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i.tmn reaalta la an*, case THE
TKIHINK n?trante??? ta pa) *??.iir mi.ne?
. ?>un ri-i|U?-vt. \o red tape, no ?juiti
blinc. We make Rood promptly if the ad
\?-i ! i-( r ilnex nut.
Let Him Go.
If Dl ? acted opon hia own ini
7 : ?? Dp American
plan' I | iilty of an
affront to I .: the bounds
y minor It n, anil he should
he Mnt boma ?
If the Austria!, Ambassador acted in
?
crnn n. undertakjng to
: in a friendly nation,
?y for the affront and
the injury to this country rests with Aus
tria-lh.ti.-ary, not with f
? y l>r. Dumba ihould
lind, in addition,
. : . .id he asked
lor i. ?
No nation can tolarata the thing that
th? Austrian Ambaaaa - was prepared
the attitude
that is di idi of Aus?
tria, the ambaaaa dor,
;. The smallest evi
. r of its view of
and
cour
Tin hington the un
that the administra
? it must |0 alo? because
the Austrian Government, not the Aus
elvably re
the outrageous proposal.
Are we less bound to resent the in-;
crin rights as the deliber
than U the individual
: .r?
intimation that the
Dun a 1 ' provoke the
. ' I
A re we
? fit-fence of our!
I 1 tub
rely because
If Aus
to interfere in the internal
? ' ai d maintain
M
daylight the I etter.
ighbor
? .
I pro
? ? i of what
acted in the
police
of the
? ?
peace or
' he law.
. -?-mess
. ? ape a break be
? ?
? desire
tioi
in the case of Ger?
be solely on one
? . to ex
i ?era con
letrii .-ut without
?
e injury.
Washington li
?
ant hint in recent in
not tn
. but a road
ricans
ious, rei live
and with thi at the
capital. ire to
-t the President, but there ? a grow
might be a better de?
port.
Aft? annot be thai the American
?? utterlj ? ? r char
in half a century. North and
?'. ar for
of the
. were right.
e want! to fight now; not any con
lied to
But In 1861 there w.'re mill?
ed that war,
dril war at that, was nmre tolerable than
the peace tha* Dishonor
? en after three years
< f war hail turned a larger area of this
C'-uf.try il:?,, ?i deeerl than ha.- yet been
' by the i-reat war in Europe.
We wart nothing from (.erncir.y and
' rin but th which un- guar
.. all the laws that nations
in their dealings witl
??
- tins,
to murder our citi?
zens on the bigfc .'eas and Austria pro?
claim.-? her rifM to fa
disorder within our boundaries, what is
there left to do but to take th< -?? ?vps .,,
protect our live? and our . which
are requirad by the circumstances Ger?
man and Austrian acts create?
There is not an ounce of chauvinism, o?
In American feelings
r. Hut the pa* 1 rover ,
hially
? rond anything in
Patently Americans are getting !
tired of a patience which only invite*!
'more murder, new outrage, gn
Let Mr. Wilson and his ad
about them and a little I
'fully into the minds of their fellow coun?
trymen. They will :
ginning t? stir. It is not I B|
? it is a s)
If there is nothing to be gained1 bj ;
. :rca -and so far I i ?
la words l
and lives- then the g
American people ii thai there
i ?
to something more dei
Dumba should go home. He shou
? ay and without the
ration for
of his country. Tin
rabie thing; if it v. I at the
command of hi .
act "deliberately unfriei d
to make civil war in a friendly nation is a
crime
.when the right thing to do is
? | Mr. Wilson an i I
that Americans are mort
that this should \>c done thai
over the COUSequenCI ? it.
Tha
honorable desire to keep peace and a
iwardice is hard to fis <??.;.
it is approached An
every support to their Pn What
coming a cause for appro!
over the country is the t the
try and the administration aie get?
ting uncomfortably I
And there is no more cowar Ii
|country to day than there wa
century and a half ago, when a few
ers in Lexington and Con
the British Empire in defence of i
which were established neither in i
tic nor international law.
Ambassador Dumba Bhould have his
?passports without
?should be asked to explain.
