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TRIBUNE guarantee? to pay jour money
bach i *,>'>n reqtaeat- No red tape, ne. qulb
We mahe good promptly If the ad
<ine? not.
Keep Tammany Out of the Dis?
trict Attorney's Office!
?minated as the
]-. , its fur District Attor
in recognition of his
? 'he office and as a re?
fer yea i "did offici.il ser
DOW for ? v< ry right
work, and work hard.
: vote for him la the
? Tammany out of the
Tammanj had a District Attor
>?? an?not since Asa Bird
? ? motto was "To hell with
removed by Governor
? record must not be
... The public of this coun
I to have it broken. The
I weed ar.d Croker is chas
.'., in Murphy's
Murphy'? district, in the
? tion to decide whether there
?itutional Convention
produced as raw and
crudi x .stuffing as the town has
tgine what would har
sal of those cases under a Tam
?ttorney!
Republican party offers, in Mr.
? ?idate whose recommenda
':'..? promotion from an as
':.?? ? *.v holds was a
ibute to the value of his expe
enci the prosecutor's office and the
?. His nomination is
f approval and
? in him. He is a public servant of
and qualifications. He is
man the public is al
have in office?a man
ability, of unquestioned
ms his office as honestly
'ait h tu!! y as if it were his private
Every loyal Republican should gi\e his
heart; I to his party's candidate.
But more than regular Republican
.'th, on the showing of the Glynn
county, will be necessary
to elect Mr. Perkins. Tammany is
chuckling over the division of its oppo
The Tiger should be made to
laugh on the other side of its mouth.
Pi deserves, and should have,
the vote of every straight-thinking Pro
He should have the votes of
anti-Murphy Democrats, and of inde
? ? of other political groups. He de
; port because of his splen?
did record in office. He deserves this sup
i ? : because he is the only candidate who
hope to beat Tammany's candidate.
On the ballot there will be a division of
? lidatei against Tammany's. There
ich division in the voting.
A vote for Mr. Perkins will keep honesty
in the District Attorney's
ii'.d will keep Tammany out.
Lxtcnd the Wirt Methods!
?? ' whose schema of intensive
! Mayor Mitchel is
:' Education to extend
thai i not primarily
f education. He
But it hap
that, whether or not there can be a
saving lu the first year or two, there can
ltd Ik- a great saving of money
ty by th<* general use of the
It can do away with the part
?v.l. with which the city cannot
Op? under the prese
'?f bufldh .- choolhouses, a1
to give a reserved
? can also, according to ex
' ?'?? -' idled it at Gary anr
tools which have beta used hen
? ?eral months
' " ' ? hcatior
' reduction in thi
< .l'h pUp!.'.
These a ty cannot afforr
? Is difference of opinioi
MUM? to !?? about the pre
? ' of merit of Mr. Wilt's plan,
*? ? P.: red to say that it
out pupils less well equipped to
?M world, or actually less well stOfd
with "b?.ok learning," whatever that is
worth, than the present school meth-.d.-;
a- i rii?'.*;y ? thority
tain that it is far better for th'?
nnnds and (?odies of the childnn. It ap?
pears that the city and the children have
much to gain, and no reasonable expecta?
tion of anyth-'j? to lose, if it be adopted
wholly as the municipal education system.
redlv the Mayor's suggestion that it
be applied at least to the elementaly
schools next year should be he?
The New Crisis.
\\ ? ... : - si has ht\]i] " me
t war beg
age fon es ' proph.
that the third .
of the worl i war i- si hand, if it
bed.
The ? un? with a
that ran hardly havi sen < ; since
the <> paign. Out of the
silence of two w ' lied bulletins the
' ierman horde suddenly emerged al?
?.it of the ??? Paris.
Gern:.. ?.vrid em?
pire*' as Bcrnhanii had outlined it, sud
seemed
Th? not the spirit. <>f the
d world was suddenly captu?.
(ierman might.
The first crisis ended with the battle of
the Marne. After that tremendous con?
flict the v. 'adjust itself to
a war, t. t a triumphal Teutonic ava?
lanche And after the German failure it
the Russian campaign that hi Id the
world audience. Dey by day this cam?
paign i until after the fall of
? .,? huge SI ?v host din.- ? I
the crests of the Carpathians and the col
lapse of Austria seemed within sight. The
German ?> ictory <.f th? i 1 the
? ? er France nor
tria was d( collapse under a first
assault.
