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Mr. Dumba Dismissed.
In of Mr. D
. ?? v\ soi baa taktm tho only course
with the dignity ami honor of
the Unil r?an Ambas?
sador has admitted that he vas guilty of
?tos?, imp To have hesitated to
m, to have waited one minute
beyond the tin i y for a |
investigation, to have seemed to fount the
erst, WCUld have been to lower the pres?
tige of this country ami to invite further
affronts to its honor. The administration
has acted firmly and rommendably.
Inevitably th:s action must have I wider
an its direct application in
the case of misguided Mr. Ihimbn. There
are pending the cases of the Lusitania, the
Arabic, the Hesperian, in which (iermany's
are the cffcnde?-s against this coun?
try. Words of argument, of remonstrance,
li-rive I failed t.. obtain from that
country's representatives anything but a
\ague and indefinite assurance that here
jjfter th? rights Of our citizens shall be
ted. It is not too much to hope
that the <: Dumba may carry
? many the : ?* only
.an, that the United >*tate.= is
mined to make its rights respected.
Making a Vague Pledge Vaguer.
t.-xt of the Arabic note which
Berlin ha* cabled makes Germany*i recent
? assurances to our government con
ably vaguer. The country hailed
with satisfaction the pledge contained in
Count von Bcrnst?.rfT's letter of September
| ta S '? because it met
America)! demands explicitly or fully, hut
leca., cd to denote a will]
? n Germany's part to accept in principle
American contentions as to the limitations
which must be put on submarine warfare.
< ount von Bernstorfl wrote: "Liners
will not be sunk by our submarine.- with
.. ?t warning and without safety of the
lives . , mbatanl providod that the
liners do not try to escape or offer resist
That was only a partial indorse?
ment of the theory set forth in the Ameri?
can m.te of February 10 and in the Lusi
tai is
\\ ?.son had insisted that not
liners aid ?. Lut all unarmed enemy mer?
man*, which American citizens
i tight take passage shall be exempt from
ept under existing rules of war?
fare at sea. The public has been willing
m accepl Germany's recent incomplete as
Furam-c; as evident** that she intended to
marine policy so as to make
it comply with international law and
humane practica. Our people saw hope?
fully h. -i pi omise the fore
runnei of ? completer adjustment, which
rliould put an end to wanton slaughter of
. non-combatants on the high
Evidei tly we were too optimistic. The
position tiiK'-n in the Arabic note iiidi
Counl von BernstorfTs pledge
not 1 made broader and clearar. On
? . be made narrower
more obscure. If it is to be left to
iho eomn andar of each German submarine
himself for torpedoing a mer*
chantman without warning? on the plea
the von Bernstorff guaran?
is whittle.1, down to a pale and in?
. factual abatra
Nothing is more inherently Impr?
tian the assumption that a big liner like
? arrying hundreds of non?
i a valuable cargo, would
?ulish and deaparate risk of try?
ing to ran down a submarine attacking
anothe craft M>me miles away. Vet the
new Germaa not?- transmit? an explana
the submarine commander who
.-ank the Arabic which imputes SUSpi*
? ivres to the liner,
and pictural her as the attacker instead of
? .d.
The exl ..f this excuse need
not In- insisted upon. The point is that
? ...rnmander is allowed
t<- interpret for himself the conditions
r which a liner is to be torpedoed
ag and without safety of
f non-combatants," Count von
mmunicatioo to Secretary
[MflS ?-s a hollow BMckery. It
we ? . I'nited Stab ? guarantee
***a?th having again.*', rccurn-nics of the
! i*aitania and Arabic outrages.
What is needed is a clear, full, indi-put
able interpretation of the vague pron
?SepU-mU ? 1. How far is Germany really
prepanc to go 'ri accepting the principle
of neutral rights as laid down in tin
ernm. ! . what extent will she
forego submarine warfare which i- in con?
travention of internal tonal law?
Until the?--? point? are cleared up it will
be premature to con^ralulatc oum-ht.- vu
having argued Germany into reasonable
r on having won any real victory in
oar flltht for civilization and international
Misguided "Economy."
