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A German Threat
The German government's note to
President Wilson is a despicable mixture
of whine, wheedle and threat. That is
to say, it is familiarly and character?
istically German.
The German government requests
tlie President of the United States to
arrange for the opening of peace ne?
gotiations.
The German government, for the
purpose of acceleration, proposes first
of all a preliminary peace.
The German government is particu*
larly anxious for the negotiations to
begin immediately.
The German government has ac?
cepted the terms of the arm.istice be?
cause it had to do so, but it disap?
proves of them and most solemnly calls
the attention of the President of the
United States to the fact that they are
likely to produce feelings in the Ger?
man people which will make it impos?
sible for them to subscribe to a just
and durable peace.
The German government is afraid
that if it fulfils the terms of the ar?
mistice millions of German men, wom?
en and children will starve.
The German people therefore re
(piest the President to use his influ?
ence to mitigate these fearful condi?
tions.
That is the note, It remarkably con?
firms the fear expressed by Herr Dr.
Muehlon, formerly of Krupps, who was
disillusioned about his own people, pub?
lished his opinion of them and then went
into exile. He said: "The peril of the
hour is that the Allies may become kind
and humane and extend the hand of
sympathy before Germany is ready to
confess the wrongs she has done and
make restitution."
Obviously Germany understands nei?
ther her own position nor ours.
She is a prisoner among nations?a
criminal prisoner.
Her life was spared because she put
up her hands.
The act of physical surrender was one
of self-preservation. She acquired there?
by neither merit nor virtue.
Her fate remains to be decided.
In the mean time she will not starve.
She is in the hands of people who do not
starve or torture prisoners.
A little humility would become her
as much as anything could. To set up
her wishes and preferences, to propose
means of accelerating negotiations, to
prepare beforehand the ground of alibi
by serving notice that the German peo?
ple at heart reject an armistice on which
the ink is not yet dry?this is truly
German.
So far we have spoken of ourselves
and our allies collectively. We wish to
say one thing more for ourselves?for
the American people alone.
We are not the keepers of Germany's
pride or dignity or stomach. We are not
Germany's advocate among the Allies.
We resent the implication of her solicit?
ing the President to procure a mitigation
of conditions. If she wishes to make
representations of that character let her
make them to the authors of the armis?
tice.
Already we recognize the signs of a
German propaganda to be addressed to
the maudlin sentimentality of the Amer?
ican people. It is a dangerous gas. It is
the beginning of an organized effort to
produce separate emotion? among the
Allies. Therein lies the only hope of
escape from what Germany fears to her
heart's core. We call It JUSTICE.
A Certain Yellowness in Kings
Piain, common murderers have often
ehowed complete pluck and sportsman?
ship. Having done their deed, they
have given tbemselveJ up and taken
the contcquenccii. Apparently another
rule holds for kings and emperors.
They beat it while the beating is good.
We can think of nothing so calculated
to do harm to the king business as the j
Kaiser's scuttling like a scared rabbit
from the just wrath of his people. Did
he leave the Kaiserin behind, by the
way? Even we, as Americans, may hopa
not. If a king cannot be courageous j
he at least need not be a deserter of
his womenfolk.
According to report, Hindenburg has
shown himself better stuff. If he has,
indeed, stood by his job and cooperated
to saye his nation from chaos, he will
have justified much of the popular trust
in him. And the people will have proved
themselves better pickers of true majes?
ty than all the divinities that preside at !
the crowning of kings.
A Good Crowd
When the lid comes off you see what
is underneath. What this old town and
its suburbanites, from goodness knows
how many miles around, and its visit?
ing soldiers and sailors did in its cele?
bration gave a pretty clear view into
the character and essential stuff of New
Yorkers and Americans.
That view is of as decent and cheerful
and well-behaved a crowd of humans as
ever cut loose. Every one who was in
the human whirlpool on Broadway Mon?
day night bears the same testimony.
Drunkenness was the rare exception
among civilians, as among men in uni?
form. Roughness was almost always
good natured and amusing. The police
stood about grinning cheerfully and
stepping in with a word of warning
only in the exceptional cases when jokes
were carried too far.