Now. from April to the end of Septem?
ber w-f have been witnessing one more
stupendous campaign. Upon Kussia blow
after blow has been rained. Her armies
that stood at the Carpathians are
behind the Dwina and approaching the
Beresina and the Dnieper. For weeks
Germany lias assertcl, Allied capital!
have denied with obvious misgivings, the
approach of Russian collapse. Russia,
Berlin told us after the Dur.ajec, after
the evacuation of Warsaw, in the n
from Vih,a, was r.caring the end of her
resources.
Russia out, a victorious promena
the Central Powers to the Golden Horn,
the reduction of Serbia to the estate of a
second Belgium, the enlistment of Bul?
garia, the relief of the Turk? at Gallipoli,
new threats to Sue?: and even India, these
were possibilities, Germany proclaimed.
But all predicated upon the elimination of
Russia.
Yet reading the bulletins that now come
from the East, there is sound reason to
believe that Russia is far from out. From
Riga to Rumania she is on the offensive.
Once more Austrian armies have gone
down before her. The redoubtable Mack
ensen has been repulsed, the ever victor?
ious Hindenburg halted. The rail
beginning and the decision, despite the
marvellous victories, the enormous con?
quests, is still beyond the grasp of the
Teuton.
By contrast there is breaking out in the
west a stupendous new battle. For six
months the western campaign, save for a
operation about Arras, has been at
? d.-till. But in those six months
every factory in France and in England
has been making ammunition. Half a
million British troop.-: have been equipped
and sent to the firing line; another half a
million are ready t<> go. Three million
. after a summer of rest and train?
ing, are pounding at the (ierman line in
Flanders and France.
What is Germany to do? She has spent
a million, perhaps a million and a half, of
Austrian and (ierman lives in the eastern
drive. To recall corps from the east now
is- to insure safety in the west, but it is to
give Russia months to reorganize. Napo
:.iund the same difficulty fighting on
two fronts. He could crush the Anglo
Spanish forces, but before the conquest
empi?te mar.-hals and armies must
be hurried to the east, from the Ebro to
the O?.?
A r? spite for Russia now means a new
Russian offensive in the spring. But to
turn east again in the spring means to In?
\ it* new western offensives. The whole
progress of the war has proved that Ger?
many can attack only on one front. But
so large have been her losses that there are
many military observers who believe that
by spring she will lack numbers for a
grand offensive in the east
At the full tide of her luccess, at a time
whin the Kaiser's eminence may well re?
call that of Napoleon in 1S10, there is
denied to the German Emperor all hope of
the one prime essential, and that is peace.
H? set out to crush France and failed. He
was forced to turn against Russia, and
while he was fighting Russia France re?
covered. Britain began to come up and
Italy enli.-ted. His victories have 1-een
magnificent, but utterly indecisive. He
has advanced not conquered; his toes are
driven but not crushed, and new armies
come with each month.
What will this mean to the German peo?
ple? The European population of the
states now fighting them is 880,000,000 to
t their lL'O.OiM'.iiuii.' :t,.,] behind the colonii
? are coming up with new forces of every
?;color. The .?.?as remain closed. Germany is
1 killing Ri. ?iK-h and British, but
Russia] -. I ranch and British an* killing
? Gannans. One nation is bearing the
i I runt of a battle with three, and after
! fourteen months there is no sign of a
break in the ranks of the encn
I It is Idle to venture to predict that the
Allied operation in tl more
? than a local operation, [ta maximum of
. success may ha , j. |{ut Ht
the close of a summer hardly equalled in
the history of any nation, after \i?*
of enduring grandeur, Germany Is now
Hacked on all fronts and hei
Stupendous losses have brought her no
? ? victory.
The moral effect opon Germany of the
?.-?s can hardly be exaggerated. The
? I lie victory and peace
last October. PCace and the conquest of
Russia were astuied this autumn. But,
there la no peace. Thia much French,
?; Russian atts I'!?*?"1
to-daj
w iming now,
when '
Will the nation
.
with
nplete
more moi ' ? ?' '''
his, the !? n m h people aban?