The Grand Duke Goes Into Exile.
Berlin may n ?< ;
jof the Grand Duke to
may be no flags or ca? non fire, bul it is
hard to believe that there
(ere rejoicings. Germany has so far
failed to captun
she has disposed of their commai
The little that lias come to us from tho
.n front has confirmed ;
feeling that the Grand Duke ?
soldier, the great
.... defeat he he I i
a: d to the eyes of all mi
? thing approxin il ing rea ;
? he has been d< feated.
discipline I L the
soldiers and the politicians who an
soldier . ! \ ... 1er which docs not
? . ? ?
downfall. He goei -, ap?
proaching exile, and I
Paris and London is already pat
Who is to'succeed him in the held? Cer
not the Czar. Conceivably it may
be Rusaky, the .
in Galicia, now commandi
Dvina ami defending Riga. Poi ibly it
will be a man as little known to the
Linevitch, whi
patkin in Manchuria. The parallel b<
tween the fate of the Grand I ?ul
of Kuropatkin will I
I- rederick the i
?mmanders that while he was a
soldier he was unlucky, and hi
made him too expensive a
?happily no one will feel now that R
has a man to replace the Gn '
the dismissal will seem a greater d
than were those that havi
A new anxiety has plaint) .
the allie! t rhey will have
t'i fear alike for the
sor and for hi
pose in the face of othl r d
?many will unquestionably
with joy the fact that the change oi i
saved Frederick the <
of mind by Alexander ruined Napoleon.
Is Russia for a third time to
man ends? Thi
of I onstantinople, will hold th
of the whole world.
The Wheeled Coaster.
Not much headway will
??nti noise ci uaade so long
children on the ' ? rhis
ir a fact that the ci . Iway i
. and it tUl
? ? of I .
to a new Una. A
thickly settled sectionI I f th
quietude must be a? mous with race
suicide, for all oth< - ?
"well-bred whispers of
compared witb the ji yous
'toar of the children who :
their playground.
No healthy child really I
unce ef u mechanical device to make :
Nature has furnished him
shouting, screeching and whistling appa?
ratus which enables him, when hi sonifer?
ous faculties are fully aroused, I
Stentor and the bulls of Bashan to shame.
N'-verthelesiS, most of tl e tumult n ado by
children on the streets of New \
: by ; variety i
whieh emphasize the natural outpourings
uf the juvenile heart.
tetir.-d tea kettles, attael ad t.. ?
dimwn gently but fil ? ? thi pavi
ment, contribute to the uproar, Extra
shrill whistles, blown by small boyi riding
m the sidewalk, pierce tl
of sufferers in the apartments above, (iirl.s
jload Uiemselvea uto temporarily aban
I motor cars at the
and blow di.-cordant horns for ai
at a time. Hoya imitate admirably the
?deadly rattle of the machine gun | _?.
ing on soap boa? with
Hut recently all .
Thi.?? s
demand that tl
improvise I i
and noi.--ie.st form tl
?) followa; Vou Uka a pad
? . ? I g and any width or
t.i the end of it you nail
irnrw ntrip of" hoard or I
? inner thru tt i
' ' or a
?rit?h thr tide
\, ..v to 1 tide of thii
.- :; you fasten the wheel ap
I i paii f relief skates. Von
1 with on?
? : t t.. the ? of the paek
irself along the .~i<le
f ><? t ; ?.r, if there li
there generally
s in New V'.rk). you put both f>-c. on
?'?!y downhill.
Vs the ] hieb make*, the
a parti ei wand
. i by a num
*he pmrnient or
hat of a fusillade of
ichez.
Bui e remark? '1: Ours ,? nn
.- trucks, "bates,
' horns, hucksters, beaten
?ill merely help
As to the chil
New ?n a high hirth
?o continue to do so. The
I ive to he DO! t
vehicles fro In the air?
.! that there is nothing noisier
.-m aeroplane.
Octogenarian Editors.