Y ? the work
of the reorganized State Derjartment of
.-irly in ?ta infant hygiene
aign, ia wi er Dr.
an<! the Heali
?as rom!- tematic,
unaanitary
conditioni which if? gradually bringing up
the state at largt? t.> the position of emi
which New York City hns h?!d by
rirtue of ita excellent department.
that ? regrettable that
? tided by a spirit of
petty politics, refused t.. make adequate
? -
..f the men and inren 11 i 11 tr
have made I
The Tribune ? n to this at
th?? ti*-. !' p???? that m
? -,.)- Whitman ii ? sy be pos
? ? way will I??- found t?? keep the
? ? rganization unbroken.
Assuredl; n<-vt year ample funda should
in- provided to permit tl?.'? Health Depart
to continue unhampered its valuable
work. It ?a the meai
momy n< I ? .? itself which
stints expenditures for the saving and pro
. ?
A Warning to the Hyphenated.
Stahl, the German i who admit?
ted thai he perjured h im reif when he swore
thnt he aaw ?.?-uns on the Luaitania, is on
his way to prison, where he belongs. It
is n tit and impressive ending to a par?
ticularly outrageous misu etican
institution?. His case?especially its end?
ing?ought to serve ;is n warning to over
zealous fellow-countrymen who are taking
long, long chances with American patience
American laws.
Stahl may have been, as an individual,
misguidedly seeking to serve his father
land, jus1 at Muenter with his bomb and re?
volver.-- may have been expressing merely
razy individual notions. Nevertheless,
has been too much activity in this
land of the fiec, whether individual or
official and organized, which has been cal?
culated to benefit Germany only. Ameri?
can passports have been forged and used
to further German schemes. American
factories have been subject, recently, to
a most amazing series of mishaps? when
they happened to be busy on war orders
which would not benefit Germany. Amer?
ica wants no aide-line to the European
war to be conducted here, whether by
forgery and perjury or by bomb and sabot?
age. The conviction of this liar is salu?
tary. It should not be'the only instance
. ;' this country's work to protect its
citizens.
Preparedness a la Bryan.
It is indeed ?gratifying to have even Mr.
Bryan turn his thoughts to the matter of
national preparedness and to have him j
set forth so excellent a programme, as
far as it goes. A system of highways, of
real, up-to-date automobile highways,
stretching from coast to coast would serve
the country admirably in a modern cam?
paign, which depends to such an enormous
extent on motor traction. The argument
that they would also facilitate the advance
of the enemy is the argument of one who
doesn't .?-hare Mr. Bryan's confidence in
the embattled potency of the American
farmer aiming his fowling-piece through
the spokes of his Ford.
Mr. Bryan's vision of a million patriots
leaping to arms between sunrise and sun?
set has strengthened with the passing
But he now realizes that though
lhey might leap, many might stick, too.
in the rare of our neglected thoroughfares
and mis: the chance of dealing the invader
their ?quota of the blow that should drive
iiim into the sea. "Let them at him!" 1-;
i.is motto. The little, old heilig -
Well, much of tin- Roman military
strength consisted in good roads. And in
Western Europe to-day they are consid?
ered an essential of preparedness. But
.11 both caes their military value has con?
sisted in the presence of well equipped
armie ? I by them. The nations
hiving the latter even long for food roads
in the lands of their enemies. Germany,
then.' can be no doubt, would give a great
deal if only Russia had the splendid
of roads which Mr. Bryan advocates for
lountry. The Russians, on the other
b'ind. appear tolerably well content with
their lack of them for the present, ?
haps we should be, did we face at this
time tin same type of invasion. Mr.
Bryan si ems Ul aware that mud is thi -
substitute for munitions.
Of course the Russians have no Fords
in which to l'idi the enemy down. This is
an item that must be considered. But in
>;ew of Mr. Ford's $10,000,000 gift to the
cause of unconditional peace what
lege it would be for US to employ his cars
in warfare! When the pinch came would
Mr. Bryan stand for it '.'
Plattsburg and the National Guard.
