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Germany Is Beaten.
If there wore reeded any evidence ofl
the actual as contrasted with the appar
ent condition of the European ?struggle,
it could be found without difficulty in thej
statements of German public men, German ?
newspapers and German people. After fif-j
teen months of strife, after conquests, vic?
tories, triumphs, unequalled ?ince the Na-I
poleonic era. who is it that is talking of
peace?
Take the public statements of German
statesmen, take the comments of the press,
is there any mistaking the fact that in
nil, at some point, the word peace crops
up. "Victorious peace," or some other be
adjectived peace, it is, torje sure, but peace.
Travellers returning from Germany re?
cently agree that the only real qualifica-|
tion to German confidence is found in the!
apprehension of a protracted war. Peace,
now means victory?but next year?
Now, we in the United States have inj
>i.r own experience a very admirable'
standard of measurement for German mili-,
tary success. In our Civil War the victors;
were over long months and years the van?
quished. Defeat, disappointment, blunder-!
ing stretch all the way from First Bull
Run to Chickamauga. Compare German
with Confederate successes, and, with
proper allowance for the difference in size,
the essential fact is the same.
Yet, reading history, looking back now,
nuthing is clearer than that the South wa3
always .loomed, unless it could get an early,
decision on the battlefield. Outnumbered,;
inferior in population, resources, cut off i
from sea-borne commerce, the South was|
condemned to defeat unless on the battle- j
field it could win a victory that would de-i
stroy the armies before it.
Precisely this the South could never do.
It could win battles, compaigns, operating;
M do the Germans, on interior lines, it'
could concentrate 'superior forces at the;
important point, while inferior in numbers!
as a whole. But it3 victori??s fell short of!
the essential requirement. Steadily the!
:?rmies of its foe grew stronger, its own ?
numbers weaker. The whole world con- i
tributed to the arming and munitioning'
of Northern armies, as the whole earth :
now contributes to the Allies.
All this was not perceived at the out-i
set or until almost the close of the Civil ;
Wir, Despondency, despair were com-i
mon at times, when, as we see it now, '
victory for the North was already assured.!
1 '?m pa re Northern depret-sion after the.
bloody and fruitless campaign from the
Wilderness to Cold Harbor with British
depression now and the thinir is patent.
\'et this campaign broke the back of the!
.South by the sheer attrition of Lee's army.
With all the various differences in degree
between Germany and the Confederacy,
the main fact is the ranie. Germany and
her Austrian ally art.? outnumbered, the
wealth and resource's of England, France, ?
Russia and Italy are incomparably
greater. Sea power has destroyed Ger?
man commerce, sealed up German harbors,!
while for the Allies the sea brings all the!
'resources of An.i-ri-'a and the Colonies to
the battle lines.
At Antietam and Gettysburg the South
bid for the decision?it failed. At the
Marne and in the recent Russian campaign
Germany made a similar bid and lost.
?Neither French nor Russian military
power was crushed, nor was territory or
?population vi'al to either country selzt d.
The single significant fact in the military
situation row la that Germany is bleeding
to death. German soldiers on three fronts
are killing British, French, Russian and
Serbian troops?but to match this these
are all killing Germans. The terrible drain
on German manhood is utterly dispropor?
tionate to the drain on any one of her op?
ponents, although collectively their losses
may exceed German.
It may take a year, two years, to bleed
Germany white; it took four' to "grind
the sated corn" of the Confed<*racy. Hut
the thing every one who would under-tand
the war rnuit recognize is that the? process
is going on steadily, remorselessly, and
that aa it goes on Germany continues to
fail Vt get the decision.
It was always possible that the North
might lo?? courage, heart, will power,
abandon the struggle. It is equally possi
U. that one or all the Allies may fail
t-'ity But thi* remains the single chance
of German zuc?*ess, a chance that bears
no relation to any military derision?tha
opportunity for this ha? panned.
The proof of this assertion is found in
the fact that to go to th? Balkans Ger?
many ha* had to abandon her Russian
drive. Apart from a local operation for
Riga, all effort to rru?h th? Russian mili?
tary power has been abandoned and Rua
fcia has been left to recuperate, as Franc?
and England were left after the Marne
and th? Yier. In the Wast Germany is
*aa0ng oriibat no mor?. In th? East,
..a^P? ??b?wv^.iga, Russia is on the off?n
siv*?. Yet Germany has hardly sent mc
than 250,000 troops to the Balkans.
