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Another "Scrap of Paper."
Public Service <
ng Mr. Ii ?rard the
Public Service Commissii r for a
on the elevated line?
to ?on B?
e to the G?
T is at any rate
? ?ii;.
that .
tempi ' paper," commis
the War
Lord bin ? octrine
?if mi| ght, and is willing any
??ay : of the coi :
the | I the public's
official repres? i tal.
The Public Service i i
n- order that the Interborough I
n thi- elevated I
ch cos?
it an nnreasoi
It- int4 ? ' y... m put the safety of travel
ahead of the mere operation oi I
al tup speed anri headway. It Waf in
apired by a very considerable demonstra?
tion f?f publie indignation over the fre
?l'iirnt col i ? their disastrous re
Mr. II? lley opposed i? th?
it now. The commission cam
:o take anything less than the most
. , >ui ?e to ee thai il order
" ? law and the
give it the power to enforce it..
Police Aid for Unemployed,
??t th? ivinter' unem
; Win ids ap
pninted ?i commit tee to g aid to
d to co-operate with
other . . ? relieve the
ral -itii.ition. That committee, con
"f I '.? I'Mrien.
I >wy< and < aha:.-. ust i
"???I a re| work with certain
well worth care
in, in view of the likeli?
hood uf a con iderable repetition this
? of la ? year's experience \\ it h the
unemployed.
The committee divid?s the number of
those out of work into two
unemployed and the unemployable. As to
? enable of ?toinp work and eager to
fin?! it there is no recommendation save
that there be given adequate relief to ti<i*?
them over, ami that it be distributed at a
minimum .-???? ; gation and
overhead charges. The police themselves
worked out a system of relief tick
lie transformed into food and fuel al
neighborhood shops, pending transfer of
each family in want to iblished
charitable organisation. In this way they
cared for f>:?i fanniic- in actual distress,
while they also distributed clothes ob?
tained from Bundle I>ay to c...'i:?0 indi?
viduals and found 2.S11 places foi
and worn? n. o? which 89 per cent were
permanent.
As to the unemployable*, the commit?
tee recommends "more extended public
control over the care of these unfortu?
nates, who are as much the victims of
social nei/leet as of their own derelic?
tions." In this class are plac??d not only
the vicious and dejrenerate, the "bums,
panhandlers, criminals, morons and imbe?
ciles," but also those unfortunates who
have Rone under in business comp?tition
and who from sporadic employment have
fallen to the Municipal I^xlginir House,
the bread I i s, the park bench. It in with
these oasnployables 'ha- i man is
most familiar, and nil words as to them
,-arry most weight The problem, an the
? olice committee sees it. educa?
tion?for these individua!- and the cum
munity also. The unemployable* must be
?ss/j?sg*ats*Jj they must be made "at !ea.-t
?emi-seif supfi irtinff and Satf-respeeting
citizens of a limited community.*' Two
for this an i
mended?a p'f.n the Municipal Laodglng
House has of introduc?n/ trade training
.?'I the Stete Colony for Vagi
which the Legielature ha.*- failed to
propriation, though it might in the
i in du pporteg.
man out of work is an economn
?or,?. The city spends large sums annually
'*> care for the unemployed through it??
le insti
1 >i .-onimit
part, "'
ai d fui
of mon
?
For a Tariff Commission.
? ?on'a Business," pal
the Chi I the Uni
. ha* started .1 neu. ca
er? atio . ermanent tarif!
. . . lit tO Bl
the services
an expert body, f 1 *c?l from pari
ure, to "
ma which m arise at th<- end
Then
away from the crude, tifie tari
making 1 We have
lowed '? I ' aything
a 1 and seel an.mo
argel) in the fra
iiifr of tariff law?. With much more w
dorn than 1 eceived credit for.
atic ram!.
? tariff is a local - ue." Th
what it intry h
hak? itsell fi
ed localism in t
prepai al
have s*
ir the i
.?I wealth and efficien
an.i for ' -
.1 world in
?
. larger imp
it would be r? lal
ariff quo
?
1 ? I la*
tic-ally suspended since the wai '
Amenos
lake litt
? ?ther, way. But tl
esee
?
eager to sell u
ai "1 - d we shi
? ? with many com
?
tonally low
,var ends we should propar
? ?ustment of our tari
to moot new conditions a readjustmer
>mic expert--, nol by unir
formed ;? Take the new dy?
which is being estab
here. If il succeeds in turning out dye
an market it should b
protect? whic
the German manufacturers will
1 ?? the war to re-ei tablish thei
tin mor world-wide monopoly.