It ia only natura! that the national
ruard should feel somewhat jealous of Un?
popular interest and applause evoked by
?he rookies at Plattsburg. Militiamen have
teen Bvcriflcing their vi ations for year?.
and with the reverse . encouragement
from their fellow citizens, for the same
object so commended at Plattsburg; and
- ow in a moment of popular excitement a
thousand of the hitherto indolent leap to
and ufter the sacrifice of a single
vacation and the acpnrcment of only a
?mall part of the knowledge and training
? national guardsman, take
up the front of the stage.
One can hardly blame General "'Cyan
and his officers, therefore, if at Van Cort
lanilt Park tht y present a rival show (#1
?< ;. tin? 1 if Plattsburg just to
know-that while we ha\e been ex
jaradiltjj our uiUiuMasin ut? the dist?.?
ajuiihad recruit.?- upstati we have been
overlooking a mon- .?? i ?
der our very not? , Lei hi trot fortl
all arms of the service. It will be a di tinct
pleasure t<> New Yt ken to discover that
?? ??? in their mid I are ten thousand well
broken and efficient citizen soldiers
? ? ! and re* ly fo isini
.?id! what a pitiful handful!).
Bu1 a little reflection should convince
the members of the national guard that
the popularity of the Plattsburg encamp?
ment will in the end have benefited and
stimulated their organization, together
with th? whole cause of national prepared
n?"-s, n:* no other agency could. The cm
phasis placed on the value of the single
month's training is already multiplying
public respect for the training of years
red in the militia. It should stimulate
recruiting among those young men who
permanent outlet than a
month's training for their military ardor,
and within the guard itself the spirit of
rivalry provoked by the activities of the
rookie? should greatly improve the morale
ol the I roops.
No little group of men is to have a
monopoly of the ble sings flowing from
Plattsburg. Give them time and they will
add to the stature of every he-American.
How the Primary Has Succeeded.
Opponents of the direct primary and
?here are s-1ill mai y of them in this
?is recent proposals in the Constitutional
Convention prove undoubtedly will try
'?o make some capital out of Mr. Taft's
i pecch to the bankers, Admitting that the
convention system had too often proved
itself merely an instrument of political
bosses and corporation eorrupters, the ex
I'resident insisted that the primary was no
letter. The convention, he said, had a
".-ense of some responsibility," because it
wanted to nominate a ticket which could
win, and no such responsibility existed
under the primary system. The conven?
tion would work- better than the primary,
lie thought, if the voters would turn out;
but under any system "the politicians will
control if the people fail in their electoral
duties."
That is obvious. It is equally true that
the direct primary will not exterminate
thi political boss and break up his ma?
chine. But if the opposition which the
professional politicians manifest to the
priman law be any test, it is safe to as?
i?me that it does not suit their scheme of
operation.- as well as the convention sys?
tem did; in other words, that it does about
what Governor i; d it would do
"takes the hobbles off the people and puts
them on the politicians."
Moreover, it is the experience of many
which have had the primary system
of making nominations longer than New
Vr.rk has that it doe- increase public in?
lii nominations and participation in'
the primaries. Prior to the enactment of
the law here there was little interest ever
in the election of delegates to conventions
?that was regarded as a machine func?
tion. The voters took their revenge on
the party's candidates if the convention
went wrong. There may or may not be
primary contests now?that is according
to the public's desire?but there is always
open the machinery to tight an unpopular
seeker after nomination, both before pri?
mary day and after, if he be chosen the
candidate.
One of the most astute Republican poli?
ticians in New York State gives it as his
experience that "the direct primary can
be controlled by the machine as the con?
vention could, but we have to work a lot
harder." That verdict, which falls within
the average voter's personal experience,
is why the primary is regarded here as a
success not absolute perfection, 1?ut rela?
tively an improvement and why attempts
to abolish it bring forth general e
sions of indignation.
A prisoner nrrnirned in Atlant
'.?'??i.- ?i ure cure for
ndition which ensues'when "you .
-.-.?. over your limit." Some of the T<
loin rea tau i ought to feature the diah.