There was no need to make arrests,
and almost none were made. The police
showed admirable tact and sense. They
were as typically American in their
self-control and good nature as the
crowds themselves. Altogether the city
did itself proud.
Our Last Armed Enemy
Germany is out of the war. So are
all the other regular members of the
Quadruple Alliance. But there is one
Teutonized power which has not laid
down its arms. That is the Bolshevik
government of Russia?a creation of the
German corruption fund?which for the
last ten months or more has been an
irregular but exceedingly useful Ger?
man ally.
L?nine and Trotzky are at war with
the Allied powers. Bolshevist troops are
fighting British, French and American
forces in Northern Russia. In Siberia
they have been fighting Japanese, Brit?
ish, French, Italian and American con?
tingents. Both in Siberia and on the
Volga front in European Russia they
are still fighting the Czecho-Slovaks,
whose armies have been recognized by
the Allied powers as co-belligerent. Red
Russia stands, therefore, as the sole sur?
viving combatant of the Teuton group?
the only organized government standing
out against an Allied peace of justice.
L?nine and Trotzky have recently be?
come aware of their hopeless predica?
ment. Not long ago they impudently
made a demand on the Allied powers for
an evacuation of all occupied Russian
| territory?parodying President Wilson's
I demand on the government of Prince
Max of Baden for the evacuation of
alien soil as a preliminary to the dis?
cussion of terms of peace with Germany.
j Since then they have changed their tune.
'] Now they are pleading for any sort of
! peace which will carry with it a recog
; nition of their bloodthirsty and inhuman
despotism.
L?nine and Trotzky have nowhere to
I flee to escape the retribution which
, awaits them. The whole world has pro
! tested against their murderous travesty
| of government. The Allied powers have
' dealt with the Sultan of Turkey. But
: they cannot stain their hands by dealing
; with the impostors, bought and paid for
by the German secret service, who se
i duced Russia from the Allied cause and
' revived and multiplied in Petrograd and
! Moscow the horrors of Robespierre's
Reign of Terror.
By the terms of the armistice with
Germany the Allies have obtained free
access to the Baltic Sea. Their fleets
| can approach Cronstadt, the key to
| Petrograd. Neither Cronstadt nor Petro?
grad can be defended. Poland and all
I the Baltic provinces seized by Germany
are to come under Allied protection,
| awaiting the readjustments of peace.
j The Ukraine has also been freed from
German control. It can be reached by
| the Allied military forces by way of the
! Black Sea.
An iron ring can therefore be speed
| ily drawn about that part of Russia
! which L?nine and Trotzky still control.
! At the height of their power the Bol?
shevists, backed by German money and
: troops, could not check the steady
progress of the Czecho-Slovaks west
from Omsk to the Urals, and thence to
! the line of the Volga. What can they
do now, standing alone, against the
; urniies which the Allied powers can
' start toward Moscow from every point
of the compass?
Winter is near in Russia. But the
? original Russian revolution was carried
| through in winter. L?nine and Trotzky's
I counter revolution was also carried
; through in winter. There is urgent
| need now of a military demonstration
| which will pave the way for a third
' revolution and the disappearance of
i the present outlaw r?gime in Moscow.
If Russia is to be represented in the
! coming peace conference L?nine and
I Trotzky must go the way of their kind
?the way of Marat, Danton and Robes?
pierre. A civilized government must
replace theirs. Otherwise Russia must
j lose forever tin? territories of which
Germany stripped her and must revert
? to the status of an isolated third class
j power.
I It is also important that the Czecho
Slovaks should be brought home as
quickly as possible. They engaged in the
wastes of Siberia in one of the most
romantic and heroic adventures of the
war. They renewed Allied hope? at a
period of deepest gloom. They won
freedom for Slovakia, fighting 1,000
mileB outside its borders. They should
participate in the creation of the new
Czecho-Slovak state, whose emergence
has been due largely to their almost
legendary exploits and sacrifices. The
proper climax to the Czecho-Slovak
drama in Russia would be a march
west through delivered Russia and
Galicia to that recreated Slovakia
whose national redemption its peoples
have dreamed of for hundreds of years.
