should be no
more slaughter of Americans.
Patiently, with unexampled restraint,
with unparalleled forbearance, the Presi?
dent of the United States sought to convey
to German statesmen the emotions of his
count* ymen, their determination and their
will. For the dead he asked the small
.reparation that could be made; for the
living that guarantee of safety which
was their right.
To all Mr. Wilson's moderate and meas?
ured words there was no response that
faced the fact, answered the question, met
the issue. The responsible ministers of
Germany, taken red-handed in the pursuit
>jf a policy ?if assassination, did not scru?
ple to fill the air with their pretended
championship of the doctrines of human?
ity, while they clung to the purpose to
continue the campaign of massacre.
?All that words could do, all that sol?
emn, measured, accurate words could do
to convey to Germany the American de?
termination was done when the last Amer?
ican note was dispatched. We knew then
i hat there was no longer Ivpe that Ger?
many would give any evidence of regret
or promise of reparation for a crime that
would have been unworthy of *n Apache.
We knew that our dead were to remain,
so far as Germany was concerned, -with?
out honor and without regret. Still there
did remain, the hope that for the future
Germany policy would in a small measure
conform to the methods of civilization.
This hope was vain. The attack upon
the Arabic was ttUl more flagrant than
that upon the Lusitania. There was no am?
munition on board which might tempt a
Gorman commander charged with the pro?
tection of those Gorman babies so much
mentioned in German newspapers. There
were no guns, no shells, no munitions of
wat. The ship was empty and outward
bound. There were only a few hundred
human beings?helpless, without defence.
There wore among them Americans. This
tli target of Gorman marksmanship.
Thin was the quarry worthy of the Ger?
man officer.
We do not know whether more Ameri?
can lives have been lost or not. But what
difference can this make? If the would-be
murderer misses, if his bullet goes astray,
dot! lOCiety loot certainly incarcerate him?
It is not the fault of the German com?
mander that every American on the Arabic
vas not drowned. All that the assassin
could do was done. All that the bu*ccher
could do to make the massacre complete
was done. If chance spared Americans, it
was chance alone.
The time has come now to act. To talk
further is to encourage, not avoid, murder,
It ia to compound with infamy and con
tinue relations with Bavngery. It is to
write ourselves down willing victims, as
cinsenting to the* continued slaughter of
Americnns.
Final evidence of the German purpose
and character has now been furnished.
Not even Germany can give more definite
proof of her will. In her every act in
the past year of shame and slaughter the
(lern.an i.loa has shone forth. The sink?
ing of the I.usitanin was but a new ex?
pression of the purpose that loosed the
ladle fury of the German soldier in
Ia-ouvain and wrote the meaning of Ger?
man Kultur in the blood and honor of
the Belgian women.
It is for Congress, not for the President,
to decide the question of peace or war
with Germany. Hut it is the duty of Mr
Wilsm to preserve national honor and
protect national dignity. There is left to
him no choice, no alternative. Count von
BernstorlT should go. Mr. Gerard should
come home. To hesitate, to falter, to
delay now is to bring odium upon the
United States. It is to confess willingness
to permit Americans to be slaughtered, it
is to surrender the prime right and neg?
lect the first duty of any state, to defend
the lives of its citizens.
All the sacrifices that the United States
can make in an honorable desiro to
avoid war have been made. We have per?
mitted our dead to go unavenged, we have
suffered still further menaces to be di?
rected at the living, we have listened to
the 'oft words by which the hypocrite
tried to gild his savagery and cloak his
viciousness. But of all this there must now
be ar. end. The murder of another Ameri?
can will mean war; this attempted assas?
sination should terminate all relations
wiih an outlaw state. Civilization ends at
the German frontier, and with the mad?
ness that lies beyond, the fury, the pas?
sion, the insane desire to kill all und spare
none, we can have no further commerce.
The duty of to-day is to have done with
Germany, the duty of to-morrow may be
not less clear, but from it only cowards
could shrink, and such cowardice has hith?
erto been no part of American history.