Mi. Barnes insist? tl ? it ai ?d Con
etionary. At im-t it waant
ti. brand of read ?
An American Bar.abbas.
? ? Editor of The Tr bune.
\\ hatever oth< r elaim i I
may be it cer?
tainly de . 111 ? to be with the or
dcr of C. to C.i i to Coi r<--?.. ?
merit manifested
? break ng i.t, it would seem) when
impudent letter? uro printed from
as who could never, by any ??
means, win the medal of the recipro?
?1er of Coui ?
1 ..k<-, for ?nstanci .
rifying i ?) threat printed September ?"-. wi ??
;i!.-.| indiv
more <.f an American in spirit than wa
1 Barabb hiraseli Harden
uta. To revive, in a way, an old
I ...ntcil than polite, it niij.'ht be
? 7(ie tiuculi : aently
qualified to carry the last four tentl - of his'
name to a bear. An.I farther depon?
I not. P. II. LANGWORTHY.
Wurrcn, Penn., Sept. ?'?, [915
Seventeen Soldier Relatives.
? .
When a woman named Caroline lionnott or
?er eras put on probat
i rn police court, Glasf
of drunkenness, she told e
remarkable story ?
Her filth. r, | had bean ;n th?* arm)
for twent) -one yeai . and hud i ?
rank of sergeant major. SI.?
born in Bombay, and ?a.? one of a family of
ght of them being boya. All"?hi
aera brought uj? in :h<- repimental
li.iid, und lubeequently joined the army.
Two were killed in the Boar War. ?-ne her?
self sloped with a private ?n tha R F. A.
and married him. Subsequently ?he boucht
him oui and afterward In- join.
He went to Smith Africa, and in
1901 ha wai killed near Ladysmith. There
????re ten children of tin- marriage. SI
rth to twin I of tha
en wire boys, and all joined th.- army.
Thfe? of them I. ,d in '.he present'
w,-ir an?! one of them ?i at home ju?t now
WOt!!!.'.
One of her daughters lost her bu
at tha ? ' '?>. and another dauphtrr's
husband is at the Oaidaiiellei with the .N,?\al
iinj^aii?.'.
NO OUTSIDE PRESSURE
Standard Oil's Policy Not In^
fluenced by the Walsh Com?
mittee's Work.
To ?he Editor of The Tribun??
?? r '. Tribune editora! an
n.-i? mads that "the grant ? | ??'
-hi hour day to Standard ?Ml CofapSBJf
employes i? n d iect result of the work of the
States Commission on Industrial Re
? end, "if it had not been for the
.mashing report of its investigator? on the
conditions which produced the Bayonne
strike, ... it would have been difficult
to conceive of the present action."
Permit US to ?ay that these ?latement? are
on a misapprehenFion of the fa?.">? of
the e..-e. us well as taking fof granted that
? nes of the Standard Oil Company over
the remarkable statements and conclusions in
the report of the Industrial Relations Com?
mission was a tacit admis ?OB of the correct?
ness of the commissions summarisation.
This is not the fact. The so -call? ?1 report
was so visibly inexact and so obviously an ex
pRrte argument that it did not seem worthy
of comment <>r controv. ?
The attitude of the Standard Oil Company
towsrd its employe.? is correctly stated in the
public notice of the adoption of the eight*
b? ur working day and quoted in The Trihune,
viz.: "It is the policy of this company to keep
nd working conditions equal to or
?n advance of the wagoa and working condi
of other men doing ? similar class of
work."
In making tin- announcement the standard
mpany was n?>t influenced in any way
whatever by the report of the industrial Re
lations Commission 01 by tho report of its
: I, The increase in wages arid the
reduction in the hours of labor had no con?
nection, immediate or remote, with the tind
?' the commission, and was not a "direct
result of the work'' of it, nor even an Indirect
result. The Btaadard "il Company had the
subject of an eight-hour day under consid-i
eration for some months prior to the Bayonne
strike, and was governed solely by recognized
economic condition?, as expressed in the in-|
tentlon to keep wages and working conditions;
equal to or in advance of the wages and con?
ditions elsewhere. No other consideration
entered into the adjustment.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY (N?iw Jersey).