Viewing the war from this angle, tb<
'it ?s clear why Germas statesmen talk a
think of peace. There is no correspor
ing talk in London, Paris or Petrogn
The apparent losers, the nations wh;
have so far lost, are not discussing pea
on any terms, but out of Germany, desp'
censor, official warning, patent effort, the
emerges only an ever growing talk
peace.
When the Germans have opened t
road to Constantinople, destroy?! Scrbii
resistance, temporarily asserted their s
premacy in the Balkans, nothing is mo
certain than that from one end of th
earth to the other every German, eve
German sympathizer, will talk peat
Every influence that can possibly be e
erted will be called into play to procu
a settlement.
Hut no American should mistake th:
It compares admirably with those frar.t
but abortive peace conferences of 180
when the South was already beaten, bi
Southern influences in the North cor
bined with the pacifist and the war weai
in the attempt to prevent the inevitab
and avert the final scene at Appomatto
which every soldier now knew was but
question of time.
And if Germany fails in her peace e:
torts, then the end is assured. It ma
lie in a few months or it may take man;
But the last chance of victory will hav
gone. Germany has failed at the Marn
and the Niemen. She has failed to g(
a decision in the field, as the Confederac
failed. Her defeat in the war is as cei
tain as was that of the Confederacy afte
Gettysburg?unless she can tire out he
opponents, persuade them to forego vie
tory, because victory will be costly an
delayed.
The decisive part of the war, so far a
the battlefield is concerned, is now ove
for Germany. She has won much, bu
missed the decision. Borr.hardi, writir.;
long before the war, foretold with inexora
ble logic that if Germany failed to get th
('??cisi?n against one of several foes bofor
all were ready she would lose, and tit
lias failed, she has failed utterly, despit
magnificent local successes. Her general
have failed as Napoleon failed from I.eip
zig to Fontainebleau. His problem wa
to dispose of separate armies before theii
collective strength doomed him. In th?
end he lost. But he lost primarily be
cause his opponents agreed to make n(
separate peace and clung to the agree
ment despite temporary reverses.
Germany is now approaching what wil
be her last great bid for victory, but il
will not be made on the battlefield?thai
?s over. It will be made in conference, in
peace negotiations, in operations through
neutral nations. If these fail, we shall
presently see the whole character of the
conflict change and an utterly new spirit
flow from the Rhine to the Vistula
What Americans cannot now know i;
whether the spirit that ruled in Wash?
ington in 1864 dominates in London. Par?
and Petrograd in li>15.
Not Conclusive.
The verdict of the coroner's jury on the
Seventh Avenue subway collapse is inter?
esting but by no means conclusive. Ac?
cepting the theory that the supports in the
excavation were all right and the blasting
all wrong, the jury censured the Bureau
of Combustibles in the Fire Department,
which has some jurisdiction over blasting.
But it finds that there was no criminal
negligence.
A verdict of "nobody guilty" will not
v.nd ought not to suti.sfy the public in this
case. Especially coming from a coroner's
jury, such a decision will not satisfy; it
will be held t.<> he merely another instance
in which the coroner system has proved
its inadequacy. The District Attorney's
<<ffice is investigating the disaster. Tu
that agency the public must look for ac?
tion, and it is to be hoped the action will
be adequate to punish those found respon?
sible for the loss of eight lives, that there
may be no chance for a similar loss of life
in future.
Eugenic Foolery.
Francis GftHotl wa- not deceived in ap?
prehending that the science of eogmiics
would prove dangerously attractive to the
cranks and the half educated. A group of
ridiculous reformers who Man to be con?
cerned ir? the publication of an unimpor?
tant and unnecessary medical journal in
thistownhave lately been threatening to im
ppive the racial qualities of future genera?
tions, and this week, by way of a begin?
ning, they sent out a small squad O?
wich men to advertise their teachings.