The Great Slump
A stale, flat world we live in? No
news worth reading, nothing worth do?
ing except celebrating what is past and
dead? Well, what else could any one ex?
pect? We have been living on romance
and adventure, the greatest adventure in
the history of the world, for four years
now. The morning's cup of coffee has
been drunk to a daily accompaniment of
colossal deeds that packed a newspaper's
front page with headlines and crowded
ordinary American local doings off the
stage altogether.
Such has been our scale of life and
diet of excitement. Now, with a few
strokes of a pen it is all withdrawn. We
may see trouble and messes and more
lighting. But it will never be the same.
The curtain has been rung down on the
greatest of all human dramas and we
are left with little save to put on our
coats and hats and wander aimlessly and
pop-eyed out into the old familiar world,
now so far away and forgotten and alien
and?dull.
It is a great slump we are going
through, and we shall not gain anything
by blinking our eyes to it. We have
all of us done hard and disagreeable
tasks gladly and well. Our soldiers
have done dangerous and deadly tasks
as well. The general spirit has been
one of enthusiasm and glad sacrifice.
Now a very different set of motives, a
wholly changed frame of mind, uprises.
Wo find ourselves back in our old 1914
grooves?and we do not fit them?or if
we do fit them they seem very shallow
and straight and dull.
Anything that comes now is an anti- I
climax. However blood may run in the
streets of Berlin, the news will never
have the thrill of that vast duel on the
fields of France, the greatest tourney
in the annals of combat.
The slump for soldiers and sailors
will be worse than for plain civilians.
The old William James quest for a moral
equivalent for war will face them in a
quest for an equivalent for the advent?
ure of war. There are plenty of ad?
ventures left. There is the sea, neg?
lected by Americans for many decades.
There is overseas trade. There is the
world of international politics, now at
our gate. There is the whole tangled
web of reconstruction, social, political,
economic. But it is a gloomy, boring
outlook by comparison, at best.
Lucky for the old human machine that
it possesses such amazing powers of ad?
justment to environment! It found it?
self in a great war and enjoyed it. It
will undoubtedly make something of
plain, dull peace before long!
When the folding trench cap replaced
the American campaign hat for overseas
wear hundreds of thousands of felt hats
were checked in to army supply ser?
geants. Now a use has been found for
them. With felt from the hats and cloth
from torn uniforms the salvagers are
making soft slippers for wear in hospi?
tals.
In Illinois prisoners are helping win
the war. More than six hundred have
been paroled from the state's peniten?
tiaries and put to work in the Rock
Island arsenal. Most of the money they
?>arn is sent to relatives and dependents.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: For five generations no citizenship
for a German in any other country? Very
moderate your proposal. Shall we let any
of them visit our shores?even visit them?
for the same period of time? Is the Ger?
man "reservist" who "chucked his job" in
a West End Coney Island saloon to go
over there and agonize our boys with
poison gas to come blithely buck when
Coney opens its season in the spring?
Ye gods! We excluded the Mongolian
for the comfort of such as these!
la a complete loathing for the German
beast consistent with one's faith and hope
and charity? I think so. I think the peo?
ple of America feel so. They couldn't buy
the toys wrought by a people who cut off
tho hands of little Belgian children.
Words and phrases pall upon us to-day.
Who tells us to sing no "hymn of hate" is
out of tune. This week the printing house
which is conducted in connection with
"The Araltyville Record" turned away
some orders for printing in the German
language. Intolerant? Maybe. Tolera?
tion of the beast of mankind must be about.
as contracted as you propose this morning
in your editorial headed "Sentence." Only
more so. CHARLES F. DELANO,
Editor "The Amltyv'lte Record."
Amityville. N*. Y., Nov. 8, 1918.