Nape ? ''?'?'? empire
?n the first I '
l ? l
.<? ?",-ir in the
the present la on< ' -? - ''?
the history of tl K
many has turn, and the
turn has i men, military
' ? rala and
main.. - of In?
calculable losses and
faces ? ?
Germany's Financial Burden.
The thud I.
brought in $3,007,500,000. Two ear
her loans, one made in September, 1914,
ther in March, 1915, produced
,000.000, so thai the total h
indebti the wai I
I erman in i
?
the va
100 a tot!
If no further loans ar ? ma Janu?
ary 1 next, Germany'.- total debt on that
date will be ?|11?321^11,Q0O, against a
total of $11,000,000,000 for the United
lorn.
The increase in del* due to the war
must weigh more heavily on Germany
than on Great Britain, because the latter'?
wealth, commerce and ta ? resources
are materially p foreign
trade has been cut off, her commi
marine is interned anil her industry has
been crippled in many departments by the
practical blockade ol her territory. The
impairment of capital through this block?
ade will be very coi if the war
lasts two yeai I the loss of in?
come through it 1
the tax-paj ition. Ger
has nol soug .- so far to meet any
of the co.-t of the war by imposing
taxes. That ii in itse f an acknow
ment of weakn . Great Britain only a
few nays ag oount
1575,000,000 a year, thus showing
an ability I ' are of the new
debt-created by | \king fund
for its redemption, as well : ?gneas
to finance the wai I a considerable extent
on a payaas-you-go basis. Germany hesi
ig her taxpayers to
so harsh a I ig the war
on bonds issued to them and probably
pambling oi
for sinking funds.
Grei
usual with ' if the world and has
maintained h>-r credii in foreign markets.
Germany d
ere.'it, becau e foreign marl i -.. e
to her. She
he: o-,?.:, peopJi till preserve the sem?
idity. But when the
end comes and the block iro is
I the strain on (ierman credit will
be all the more dangerous, !."'?;: f
ficially deferred. With a debt of $20,000,
.0 to $25,000,000,000 and an economic
structure to be rebuilt from the bottom,
Germany will be in a far more critical
condition financially than will Great
Britain, Fra ... inasmuch
as the latter powers have maint
commercial relations with the neutral
world and have lived during th<
much more normal economic ba
How widespread ar.- * m of war i
shown by the fit, ? work
to keep up
with the speCalstivi ?
Dr. Dumbs depart?; and i' may safely he
assunv laininj,' his
conduct to Vu nna *n*j
riain Hill Siilzcr ta.; I i? a polit
ic-il phost. At !? . ..nol wssnl
The Burden of the Ballot.
To the Kd.tor of The Tribune.
Sir: In ;. ed ' Iffa ?"airle
Chspmai Cstt, ? ; in the morning
papers of September 20, she says that
the anti-suffrsg - :.'?? 'ry.r.g to eseape from
the duty ol rpretation of
- poster Is wrong.
'I lie fiat:?-": ? .'i.tnc a duty for
women until imposed upon then by the
of nu I). We anti-su*11 ? |
esespe ??hut Mi I the "lncon
? duty," hu? what we consider the
?iicn:*y of an m ? ? <;rden. The
claim of our snti-sulfi rfectly
able. On account of our sea we have
a right to free.loin from the duties which
--liould he performed bj mea. "nr du-ie?. be?
cause of sex are to hear, rear and educate
the youth of the *o minister
to the needs of the unwise h: d
ana to guard t h< church and
Herause of thi
claim exemption from the additional
of the ballot, which i . -, only
when thrust opon u>.
Anti-SafTra-zistS cannot accept t'-.p suf
frai*ist view that if women are enfra
they are : lt the
duties connected with the ballot are I
to dr. :
'be ?' nmnn*?
Thl
<? fum
n, hut
?
ment and ?
ity in th?
ft
women
1'ii -:.;?*.' .'...- ?'.. ...'ion Oppi
Woman .-"-u?Tra,;''
?New York, Sept. ?1, 1?15.
MR WILSONS POLICY '
A Correspondent Puts All the Bl.amc
on the Kaiser.