A. C. BEDFORD, Vice-President
New York, Sept '.'. 1911.
Our Pusillanimous Equanimity.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: No man could better than your corre?
spondent Charles Stewart Davisoo have ex-,
ed tbe predominant feeling of every ro
bust American concerning the extraordin?r;,
pusillanimity manifested in our intercourse
1 ermany sincp the sinking of the Lusi
. and I fe#l confident thut his sentiments
lave found an echo in the henrt of every true
Am? rican. Por month? we have simply been
flirting with a bunch of the worst pirates
that ever infested civilization. We have been
shirking a? cowards would shirk a plain duty
impoaed on all free people to take up our I
s!:are of the burdens of defending the sacred;
eau .- of human liberty and civilization.
ead, have we done more than utter aj
protest ae-ainst the fiendish acts of a|
horde of murderer?: and robbers? Have WO I
done mor? than courteously thank these mis-!
cr?ants for having not further depleted the;
i ' living Americans? One cannot help
but thini. that if the ruling powers of this
tO-day were animated by the spirit of
brave olu Andrtw Jackson no foreign power
would have dared to spit in the face of this
Republic.
Has his America of which we love to boast
grown suddenly so craven that it shrinks In
. id trembling from any just contest in
which are involved the rights of man and the
liberty o? the world?
When we consider what this nation has lost
in prestige by it' policy of "patient waiting"
? e may well exclaim with your correspondent,
"Oh, sickening und pitiable episode in the
ry of the United States!"
Has the thoughtful American yet to learn
that th.-r.. i| a wor-e evil than a Heath grap?
ple with tyrants, vis., to endure their assault.?
with pu.-illanimous equanimity. J. R. W.
New V,.rk, Sept S, 1?-15.
Worthless German Promises.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Germany ha.? said that she will fore
i practice of torpedoing ocean liners
they at- (scaning or attempting to at-j
tack a submarine or defend themselves in
some pray. Her argument for her programme
?..-?.sination was necessity. It is quite
likely that necessity i translated in loss of
submarines) is the argument which causes i
her to refrain from carrying on this samej
. ???? ination, hut what se-j
have wc that she will continue to de
rhen she has more submarines or some j
other "necessity" arise*"
II? r written statement that she will do so
i ??' even a treaty with two or more parties]
to 't, and can rssil) be considered by (1er-j
many even less than a scrap of paper.
I have found in my recent reading that the1
"scrap of paper" ides is not new in (iermany
and was not coined to meet the Relginn situ
Ihat ?iermany applies it to all the neu?
tralized .?tat'-..
In .lulv and August. 1901, there appeared in
"Die Grtansboten" S series of unsigned arti?
lles entitled "(Iermany vs. Holland." which
from the Style, diction and the writer's in
lide riea In polities have been attributed to j
Chancillo? von Hulow, in which the follow
ing sentei ee occurs:
"]ltr Holland's i guaranteed neutrality is
re than I *hre,l of paper which would
prove worthless in war."
I- there anything which will bind ?.ermany
to keep even the letter of any promise t-h? ?
may make?
No! Nothing but fear!
L. B. FAIRFIELD.
Brlst il, ?'or.n., Sept. IS, 1915.
One Who Won't Strike.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1 am employed in a factory in Brook
?yn where munitions are made for the Allies.
1 know that the Austro-Hungarian govern
' uns spies in this country to fo?
rm nt singes and thus cripple the output. I
..in I H..tien-,?in, and as such deadly opposed'
?ran government, and wish it to1
ii defe: ted, ju^t like every patriotic Bohe
utian do. ?.
All OUI Bohemian newspapers warn us
' the Au-'ro-IIurigarian spies, and you
.:rc,l that wc Bohemians workmen
vould not go on strike to please AmbassH
di r Dumba or any other paid agent of the
an government. I'own n:th Austria!
JOHN MITA.
New York, Sept. 7, 1!?15.