Tribune has been convicted of an In
that "Henry
?The Republican Watch
port, L [., is the i
- ' ?? United Si
age of eighty-three
." Oui judge, jury and prosecutor is
.Mr. ! ' . editor i nd publisher
i ounty Dtsmocrat," of
who announces that he will
! ty-five years old on the ninth ?lay
of next month, having completed his sixty
? o year o editing and
print:- ' ratic newspapers, and that
"what is still better, he is in good health
? n on tii. ? ery day."
Tin . .. is il
admit, overwhelming, and while awaiting
? ?! po ill y in the hope tha: the
will feel all the more mercifully in
I toward us, we should liko to eon
ate Mr. Frysinger nnd to assure
him that our mistake was not found"?! in
our political complexion. In this matter
of the longevity of editors it has been our
Iways to rise above politics, the more
nee the editing and publishing of
?ratic new spapers ha ? ban?
al of which appealed to us
as particularly meritorious. Mr. Frysin
?::??:.??
The arose, no doubt, from the
? the local corresponde)
Mr. Frysinger abroad
daily - such an appearance of
'.ful vigor, to believe that
aid have reached the age to which
he himself confei -? i. Had one of them let
OW the truth in time the news thai
Mr. Reeves 1 ad reached the age of eighty
.. after his comparatively tran?
quil career, would have been regarded as
n now we hi Bitate at
Haying thai Mr. Frysinger is the i
in tii" United
apa we are safe in |
i ? he : th? youngest editor of that
And >'?? wish him many happy
. i eturi day of < >ctober.
There really rnu-t he sons mistake about
i lonel ha? n>
Hal tl I animal
? ?'a?
The Egg of Neutrality.
me.
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givei him frim behind impal
ever ;?*> i an ui.kind word or
egg. He is prancing
rig and iff? g. He
eggl I'
is no aim, ?uv?j Em?
irsueil for II
?
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN.
A Friend Under the Shadow of
Chocorua.
? ? I The Tribune.
r if j"u can :.>:,:? ne how
good your editorial ? ..
? sway from the world up here in
? lew Hi
I 1 ?? Be Pi ? . . . lid. I
. m h y daily Tribu?
?
> l.u.k for your paper a? a blessed boon.
t bei the
?? ?, but
.
? Tribune.
T. H. BARTLJ
....": m . Si ft. i, 1916.
Legal Holidays.
To t.- r of The Tribune.
,**ir: I- the Fourth ?if July a lej-al holiday.
Wai II ?kclareii saeh by an ?et ai I
'? I ... m what W. 1", u,
? 6, 1915.
rhere are no national holidays. Col
r the U
?
? ' ' i 1 in all. or
all, -.i i itatei
An Early Register,
' I ram I %t /..... /,
Hurinif the reigi ,.- Queen Elisabeth a rag?
?ras taken, apparently I
. aids n? B i ? ; no
? ? In his "Sur?? > ..;' Kn,
a work compiled dm
"There is .,!.? , poor
inner, or.?
. li
?
lila on _ sated to 1,17;
NO NAVY TOO LARGE
New York the Richest Prize in the
World.
T.. the i-'.lii. r si The Tribune
Sir: There are nome lections of the United
States which do not yet realize the necessity
of our having an adequate navy.
. Southern Mate? would lik- to have a
permanent ?tatui eitablished fo? eotl
If they eoold have that
? would mean cumulative yearly profita
of hundreds of millioni of dollar?. Tel n
Southern ?"oDgresetonal Representative de*
| himself recently as exclusively for
suhmarinea and mines. Bml even tliat only to
the extent o? $10, That is a kind of
... m which kill? the lection. A pow
erful navy 11 a trump card In an interna?
tional (l:-rus.?lon of contraband, for if ergu
. failed to as?ure surre?? cotton could
? v..yed. The freedom of the seas is al
i ways more latiifactory when it depend?
! on ui.