To the I ' toi of The Tribune.
liai. "Mr. Wilson's German
ever the whole situation
frankness, but fells I
..... s most unfslr ti
thinga you secase him
I responsible for the :
board the Lusitaaia. I re?
fer to the following parsffrsph: "The Amer
I the Lo
? there armed with "he recent dl ?'
n of the President holding Germany
to itrict -accountability for any ?ron-* done
American c.tizens." Then the Germans sank
Lusitania, carrying with her "men,
? end children, the helpb is vletimi of
in ruthlessness." In other words
? ? ? : ??
??
. German government 'ha' he til* ant to
?? up
The President did mean it, but the sinking
f a large passenger ship with so ?nany In
on I.id was an undreamt of
te himself and the whole civilized
The Lusitania WSS sank, not because
bluff" was called, t-u? because of s
l Gi man govern?
formulated long before Mr. Wilson was
. - p.. di nt, SI ?? had dec ded long ago
England must be crushed. Then
ntagi to her in erippling Ei
friendly rslattOI
ear.d is we are, they had nothing to
: prepsri d, hardly much more.
1 1,,-ry to be gslni I by the sinking
the Lusil ttli to be
Do you inppose f<>r s mini ' ?? ?''r
eonaidered ? hether Presi li
? what he said? No, they wen
ed 1
; ar? had been hacked bj
. large army und navy the result would have
pen the - if ?re were prepared
down to the last shoestring our entrance
the war would hardly eanse a ripple.
1 he Allies don't need men. They outnuni
rmsns two to one now, and no
doubt could make it, much higher If necessary.
ildn't be able to
lind "standing room" in the war zone. Then
again our munition factories are working
?? for the Allies and we ure at present
contemplating making them a hug?' loan.
? English, Trench and Russian navies are
take care of themselves without
I from us. What disadvantage, then,
would Germany ir.eur by breaking with us?
.? greater advantage could she gain
than by sinking enemy 'or neutrall ?hip?
lg contraband of war? The German
ment, und not the President, is respon
? or our position to-day. "Politics and
? ?ice of diplomatic procedure" have
g to do with It. The Kaiser and his
underlings have brought the whole thing
./. P.. M.
Mattspoisett, Ms??., Sept. 28, l!Mo.
SLxteen Questions.
To th? F.ditor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1. Why did the United States occupy
Haytl and engage in the killing of the
natlvi 1
2. How- does our policy in Haytl differ from
arard Mexico and Germany?
8. Why did President Wilson in his first
I.usitania ultimatum refer to the German
Embassy warning as reprehensible and sub
tly receive the German Ambai
? comment?
I* the massacre a closed in
? by "The Evening Post"?
5. \\ hat I ippi ned to our demand in
rd to the Prye?
'.. Wh; di,i Mr. Hearst and hi?? papers de
paia for the sinking of the
and now apparently approve the Lusi
tania's de.-truction?
7. Why do we continue to remain defence
less in the presence of a world war?
** Why did Ambassador Dumha ask to be
recalled on "leave of absence" when we de?
manded his recall unconditionally?
.'. Was Mr. Lansing's not? to Austria ask?
ing for Dumba's recall apologetic?
10. Was Dumba's recent protest to '.he Sec?
retary 'of State insulting?
11. Is Count von Bernstorff responsible for
the activities of Military Attache von Papen
and Naval Attache Boy-Edl
12. Is it insulting to the national dignity
to have von Papen refer to us as "idiotic
Yankees"?
1 1 Has it ever been intimated that Mr.
Bryan has been in the German sen-ice?
16. When it was discovered that Hryan
had it formed Dumba that our first I.usitania
Ige wai mere fake, could not the govern?
ment punish the offender?
16. What greater injuries could Germany
inflict upon Americans at the present time
by being in a state of war with us?
PATRICK HENRY'S GHOST.
N'rw York. Sept 28, 1915.
Why Allied Loan Should Fail.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I wish to submit a few reasons which
re7.der it extremely probable that the pro?
posed allied loan in the United States will
| fail. The Middle West and West already
sn aligned against it. Alone, the bankers
of the East, ??ere they united in the venture
into the unknown, would scarcely attempt the
measure.
First The loan would he an entering
wedge which would be followed by numerous
others based upon a failing credit. Hoth
?ides In the war. financed from America,
would approach nearer bankruptcy as a re?
sult, and as th<? compounding of peril pro
!. the credit of the world would tremble
the balance. Repudiation of national
Wl -ill! foilow the commer?a! slavery
into which the bankers of Wall Street, with
? pertinacity approaching treason, wouli
I " erica
end The tapping of American financial
resources would imperil the pence of the
I State? through creating an interest
in the victory of the allied cause.