German Sabotage Here.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
S r: I am of the third generation of Trib?
une readers in our family, and I would like
The Tribune print a list of explosions
i by Cern?an sympathizers in the United
It would be a growing list, and the
country seems to need some such reminder to
make the government act and the people wake
up to the da- DOWNING VAUX.
al Y. M ?'. A. Building, Kingston, N. Y.,
Sept e, 191?.
SUCCESSFUL.
CAN'T SERVE TWO MASTERS
German-Americans Having Hard
Time with That Task.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I am a render of. The Tribune, and
*o day some of the le'ters on your editorial
page umused me greatly "Al an English?
man Sees It," for instance. Was there any?
thing to hinder England from sendine her
troop? Into Belgium and marching them
down through that country to meet the Ger?
mans when it became certaii they intended
to invade Belgium? If it was not England's
place and duty as a Christian nation and a
neighbor to rush to the rescue of n small
nation overrun by one twice or more its size.
that lies only a comparatively few miles
away from its own borders, why does it rail
at us, three thousand miles away? Doesn't
England know that every true American de?
spises the deed an? the doers of it?
As for the Statue of Liberty, it ftill stands
in New York Harbor, a present from one
nation battling for freedom to another which
has fought for freedom in the past, nnd has
practised ?"reedom more or less successfully
for some years. Behind it are the American
people, quietly and steadily forming their
opinion of things English as well as German.
1'nclo Sam doesn't always act as quickly
as some of his truest supporte-s think he
hould; but once he sees the wisdom of taking
the stage, he remains until the play is fin?
ished, rings down the curtain himself, locks
up the house and generally goes home with
the keys in his pocket.
And again, "An Appeal from England" to
come over and help bring Germany to the
"penitent form." "While streets of houses
laid waste," etc. Yes; it's outrageous; but
remember that all Belgium "lie. bleeding
and prostrate" within a stone's throw, so to
speak, of the English shore. Does England
acknowledge itself beaten by Germany?
Stop railing at u - and go on to Berlin! You
have our best wishes and our pruyers. You
are three thousand mi' s nearer to it than
we are.
Then "A Threat," evidently from Gorman
Americans. There was an Author greater
than Shakespeare once, who said, "No man
car serve two masters," and it is generally
found to be difficult to carry water on both
shoulders. (lui German-American friends
are having a hard time of it who wish to
stand by the Kaiser and by the government
of this Republic at the same time.
But we are rot all German-Americans;
some of us are Hollanders, and this is a free
country free for Hollanders as well as for
German-American*. ELLA ?'. ENYARD.
N.w Brunswick, N". J., Sept. h, i y 15.
Why Women Need the Vote.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Our wive--, sisters and daughters have
appealed to our chivalry and sense of fair
play to extend to them what in justice they
are entitled to an eiiual right to govern and
control this country, which is as much theirs
as ours, and to share in supervising the edu?
cational, social and industrial conditions
under which the children, who are as much
their? as ours, shall be safeguarded.
There are *?,?miii.?mid women and girls in this
country "engaged in gainful occupations," and
surely if they are dependent on their own
exertions lor their ability to live they have
as much rieht to share m regulating the con?
ditions ander v hich they work es the seamen
had to demand the enactment of the "????a
men's bill," or as organized labor has to force
the paasing of the various lairs governing the
conditions under which.men work.
"There's a divinity that shape.? our ends,
rough-hew them how we will." The father,
who is away all day at his business or work,
cannot, fiom these very conditions, do much
more than rough hew the ends for his chil?
dren. It is the mother in the home who is
the destiny to shape and polish them; and
how many widowed mothers are there con?
stantly being cailed upon to do the hewing
as well as the -haping and polishing!
Our whole economic life ha? progressed to
a point where the mother the limits of whose
life are circumscribed by the gossip of the
sewing society or the chatter of the bridge
table cannot keep pace with the needs and
welfare of her own children.
