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A Path to Disaster
We are indebted to Senator Poindexter
for reminding us that a state of war ex?
ists between the United States and Ger?
many. One might almost have forgot?
ten it.
We may have finished the physical
part of the business. There is yet a
peace to win against rising odds. Ger?
many plays the game of diplomacy
deeply and with Teutonic cunning.
The German government apparently
is not on speaking terms with Great
Britain and France. It addresses the
Allied governments only through their
American "associate." It began the
armistice negotiations in that way. It
now makes its protests and prayers and
threats, not to all the governments, but
to one.
At Versailles, as President Wilson
publicly announced on Monday, a reso?
lution was unanimously agreed upon
pledging all possible aid to the Central
Powers to avert a famine.
Yet the German government appeals
to President Wilson to act, to exert his
influence, to mitigate the conditions
created by the terms of the armistice,
to consider the feelings of the German
people and to save Germany from star?
vation. And President Wilson in reply
says that if the Germans will maintain
order in their country he will be "ready
to consider favorably the supplying of
foodstuffs to Germany and to take up
the matter immediately with the Allied
governments"?take up with them a
?natter which, according to his own an?
nouncement, had already been dealt
with at Versailles.
All this is very subtle matter.
Senator Poindexter thinks, as we
think, as a great many people must feel,
that the implications are wrong, ana
that all these asides between Germany
and the United States tend in a certain
direction. Why should the United
States'act as a mediator between Ger?
many and the Allied governments?
Sure- .' this situation dees not make for
diplomatic unity, which now is as essen?
tial as military unity was.
So Senator Poindexter has offered a
resolution declaring that in the present
war the cause of the United States
arainst the Central Powers is identical
with that of our allies, and that the
ulterior purpose of Germany's conduct
is to bring about a div;sion of interests
amone her enemies. He proposes that
the United States shall be an "ally" of
the nations arrayed against Germany,
and not merely an "associate," and that
the United States as an ally shall sign
the pact of London, thereby binding
herself, as the others are bound, to con?
duct no separate peace negotiations, to
debate no separate terms, to have no
separate discussions.
That is sound American sentiment,
and we support it.
Disaster lies at the end of the sepa?
rate path we have unwittingly entered.
In a little while it may be too late to
turn back.
Every Inch a Kink
There are kings?and kinks. William
[] was every inch a kink.
Hermann Sudermann, one of the lit
trary celebrities of modern Germany,
md in the most ?if his work a symbol of
a decadence, wrote in 1896 a one-act
?storical drama called "Teja." It was
a bit of incense burned at the shrine of
Teutonic militarism?a sentimental
supplement to such treatises as General
? on Bernhardi's "How Germany Makes
War."
"Teja" dealt with the tragic episode
of the death of the last king of the
goths, whose forces were cooped
up near ?Mount Vesuvius by Narsos, the
reat Byzantine general. They were
n ? cl<;ped and starving. Teja, or Teias,
their ruler, decided to die fighting the
fee rather than eurrender.
The evening before the last battle his
?ounsellors and his Arian bishop bring
lim a wife, ho that he may know
the Goths love death"?meaning
?bat the northern warrior? always died
Irously in defence of their wives
imi?i**. It was the Goth and an
Teuton ideal of military and per
William H ha? always assumed the
Peuton and Gothic military virtues. In
hi* own eyes and in those of hi? <le
Ituled people he also was a Teja?a
knitfht?y figuro clad in shining armor.
Sudermann was celebrating hin- when
he wrote of the last of the Ostrogoths,
yet without any reason?for the Hohen
zoilerns, since Frederick the Great, have
been generally gun-shy, and Frederick
the Great ran away from his first battle.
In this war the Kaiser and the Crown
Prince have viewed the fighting from ob?
servation points at a very safe distance.
Now Sudermann's glorification of
Teuton kingly valor reads like a hollow
and sickening travesty. The arch
posturer and movie picture actor who
strutted in"the foreground of the Ger?
man war of conquest and filled the air
with his mock-heroic declamations is a
shivering and pitiful fugitive. He slunk
away from his defeated armies. Even
Napoleon III. another imperial barn?
stormer, had a sufficient sense of stage
proprieties to wish to die at the head of
his troops before Sedan. William II
had no such instinct. When the crash
came he upbraided his generals for
thinking of surrendering. But he was
concerned personally only about making
a get-away to neutral territory.
Teja shared the privations of his
troops and died on foot at their head.
William the Second sneaked off to Hol?
land in an automobile, followed by a
train de luxe, stocked with provisions
and carrying a retinue of servants. lie
abandoned his family. His only though!
was to save his own skin. The Crown
Prince was no less chicken-hearted.
But he had the good fortune, it appears,
to be shot by his own troops while try?
ing to escape from the German lines.
A king should know how to die. The
contemptible mouther and gesturer who
held Germany hypnotized for so many
years, and who impressed the outside
world for a time with his fustian great?
ness, lacked even that modicum of
equipment for the kingly office. He
lived an impostor and a counterfeit. He
has chosen to die one.
Finland, Our Covert Enemy
Bolshevist Russia is the only armed
enemy left in the field. The Allies are j
still at war with her. She must be
crushed, as Germany has liceo crushed.
There is, however, another satellite of
Germany?also on the Eastern front?
with whom we are not at war. That is
Finland. She has consorted with our
enemies?passively, if not actively. Her
political and military status leaves much
to be cleared up.
Finland concluded a close alliance with
Germany soon after the Brcst-Litovsk
and Bucharest treaties went into effect.