Xo President of the United States, in
i. critical h.Mir, has ever possessed a fuller
measure of public confidence than Wood
row Wilson to-day. But to no President
has tho pathway of duty and honor i
been more plainly ind.cated. What could be i
??one to avoid strife, prevent war, preserve
peace, he has done; honestly, nobly. But
the decision was not his to make. If there
is now war, that war has been made in
Germany. But not even the certainty of
war could excuse further negotiations
with the German government. Ultimately!
the individual, the state, the nation can
have but one protection against the assas?
sin. And in the crime of the Arabic the!
last thin disguise has slipped from the
German beast, and we see the ?HCt as it
is?but we see it unafraid.
Dr. Elgin R. L. Gould.
The sudden and lamentable death of
Elgin K. L. Gould deprives New York of
a citizen of the highest type. Known as
a "silk stocking" and a "reformer," he ?as
not one to make political reform projects
ridiculous or hated by a combination of
arrogance, intolerance and self-advertis?
ing. He was modest, practical, a hard
worktr, and not self-seeking. He obtained
results by applying scientific knowledge
and experience to his problems rather
than a temporary dusting off the surface
of afi'airs with sensational flourish.
As City Chamberlain Dr. Gould was an
important and valued member of the Low
administration. As one of the organizers
of th? Citizens Union, as a hard working
member of the City Club, as member of
committees and commission? he gave
splendid service in the public interest.
Unquestionably his best and most far
reaching work was as president of the
City ana Suburban Homes Company,
?which demonstrated that the furnishing
?of detent, comfortable, sanitary homes for
?working people at a very modest rental
'could, nevertheless, be a profit making en
Iterpnt-c. His part in making available
small loans on chattels or properly se
cured notes was also a great help, a great
benefit, to the honest poor of the com?
munity. It is not too much to say that
his work helped many individuals, and the
city as a whole was better for his bavin-1
lived in it.
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Galveston's Wounds.
Galveston's death list of twenty-five
from the West Indian hurricane may
grow, hut it will remain insignificant, neg?
ligible, as compared with the inconceiv?
able loss of 8.000 persons which she suf?
fered from the hurricane of lit-OO. And
for this fortunate contrast she ha- her gi?
gantic sea wall to thank. Without her
sea wall she would, it seems, have experi?
enced almost the same degree of destruc?
tion wrought fifteen years ago. though the
wind then stnasheii the wind gauge at the
record velocity of 120 miles, while Tues?
day morning it reached a maximum of
only ninety miles.
But though her sea wall saved her. it
did not save her completely. One thou?
sand feet of it was battered down, and the
waves rose over the rest sufficiently to
flood her streets with five feet of water
and bowl over a large number of her
buildings. And her fine, new, concrete
causeway to the mainland succumbed, the
fury-driven waters biting a mile out of it
in the centre and big chunks at either end. I
In all, her property damage is estimated
at $10,000,000.
When the now causeway was ??poned to
trafic iti the summer of LOIS it was con
ii.lontly preilictod that Gnlvost?ui had fin?
ished an victor her battle with the Gulf O?
Mexico. This lad ontastrophe will there?
fore injure her pri?l<* as well as hcf- pocket
book. But with the same tine, unbroken
spirit with which she raited herself, liter?
ally, above her corpse -strewn waste in
1000, she may be expected to repair the
damage done by Tuesday's storm and
bract herself for a renewal of the good
tight. She will find it necessary, no doubt,
to build her son wall still hii-her, to con?
struct breakwaters f?>r the protection of
her causeway, and above all to run her
telegraph and telephone wires, or some of
them, in the form of cables under water
to the mainland, instead of along cause?
ways antl trestles, so that no storm can
again destroy her means of communica?
tion with the outsiile world.
Useless Theatre Orchestras.
It will not be an unmixed evil if the
theatre managers, coming to an open break
with the musical unions, run their estab?
lishments without orchestras, as they
threaten. Some of them have tried it al?
ready. There has been no complaint from
their patrons, and many have felt relief
at the absence of fag-ends of dance tunes
and hackneyed selections from opera.'
rendered in barrel-organ fashion. Other
managers, lacking courage to break away
entirely from the old custom of "enter?
taining" the audience between the acts as
well as during them, have substituted me?
chanical contrivances no worse, if no bet?
ter, than the humnn musical mechanics
they superseded; but yielding no enhance?
ment of the evening's pleasure.