Third The repudiation of nrftional debts
whieh must follow a prolongation of the war
will enable the belligerent countries to re
ate a* the expense of the ju ?
. itions of peaceful America. We are
' M re in wl h moral con
are beinf? heaved overboard and the
' ' - being hoisted by the
? at war. !!? ginning with looting the
world, the modern cmiling *
.. Broadws) hides his tattooed marks be
ioth as he lure? t| e
Iren of the new world on board his skull
He || after loot, not the
company of hi.? would-be victim?.
Fourth Th? merciful c I of the
bloody holocaust would be hastened were
refuse the loan, with or v ?
ry collaterals Merc) ..-?! morals
? in international ??
the re" ng bodies of the flower of Britain
Continent and the gh??tiy ilsugh
i .our there.
? * .?writing of h.?*1 er "
im eri es
\merica is not dead and defenee
- an hoar of perilYrom war lootei
? rf alive and increasingly swake. I ?
? lastly fail, und fail completely f?>r
od of the commercialized ?
rats, f"r the pleasure "f inhuman
elans and the profit of w treat
C. E. PARSO.SS.
I Detroit, Sept. 16, HU5.
THE NEW OFFENSIVE.
THE BRITISH SPIRIT
A Tribute from an American Whc
Spent Last Year in England.
To the Ed tor o?* Th.- Tribune.
Sir: A? a stanch admirev of Englishmen
and t; 'lish 1 have road with peculiar
nterest the varied outpourings of the returned
travellers who have undertaken to toll us
how the people over there are behaving
under the present crisi?. Generally the note
of deep appreciation, but now and then
I have observed some commentator trying to
or *o damn with faint praise. All
the best evidence goes to show, of course,
that British bearing is to-day what it has
always be>n in similar circumstances?
splendidly gallant. Rut while a few doubter.?
persist, it is worth while, I think, to cite
every refutation of their doubts that comes
to hand. I beg, therefore, that you will find
room in your columns for the following
passages from a letter just received.
It was written immediately on his return
to this country, in the Rotterdam, last Mon?
day, by a friend of mine who was in France
when the w.'ir broke out, and has ever since
boon living there and in England, chiefly
?in England. He has sent me much from both
countries that has thrilled me with a sense
of the glorious courage with which their
peoples are struggling to sweep back the
tilth and dishonor of the (ierman beast; but
I like best of all this last impression, writ
.'*er long months, during which he has
had time to get the whole thing into the
right perspective, to see clearly and steadily.
It is after the experience that really teaches,
after real refection, that my friend write?
thus:
"It was painful leaving there now, when
everybody we knew, all the nation, is suf?
fering untold anxieties, incredible woe, mak
ing sacrifi?es of blood and treasure, enduring
all things in silent, magnificent patience, with
unflinching couraire. To come over here
and he safe, to get out of the -*io s and
strain, seemed to me to be like sneaking
away from friends in distress, almost cow
How kind our friends all were
bidding us a cheery goodby and a happy
home-coming- and the formula so often and
BO earnestly repeated, 'Come to us again,
in happier days.'
"I would not have foregone the experience
of the past year; I would not have missed
the opportunity of seeing England in her
(time of trouble; nothing could make up to
me the loss of that great privilege. I rlo
not exaggerate when I say that the year in
?.i.-ain was the most intensely inter?
esting and inspiring year of my life since
.that year ^o long agi. when the Civil War
wan ended and cur country remained undi?
vided. It wsi wonderful to witness the en?
nobling of England, the splendid fashion in
?hich ti.a' nation co *o the
maintensnee of all the grand and great ideals
that have made her mighty an?! worthy of
? her long oast. And, oh! how I en
who wore privileged to work for
her and I could do nothing but sit and hold
resth and look % ith streaming ?
for her success,
in London was th?**
n.ght of the Zeppelin raid. I wouldn't have
? having tl nee. There were
?aomen in my cousin's house during
nutes of the bomb dropping
and ;. ? the reports
made the window? rattle. Rut none of the
the slightest trace of fear or
..-gerate. And yet
r/ere real women, and I imagine any or
all of them would have climbed up onto the
f a tuouse had entered the room. And
10 all over London."
those are I ibjuga
tion la reg libia tb'ng by the
butchers of Belgium and the murderer* of
the Lusltaaia'S women and children! May
. sal an explanation of the besotted fury
Gsraeaai i lintish. and of
? to turn the British island?, like
Belgium, ?nto a pit of agony and shame?
gtvea fears ?go by a
British pablieist, writing on Rismarek'*?