In her letter to you of Sept. 2 Helen lie
**"-*'?*?*?? *?*..? tin.- "is an old fashioned woman
and glorie? in it"; also, "that ?he i? willing
(to acknowleilft-e herself on a lower mental
?plane 'han mnn if hy so doing: ?he can con?
tinue to receive from him the homage and
j protection she conriders her due."
I am an old-fashioned man and I ?lory in it.
but I was brought up to extpnd to women the
?I omage snd pr ?'ection that not only are their
due, bu' that they have a right to expect and
' in mmnnd, not because they are mentally in
fr-rior, but bec'iuse of what they have done
for man ami what we owe to them for our?
selves and our children.
It ia the Hei.n McCallums that create any
doubt in my mind as to how heartily I can
share the right of ?ulTr.ige with her ?ex.
If her right to homiu'e and protection i?
based on an inferior mentality, it certainly
rests on a foundation of s-ind, and I would
?ike to ask her by what further right she ex?
pect? to receive so great a benefit.
I also wonder if there is a Mr. McCallum;
and if there la, what kind of a man he is to
give so much for so little.
For myself and the women of my family, I
have always been able to mix large quantities
of comradeship and respect with the homage
und protection.
If the vote will add to their pleasure and
make them better comrades, I will share it
with them heartily and willingly, but I just
can't bear to give it to any who have less
bruins than w<> poor men have. \V. F. T.
New Vork, Sept 7, 1916.
A Blow at Freedom.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: It is reported that the Constitutional
Convention has stricken from the Rill of
Rights the provision reading: "No military
rihunal shall exercise jurisdiction over a
i i.ilian while the regularly constituted state
??ourts are open to administer justice." If
this clause he finally eliminated and the con?
stitution should be ratified without it, it will
r.i iin the deathblow to liberty in this state.
Such a procedure would constitute an abso?
lute surrender of the safeguards of citizen?
ship and the abnegation Of human right? won
b\ centuries of hard-won and bloody buttles
against privilege.
It will mean that trial by jury will be done
away with; fh i writ of habeas corpus will be
suspended without any sort of plea of neces?
sity, and one may be apprehended and, with?
out any indictment by the Grand Jury, com?
mitted to prison or even deprived of life. It
.?ill mean the absolute breaking down of all
barriers v. Inch to-Jay in this state protect the
citizen from the abuses of arbitrary power.
It ia said that the omission of thi? clause i?
only Intended to operate against striker?; but
'?;cv when has the striker been placed out
aida the pala of constitutional protection?
The precedent la highly dangerous. It can
apply to any citizen who may consider him
kclf ti? huve certain personal liberties which
entitle hin at leaat to trial by a jury of his
peers.
Not 01 ly should labor array itself against
this vicious piece of reactionary legislation,
'.?ut all citizens. Martial law has no part or
parcel in a community which pretend? to any
semblance of freedom.
w\ B. NOBTHBOP.
New York, Sept. 7, 1915.
Tax Land Values, Not Homes.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter signed by F. \\. Meeker
relative to the heavy taxes now levied on
home owner? is most timely. I suggest that a
convention of home owner? he called, to the
end that the present system of taxation that
penalizes the nome owner in favor of the land
I ?peculator be changed, and that the land
value be taken for public expenses in lieu of
'the heavy tux now laid on homes. Homes
Imata S city, not vacant lot?.
Hi)MK OWNFR.
Brooklyn, Sept. 7, 1915.
Peace.
To the Fditor of The Tribune.
Sir: Every intelligent person knows there
are no signs of peace at present among the
belligerent nations, and furthermore they
know, no matter how much he may vaunt
himself, that nobody outside the warring
nations themselves has the power to bring
about reoee conditions. And any attempt
to pretend that such condition? can be at?
tained by outside agencies i? done ?imply
for display or for some ulterior end.
lirookljn, Sci>t. 6, 1915. M. SMITH.
AN ANSWER TO DUMBA
Czechs Insist They Are Neither
Ignorant nor Austrian.
llo the Editor of ?"he Tribune.
Sir: Allow us through the columni a?
your valued paper to refute the insultisf
and degrading expressions Bsed ny the Aus?
trian Ambassador. Dr. Constantin Dumb?, t**
gaming the working people of Slavonic ?ri
gin, who he claims are Austro-Hungsrm
subject*.