A point .the managers should consider
carefully in those parlous theatrical times
is that a good play needs no music?unless
it be a musical show?antl not even gootl
music between the acts can help a bad
play, far loss the kind usually dished up
to the accompaniment of conversation and.
the shuffling of feet of those escaping to
another brand ?if entertainment. It might :
have been necessary once to have some?
thing to hold the attention of the audi?
ence, to distract it during the long waits
which lack of present-day stage facilities
occasioned. But those times are gone
The play with "incidental music" of the
heartrending kind has gone out of fash?
ion. The serving-up of music between the
acts might equally well be abandoned.
Benevolence Misunderstood.
It was probably inevitable that the
names of some blameless neutrals should,
be involved in the recent disclosures of'
German activity in this country, but it ill
very hard that Dr. Hugo Schweitzer.)
whose benevolent purpose it was to miti-i
gate the horrors of war, should be held
up as aiding and abetting in the business
of killing.
Dr. Schweitzer, it seems, was interested
in the purchase of vast quantities of
phenol. He had entered into a contract
which called for the delivery of about
6,000 pounds a day for the rest of the
year. It was natural, perhaps, that his
motives were misunderstood. I'icric acid is
a product of phenol, antl sn.ee the war be?
gan it has been in such demand that the
price of phenol has risen from 10 cents a
pound, or less, is something in the neigh?
borhood of 11.50. Evil-minded people
thought, therefore, that Dr. Schweitzer
might possibly be interested in some way
in promoting the manufacture of lyddite
|and similar explosives.
It if now clear from his own account of ?
the transaction that nothing was furthe*'
from his mind. All that he desired was to]
convert the million pounds contracted for i
into "highly salutary medical remedies,"]
and, above all, aspirin, which he calls "the!
universal medicine." Incidentally, be was I
curtailing the deadly work of the shell ''
makers, and that this was a part of hi-*i
generous enterprise is shown in a modest
reference to his "slight endeavor to divert
from the manufacturer of explosives a
large quantity of carbolic acid, which is
now to be converted into moiticines of the
?highest value for the relief of the sick
and suffering."
If there wore any doubt about Dr.
Schweitzer's disinterested impartiality it!
should be settled by his avowed conviction
that it is the duty of our government to
?place an embargo on all arms and muni?
tions of war and thus to enable those who!
are best famished to bring the struggle
to a speedy conclusion.
Find Brooklyn Woman Who Is IK Y. (r
? .m Headline,
Perhapi it is not her fault .she remained j
hidden so long.
i Murph) Bpenda Day Making Up a Blau
I H? adlfne.
The pre-primary ??t work in its most simple
and authoritative form.
The Mine.
CormMU Moayaoitu
Later in the day, when the infantry had
made pood !lu-ir p?>ssession of the place, had
sandbagged and fortified it to stand t|
'the expected counter attarks, the subaltern
, went to look over tiie ground and see at !ir.-t
and close han?! the results <?f his explosion.:
Technically, he found i1 interesting' humanly,:
merely lickening. The ground was one I
weltering chaoi and ?.-?infusion of tossed earth'
heapi and holes, of broken beams and
ended planks, of Snag landbagi und wrecked
barricading. tl** trench or barricade, as'
trench and barricade,there remained,simply,'
D? sign. The wreckage was scattered thick I
vith a dreadful debris of dead bod.'
blood-wet clothing, of holme's and broken i
rifles, burst piu-Ks arid haversacks, bayonets,
water 'joules and shattered equipments. The
ambulance men were busy, but there were
still many dead and dying a'.d wounded to!
be removed, wounded with turn flesh and
mangled limbs, demi and dying with scorched ?
jiiid smouldering clothea. The infantry
hastily diggia* and tilling landbaga and
throwing up parapeti on th? .-? of the1
reeking explosion pit V ad found many bodies
caught in th?- descending avalanche of earth ?
i r buried la psed trenches and dug
uut.i; an? here and then umid the confusi?jii
a foot or a hand protruding s'.irk from
earth heap marked the death-plac- of other ?
victims. The whole scene was one of death i
und desolat on, of ruin and destruction, and i
the subaltern turned from it sick at stomach. I
OLD HOME DAY.
Interpretation of Spirit of Past in
Terms of Present.
To the Fditor of The Tribune.
Sir: The New Fngland town like? to brine
together former residents, act aa host to
these ami citizens from neighboring place.?
and recall pnst events and associations.