These poor ragamuffins seem to have
been chosen with an eye to their capacity
of shocking the public conscience. They
are ostensibly egregious specimens of the
unfit: taeh in his kind plays the part of a
horrible example.
One bears this sign :
"I must drink alcohol to sustain life:
Shall I transfer the craving to others?"
Another, this:
"I cannot read this sign: By what
right have I children?"
A third:
"Would the prisons and asylums be
filled if my kind had no children?"
One of the projectors of this interest?
ing enterprise explains that it is part of
i "a nation-wwl?' campaign," the purpose
! lx;ing, no doubt, to popularize the plan for
sterilizing the supposedly undesirable
whose faults might be transmitted to their
children.
The ?'ducationul effect, if any can be
foreseen, will probably lie V? lead simple
people to believe that alcoholic craving is
..nably handed down from generation
to generation, that blindness or inability
?i* read is a h?-fitable condition, and that
??i the strength of % man's looks the peo?
ple should be allowed to decide whether
bin children are likely to be a burden on
i tha state.
j **'he questions put to ths populace are
7]uestion8 the populace is not competent to
answer. That they involve the considera?
tion of diif.cult pioblems concerning which
the promoter? themselves do not under?
stand tho very rudiments is obvious. Im?
pudent presumption alone could have dic?
tated so ill-considered and so stupid an ap?
to ignorance.
Police the Police.
When .Mayor .Mitchel and Police Com?
missioner Woods "restored the club" to
policemen as an incident in the city's war
?It gangrnen there was general ap?
proval. But if that action is to be fol
^.wed by incidents such as that of the de
'ective who assaulted and threatened to
shoot a citizen in a subway train and the
'.rutal clubbing of a Tribune reporter
there ib bound to be serious question
whether Mayor Gaynor's policy was not
the wiser one.
The agent of law and order who runs
amoek la a graver menace to the public
than the outlaw. If citizens have to be
I'l-ottTied, or have to protect themselves,
against the police it is high time they
nnew it. The case of The Tribune re?
porter is now in the courts, and this more
r-ecent caso soon will be. The Pol.ce De?
partment authorities have acted promptly
.igainst both men involved. Nevertheless,
;. state of affairs in which such outrages
can occur is intolerable. There is needed
not only proper punishment in these cases,
?ut action within the Police Department
which will prevent the recurrence of at?
tack:, on citizens by their sworn protectors.
Giggling Girls.
Probably no girl ever giggles deliber?
ately. And probably every girl has gig?
gled on occasion. Dr. Rachclle Yarros, of
Hull House, having warned young men to
beware of the giggling girl, should make
them this explanation, lest they take her
ad vice, top seriously an?! in the end shun
all ?"emin?ne society: (Jiggling is simply
? nervous reaction to sensations com?
pounded of pleasure and fear. Some girls
?TOeeDmb to it all the tima and all girls
succumb to it some of the time. But, most
fortunately, all firli do not succumb to it
all the time. The majority of them pos
.ejs too much self-control.
Tho girl who giggles constantly, or, in
the phrase of Dr. Yarros, tho giggling
girl, doubAss lacks in most instances a
proper development of the hi~her centres
of gray matter. Fur th'r, reason perhaps
she would in ;.ny case be incapable of in?
spiring the jroang m?n attracted to her
with the high ideals which the doctor
thinks may llow from contact with the
"real *i:7cere flirt." But who ever heard
if a sincere Hirt? The v?ry essence of
flirtation is its insincerity, however legiti?
mate a method of feminine strat'-gy. Gig?
gling, on the other hand, il ti sincere a
tribute to masculine iiupics: i\'ODA M as it
is involuntary.
Which brings Dl to the point which Dr.
Yarros may hau* had in mind, but thought
I etter not to expn s, gj d that is that sin?
cerity is a poor bait for the gul'ibie sex in
th? ctrly .-'ages of COtUtlhip, Keep the
young man guessing until he has swal?
lowed th? hook, am! then you may do with
him what you will?make him stand on
his head, ttirn bandsprinrs, hitch his
wagon to ? artaM". Too many giggiee, on
?he other hand, and the lazy thing will
content himself with nibbles which leave
him as unro-^enerate as. ever.
But when all is said and done the gig?
gling girl ?9 mora to be pitied Ihan en?
sured, la she not?