In his statement to the American pr*?
Ambassador Dumba saysi
"There ere thousands of working??? it
the big steel industries who are nstfcej ?(
Bohemia, Moravia. Carniola, Galicia, Dalat
tia. Croatia, Slavonia and o'her peopil if
the races from Austria-Hungary who an ?s
educatod and who do not understand tfcl?
?re engaged in a work against their esi
country." Furthermore, he states:
"The greater part of German workraes il
all ranks are educated. They read and fa
cuss matters and can be easily reached. Na
so with the many races and the great its*
rant mass of our peoples."
Overlooking the unfair and unjust opiaiet
of Ambassador Dumba regarding the pe*!?'*
of his country whose representative and pi??
lector he claims to be, we wish to say tk*
Bohemians are well educated people, if e?
are to use the Immigration Office report HI
standard. This report shows tV.at Bohemia!
immigrant.? are only 2'-2 per cent llliterata
this being the smallest percentage of lii
countries with the exception of Scandinsv?
If the statement of Dr. Dumba il tre*
then it is only another proof that the As?
trian government does not provide lufllcil*
opportunities for the education of it? ?*?
pie.
In defence of his unlawful and anti-Auen
can act with intent to disorganise ?n-. ta
up the munition industry, Dr. Dumbs el?
claims that it is his duty to do ?0 in etal
to inform the uneducated people of hi? CSSS'
try of their unlawful employment. In du
name of all Bohemians, Moravian?, SI***?1
?and other Slavonic people in this CoBBttJ
who have no desire whatsoever to r*t**i
to their Fatherland, from which they eW?
driven for political and economical re*??*?
we herewith refute most emphatically *-??
outrageous insult to the Slavonic peopli ->
America. We take the liberty to say is OS
name of all Slavonic worker- m musitiei
factories that they will (ladl) ?art ?? *J1
\> ar -applies contracted for by the AlliM ??
long as they are reasonably paid far *"*tf
labor.
Their sublime ambition is to help ??*
1 brothers on the other side of the Atlint'f ?
?accomplish the rejuvenation of ths *:l?'??,!,*
race and help t.. free all Kuronean natiisi
from the militari-tic monster. This can o?1?
be accomplished by the complete destrueWS
of the militaristic oppression.
Every new feature, as the work et .Katar
rador Dumba, for instance, is only snot??
I inducement for our people to continus tsa?
[work in lawfully supplying the Allies SOS
Uhus helping to destroy their enemisi. I
BOHEMIAN NATIONAL ALLIANCE ?*? !
AMERICA,
Jaroslav Cisar, Secretary for the EaitH1
State?.
New York, Sept. 7. Mil
The Colonel and Kaiserism.
l'o the Editor of The Tribune.
?Mr: It is curious to see Mr. Roosevelt*
? passionate against a set of ideas of whieS ?? |
i 1? the lending American ? VoU ****
think he might welcome the impolitic*
'America by any means whate\er of hi? ??*
I tnnes o! "preparedness" and "necessity?
II were not that following the ?*Tt>?.\
invasion somebody else than he worn? ?"
kaiser. His hysteria against German-A>*
SaSJS ia laughable in view of the fact ?**
without the Hohenzollern pomp, with ?n Rj
fion of democratic manners, he more trw
tr.an any other person represents kail"11* , I
latry he is 'he braseit Germ?* j
them all.
As a devout American I should r,?',*'k
my country overrun by German arm'** ? ,
by German ideas. When have artni?? ,
posed ideas? Perhaps we need to be h>*
?ated in order to come to oufielves. 1? ot*\
to releuse a .spirit which in our pro?p?-"l-f
have kept ?oil swathed. But for ui 9*9
the whole world betrayed by a vicio?-?**
and to seek to protect ouwelve? fro* r?
?ueu b> .-ubjecting ourselves to it II -? J:
conquered race. HITTER BV.S??--*
Windsor, Vu, Sept. ?, li)15. _^-*-??