?\ tariff co ild deal more it*
tolligemly with such a problem than th
an. These corr
mittccs are ordinarily controlled by me
1 "local issue" point of view. Bu
the * uteresl which should govern i:
? r,tin- country.
I commercially th
poorly organized. Th
government Is nol doing all it should d
to push the country forward. The war ha
gi\on us a wonderfully great opportunit;
to strengthen our financial and commercia
? on. But we need better machinery t.
do the wmk ahead of us. The creatloi
permanent tariff commission and th.
elimim partisan politics and pa
rochialism from' the consideration of tarif
...iiilii mean an enormous gain ir
nmental efficiency at?! national ener
By. It would mark in one big field th?
of juvenile method.- th?
? r a policy which i.- 1 ontenl to ?
inj? tu ?in the werk of a n
Doctors and the Public.
It was a professional audience that Dr
II. 1!. 1 avili addressed in hil p)<*a for f
square deal between the public and th?
al practitioners, and it was therefor?
ver> proper that he should insist upoi
'in- peculiar defects and shortcomings < 1
his colleagues without considering tot
minutely the popular prejudices and weak
iu*,~ses that encourage and in a mannet
justify them. Doubtless he did rieht in
condemning the aelf-satiafaction and easy
going optimism of medical men, in dwell
in*.: on the narro* medical training,
and in ?*. intii g oui . onsibility <?
the profession ???? ,1 t,, th,. t-;, ,
ces of "faddit -.- I -.veil
meaners." Hi- task tu find ex
fur hi- fellow-prac :.ut to
show them the error of their waj .
In all candor, however, it must be ad?
mitted that the distrust which he so
gravely laments as a fatai obstacle t>* use?
ful co-operation between the public ami
ion is not wholly attributable to
the natural or acquired faults of the doc?
tos. It may be true that the doctors are, as
he holds, "responsible by default for most
<>( the fantastic therapeutic heresies that
. iety to-day"; il n ay I ? partly
in consequence of the errors he dwells
upon that the world, as lie puts it, "is go
full of lama, pathya and pseudo-philoeo
111 medical affair-." Hut ?a jt true
that the medical man are 1 ntirely, or even
y, at fault? Ax- we not rather jus?
tified in attributing the multiplication of
new hen-s,.. ? n certain an
humanity that requin : 111>- in the
heal?
It is well enough to -ay thai "the public
is gradually learning facts, th.
radually learning its function, ami
side by side they are moving and destined
to move toward enormous Hut
the obstacles placed m the path of
eaanot justly be attributed to the
n alum-. It the public ?a learning
the facts, if the physician 1- obliged to
than of' old, it is certain
that the demand for infallibility still pre?
vail- end that the temptation to cater to
that deattnd il M Stn .- . . .. In fact,
the very existence of those p. eudo-phil- ?
f-s'.phii - eferred to bj I" . I ,
proof ol lemand
of irregular practitioners may possibl
as- evid? ? ? ' "tnpan
?
Plai nay ultimately I
b) a public .ut. lligi not to
of healers. Bui while
"lean r.tr the facts" the era
contin I? ma infallible system to
and a- th<* authority of the ho
declinas the wa
made easier for the therapeutic hei
and the quack.
Keir Hardie.
I* i- recorded that on viewing the
?i formed Parliament the great Duk?
? tun vowed be had never seen
king bad hat- in his life,
t the hats he -aw were recognizi
as hats, Tor none before Keir Hardie
the temerity tu appear before that ?
My m a ta
i ip. Many will remember how grievo.i
the House was icandalized on that mon
on; but shocks of this sort
endured with mure equanimity to-d
rt-up member whose eceentrici
much p< rturbation in the as
Vu- had come to be accepted, and non<
. pari ure- from the conn
.'m in'- produced quite the same thrill
eed .aii.
member fur Merthyr-Tydvil wai
? sque rather than an impress
1:1 English politics, lie bad an
dii g above the common run, bui
ther broad nor profound. Howe
self-made man and it was through'his c
that he rai
himself to such eminence as he attain
lb- was emotional ami kindhearted, '
vain; be never forgot his humble ori
? luming himself on the dini*,iilties
. come, I;* wa ? very apt
look with scorn on those whose circu
*? mon- fortunate. Quite ch
hi bitter attack on 1
Kin?:, of whom He said that "if he h
? im .:. the ranks of the work!