Carraasa te Bench the Ball. Headlia?,
I ><??ti he parp?se nppointinf a policeman
tc th.- . 'Hurt or limply reitraifllng
? i eh ".
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'!?? -V? TaUk ??-1th 111? Kiilsir - Mca'llln?
Wal it ?ike Beveridpe'??
"CHOOSE YE NOW!"
What i ? the great thing. Belief:
?corn trou1'1..*, laffering, prief;
Dare to endure the pain
?.ifp brin,*-, w, h Ins disdain!
Pemcmhrr the ward ef t!.e I.or!:
"I 1-iinir not peace but i? sword/*
Pence, what is peace'* Metal*1 rest;
Knse !*-oni our toil ht best;
Goal ef a wearied life;
Bi -! nf cr?aiIts ? ; rlf?!
Remeiaber the word of the Lard:
"I linn?.; not peace but a sword."
Q?i?t antl placid pail
hfeedoars sad saalight baths,
Leisure by purlin'.: itreami
Te dream untroul.k-?! dream??
!!? n.. mix r the word of th?- Lord:
"I briag not peace I>u7. I -?'.".?!."
("?.mf'-'rt the hitrh'"?? of goals?
Not for eternal
sa the pi lea that' to pay!
This Lut the toara of th?- day]
Remember th?- word ef the Lord:
"I brin?,- not peace but ? sword."
On through eternity life
Baigea, in straggls and ? trife
Gaining new In ightS, ever worth
All the dire ?ufTerin*, of earth!
Ilcmcmber the won! of the Lord:
"I brin? not peace but a sword."
All that we need is belief
To miila?* ell tb< rfag, the pricf,
Death an?l defeat ?peed the hour
Etaraal of triumph and power!
Rl IB? inlur the Word of the Lord:
"I bring not poBatS but a ?wor?!."
Then ?Menee nil faint-henrt"rl crie?
Kor peaeel Let the gaie Bf brave eye?
Heed only-th?- right end the 4vrong,
Ami ehooslng, eh, lei aa he tttrrmj;!
I? n.? -rnber the word of the Lord:
"1 brlag not peace but a ?word."
WILLIAM CHAUNCY LANGDOaN.
"Indefensible Tolerance."
?To the Kditor of The Tribune.
Sir: In the mak?-up of th<* ifovernment of
'thi? lend i? theie no provision for the pub?
lic censure of those in authority, ?ml there?
fore r? ?ponsiblc, who by u ptiliry of inil?
feniiblc tol?rance sn?l negiert, of due ?ever
, Ity in regard to repeateti crime? i apparently
iraiily traceable to a common ?ourcei make
I th? repetition, elaboratton und extension of
such crime? a thinu* to be expected?
Will some one kindly answer fully and
ifrankly? AN Ol "I KAOC0 SPECTATOR. '
I New York, Oct. 28, 1016.
CROSS AND ORESCENT
Speculations on Recent Oerman
Activities in the Balkans.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The experiment which the Germans
ate making in the Balkans is certainly a most
interesting one for outsiders to watch. No
one supposes for * moment_ that the Auatro
German force? are going to make t^e six
hundred-mile march from Belgrade to Con
btar.tinople and then depend on a single trsck
railroad to keep them in ?upplies, while ene
mies controlling the sea can move forces to
strike this line at a hundred different points.
The armies of th? Central Powers are evi?
dently assigned to the task of overrunning
Serbia and keeping the railroad open for the |
-hipment of arm? and ammunition to the
Bulgarians. It is the array of the latter r.a-'
tion which Is to march south to the relief
of th?. beleaguered Turks.
Thus It is proposed to have a Christian1
army or.cn more in possession of ihe Mahom-,
otan capital after it has been held by the
Sultans for more than four hundred years.
The cross will take the place of the crescent
over the dome of St. Sophia and the altars
of the true faith will be set up in the mo. que?
as they were in the time of Constantine. To
the average Turk the Bulgarians will be at
>? elcome as the Goths were in Rome, and they
will probably proceed to make themselves
at home much as the latter did when they
entered the palaces of the Csesars. Later o.i
ihe Germans may be able to restore the city
to the Turks, and they have no doubt made,
some such promise; indeed, it is probably
written on a scrap of paper already and
..;? d away in the archives of the Porte.