How to Restore Louvain
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I notice a call for aid to restore
Louvain University. There is only one rea
.--onable nay to restore it. That \a to trans?
fer to Louvain the equipment und library
of a Prussian university, preferably Berlin.
New York, Nov. 12, 1918. LEO STEIN.
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THE LAST FRENCH LOAN
A poster designed by Abel Faivre for the Fourth "Loan of Liberation" of the French Republic in the Great War.?from L'Illustration.
SHOES & SHIPS &
SEALING WAX
"MIKE SCOTT?NO ADDRESS."
(American Casualty List.)
Just a homeless, roving sort of chap,
Gayly knocking round about the earth,
Into any decent kind of scrap
So it were but big enough of girth;
Glad to get his chance to mix it rough,
Fight for freedom on the fields of France,
Show himself of Scottish-Yankee stuff,
Teach the Huns a lively back-step dance.
First and foremost where the light was hot?
Just Mike Scott!
Mike, who cared to give them no address:
Named nor friend nor any kith or kin,
No acknowledged old home town to bless,
No loved hearts to spur him on to win:
Leaving not an eye to scan the list,
Recognize his well beloved name,
And be sure the jolly Mike they missed
Played so well this last and greatest
game;
Yet we know he fought most soldier-like:
Right there, Mike!
Though no record stand of whence he came,
He has made his record with the rest;
Played his part out on the fields of fame,
Been nmong the men who backward
pressed
All the flower of the German line,
Taught the Boche respect for Yankee
blows:
Where Mike hailed from needs no special
sign
Mike himself knew, and the Kaiser knows!
Knows and trembles! Whence? Enough to
say U. S. A.
WALSTON SOUTHWICK.
The Kaiser, the Croivn Prince and the
whole General Staff have fled to the
I Netherlajids, and we wouldn't blame the
i good Dutch burghers a bit if they raised
I a howl for a protective tariff on imported
cheese.
There are just about 2,000.000 rea?
sons why you should give every nickel
you can to this war fund drive, folks.
They are in France, and several thou
I sand more reasons have been arriving on
! each transport.
You blew yourself to Liberty bonds.
i You weren't doing any one a favor by
| buying them. Let's see how genero.us
we are when we aren't getting anything
out of it ourselves.
Every show you deny yourself this
j week can be made a spree for the men
i who have been doing your fighting for
you. Every box of candy you don't buy
when you want it can be made a gift to
those who really need sweets.
Let's go over the top for those who
have been going over the top for us!
The Kaiser has deserted his country,
; thereby beating the country to it by a
few short hours.
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SEVERAL TUTS!
Mary has a Hule calf
And with this fact before v.*
We plainly nee tha reason whj
*he can't go In the chorus.
JOHN DOH.
Those Guys Would Do Anything
F. F. V.?Might the Hohenzollerns
not refer to the present cessation of
! hostilities as a "disarmistice"?
"VEGETABLE."
Apart from a mild case of shell shock,
I caused by exploding auto mufflers,
And three new corns born of the
! march of thousands across our feet,
And a twinge of regret that those who
; held the world safe for democracy
; couldn't hold their liquor a little less os?
tentatiously.
Ami a little weariness when regarding
' the civilian of draft age who now de?
mands blood thirstily to be led against
the Germans,
We'll admit that this waa one of the
pleasantest armistice signings we ever
celebrated.
The Bolsheviki, Chester, are the peo?
ple noto engaged in kicking Mitteleuropa
right in the mittel. F. F. V.
I Lucifer
Isaiah xiv; 9-21
9. Hell from beneath is moved for thee
to meet thee ?it thy coming: it stirreth up
the dead for thee, even all the chief ones
of the earth; it had raised up from their
thrones all the kings of the nations.
10 All they shall speak and say unto
thee, Art thou also become weak ?as we?
art thou become like unto us?
11. Thy pomp is brought down to the
grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm
is spread under thee, and the worms cover
thee.
12. How art thou fallen from heaven
O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art
thou cut down to the ground, which didst
weaken the nations!