These meeting times ?re so enjoyable that
the nnpeal is very strong to one who has had
any close connection with that place to visit
it upon that general receiving day. The
changing character of the population, even
in the hill towns of this section of th?' coun?
try, makes the returning resident feel more
and more a stranger in his old horn? town.
If he is not introduced to the new faces,
names and places he will ?imply be revivify?
ing the past and not interpreting the pres?
ent and future of the place he has held so
dear.
In Warwick, Mass., following a suggestion
that old home day could be used as a wel?
coming time for the newer residents as well
as for the former ones, the committee in
charge thlN year plan to emphasize this year
the necessity of acquainting the out-of-town
visitors more with the present population,
conditions, problems and prospects. The
traditions of the past must be an inspiration
to the future, and the spirit of the workers
of the past must be interpreted to the pres?
ent, so as to be a co-operating agency in de?
veloping and determining the future.
The speakers of the day include a man in
public life long a resident of that locality
whose work has made him familiar with so?
cial problems and who has always been es?
pecially alive to the conservation and preser
viition of New Eaftaad'l natural charm.anda
woman whose work in the Free Public
Library Commission is one of introducing the
incoming foreign population of the state to
the aims an?l purposes of the library. The
general deign of the literary programme of
the day is to show what co-operation has
done, is doing through county and state and
other agencies and what may be done through
closer relations and interaffUiations.
A photo enlargement of a map published
forty-five years ago is being used ( the town
has but fid per cent of what it then had) ; tacks
of different colors represent where each a?lu!?
is now living and the farm occupied. The
colored tacks representing adult? born in
Sweden are nearly as numerous as those rep?
resenting the adults born within the town
limits, and nearly above one-quarter of the
entire number were born outside New Kng?
land. A study of such a chart emphasizes a
little cosmopolitanism even in a country
town, when the birthplaces of residents are
considere?!, and should be of interest to the
visitor who can see who used to live there
and where the present occupant originated.
PAI'L W. QOLDSBURT.
Warwick, Mass., Aug. I?, 1916.
"Feminine" and "Womanly."
To the Fditor of The Tribuns.
Sir: Mr. Rarrctt L. ("randall in his letter
in reply to mine of August S makes a qjota
t'(n from Mrs. Elizabeth t'ass Goddard, of
Colorado, which seems to call for some com?
ment. Mrs. (iodiliird remarks on the lo?s of
'charm" to be observed in the women who
? nter politics. There are two points I should
like to bring up in this connection. First,
what does Mrs. Goddard mean by "charm"?
I myself prefer to make the distinction be?
tween "feminine" and "womanly" which Mr.
Henry Sydnor Harrison makes in his splendid
"Angela*! Business." He applies "femi?
nine" to the "clinging vine," old-fashioned
type of woman; the home-maker, who con?
siders any discussion of marriage, exc*7pt in
ha purely romantic aspect, as indecent, and
who thinks she is born with an instinctive
perfect knowledge of the business and duties
of a wife and mother. "Womanly," on the
Oth? r hand, he uses to designate the capable,
self-reliant, working woman, who knows her
own limitations from practical experience,
d?siras knowledge, and who has, combined
with these qualities, that tine, sweet, in?
tangible something which is the essence of
tru- womanliness. The tirst has the charm
of the apparently helpless, confiding, man
worshipping woman. The second has an en?
tirely different sort of charm that of self
n ii?.rico, strength and the ability to be a good
friend and comrade.
Mis. Goddard goes on to talk of women as
professional politicians, and says that they
Bra quite as open to corruption as are the
men. I sec nothing surprising in that. The
tumble with professional politicians is that it
i- wrong to make a profession of politics, or
anything else for that matter, and hurts those
who do so, because the moment the elements
of breadwinning and competition are intro?
duced into any occupation they make for cor
i "pt i?>n. It is a most unfortunate thing that
we cannot seem to get away from professional
politicians in this country. Since we cannot,
however, I fail to see why women politicians
?he old be expected to be so much more incor?
ruptible and perfect than men have proved
themselves to be. That woul?! indeed be a
nirarle, and, despite Mr. frandall's remarks,
ilffragists do not believe in or claim for the
billot any miraculous powers.
JAMKS K. KFFNF TAYLOR.
Avers Cliff, P. Q., Canada, Aug. 12, 1915.
The Personal Equation.
To the Fditor of The Tribune.