t likely fate vumld have be
? of a corner loal
Keir Hardie was too much of a sen
?si tu be a .ur! eat leader. His lit
were shown clearly enough in I
but superficial criticism of t
Indian gov? ? his no lest b
ter denunciation of Sil Edward (ir
egard to th?- negotiations th
ended with the pre.-en' war. On t
lattei occasion be quarrelled with mai
of his old friends and support?Vs, thoui
his honest de'ire to the la-t was to defei
the rights and interest-- of the workil
There was nothing of the state
man in Keir Hardie. He WM a go
fighter, but not a great thinker. He w
a great man in little things, but gift
alTairt were quite beyond his keen b
limited understanding.
Abolish Ludlow Street Jail.
Various unsuccessful efforts having be?
made to get the Constitutional Convent?
to abolish the process of imprisonment f?
debt, Mr. (liP.ert, counsel to the Sheril
now v75nts 10 have the Ludlow Street ja
home of the "Alimony flub." oliminatei
He tells the budget makers that 1100,000
year can be saved if the jail is abolishe<
and backs up his argument by appea
against debt imprisonment on mor;
grounds. The combination of the two lin?
of reasoning ought tu ,-ucoeed where th
moral argument alone didn't.
Imprisonment for debt is a futile, sell
defeating thing, cruel beyond the spirit c
tin- age. It frequently becomes the ir
Stiument of blackmail or revenge. Fortl
nately, it has -mall place in the legal ma
chinery of the day. 'I be jail where pri;
?"lors for debt are confined? must of thei
Im- contempt ?>f court in failing to pay al
mony?is a standing joke, yet it is an e>
pensive joke for the city. So long as civ:
imprisonment is permitted under the la\
there will have to be some place to conf?n
these prisoners. Hut Mr. Gilbert's su?
gestion about the Ludlow Street jail de
serves serious consideration by the citj
It seems almost impossible that a vast];
cheaper way of hamlling its inmates ooul?
nut Ik- devil ed.
Jiipliinmts sre asking themselves doubtles
er the mobilisation of dreece will bel
tu lubricate the Hulkaii situation.
London Newspaper Changes.
M ? ,' lar?tan >
The changes in th" proprietorship of tw<
London journal** have none of the sensa
tional interest of the acquisition of "Th?
Times" by Lord \<irthcliffe or af "Th<
Standard" by Mr. C. A. Pearson, but they an
!i\k"ii by journalists to be healthy sien? si
belief in the possibilities of London Journal
ism. Last year the sale of "The Pall Mall
Gazette" to a syndicat? par?icularly inter
: 11 London municipal polities was almo-M
setilen. but the sudden apparition of the war
afTecUd thi.*<, like many other deal'. The
only rhar.jrc that occurred was that the
ownership passed from Mr. \V. W A-"tor to
? i-i .?on. Mr. Waldorf Astor. The Astor in?
terest in "The Pall Mall" now ends, and most
London journalists are sorry to see it go.
for it added much color to newspaper life
"Id Mr. Astor took to new-paper proprietor?
ship in the same sporting way as hi- fellow
American millionaire Mr. Vanderbilt took to
running the Brighton coach, and both wer.
for proprietors who wire 111 the busi?
er Ideals or for profit? to adm.re rather
than imitate. "The Pall Mall Gazette" unde.
Mr. (list's editorship is still spoken of in
Fleet Street as the golden age of journalism.
The Astor management also gave us Mr. .1 I.
Ciarvin as editor, and he has given Flee'
Street some of its brightest and liveliest mo?
ments. He will now concentrate hi? gift
upon "The Observer." which he has already
IS individual and interesting an organ.
I K< bead of the ? j, ,*.. ?hkh bus ac?
quired "The Pull Mall . Mr j.^-j.
? lziel. the Inionirt member for Hrix
taa, formerly chairman of "Tho Standard"!
sad/Evening standard" Companies, and Mr
I?. M. Sutherland, fi.rmu,,- editar <.f "The
g Standard," will edit it. sir Al. ?
ander Hendersoa ii the chief of the ayndieate
hasacquired "The standard." and Mr.
rard, nl-io s former editor ?f "The1
Evening Standard," ?aill bu in charge. I
THE HYPHENATED PERIL
A Russian's Forecast of Revolntic
in Our Midst.