It has now become rather well known that
the Allies have a tunnel far advanced under
the Turkish forts at the narrows of th*
-traits and that this is furnishing them with
en nhur.rlar.ce of "water, the lack of which
^as been one of their greatest difficulties in
holding their trenches on the peninsula.
The entrance to this tunnel is amply pro?
tected by the guns of the fleet in addition
tc the batteries on shore. It may be that
he time for the grand explosion is close
al han?, hut if necessary the work in '.he
tunnel can be carried on all winter nril no
.army the Bulgarians can bring to heal can
carry the pai ;Uon of the Allies. The Turks
have lost some 100,000 men in trying to
oast the enrniy and as many more could bj
iceoaoted for witiiout soriou difficulty on
I ? part of the allied forces. Here is an
rs command of the sea
ghros sssaraass of final success.
Another important item of news has
reached us the (?rand Puke Nicholas has
collected an army of sufficient eize to march
?oath through Rumania and attack Bul?
garia in the rear. The Rumanian government
will nt- doubt enter a formal protest to this
iBTBSloa of her territory and informally give
ihe invaders a hearty welcome, just as the
Groekl did nt Sal?nica, thus observing all
the forma of diplomatic ceremony. It Is only
eighty asilos froai ths Daaabo to Sophia, and
from there the railroad runs directly to
( onstantir.ople. With ths Rassiaas in their
I .; si Bad ths Anglo-French forces in pos?
?01 loa ?f Dedearhatch. while the Italians
are posting in turn and material through \v-.
lona to aid the Serbians, the position of the
BulgnriaB army at the Bosporus would not
be an altogether pleasant on.'. ladosd, they
?nicht be SVOBtaalljf forced to crossing over
r.to Asia and take refuge in some distaat
province of the Turkish Empire, but then
(v. has to run some riiks in being allow* I
to poll ths Kaiser's chestnuts out of the
f,re. X X.
Floral Bluff, Fla? Oct. 18, 191V
Greece and Belgium.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: While browsing over the editorial
section of the previous Sunday issue I m%?
rather BBIOSod by the moans of the discor
toated pro-German readers who bewailed
that "i:" Germany committed a heinous of?
fence in attempting to traverse Belgium on
the way to France, then behold the Allies I
marching through Greece." And another;
"As you are grieving so much about the vio-!
(if Belgium's neutrality, what do you
think about the violation of Greece's BOB*
?
Though ths landing of the Allied army at
es muy be a simon-pure violation o.'
Gic. | lentralitjf und contrary to one ot '
Th?- Hsgoe ? , -.'--' OS agreements, the ex?
isting Gneco-Serbiaa treaty technically
makes Greece OB ally Of Serbia directly and
the Entente pOWOIl indirectly; thus it modi-,
fies the legitimate offence of neutrality vio-i
lation, and to a large extent, if not entirely,!
releases the Entente powers from account-j
ability.
When a General von Limberger led hi?:
army towaid Liege he demanded passage
through Belgium to France, with threat o.'
fore if refused, with what result we all
know; the Entonto Aillos landed their troops
on Greek 6oil under the impression that
Greece would abide by the Serbian treaty,
that M. Venizelo.-i's Premiership was stable
and thut th? Greek population would welcome
them. In other words, the Belgians receiveii
the undesirable invaders with loaded arm-,
but the Greeks defended their neutrality with
"blank cartridges " so to apeak.
Had the Serbian treaty not existed and th?
violation of Greek neutrality been com?
plete the Entente powers would be welcome
to take 'nlviintage of a good port, for didn't
tin- Gonaans punish the Belgians with atroc1
ties for refusing to obey their will, and aren't
ths Gormans being booosoraagod now?
There is at least a consolation for the pro
German readers in the fact that King Con
?tentins is holding back the Greek bulldogs
from assisting Serbia and that he has ap?
parently flung the Grasco-Serbian treaty into
the Kaiser's scrap of paper waste basket.