Sir: John Greene, in your issue of yester?
day, charges me with being a pretty cold?
blooded American, and says that if I had
lost some of my dear ones on the Lusitania
I might not be so calm over it.
Hecause of the personal nature of this at?
tack only (for Mr. Greene's letter sheds no
spark of light upon the merits) I feel im?
pelled to reply.
I not only believe in, but, so far as I can
afford. I spend of my time and money to
? ?n improving civic and political con?
ditions and in supporting church and allied
work. Among my friends I am believed to
be always open to proper appeals to sympa?
thy and charity.
For the rest, I hope the time will never
arrive when the shock and horror of an
event blind my eyes to the facts surround?
ing its occurrence, or when my injury nnd
loss, or the injury or death of those close
to me, prevent my viewing the event in its
proper relation to surrourfding conditions
and in the light of the law and the facts.
ANDREW COLVD?.
New York, Aug. 15, 1915.
The Rockaway Crush.
To the Fditor of The Tribune. ?
Sir: Does the jurisdiction of the Public
Service Commission comprise the Long Isl?
and Railroad tracks between Flatbush .'ve?
nue and Rockaway Park?
The excursion fare for the trip between
these points is 40 cents. This seem- to be
unfair to the railroad. In order to make
both ends meet, it is compelled to run trains
so infrequently that scores of passengers
or. the mornings of days other than Satur?
day and Sunday ?these passengers including
many women with children in arras i must
st.-in?! most ?if the way. (?ver the conditions
on Saturday and Sunday I draw a veil'.
It would perhaps be well to permit the
company to double its fare. This would
dot btless give everybody a'seat and permit
-orne of us to take a sea bath on our most
enticing coast. As it is, I and some others
must remain content with the bathtub at
home. STATES' ISLAND.
New York, Aug. 16, 1915.
"GO!"
WHAT THE ?. D. 0. IS
A Clear-Sighted and Heroic Grou
Looking After England's Soul.
To the Fditor of The Tribune.
Sir: Will you allow me to comment on a
article by a London correspondent which aj
peared in your columns on Augu-t 4? Th
article purported to give an account of th
activities of the I'nion of Democratic Con,tri
and the attitude of the English public towar
that organization. It gives so distorted a
impression of the real situation that it absi
lutely demands a reply. I have come ver
recently from England and I speak with fu
and accurate knowledge of the facts.
Two statements in the article are true. 1
is true that a recent meeting of the ?'nion o
Democratic Control at Kingston-on-Thame:
at which Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, M. P., was t
-peak, was broken up by an organized gun
of hooligans and several persons receive
slight injuries, though no one was seriousl
hurt. It is also true that "The Daily Ex
press," "The Morning Post" and one or tw
other papers of the ?ame character publishe
lists of the union's meetings for July wit
the avowed object of inciting their reader
to break them up and prevent the speaker
from having a hearing. ?
How successful these incitements to vio
lenee may prove in the future I canno' saj
In this strange world we may even live t?
behold the edifying spectacle of Sir Edwari
Carson prosecuting the leaders of the unioi
in the interests of patriotism, law and order
But with regard to the past I can speal
with certainty. Instead of the action of th?
mob at Kingston being typical of the treat
ment meted out to U. D. C. meetings in general
that was the very first meeting at whie!
there were disturbances of more that
a trifling character. Your correspondent'!
statement that every meeting "ha? ended ir
a fierce riot" is entirely untrue.
During the last eight months hundreds ol
meetings have been addressed by the union'
speakers all over the country under the au
spices of various organizations. Very success?
ful public meetings have been held in Lon?
don, Cambridge, Bradford, Manchester, Lu
ton and other piaces. I have mvself been
present at a considerable number of meet?
ings where the sympathy and enthusiasm o!
the audience were remarkable. It may sur?
prise your readers to know that at some of
these meetings I have seen officers and men
in khaki applauding the sentiments of the
speakers. In this connection I might men?
tion an interesting leaflet publish? d by the
I'nion of Democratic Control which contains
extracts from letters in which officers hive
expressed their sympathy with the union's
? bjeets and ideals. An especially noteworthy
letter of this kind appeared in "The Cam?
bridge Magazine" for May 1. Strange as it
may seem, these young men are not laying
down their lives ip order that the spirit
which characterizes "The Daily Express,"
"The Morning Post" and the egregious Mr.