To tie Editor of The Tribune
Mr: While the diplomatie r?l .
'tween the t'nited State? snd German) s
mg inore snd more precariou? ev?
? ,re:n? s? though th? governm?
people here pay little attention
might actually happen If these rel
? ?? ?? ?.m e broken, rhough the pa
lie and pt'hshlv the semi-official opinion he
kill that the break .if clp'omatir relMio
?with Germsr.y would hardly mean actual W|
?,et tnis very step will give enough msteri
..r the scml-hysteric hypheiiHted Oerina
here to rebel ae;ain?t their political enem
\ d I sm pretty well in a position ti
tlia' this is cvactly what will happ< n. TI
American 6? rmsns will bring about an arm
conflict with the 1'nited States govrrtimei
.Hud people for two reason?: First, bccaui
t| e (?ernian element !s barmek bred sad a
the solution of racial difference? in flloi
and Iron; and second, bocause distprbanc?
of tins kind will prevent the United Stnt?
manufacturers from delivering their nmmun
tions to the Allies.
There sre not less than a doren (Irrmi
Scinitzenvereine in New York Slid 'he sul
! urh?, the membership of which runs to .'u.'iii
leach member being a well trained Germa
er or officer. In case of necei sity 10.'M
i members of other Sch?tzenvereiiie near Ne
York could he assembled here quietly, an
thug an army of 30.000 ?.yell trained toldiei
l ron)t? be created within an hour. B I
'the?e 30(000 soldiers there could he forms
trooni from the members of various Germs
singing societies, such a?. Liederkrar Mi
.?ait Verein, Arion and others. The Germs
Isirging societies are all united Into what i
called 'he "Vereinigten Singer," the men
Ip of which runs to 10,000 men, if nr
A ? far ss I know, sll the members of th
Germas singing societies ???? fanatic pi
I tri?te and ready to fight for the Vsterlsm
'Mi" Germans eould hrinr up an army o( SO
? eri in Neu York within ?n hour Ther
ate only 10,000 Diemberi of the Nation!
Guard in thl city, and some few hundre
I'nitcd States army troops, here and
True, there are the police. But the majoril
of them are either Irish or Germs
would take the side of (he rebels. The polir?
however, could not right with their pi toi
.'ind clubs a veil armed army foi any tim?
Th?- member? of the German Scli?tzenverein
???.uld c-ipture within an hour the arsenal
and ammunition ?tores that are in this cit
before th- National Guard could even hav
? chance to get together.
! ?an make the statement thsl all 'he men
hers of the German Sch?tzen ereine ar
armed with regular army rifles sud th?
? rif ammunition. With a hiin?lr?.| e/i
trailed soldiers I can capture all th?
ammunition stores that either
to thi National Guard or the government
I .en rapid tire {runs can rro.i* ? real hayo
in New York street?. Tbere are several htm
died rapid tire guns in this city and the
are known to the German patrio'
There are big German house.? in this citj
dealing in ammunition. I vas offered 10,001
Mauser rifles and 1,000 rounds ammunitini
ich by a German, When I actually wen
to buy them I could no! get them. There ap
nearpd a kind of mystery about the whob
transaction. These io,iino Mauser rifle s ?
ammunition for them, are still in New York
as far n? 1 know.
After the war had started severs! higl
n nrlieers tried to solicit ine to hecom?
a member of their associations, for the ?im
pie reason that they knew m> troubl?
?he Rnssisn government in the past. 1 re
i them politely at?d listened '?? thei;
' als and invitations. Bui si toon a?
declared that I wss a fervent patriot
sympathizer with the Allie--, these Germsi
friend? vanished. It was on that act
thsl I caught a glimnse of the inside machi
il ? of the American Germans, and sine?
that time I feel that there il serious tronbli
l reeding.
The Germans In this city will have the sup
of all the Hungarians, many Pols
redes and a good many Rnssisn Jewi
The Germans have been agitating hi
orously all Ihe Irish element. They sre per
tiitiv organized and believe in iron and ?\
plosives. Every Geriasn has a railil
hug In his brains, because it was P
which Introduced the compulsory militar]
service first of all, and it was Bismarck wh<
wed the whole race with militarism
Kur.ng the Bismarck region th?
criticism even of the details of the
dered sacrilegious. Bo potent ar?
?he militaristic ideas amontr the Germans
thai even science is compelled to bend I
support of barrack-trained mind? like Treit
.-.chkp and Bernhardi.