To preserve or extend the Greek boundary
King Constantine must free himself from tht
spell of Teuton hypnotism and consider
Domostbpass's warning, "It is better for us to
tight King Philip of Macedonia in Chalcidiee
I than in Attica," and the -ostly consequence
of the Athenians' indifference, and realize
the disadvantage of being isolated from other
Balkan states on land should Bulgaria ron
fOOf and nnnex Serbia.
M. Venizelos made a master stroke in his
reply to King Constant ne when the latter
exhibited a telegram from the Kaiser assur?
ing him that in return for neutrality GrOOOS
would not be molested: "Is the word of the
Kaiser, whose troops invailed Belgium, suf?
ficient protection for Greece?"
F. E W. M'MAHON.
Troy, N.Y.. Oct. 22,1915.
Matchless.
?To the Kditor of The Tribune.
| Sir: Kuno Francke's article on "The True
(Germany," in the October "Atlantic," is char?
acteristic of German psychology in his fail?
ure to see where Germany should defend her
"frontier" He say?: "Germany gives a
matchless example in that living wall of mill?
ion? of men that are steadily and relentless?
ly flinging back the assault upon her own
frontier? of all the great powers of Ku
rope."
But why is this matchleas example given
upon the ?oil of invaded nations beyond Gei
mnny's frontier?
Truly, it ia "matchless."
AMERICAN WOMAN.
New Vork, Oct. 26,1916.
THE TERMS OF PEACE.
A WORD FOR THE BRITISH SLACKER
I lave the Working Classes of England Any Good Reason To Be
Loyal and Patriotic??A Question To Be Considered
bv Critics of the Labor Unions.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: You are at present running a we?
serie? of articles on current British to;
In your paper, and are giving great pro
renct to the thoughts and impressions
G. W. Smalley. I wonder if you will ace
rre a little space in which to discuss w
Is written by him? Whence does Mr. Sn
Is} pather his misinformation?
In The Tribune to-day there .* an art
by him, headed, "The Slackers," which i
virulent attack on the labor union? of Gr
Britnin. To take his points as they ar
let me first mention the taxation under
new Budget. Without discussing as
whether the government is right or wrong
the imposition of the taxes, let us see
results of such application.
Mr. Smalley first speaks of the income t
Now, a great proportion of the big incon
in England comes from the land, or is
herited. The holders do not do, and hi
never done, a stroke of work personally
increase the values of their holdings. A 1
of 40 per cent, therefore, is taken from th
only incidentally. It really comes from t
eommnnitj, who have built up the values,
?he present time the real estate owners t
getting back this taxation in the form of :
creased rentals, and many a woman who
husband is away fighting has been turn
out on the street through inability to p
the increased assessment
War profits, according to Mr. Smalley, a
to be taxed 60 per cent. They are on i
profits exceeding ?100 per annum. Now, th
may, to the maker of war goods, seem i
excessive tax, but is it? It was pointed o
in the House of Commons that such a ti
would bring In an amount around ?40,000,0i
a yenr, still leaving a like sum to be divid'
bat a OSa the munition maker?. It seems to n
'hat this sum would al.ow of a really cor
hie living. On the other hand, a wor
er is asked to give his whole time, and n
" per cent, but 100 per cent, of his lil
anil for what? For something like 80 cen
a day, including all allowances to his fam
ly. The purchasing power of this 80 cen
is on the down grade, and the poor peop
feel the loss of a cent or two a day ( it
the difference between enough and insu
?eiency) more thnn the friends of Mr. flma
ley whoever he is would feel the loss <
a pound a ?lay.
Mr. Smalley also says that the texc? o
boor, whiskey and tobacco do not affect th
retail prices of these goods. Since the wa
started, however, the price of a glass of bee
has gone up from three cents to seven centi
ihe price of cheap whiskey from four cent
to ten, and the price of tobacco ha? gone u
varyingly from 7? per cent to 100 per cent.
All this takes pennies alike from the poo
and rich, but who feel it most? The poor ar
told that they should not consume any o
those commodities, but why should they hav
to live Jike dogs when the rich people refus
to do so? Mr. Smalley claims that wage
baOS been increased, but I challenge him t.
prove that statement. True, in one or twi
cases wages have gone up, as with the Welsl
miners, but such increases had to be fough
for. In the case of the railways there was i
voluntary increase, but on top of this then
were ??sued subscription lists, to which th?
workmen had to contribute, knowing that i:
they refused to do so they would be dis
charged on some trumped-up excuse.