Bismarck, he i I. :'. !? his inferi
.flish gentleman and it made
him writhe. That i- what Is the matter with
the Germans.
They hate the British because every time
they come in contact with a member of the
?race they feel their inferiority in everything
'that spell? breeding, U?te, the -?oeial de?
af
cencies, the point of honor. It bites like
acid through their dirty vanity and they itch
for revenge, the revenge of physical violence
tal torture. It is amusing as well
gusting to see them trying to explain
away their "scrap of paper" hypothesis, and
.. ? i ? 1er essaying footling
regrets for ins gutter-song of "hate." They
have no regrets for wrong done. But they
are beginning to realize what decent people
think of them, and their vanity squirms
again as they once more sense, dimly, their
ingrained inferiority.
?AN IDIOTIC YANKEE."
New York. Sept. 22, 1915.
A Coward.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
I wish to ask what the difference is
between a "peace-at-all-costs" man and a
coward? My dictionary detir.es a coward as
who shrinks from duty or danger, who
feari pain or harm unduly." A man who
would permit another to insult him and would
do nothing in retaliation is a coward.
If a stranger-an enemy?entered your
home, offered insult to the members of your
family, and perhaps appropriated any and all
articles of value pleasing to his fancy, what
would Ijappen? You would summon the
lolice! The police are the safeguard of our
horn?'?. Why do we allow this wonderful
country of ours to go so unprotected that
any invader could readily enter and degrade
all our rights of freedom, and we, in our
weakness, could demand no reparation no Jus?
tice? Yet that is just what the "peace-at
all-costs" men are advocating.
Erorr. whence comes this spirit of servility?
Surely not from American ancestry, else
'here could have been no War of Indepen?
dence, no freedom for these United States.
? persons place financial loss or gain
above all patriotism and honor, they could
? ever advocate a system of such dishonor to
Americans and Americanism, of such danger
to our verv freedom, as "unpreparedness.''
ELIZABETH F. SWAN.
Oyster Ray, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1915.
Nature and Art.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In an interesting article which you
publish to-day you refer to the statements of
certain artists that Nature is not perfect,
their implication being that art can improve
upon Nature. Th-s, indeed, has been definitely
Itated by Whistler f?nd others. I should like
to say thst in a book den?ng with art prin?
ciples, which I published three or four years
ago, I demonstrated that it Is not possible
for art to improve upon Nature, with the fol?
lowing proposition, which was not disputed by
any of the fifty or more critics who reviewed
the work, and must of necessity be accepted:
"Inasmuch as that only can be idealized
.which has abstract qualities, or in which the
?' parts li fixed and invariable, a
( higher form of beauty than any that exists
of inanimate products of Nature which may
he used a? signs in landscape cannot be con
This being so, and inasmuch as the
beauty of a natural scene depends on the re?
lation of it? parts to each other, it follows
'? i- a morS beautiful view, than one that may
exist in Nature cannot be conceived or exe
E. GOVETT.
Vork, Sept. '??, 1915.
Chance to Demonstrate Backbone.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There is a law of this state which
make? it a criminal offence to start or to
attempt to start a run on a bank. The local
published m the (ierman language have
openly advised their readers to withdraw their
funds from any bank which subscribes to the
[ reposed Anglo-French loan, and it is report
??I in thin morning's pupers that one German
controlled saving? bank has threatened its de?
ne? with the withdrawal of it? reserve
funds on deposit if these depositories take
any part of the loan, at the ?ame time giving
advaaee notice to the public that it intends
tiomg ?o.
While these depository bank? are doubt
Itss well able to meet these threat?, a? they
? be met, the authorities of th la state
havs now the opportunity to demonstrate
??hether or not they also, in common with
the Federal administration, are aiT.icted with
"jellytishiti?." RISSELL E. GEYER.
Brooklyn, Sept. 25, 1915.