The situation is more serious than i? gen
erallr admitted. The only way to prevent
such a disturbance In New York il to g<-t
control of the situation now. Even if the
German rebels would not achieve much
should they get hold of New York for a few
they would do a terrible damage and
upset life here. Besides, it would have a
had moral effect. It is easy to prevent pos
ble trouble in spiritual germs, hut it is not
to suppress an actual uprising.
IVAN NARODNT
Sen York. Sent. IS, IP 15.
Stonehenge.
To ?he Editer of The Tribune.
Sir: I was quite interested by seeing in
The Tribune the cut of Stonehenge and by
reading the notice underneath that the old
Druidiesl remains had been sold by auction.
I useil to live in the same county Wilt?
shire and although I have been voting for
the last quarter of a century or more a
straight Republican ticket, and am a good,
square American nothing of a hyphenate in
m? make-up my Knglish-born blood got
rather heated on reading, some years Hgo,
that there wa? lalk of bringing the wonder
ful -t?m?-s over here to America.
The obelisk hail been successfully brought
over from Egypt and reared again in Central
but I think it would have taken a won?
derfully expert house wrecker to have
brought over these g;guntie stones no psree!
:or them. As I intimsted before, I'm
glad that they are not coming.
There used to be an old saying around
Stonehenge that it was impossible to count
tones alike twice. My father visited the
rums with a friend while we lived in the
??unty. and I remember hearing lim tell his
? i.ce. They tested the truth of the old
legend hsd counted the stones ?n the usual
haphazard way sever*! times, but nerer
twice alike. Then he and his frisad, with a
walking stick, drew lines, dividing the ruins
into sections; by this systematic method they
were enabled to get the same result I
time 1 forget the number of stones.
There was another local legend this one
concerning Salisbury (athedial which s in
the same county. The cathedral is celebrated
fur its lofty spire, and the legend is that once
upon a tim? a prisoner found guilty of some
capital offence was sentenced to death and
he had the option given him of being execut?
ed In the usual way or of throwing himself
from off the cathedral spire. He chose the
latter, and, wonderful to say, he escaped
death. Some time afterwsrd he wagen?! he
would ?m it again.
Me did, but this time his body was dashed
to nieces. GEORGE R. BETTS, BE.
New Rochelle, Sept. 22, 11*15.
WILL IT GO THROUGH?
"MR. WILSON'S GERMAN POLICY" ,
-
Opinions o? Various Renders on The Tribune's Estimate of the Conduct of Foreign Affairs hy the
Present Administration.
To the Bditor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1 have read with groat interest and
cordial approval your editorial in this morn?
ing's issue entitled "Mr. Wilson's German
Policy." In the main 1 agree with your con-|
elusions. Without doubt, the vacillation and
weakness of ??ir foreign policy have pro?
voked the contempt of Germany and have
encouraged that nation to violate our rights.
Rut I uni inclined not to go with you to
the extent of believing: that the administra?
tion's attitude is not fairly representative
of the attitude of the American people col?
lectively I am disposed to think that this
is a "peaee-at-any-price" country and that
we have become "too proud to fight." The'
American nation boasts of its practical sense
and then turns a kindly ear to that most
visionary and unpractical set of T'topians,
tlir* professional pacifists. It prates of its
spirit, and yet a self-advertising millionaire
?Curer <->f automobiles tinds it "good
business" to insult the army und navy, which
includes about the only class of men in the
country who are willing to relinquish the
line) chase for the almighty dollar in order
to give their services a-id their lives, if
.rv, to the country.
What is the reason for this? May it not
be found partiy in the fact that the com?
forts we enjoy hare mide us soft and re?
luctant to undergo ihe necessary hardships
that go with military training and service?
Is it not partly that the spirit of license so
prevalent in this country makes us unwilling'
to submit to . the salutary discipline of a
martial training? Cannot some of our
willingness to endure anything rather than,
fight be traceable to the sordid commercial?
ism which scorns anything as utter waste
which does not directly produce a profit to
American business? lines not the extraor?
dinary influ'-nce of feminism have its effect
in making the nation effeminate?
Th? -illy arguments of the pacifists and
the advocates of unpreparedness can only
appeal to a practical people If that people
is in the pitiful state of mind where the be?
lief in universal peace is imbedded in their
minds through the well known process ex
pressed in the old phrase that "the wish is
lather to the thought."'