As for patriotism, that Mr. Sma.ley makei
?o much of, what has the workingman to b?
patriotic about? Suppose the Germans did
! win. Could he be worse off than he is at
present? A few years ago there waa a com?
mission sent to Germany to inquire into the
comparative condition? of the working class
e?. The commission found that the Ger?
mans were getting more comfort out of life
than the English. Have conditions changed
since then to auch an extent? A worker
in England gets sufficient to keep body snd
soul together. Would he get lea? under a for?
eign domination ? If he did he would only die,
and to many million? death could only como
as a relief.
Let Mr. Smalley go through the Block
?Country, and aee men, women and children
i working together in a cellar for fifteen and
I sixtosB hours o day for s sum totsl of $2
a week. Then let him go among the cloth
worker? of Yorkshire, and see girl? working
for twelve hours a day for as many shil?
ling? a week. The cotton districts the snme.
Then let him follow me to the a*rricu!tural
district? and see men working a 1 the hours
<iod sends for $72 a week in the South, to $1
in the North. Does he still think the work?
er should be patriotic?
How many of the millionaire class are at
the front? Th?y are too busy aucmentim,
their already swollen fortunes to lift a fin?
der in their own defence, but are willing; to
pay a workingman the magnificent ?urn
of 90 cents a d.iy to ro and defend them. The
workingmsn himself has nothing to defend
Lut his freedom, and that will not feed and
clothe him. What of the ?o ?lier vtrho is crip
n!ed? Will Mr. Smalley's friends support
him and his family? I have already heard
of numerous cases where a ?oldier, dis
eharged because of wounds or sickness, had
to bes: his bread, because there had been no
provision made for such. There has been
recently, I know, but only recently.
There has been for year? a gro*ving dis?
content ntnontr the werken in England, and
it i? no secret that revolution ?vas in the air
tvhen the war broke out. Mr. SlM.li??1 speaks
very disnarnirinK'y of Socialists, but it Is he
and his friend? who have mndc Socialism
necessary and the only relief in .???rht for the
4vorker. He talks in censorious tones of the
Radical pre??, but \-hnt of the Harrn-sworth
press? Nobody has e\-er accused that of
being Radical; but no one, either, has ever
called it patriotic. It is Tory. To be Radi?
cal is to be democratic, and, of course, that
is a sufficient reason for Mr. Smalley to con?
demn it.
I hope ?ir, that I have not taken up too
much of your space, but tr allow your cor?
respondent to f?o on indefinitely unrebuked
4vould be treason to my class, v.-hich is in
fmife'y more serious than lack of patriotism.
New York. Oct. IS, 1915. P. J. LOGAN'.
Our Guileless State Department.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: It is calculated to fatigue one's in?
dignation to read in the morning papers that
officials in our State Department, referring
to the recent statement! made by the Ger?
man Embassy in regard be the Nicosian, fore?
see, that "if auch incidents become a general
practice, etc." Apparently they accept the
statements a? truthful but as calling for no
immediate action. One would think pa? ex?
perience might have enlightened them.
't is to be hoped that those of us who sre
quick forgi'tters, when they come to coniider
??.hat probative value there is in the affidavit!
of th?se New Orleans negro muleteers, will
remember these things:
First. The army regulations of the Ger?
man General Staff "Kriegsbrauch Im Land?
kriege" (Chapter II, B), contain the follow?
ing:
"Bribery of the enemy's subjects, etc., are
permissible; indeed, international law is in
no way opposed to the exploitation of the
cri-n?s of third parties ( assassination?, in?
cendiarism, robbery and the like) to the
prejudice of the enemy."
Second: A few months ago the German
Embassy was vehemently asserting that the
Laaitaaia was an armed cruiser, and in ?up
port of those assertions it delivered to our
State Department the affidavit of one Stahl.
Stahl was indicted, and on his trial ad?
mitted that the statements made in hia atli
davit were false and perjured. To his credit
be it ?aid that not even the hope of a lighter
aentence than he received induced him to
give the mini? of hi? employer or to tell how
much was paid for hii "exploitation." L.