The Western itatei also possess many sec
legislators who expose the r state or
' section to invasion by refusing to adopt Fed?
eral viewi ( ertainly an I led la
the United States and in possession i
York < ':ty and vicinity would not take the
trouble to walk or even ride as far, for ex
ample, SI Minnesota. Buch an enemy, pol
scaped of the financial and commercial "ma?
chinery" centred in New York City, could
interfere disastrously with the business life
of the entire West and levy toll from a dis?
tance by electricity. The crop-moving "ma
ehinery" (and the outlets, perl spi would be
broken to pieces. If we had another enemy
crating on the Pacific Coast the paral*
of the interior mercantile operations
would be complete.
We certainly nee.I hn adequate navy. \i
must be large compared with other i
There is nothing absolute sbout
really the most relative thing in the world
if our the only one in the world it
would neither be ?urge nor small.
by comparison, New York could soon be
1 seen to be the richest prize in the world. No
il too large when that is considered.
i York, Sept ?'., 1916. B. U. V.
Land for All.
! To the Editor of The Trihun?.
Why doei Franklin Hopkins fo iweep
ingly ' Walsh report and include
Henry George among those who have tried.
la solution for our social
and economic problems? Mr. George'? solu
tion is complete. 11.s application of the
? a l?ulo recognisei the right of man
to the earth. Moses recognized it when he
"The land shall not be sold forever,"
and elsewhere the Hible recognized it in
?tating that "The profit of the earth ?hall j
he for all." Jesus came, "not to destroy,!
I at to fulfil the law" on this important sub-1
and the (Milden Rule, if onlv moderate-1
!y applied, must prohibit a land system by
the few charge the many lor living
on the earth.
If the Fed'ral government, to which Mr
I is, can, through taxation of
II natural resources into the.
Federal Treasury, uve na, let if do lo. Much
though, if the states will abolish
all taxi'.- luit those on the value of land
ind support the Federal government by eon-1
tributions from the states, as the state gov-!
cr?mente are supported by contributions
from the com
The problem is very simple. We allow '
? w to own the earth in perpetuity
"fee simple." We must, a.? Mosei did, re
divide the lend every Aft?/ -ear.- Year of
restrict the amount of ownership,
rcment" into our
i is and dli
wars are waged
ior the acquisition of more land. There is
have not yet
to dial ributa it.
JAMES P. K?HLER.
Brooklyn, Sept ?'. 1616.
Divided Households.
' To the Edil ?r of TI i Tribuna
i : As a member of the New York Peace
\ Society may I be permitted to register a pro
n youi eolumni against the action of
? in members of our body who this
? morni i ti indorsed bj
our soi r an embi on the t-hip ?
: and ladies1
are violating the very principlci for winch
our body was founded. Il li deplorable. It
' will have an injurious effect on our move '
.'? ch was Inaugurated for the good of!
j niant. ;
Among the names of several of these man!
!> there are persons interested In thf,
manufacture of They must not
realised the harm they were doing al
? by initiating this personal state!
m?-nt Th? ing upon our cause the|
eh are nou beset ?. the Amer! i
i can hit. net- Soc i barged with
They are bringing upon u*
| tha charges mads Siavj League,
which.onteins so many men engaged in
rig oi war munitions.
Th. -erious defect in
, our national organising ability when ind,
? viduals ?-re treat movements of noble
purpose and t't us defeat their aims.
E. H. MARK HAM.
New York, Sept. fl, 1916.
Social Good vs. Militarism.
Te th? M I e Tribune.
?**ir: There !.. rvidentl) been too much
? ports of Will lrw-.n.
The il h. *? ntial, the
smaaitarian
?pirll of I constitute literature
is it* pragmatic sense. There is more litera?
ture In the m.king struck by pressmen under
sometimes by the unsigned) than
is to be found in most of the ?tuff read with
?i by the "culture.)."
I wish there could be reprinted in larg"
type, not in the wretched usual type of the
sapor, the ending paragraphs of Irwin's
"Hundred balaclavas Hid in War's Routine
beginning 'i'lac* ha* brought to
? Europa ..."
"*11 ha? in
?1er in
i"he Ti ii in pens
There is se i. vei so potei I
SS tha . the social .
inte n the ego i i merged, peace venus
ttie braggart ?., in.
DAISY SANTAL GILL
Douglastea, I?. I., s. pt. 4, iai5.