Cecil Chesterton may rule England supreme
and unchallenged.
Your correspondent implies that the union
consists of thirty-one members. It has, in
fact, apart from the London groups, fifty
seven branches in different parts of Eng?
land, with a membership of several thousand
'"The Morning Post" estimated ;ts supporters
at '"0,0001. It has public bodies affiliated
with it with an aggregate membership of over
!'.??.m?o, while a large number of other pub?
lic bodies, though not actually affiliated, have
expressed sympathy with its aims. Its in?
fluence cannot therefore be regarded h- neg?
ligible.
So far as Mr. Morel's name is concerned,
the facts are published in "Who's Who" for
all the world to read. I was not aware that
reputable English papers "invariably" or
even frequently indulged in contemptible in?
sinuations on the subject. I supposed that
the practice was mainly confined to that
choice specimen of the gutter-pres?, Mr. Cecil
Chesterton's "New Witness," and its imita?
tors. Your correspondent does the E-.
press too much dishonor.
V.r. Morel's personal charact"r needs no
defence. His fearless courage, sincerity and
disinterestedness are matters o? common
knowledge, while his great achievements in i
connection with Congo reform are familiar,
to all students of humane causes. But I may
just mention this: Last spring when "The I
Morning Post." which breaks loose in ebul?
litions of the sort periodically, was striking
at the union by the unworthy means of a
personal attack on its honorary secretary,
this particular attack was brought to an
abrupt close by a letter from the Bishop of
Winchester. The Bishop did not write to ex?
press agreement with Mr. Morel's views
about the war for he does not agree but
in order to rebut a mean personal attack,
to pay a high tribute 'o Mr. Morel's nobility
of character and to recall th" great services
he has already rendered to humanity.
In case your readers may be misinformed
on the inbject, I should like to indicate briefly
the ?ibjeets for which the Union of Demo?
cratic Control stand?. It is not primarily a
peace movement, although peace is a neces
sary preliminary for the accomplishment of
any of its end?. It is not a "stop-the-war"
organization, althouch as individuals its
members have a right to take as strong a
line as they like on that score. It aims,
first, at bringing about a settlement that
will not contain within itself the seed of
future w.-irs, ami it aims, secondly,, at pro?
moting a reconstruction of the whole system
of international relations that will render
the repetition of a woaU calamity like the
present unlikely, if not impossible. It is
looking to the future. Its whole purpose is
constructive to remove the fundamental
causes which make for war and to replace
them by conditions which shall make for
!>r ne. Only the voice of malice or utter
ignoranaee and fully could call such aims
"pro-German" or disloyal.
I am far from asserting that the views
I of the Union of Democratic Control ?re
actively held to-day by more than a small
minority of the English people. Other things
than laws are silent in time of war-reason,
foresight, the sense of justice and onlinary
common s?-nse. Even in a neutral country
like our own the voices of those crying *n
the wilderness of bitter partisanship and
mate unreason are comparatively few
in numlx-r. It is always the saving remnant
through which comes national salvation.
An anonymous correspondent once wrote to
Gladstone* "You have M lived und wrought
that you have kept the soul alive in Eng?
land." The heroic and clear-sighted group
of men and women who compose the I'nion
of Democratic Control are keeping the soul
alive in England through these dark days,
just as the Social Democrats are keeping
the soul alive in Germany. I'pon these
forces, which, even in the midst of war, are
working in the direction of reconstruction and
reconciliation between the nations, depend
our best hopes for the future of Europe and
of the world. C. K. C.
New York, Aug. 9, 1915.
Land Values and the Budget.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr. Judson (J. Wall recently wrote
The Tribune in reply to Mr. John .Moody's
letter, betraying a lamentable ignorance of
economies, as lamentable as his inability to i
discriminate between single taxers and so?
cialists.
\Vh?-u Mr. Wall ??ays that "land is higher,
comparatively speaking, either agricultural
or urban, from Portland, Me., t?> Seattle, than
it is in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens"
he Indicates complete inability to understand
I repudiates economic terms.
Mr. Wal!, having been Tax Commissioner,
knows that no single law has resulted in the
loss of taxable, value of over $800,000,000.1
Like most advocates of privilege, however,
Mr. Wall cannot realize the wrong of our!
enormous city debt and urges that it should!
be increased. That is just what land specu-1
latois have always tlone in New York City, '
they have urged a low tax rate and borrow-'
ing, with the result that we have loaded this!
debt on the city, on most of which we are1
paying $2.50 interest for every dollar bor-j
rowed.