New York. Oct. 19, 1915.
"Gott Mit Uns."
; To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your cartoon of Saturday "Gott mit
; I us" is great. It ?s beyond any doubt a
lifelike portrait.
A? for your recent article, "The Sham," It
1 is dt-aerved to some extent, perhaps, but why
| not turn your guns nearer home? What hss
?the United State? government done to defend
its citizens' lives? What ha? become of
"strict accountability"? ?. VY.
Providence, R. I., Oct. 23, 1919.
!
THE CURSE OF MILITARISl
Preparedness Held To Be the Ca?
of Many Great Evils.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I admire your enterprise and J
fearlessness in stating your position, bt
think you approach the domain of the "
low journalists" in your strictures on
British Liberal government In your edito
S? October 20 In this editorial you cond?
thai government for not having held an ir
ef military preparedness before their co
try, but you completely overlook the dit
:ious effects of an ideal of military prcpar
neat as illustrated in Germany, and to a 1
degree in France and some other countriei
Where an ideal of military preparedn
is lived^ art to a large part of the most
Mligent men are withdrawn from product
life, and have their lives during work
hour? wrapped up only in living up to |
regulations of a military handbook and
studying how the military power may m?
efficiently dominate the reit of the co
munity. Such men have none of the respe
sibi'.ities of seeking an independent live
hood, so outside of working hours they ?e
attractions to supply the notural craving f
mental stimula'ion which every ambitio
fice worker desires.
The worst results follow when many I
such men live in barracks, and while orgai
izcd immorality centres in all army pos'
it is most conspicuous where men live I
bai racks. This you will admit is notorious!
true even in our peaceful United States <
America. Paris has become a byword amon
nations for its notorious resorts, which, 1
every passerby can see, are largely supporte
by the military. But Berlin is said by thoo
..ho know ? normally to be even more "gay.
It appears from official ?Utistico that 20 po
cent of the births there are officially re
rorted as illegitimate, far in exceso of an;
other respectab'e city, and I have heard Ger
man medical men estimate that In German?
fully half n million illegal operations ar?
performed annually with the object of re
during the population.
The above is only one of the curse? follow
?rg from militarism, but it should be suffi
cient to make a widely read man like youi
editorial writer hesitate to plunge this coun
try into a career of militarism. You, more
over, know that the race for "efficiency" in
f.urope was making expenditure outrun rev?
enue, till even Germnny was more heavilv
fixed then France when the war began. The
British Liberal government, which you eon
demn. was almost alone in Europe in reduc?
ing the nation.il debt of its country. H
bro'.icht the eminre's scattered fleets tcgethei
? torn years before the war. and mobilited
them when the war began. The same admin?
istration welded the British colonies Into a
vest empire ruled by mutual trust rather
than by the iron heel of a military des
rotism. -
Perhaps you, like other people, were daz?
zled by Germany's "efficiency" in industry,
but the "efficiency" was spectacular rather
than real. For example, I believe this eoun
t.y imported more sheep manure from
lit rope than it did dyestuffs from Germsr.y.
In another line, s recent Austrian writet
her-.onns the fact that German textile ma?
chinery is often inferior to English, besides
"as r, resu't of the . . . perfection of
mi.chine tools and working method? the
English, in spite of higher wage ?cale, have
been able to build textile machinery cheaper
than has been possible In the Continental
shops." So, too. while her official reports
show Illiteracy almost unknown, the German
immigrants landing in the United States
averaged more illiterate than immigrants of
several other nationa.
In a word, militarism has so daztled you snd
others in this country that you fail to see
the moral and social ruin that falla on thoee
who pursue it, and the financial handicap
which it throws on the countries which de?
vote themselves to such unproductive eon
sumption of wealth.
"Our naval heroes" at V?ra Crus went to
a useless death because our "peaee" loviBg
administration had ita eyes daiiled by the
military power intrusted to them, and tbo
Mexicans who died at their handa were bo
more guilty than were the Belgiana who di???d
at the hands of the German?.
EDWARD TU01IAS.
New York, Oct 22, 1916.