Against Hyphenated Officeholders.
' 'or of The Trit/ui.e.
B i ?A ...-re in the City of N\.w York can 1
sa intensely American society wh..-e
tion of German*
. Austrian* or Austrian
?., any
BJ y stats in the I'nion or und. ? t .
* States gaverameat, no matter ?hat
party prop..sis such election?
JOHN LLT1ANE.
I Ire-sUya? -jt-i-t. C, 11,15.
"I SUPPOSE YOU'LL WANT A 'SAFE-CONDUCT,' DOCTOR!"
NEUTRALITY A BLUNDER
German Victory Would Be the Greatest Disaster That Ever Befell the
United States?Belter Take Our Stand To-day.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: For over a year tha great rations o
Europi? hav. ?rar, und to-day the re
suit Is still obscure.
Most al; I and pray for the Al
lies' success, and feel that some time it wll
come. Hut is it at till certain? To
who look at it impartially and
att'ly it I* not. To-day, just as ?:i Si
bor h year agi, Germany Is on the <
driving the Russians before her as in thi
first weeks shf a 2 France.
may ho able to atem the tide and tura i
hack. Hut perhaps not. Hera may
the heroie Abre which, for
France.
So Germany muy win and what then'
Germany supreme in Europe) I'
us can visualisa what that would mean? Foi
geographical res UBI 1 h over
powered, would .s'iil remain a nation to bi
reckoned with. Franc??, though dominated bj
the Boches, would Still maintain some lem
blanee of independence hut England? No
r.d, because of her insular position
must stand a great werld power or
If England loses she lopes.nil, and home
and eo |ueror' ? mercy
And what wi
Ian,| itself? That seems hardly p
Canada? Why not? Is that too much foi
Germany to demand? It ti prepoi
terous, but is it? Ko. Mora likely shi
would want more. Canada would bo a \i!\
deairabia German colony fur many reasons,
It is rich and lur^t? and varj . situ
ated strategically, a very convenient place
from which to watch us; we, tha only re?
maining rival of the conqueror, the one
power .standing in the way of Gorman world
dominion.
Germany fears us and she hat?
fears us for our commercial supremacy: wa
who have grown rich on the misery of si rug
gling Europe, we wh<> have prospered while
German) was becoming impoverished. Ami
i-he ba ? ? ausa bj our "strict neutral?
ity" we have aided her em plying
them with food and powder which .she could
not get. a
f-'he wont forget or forgive Does any
one suppose that the soft-spoken words that
cmne from tho German Chancellery
tin- true fealinga of tha Gorman people?
Not for one min i -i tha deadly tor
- and the shattering bombs. Tha po?
lite phrases are dictated bj . alone,
thi.t compels the German government to stop
which has already forced
? the great nationa to battle against It.
Pietura Germany in ? amula. Can one
?imagine a greater calamity to aal This
?country, which for a century lias lived m th
English Canada like brothers in tha
?home, without gun or fort to mark the bonn
suddenly faced by the conqueror of
Europe: a nation in arm?, which glories in
?warfare; a nation which proclaim? that
?might is the only right; a nation that i-i
tilled with the lu.-t of world domain; a na?
tion that envies us our trade; a aal OB that
hates us for our "neutrality" Any treaty
w-ith such a neighbor would be but a "scrap
,!n-r." p/o, oar women and el
? ire" as the women ami chit?
! dren of Belgium.
What COU d we do? Build great firts
from Ma ! ? to "?
army i the 1
What .i J
far remote \% us a bad
summer's dream? To some of us it
very rea!.
hut whether Germany -j?cures ("u?ada or
not by the treaty of | i BJ ?-, in Milan victory
would be the gr. . ?? iter that ever be?
fell *' America. From
I that day forward we would ?tand under the
?shadow of war. i | by the g
i military nation the world ba u; her
? d With \ id ?ry, her
?coffers filled with the indemnitii
?from her fallen foe, intoxicated With suc
eeaSi hi i dn in ? of world dominios
n. her grasp, 'i ? ind gtoiloas, bat
slat! the weak an.I powerleai I ? U '. State.?
of America alone itaadiag la her way.