Why not admit that the yellow streak in
us is no longer a streak, but a broad, envel?
oping blanket? Why not admit we are
pusillsniaseue, decadent and cowardly as
well as sordidly commercialized? Perhaps
we have only been ignorant. We have no
longer thai excuse. This war should have
spened of the most obtuse. The
n?tion i on trial, and the next few years
will demonstrare whether its course is to be
that of declining empires toward utter im?
potence. F B. '
N. ??? York, Sept. 22, 1915.
Farewell to Freedom of the Press.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Shame! Shame on The Tribune for,
its complete face-about from a rabid war- :
provoking editorial page to a contemptible
i-r of the President's policy! This is
no doubt due to politics, for which again all
the moie shame! No wonder Germany looks
with contempt upon our newspapers, if not
upon the American people. A modified
censorship :r.d regulation of the opinions of
newspapers would be a good thing in this |
country, particularly in case of such a glar?
ing, outrageous, turn-coat attitude as The
Tribuns has now assumed.
JOHN' E. GAVIN.
Brooklyn. Sept. 22, 1915.
An Indorsement.
To the Editai of The Tribune.
Sir: A Republican paper indulging in so
fearless a criticism of a Democratic adminis?
tration at a time which the press chooses to!
call "a crisis" i one of the fifty-seven va?
rieties") lays itself open to a charge of]
'?subordinating patriotism to partisanship," aj
the weli worn phrase has it. Surely your
politics! opponents, and tho*.e of yeur reac-l
a : contemporaries, jealous of your sad
den
frankness, will make the most of if. BSpeelall;
the mouthpieces of the administration.
The Tribune seems to me, however, to b.
performing a public service, albeit with th
ususl difficulties to be faced.
In playing a purely political game, pander
ing to the Americanism of 'he Ivist. witl
lofty phrase* and strict accountability notes
and then pandering to the gopheriim of th?
West by a policy of inaction. Mr. Wilson ha
forge,] the weapon for his criticism.
A Republican organ posse ?sed of the trues
patriotism must of necessity oppose S polic;
of ineptitude, even more gross in foreign thai
in domestic affairs, an ineptitude that seem
to inhibit Democratic statesman always 10
i?n't there such an animal a? a Tiemocratii
statesman ?> J. B. PHI M.I PS, JR.
New York. Sent. 21, 1915.
"Too Proud!"
The President of the U. S. ..
Said, "We're a very noble race of men!"'
i We are! )
He said:
"We ?fand exalted in the world to- lay,
V.hile other nations t-tand at bay.
While other lands are soaked with blood,
While other peonies drown in flood
01 horrors past all ken!
We are a very noble race of men!"
i We are! 1
He eaid: "We -land exalted in our mightl
Too proud to tight!''
la Mexico's sunny clime afar,
The battling hordes besmirch our star,
Grin at our Flag,
And, muddied, drag
Our rights of liberty and life
Adown their lanes of strife.
We are a very noble race of men!
We stand, and Watch and Wait,
Submerged in hate,
I xalted in our might.
"Too proud to fight!"
The broad Atlantic's heaving waves of green
F.ngulf our chihlren, women, men unseen
Fxcept by bearded faces,
Sly grimaces
V? e think of how our embattled father? fought
For Honor, Children, Home, ihe Peace they
sought!
We are a very noble race of men!
We stand, and Watch and Wait,
Submerged in hate,
Fxnlted in our might,
"1 oo proud to fight!"
fed knows we do not want 'o fight and kill!
We hate blood-spill,
And all such ill;
He value at its full all human life.
We hate the horrors of all human strife;
(?ur faces pa!?' before the woe of Death.
Our hearts are wrung by ev'ry sobbing breath.
Rut, God in Heaven above,
Grant us Thy love.
Guide us in Thy sight:
How long will it seem right
To stand, and Watch and Wait,
Submerged in hate,
F.xalted in our might,
"Too proud to fi;/ht.'"
AM UAH
Praise and Thanks.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your splendid editorial lu t ? ?
issue of your publication unquestionably
merits the prai?e and thanks of every tiue
and patriotic American. V.m have coura?
geously pierced the darkness which has en?
shrouded our national affairs, and have
brought us to a stern realization of the true
causes to which the pr< ?eut cru is rim ? hi*
attributed.
With the words of the great bard in muni.
I may truly s*ay, "The New York Tribune in
arms! All is not well. There's something
rotten in the United States." It is now time
to turn from the perilous path which we have
been following if we are to safeguard our
national existence.