13. For thou hast said in thine heart, I
will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my
throne above the stars of God: I will ait
also upon the m<-unt of the congregation,
in the sides of the north:
14. I will ascend above the heights of
the clouds; I will be like the most High.
IB. Yet thou shalt be brought down to
hell, to the sides of the pit.
16. They that see thee shall narrowly
look upon thee, and consider thee, saying,
Is this the man that made the earth to
tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17. That made the world as a wilderness,
and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened
not the house of dis prisoners?
18. All the kin^s of the nations, even all
of them, lie in glory, every one in his own
house.
! 19. But thou art cast out of thv grave like
j an abominable branch, and as the raiment
i of those that are slain, thrust through with
j a sword, that go down to the stones of the
j pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
20. Thou shalt .lot be joined w.th them
in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy
land and slain thy people: the seed of evil
I doers shall never be renowned
21. Prepare slaughter for his children
for the iniquity of their fathers; that they
do not rise, nor possess the land, nor all
the face of the world with cities.
The Kaiser's Trial
i To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: After reading your article in The
Sunday Tribune, "Lauzanne Wants Kaiser
Put on Trial," I sincerely hope I am only
one of the many who feel that their own
sentiments have been precisely expressed.
i Cannot something be done to promote
j such a trial as St?phane Lauzanne speaks
of? The Tribune has done so much along
lines of taking up and promoting things of
importance. Certainly a movement to
' punish the Kaiser and his officials is a
| thing of world-wide interest and should be
heartily indorsed.
(Mrs. Joseph H.) EDNA V. GREEN.
Passaic, N. J., Nov. 10, 1918.
Why Not Try This First?
(From Ufe)
The Peace League of more or less bel?
ligerent nations suggests that we might
have, just for practice, a peace league on
j a smaller scale right here at home. How
; would a peace league composed of Theo
! dore Roosevelt, Henry Ford. Robert La
Follette, George Creel, W. R. Hearst, Ogden
1 Keid, Henry Cabot Lodge, W. H. Hays and
: Joseph Tumulty do for a starter?
The rules could be catch-as-catch-can,
three-ounce gloves, with ample police pro?
tection.
If among these gentlemen harmony could
be established, then a permanent peace
j basis for the world at large need not be
considered impossible.
Peace Problems
By Frank H. Simonds
(Copyright, 1918, New York Tribune Inc.)
THE actual signing of the armistice i
opens the way to that peace con
gress of which the world has been
talking for the past four years. In that
? period there has been a growing appreci
| ation of the fact, that a general settle
[ ment, comparable in its magnitude to
that of Vienna in 1815, was inevitable
l when at last the time came to liquidate
[ the present struggle.
What has never been properly per
I ceived in this country is the magnitude
of the task and the obstacles which make
it almost inevitable that many, many
months will elapse before the signatures
are written under the definitive docu
! ment, the reasons why a settlement even
| within the limits of next year are slight
! in the extreme.
After the first abdication of Napoleon
[ the victorious Allies met in Vienna in
i November to reconstruct Europe. They
I were still in session when Naprleon re
| turned from Elba in the following
I March, and they lingered until June 9
j before they signed the final treaty. Nor
would this settlement have come had it
not been because of the pressure of
events. It was Napoleon who in reality
? made any agreement possible at Vienna,
by restoring unity of purpose to his ene
: mies, who were bee nn:nrr to be sepa
? rated by connecting ambitions.
Thus, in the case of the last general
i settlement in Europe much more than
I a year divides the actual ending of the
| hostilities from the signing of the final
I settlement. Tn the interim there had
\ been sicned a treaty between France and
her enemies, the Treaty of Paris, exe
cuted promptly after Napoleon's first
abdication, but a second Treaty of Paris,
following the -econd abdication, was not
?igned until November 30. Thu-* the
settlement hung fire over all the per:od
from April 7, 1814, to November 30,
j 1815.
In the present case we have to face
certain conditions which recall those of
1814-'!5. First of all it is necessary to
! find a German government with which to
negotiate. In 1814 this was supplied by
the return of Louis XVIII. Thanks to
the aid of his brother sovereigns Louis
was able to take over French adminis?
tration with relatively small difficulty.