Then, why should w ? pretend '?' I"' neutral
?when we are not? Why should w
?aleej and saj/ this i? ae aght ut aorta, wbea
?we are most vitally concerned? We neei
not declare war or put armies in 'he field
for by ao doing we would do our Allies mor.
harm than good. Hut we could take a stani
and tell the world that we are not neutral
ihat we are for the Allies, heart and soul
and bitterly opposed to Germany thai
?forth we are going to do our best tf
help the Allies win and to compasi Gor
many'fl defeat. Let Germany declare war
must, bat by the fortune of the star,
(he greateat help we could give our Allie.?
would be not by raising, equipping and mu
nitioning a large army and .?ending it abroad
-.- Ii nding 'hem our vaat wealth ami
?t to Germany, doubling an?
ipling our munition factories, ?cttlins
: iTerences with England in a spirit
i hip. opposing Germany in all.
It is ridiculous to say that a great nation
of 100,000,000, the richest on the face of the
could not do more than ?.he is doing
i ..'.?.-. We are helping, to ba sure; hut by tak?
ing a stand with the Allies we could in
? iur help many fold.
The political effect alone would bo very
great It would influence every wavering
neutral. Who can say that our action would
not turn the scale in the Balkans to bring
thrm in on the side of the Allies?
Then could ara lif' our heada like men, fac?
ing the wor* I, saying what we really think
inking under the cloak of neutrality,
??eak our minds, unable to do our
I
\\'?? stand aside and watch the struggle
fatuously believing it is none of ours. Hut
if Germany wins we should see too lata that
-, ? our light, nnd woe betide our coun
i ?hat sad day forth,
lar better take our stand to-day, with
many friends, than later, all alone.
CON KAI) HOB HS.
Boston, Sept. 1, 1915.
Selfishness Incarnate.
To the Editer of The Tribune.
S r: Forever harping upon "rights"! "I
will bsva my rights, right or wrong!" cry
iffragiata. Yet when were men given
the right to vete? It was a duty laid upon
them. And what right have a pitiful minor
Ity of the women of thu country to inflict
such a burdensome duty upon all the rest?
"Oh," but one exclaims, "we are lighting
for the rights of others!" And then comes
the illogical outcry about "higher wages" and
ears for tha workers" ignoring the
fact that the condition of all wage earners
r ?n the man suffrage states than
in any whera women have voted fei years.
And with all th.s hue and cry comes the
? - ry woman should, in some
way, earn lier own living purblind to the
fi'Ct that to the number of women who must
work in live they are trying to add an equal
number who do not need it. If a merchant
renty women offering him their services
at $(1 a week, is he to offer $10 to the twenty
.Ithough she may really need it and the
twenty do nut? How ?s he to know the fact*
in the case? But whoso looks for justice In
woman suffrage will flnd it not.
SIDNEY AMKS.
New York. Sept. 6, 1916.
A Poor Parallel.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter in to-day's Tribune from
II. Joaanaon is a fair sample of the workings
, of the German mind. Ho says, "Is it not our
-t in money that makes us supply the
I Allies with war materials?" Possibly we
apply the Allies with war materials for the
' same reasons that Germany in the past ha?
j .-uppfied various warring nations in Europe.
? When Germany did it, it was ail right and in
entire accordance with international law;
when .? i- do it, it is all wrong and unneutra!,
according tO the German idee.
in a might) poor "sport " She
? .'ange the rules m the muidle ot
-he thinks it Ut her ?at
to do mi. We are not "in the same position
, U thi ami Austro Hungarians a*
Charles Becker was t,. l'o-,enthal." We art
m the ?ame position to the German? a* th?
! judge who sentenced him wa? to Hecker.