You have nobly and fenrl.'s.,]} performed ?
painful duty, but it is to the rsrj best inter?
ests of this country, and jour solemn warn?
ing should not ge unhe.deit
._AI.HU;; LANDAU.
New York, Sept .2,?lei5,
To the Editor of The Trib
p*r: Doe? "watchful wan 2" beget tta
kind in the form of negligence, dincou.lerr
and incompetenev?
Permit me to make a brief supplement to
Mr. H. W. Jessup's experiences with es?
gUts Department at Washington, as recttN
in a letter appearing in your columns.
Having learned by an Associated Pre*
dispatch, emanating from a U. S. 8. at ?uaf
ma?, on the Gulf of Talifornia. that a 'rlesd
of mine had been killed in Smalos by Yatrei
Indiana, and being later advised that radia
communie*. ted between that ahipaad
? sr stationed at Topoloh?.mpo, farther
down the coast, where my friend is ?ell
known. I wrote to our "watchful" departs.??
on the 18th ?nst requesting that its service
be use.! to ascertain the facts, adding ta4t
any cosl would be pr->T,,'v reimburse?
Havii g had no reply thereto. I again wrote
the department on the 21st ?nst, statin* ?
that not having been scearfisj t?.?
usual courtesy of an ackt. ? '? ff**'
sumed It mus- be due to the failure of ay
. have reached r >n
This morning, the 24th inst, "r eleves
.lavs after the date of my primary r* quest, 1
am in receipt of a let! - rt ,Mt
and signed by the Third A '"'""I
the acting wk
makes ;-.o reference whatever to my ssec1*1
request, hut states as follows: ".on ar?
informed 'hat the Al ?r oftee*
nt Masatlaa and Guaymas have boss k>
ttmctod to make an investigation, sad,
the report of the killing is found to be tw.
to demand punishment of the murderers.
Naturally, having in mind th" insult to o?
Hag in Mexico City and Vera Cruz, and ??
came of even that "demand." not to m#*?"
the "strict accountability" to he exacted ire?
"the murderers" of other American dt'.ten?
on the Lusltania and what has, m fact, cam?
0'' that, no such preposterous r ??' *,a
have been ? Hut as my inquiry con?
tained the information that the party ?>
quired af was a graduate of one of oer ?*
leges, a civil engineer of the highest taw?
cal ability and character, and slsell
dentally an unhyphenated American ???2
I felt justified, all other means bar?!
been unavailing, to make use o'- our P?1'^
government; the object b. ir.g to be *n*~'
perhaps, to relieve a bereaved and probe?1
impoverished family. .
I may add that, meantime. I had beSS *
risad, bv a telegram locally ?ent out, ?St
, son af the lubjeet af aty inquiry"
had been killed. -,
Is it too much to expect, or ask for, na"
at least during the incubating periods
"watchful waiting" the executive sinr*"U
the gevernment'i alary list he e"1"'f?,
minded that an ansr/er must be r'*P**. ?
to the question, and a decent regent
promr'tituile is a condition Pr,c',!'\i
tenure of office' JOHN THOMSON.
? _M. 1915.
Surprised and Disgusted.
To the Ed-tor of The Tribune.
Sir: As one who has been s reader of TO
r.iper for nearly hfty years and has SPP^
< ated your firm stand for patriot!?? ??
loyalty to the powers that be. I *m ?WP
ISted by jour editorial letters ?*
'*?* 9?''
\ few weeks ago you gave the wise ??* gj
10 important in these trying um"\ p-ail
.'uty of every man to stand by the rr?^
don't." in which I heartily concurred. ^
properly summoned every man to the r'* ^
colors, to .share the re-ponsibil?ty of x* ^
man whom 1* rins Providenee h*4-1 c* , w,?t
the leader of the nation. But now. 1B ti.
teems to me direct contradiction to tlu Jj
r ant, you are impugning his action a" '
lying his motives, and giving auch ? (
heeds !. woald serioosly ????"
him in bearing his heavy burden. sMuui
Which cum,el are your readers W ?? g w
What can explain your change of base- ^^
tin- approaching electioh? 'f ,0- '" ^
mav be ditTerer.t from that which you
pate. I. for one, have voted the ^P??
icket all :?;. adult life, but am b'm*
Mined in im intention to vote ?'?"'"VS
crut., neat tisse. *? II NLiU<>*
Plaintield, N. J-, Sept* 2?, m**-?ffl