: both in 1814 and again in 1815. The
; fabric of government was not destroyed,
there was merely a change in the sover?
eign, the executive.
But in the case of Germany we have
something approaching a genuine revo?
lution already, and there is good reason
to believe that the disorder may extend
in the following weeks. In any event
no government c'hn be more than provi?
sional until there has been a German
election, a submission of the new order
I to the people. With any other govern
? ment the Allies must hesitate to do busi
I ness lest it be repudiated later by the
j people. But an election can hardly come
before demobilization, before evacuation
of the regions to be occupied by the Al
I lies, least of all can it come before the
German chaos has settled into some form
of order.
We may then conclude that any real
peace conference in the present year is
out of the question. We may suspect
! that any gathering early next year is
: unlikely, given the existing situation of
chaos, not merely in Germany, but in
i Austria and in Turkey. Peace can only
be made with governments, and for the
. moment there is no government in Aus?
tria or Germany and no handy substi
: tute such as Louis XVIII constituted in
1814.
Nor is this the sole difficulty. We are
not merely to deal with Germany in
making the new peace, but wc have to
reconstruct the maps of Europe, Asia
and Africa and reorder the relations be?
tween the nations of the world. We
have to or?ate new countries and we
have to rewrite the international law
governing countries in their dealings
hereafter. In a word, we have to free
the smaller peoples and to construct t
league of nations.
Looking to the task of liberating the
smaller peoples, it is apparent instantly
that the problem is colossal. The con?
flict between various claims is b-und to
be sharp. We have already the pro?
tests of the Jugo-Slavs against Italian
claims in the Adriatic. Greek protests
against Italian claims in Albania, Rtf
thenian prcte-ts against Polish policy in
Eastern Galicia. The German minority
in Czecho-Slovakia is already becoming
vocal and the racial problems of Russia
are manifold.
It may be that the victorious Allies
will follow the course of their predeces?
sors in 1814 and promptly ?ign a treaty
with Germany, always providing that
Germany can in the meantime achieve
a national government. But this would
be but a minor detail in the pe?era! set?
tlement, as the Treaty of Paris was
wholly subordinate to that of Vienna.
And the problem of time would remain
in the matter of the larger task.
Measuring by past precedent, it seem?
to me almost inevitable that the wf8"
tiations for restoring peace now mu
occupy most if not al! A next year, end
may easily extend into ?020. There
may be separate treaties closing the war
as between Germany an i the A.lies,
Turkey and the Allies and Bulgaria and
the Ailes, but the?e will not collectively
or severally dispose of the even greater
questions of race and of international
relations. And even if Germany find3
herself, there remains Russia, without
which no general settlement can be
made and concerning which all that we
know precludes hope of ?peedy sanity.
In a word, the making of peace may
spread over years, as in the case o?
Westphal?a an'! Utrecht: u
'?ccunv less t*me than the settlement of
the Napoleonic period, which occupied
more than twenty month-:, punctusted
by the Hundred Day. o. ....,
The Clearest Voice
(November Elei'enih)
THE golden voices of the bells break witb
sudden laughter; t
Leap the sirens, golden-voic? d, the peeks o.
autumn sky'
There are voices everywhere, -mging, S; S
ing, singing,
"Jesu. Saviour, peace is come,
Thy blessed p'-ace is come.
? The dark hills break into singing.
And the broken valley placet;
The wind-strewn seas, white with gol'"- a
in deep voice,
? And there is singing in the invisible l?n
of sky.
... Yet clearer than all the??
In the full streets of great cities,
| On the hushed front of the gray battle tt? ?
. Up the lonely forest passes
And in the rocking breast of the it*r~
? Ah! the clearest voice sings unheard
In the heart of One, alone,
Of One who walks with bended heal
Unseen of all th8 throng.
"Jesu. Saviour, peace is com??
1 hy blessed peace is tome."
FLORENCE RIPLEY