Biuotwin, Sept. -J, tele? w. g. b. J
NOT TIME YET FOR PEACE
Proposals Now Current Not Appro?
priate or Disinterested.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: We have been recently confronted r)
two facts of supreme importance I | -
mediate and to the future welfare of tkj
country. First, we cannot too emp ttiali?
dispute the inherent value of our so-**JJ**
diplomatic victory in the matter of the Get?
man submarine policy. However muck t?
may respect President . Wilson, W* cannot
blind ourselves to the unhappy fee?, that ex
pediency rather than a belated recognition *T
tract morality of the case ha.? beis?
the bottom of this change of fron' Gens??;
had two policiei to choose 'rom and ?.ho**,
naturally enough, the one least <h*adrantt*>
geous to herself.
We have absolutely no reason for ssiumiif
that there has loen any charge of heart b?
of the ciiange of policy. To believe ?s ??
is sheer, fatuous, maudlin folly. H..?v.-ver th? I
of this affair are changed, till
spiritual aspec's rema n the same. The i??*?
can be clouded only at the peril of tr-1?
country's future welfare. We are ?o-day, ?nl
we must remain, sympathetic to the allet**
ideals for which France and England ?r?
liKhtinir. If those ideals can be proved il*
sincere, it will be Mme 'o deny these ees*>
tries th?? larger portion of our trust. B*<
s gravar matter ... n than th;.? tob?
considered At a time when German rail l**t
apparently at itu highest teaii?*?
at a time when on pon-. th? '..rmsnsM
the Austrian nations have won this wsr, th?
front pages of our newspaper! are devoted li
the activities of the Roman Church en mr
half of peace. .Surely there is a -gmricssi?
here impossible to overestimate. We ?reco?*
fronted by two very important .i?p.-ct? of t?*
matter: Why are the Pope snd .-. r'ais sef
sons ?ubordinate to the Tope featured dli'f
by our newspaper?? Why do we attach?'."'
greater sijrni*ieance to their doing? and HT'
ings than we should attach to tin' doing"! .**?
sayings of Bishop Greer or Ruh' WiSB, **
snybosjy else?
Granting that we Ho. gran':/ 'hit th?
American people have acquired ti i unr??!?"*
ing habit of attributing a lort of citreordl
nary importance to the influence of the R**
man Church si from other ??
?T.iences, 1st us at least seriously icrutu'.-*
this influence lest it contain m tivss of'
kind ulterior and injuriou? to an equitable
dispensation of international 'ust.ee.
We indict no individual '-oneitfi
but we do most emphatically maintain th??
the interests of the Vatican are alinoit ?I"
clusively centred in the fortune? of Au?tr?
and Germany. It Is d (Beult to believe th?'
Rome's activities on behalf of peace are other
than evidences of a growing anxiety overt**
welfare of two of the cont?"st;,- t? in the w?r
at the expense of the other? It is t0 ?*
hoped that our President will avoid enU-T*
ment with an influence alien both to the >?*
tanate of this country and the interest? ?f ?
valid peace.
This war ought to continue muit C0"'?I'?J
f it is not, in some near future, to be toe?V
all over again at an even more ? tu pendo*?
and agonizing cost. In it? ultimate ansly?*
it is a spiritual conflict In the opinion oj
?ome people America ha? not grasp?" t?
pro-eminent significance of th?? issue?. ???
not improbable that, ?ooner or later, *>
sword will be forced into her unwilling***?
unpractised hand. ..
In the meanwhile ?ine thing is clear:
America helps, however well meaningly?"'
precipitate a premature j ? ? '**
victim to the insidious attempts "'*'''.,.
blind her to the legitimate ami i 'ev.tsjej
issues of this war, she will have pr*"*
traitor to herself and to her people. tnt**
fore, she must not, ah* cannot, allow her***
to work with and to be influenced by ***
power ostensibly disinterested and ?Hrui******
but inherently partial and political. JW
CHARLES L. Bl-'CHAS??
New York, Sept. ?i, 1S?16.
The Kaiser an "Anti."
To the Kditor of The Tribune.
Sir: I do not think that ?' ''
been called to the fact that Kai??r ?''IJjJ*
is probably the most prominent *r:i ??ej**
gist. He believes that "church, kitthesl""
children" should be enough fer anv aapPa
FA tii i'UI- |
? Tarrytown, N. Y.. Sept. 5. 1916. *