The answer to Mr. Wall's question as to!
how in heaven's name the city is to raise its
budgetary rei-uirements of $200,000,000 plus
is v.tv- simple. The ground rent of the city
OOO, which anybody can seel
is more than the city's budget of $200,000,000.!
There would be another great advantuge in
the heavy taxation of land values the land
: peculators could no;, unload on the city land
mea what .-.V? worth, as they have i
done in the past. The city's credit is good,
but the city's method of raising revenue by
robbing the workers for the benefit of Und
speculators is very discreditable.
BENJAMIN C. MAKSH.
New York, Aug. 13, 1915.
ON FREEDOM AND EQUALITY
Woman Suffrage Held Not To Be 9
Right.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: An ardent and able iaffrsgili ssi4
to me lately that it did not seem to hir tilt
the question of whether the vote to wobmb
would better the government generally ha?
anything whatever to do with the question if
whether they should have the vote. Sh? uil*
that the vote ought to be given to worn??
even if it proved most disastrous to the ten
mon good; that a woman was a humaa a**
in'g and, therefore, she had the right to til
vote, and as she had the right the eoaie
quences had nothing to do with the questies.
She cited to me as conclusive the wordi o?
the Declaration of Independence "thit ill
men are created free and eijual."
She should not, it seems to n.e, have irguid
that women have the right.
She should have said: Women are quali?
fied as well as men (and are not disqualified
because women), and being individuals BJ
well is men they ought, therefore, to b? ?a
titled by the rule of equality, which ii ?
natural right, to any rights which men ?t
equal qualifications have.
Or she should have said that, whatever ire
the qualifications of the women of to-day, it
will inure to the common welfare ult.maUlf
to give women the vote.
Either, however, would have required a?"
to prove something; in tne one instance that
women are qualified a-, well as men and?*
not disqualified becau-e women'; in tk"
other, that the vote to women would inuri
ultimately to the common welfare; wh?r*i*
arguing as ike did. she rested herself, j*P>
easily. upon the mere fact that worn** M
well as men are individuals, which at, ??
course, self-evident.
Or she should have said that sex i? ??*
properly a "qualification," bat ? r?y?1??1 ?*"
tribute, and that men are Bsinf it arbitrsrilT
to keep the government a me-.** gov*rr.n*?nt.
which would, at least, have made the a?"
think as to whether or not their position ?
not one of bias rather than of sound natos
At the same time, of course, it will tan*
be seen that, even if sex is not Pw-*r1'*
qualification, there may be certain quiliut*'
t.ons which go with a sex which maK? ml*
viduals of that sex unsatisfactory as totsrs.
or that, because of the datiea ?< -1?1 ?"?
would be best that they do not enter ?
field of politic?. .
She was ?imply caught by the sound or "??
words "equal" and "free," without diltM"
gu,,hing that the word "free" itself eic.JJ
the suffrage as a right by Bato?), M? ?*-**
the word "equal" applies only to ?batet?
right in fact exists. ?T.v
JOHN H? HAZtLTOS.
New York, Aug. 17, I
Genealogically Important.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Having had called to my ?''""?"
in you. paper to-day the letter a<l'ir",<,J.
you by Miss Virginia York, ifl which t
calls attention to the misstati-numl of 1
hen,-- the gruridniec 1{ob?rt
Lee, I wish to thank her for removing ?<*
an impression, as 1 am not a mece *^
never made any pretence to this t?e?"r??
relationship. Although my family ?r?
to .:nd connected with the Le??,
above mistake was made by the pre? ??*??
I was ? the South at the time the artic
wa? published, and I endeavored to cor
this -.articular part of the intern? *. *
had been made contrary to my specific W
structions in answer to a query to th?
feet. ^#
My art should be sufficient to secur?'
recognition I desire, and my family th* P? "
tion deemed desirable by society, if r*ltli
ship to the Patrick Henry-, Beai*# g-?
Governor Scales of North Carolina. "011199*
of Philadelphia, and Tillinghast*. of KB
Island, and others of more or le?? equal ?
is thought to be of advantage to ?hit end
BE I7TY LLt
New York, Aug. 18, 1915.