WEAK-SPIRITED AMERICANISM
We Have Tolerated Too Long tin
Insolence of the Hyphenated.
To the Editor of The Tribun?.
Sir: .Some time ago, when our p ?---.?*
displayed e ch weakness, I wrote jr? II 'it?
the first time In my life that I am -
of America." To-day I feel like saying: *
am ashamed of America and blual for fr
government." Set? whn- I ?roni
ns. Inault upon insult. Foreignen who It*
ceive our hospitality and were admitt???J h
citizenship are acting agr-'ist th? inter?*
of this country for that of Germany.
Not alone this, the Austrian and Genua
governments interfere direc?!;. la our bt?
neaa, dictating to inhabitants of the Unitai
States what to do and what not to do. TH*
ambassudors and underlings eonapira ajfai-*
us and openly insult the President. W? ?
;n a bad way. The German tiger will pi?
with the American lamb till it it ready a
devour it. I fervently pray for a manlj
?an, for a Roosevelt. Had the ex-Preiidiat
oeen at the helm all this Teutonic pal???
would have been stopped long ago and a?
would have the respect of the world; row at
are its laughing steck.
Wh. n Mr. Roosevelt sincerely and ear??*?
Jy told the truth at Plattsburg about a?
precarious situation some of tl.os?? weakli-?
In Washington derided him for hit patriot?
ism.
Had it not been for the heroic French araj
that defeated the barbarian? in the battl??
the Marne the Huns would be at our do?**
Then "this Anglicized sChoo!ma?ter, althoap
h?, just ?by chance, is sitting in the Prt?
dential chair," would weigh laai II the tern
than a Prussian corporal, til i ta say ???
some of our hyphenated iliah are pro--??
man! Shades of Marshal MacM-hon, rtta
?im*, o? th?? French Republic!
Aren't there any strong Americans a*|
besides Theodore Roosevelt to counteract?
conspiracies of those impudent foreiiiJJ
and ingrates who want to dictate to P
"idiotic, weakminded Yankee '* Or?ra**J
in order to boycott them, to c?*racize the??
.hey came over here to get an opportun?
that was refused them at heme, and this?
how they show their gratitud? for our Mfr
pitality! We are much too easy-going: ?*
hall pay dearly for it ?omc day.
Some y?iar? ago a circular was sent ?ro??J
in the German Empire asking -he nation ?
boycott all foreign products It might?
terest your readers to see how altruistic as
Germans are. Here i* the de< -.'.?r-e:
! "1. In all expenses keep In mi?*J ***W
terest of your own compatriot?. ^^
'"_. Never forget ?hen you buy a ?"W
articl? your eoual "'S
"t. Y?>ur money should profit no one ?w?
(?eimans. -
l ..... r ? r!" "'
lag foreign machi:?..-ry. ^
"5. Never allow foreign eatabl?? ??
served at your table. ^
???;. Write on G? i-nan paper with a lt*rew
pen and use Herman blotting p?pt*r
"7. German flour, German fr?M ?n<1 ?
man beer can alone give your body tru?
nan energy. ^,
"8. If you don't like German malt c?-**-*
drink coffee from German colonie?.
? ?;. [) ? rman clothes for your aw
and German hats for your head.
"?0. I '*??, ??
'from these precepts, and be firmly e***??2
v hatever other? say. that German pr^
?ire the only ones worthy of citu? >SS ' J
|G? rinan Fatherland."
New York, Sept. -5, 1915.
All Republicans Affainl
To the Kditor of The Tribune.
?Sir: Your paper is a real, true Am?rj
paper, and has a good ring to it. On?i9^
sick and disguste?!'reading editorial* If
phisticated editor? whose scheming vT^vr
outweigh their possible influence. ^^
Let us hope that next year Colon?1- a~
velt will get back in the old fold, mssm
work together. Republicans, for the t- ,
the old party. If Roosevelt ???mt* *
?lent ?gain Mr. Taft could again ?"*? ^
eouatry a? a Cakioet oflcer. Or,9asanm j
as a Supreme Court ju.tice. \tmjT m4 \
Progressive, and Republicana ??I? un t$ 1
year and if Mr. Roosevelt give? in ,
little the Republican party can a
grand victory and returned V^^MLI
Brooklya. Sept. Hi i'i*. !?__?