Those two treaties have been annulled
under the terms of Foch's armistice with
the new German government. But the
Finnish-German compact has not been
annulled. Finland, so far as she has the
power to determine anything, is still a
dependency of the German Empire. That
is her choice, and she has done nothing
to alter it. Only a month ago the Fin?
nish Parliament dispatched a delegation
of its members on the fool's errand of
announcing to Prince Charles of Hesse
his election to the Finnish throne.
To-day there is no reigning house in
Hesse. .411 the German -kings, grand
dukes and reigning prince*-, including
even Heinrich XXVII of Reuss, have
been thrown into the discard. Is Finland
to remain the sole state in Europe willing
to tolerate a Gei*man king? The idea is
preposterous. But that is Finland's
status on the record to date.
The Finns have not actually declared
war on any Allied nation. But they
abette?l German plans for seizing the
railroad to Kola, Russia's ice-free port
on the Arctic Ocean, and driving the .Al?
lied forces away from that vital sea
base. They accepted a grant of Western
Carelia from the Bolshevists and in re?
turn agreed to support the Bolshevist
campaign against the Allies on the Kola
peninsula and in the province of Arch?
angel. That this assistance was not
given in any effective measure was due
to a fear of Allied reprisals?a fear
which became acute ***'hen Allied rein?
forcements began to pour into Northern
Russia and the Czecho-Slovaks advanced
west of the Urals to the line of the
Volga. Out of caution, and not from any
change of heart. Finland lapsed back
into the condition of a passive ally of
Germany and of the Moscow Terrorists.
'Die relations of Berlin with the Finns
and with the Bolshevists were very
mixed. In Russia Germany backed the
Red cause. She meant to reduce Russia
to anarchy, and thus facilitate the work
of despoiling her. In Finland, however,
she supported the White counter revolu?
tion. With her assistance the White
Guards defeated the Finnish Reds.
slaughtered them by the thousands, ?>:
ecuted their leaders and suppressed them
as ruthlessly as L?nine and Trutzky sup?
pressed the Russian moderate parties ami
massacred the bourgeoisie.
German policy aimed at establishing a
reactionary, militaristic monarchy in
Finland, with a German prince at its
head. The Finnish army was to be turned
into a German military asset. The Teu
tonization of Finland was to pave the
way for a similar Teutonization of Lith?
uania, Esthonia, Livonia. Courland, Po?
land and the Ukraine.
Of all these ex-segments of Russia
Finland alone welcomed German over
lordship. Poland nourished her strength
for the day on which she might hope to
revolt. Now she. has revolted. The Lith?
uanians protested violently against being
saddled with a German king. But Fin?
land gladly accepted German control. Her
Parliament yielded to suggestions from
Berlin, gave up the idea of creating a re?
public, elected Charlea of Hesse as King
and ?tarted a notification mission for
Darmstadt at the very moment when
Bulgaria was deserting the Teuton Al?
liance. German armie*- were being pushed
out of France ami the military downfall
of Germany was clearly in sight.
The Finns have done nothing to help
the Allied, cause and much to injure it.
They have no claim on Allied considera?
tion. Of their own choice they became a
German dependency. They kissed the
Kaiser's hand?a thing which even the
Ukrainians, equally eager for the shadow
of separate national existence, obstinate?
ly refused to do.
The denunciation of the Tfeaty of
Brest-Litovsk leaves Finland's future
obscure. The peace conference must de?
termine it. The Allied navies are to go
into the Baltic. The government at Hel
singfors must put itself at their disposal.
Finland is probably fit for separate
nationality. But she took the wrong path
when she set about getting it. Her self
determination became a menace to the
world when it took the form of subservi?
ency to Teutonism. Pending the action
of the conference, the least the Finn i an
do to reestablish themselves, in Allied
confidence is to annul the election of their
Hessian king and to declare a republic.
They must first emerge from the Ger?
man shadow before they can hope to find
a place in a new, free European world.
More Need Than Ever
if there was any reaction among the
thoughtless against the needs of the
war and any loathness to give to the
United War Work fund we are sure it.
has quickly passed. Every one, on
second thought, is realizing the truth.
that not less but more of all these sup?
ports of the fighting men are needed as
a result of the armistice.
In plain fact, our soldiers and sailors
are facing the most difficult and trying
period of their service. The great, cause
upon which they willingly staked their
all has been won. What remains is the
tedious job of cleaning up, of policing, of
waiting. The great moral goal of the
war, the stirring incitement that, moved
officer and enlisted man to equal heights
of toil and tension and straight, living,
has vanished. There is left only a more
prosaic obligation which may or may not
prevail. The best of us in a strange land
feel something less than our normal in?
hibitions.
This is the situation which makes the
need of huts and American men and
women and every form of amusement
and cheer far more urgent than ever.
Some touch of the great change has
already affected us at home. Feeling it,
we can realize how vastly greater must
be the let-down for our fighting men.
In that realization and with our promise
of better times we can give, and give
more than ever we planned. There lies
the need. Here is the day and the way
for us to meet it. The United War
Work must bave a larger, not a smaller,
subscription from each of us by reason
of peace.
Mr. Creel Sign* the Armistice
If any one retained any doubts of peace
the emergence of New York from its
mysterious camouflage as "An Atlantic
Port" ought to remove them finally. No
longer shall we read of arrivals from
Europe who entered this unnamed spot
and "motored at once to the Biltmon ."
We mus? still forbear to mention, we sup
pose, the name of the town of-in
France, at which is located American
(i. H. Q.,as not more than most of Amer?
ica has known for many mysterious
months. Mr. Creel purposes to remove
one bandage at a time, we presume, lest
our eyes \>e blinded by the light.
One other vast result of Mr. Creel's
cessation of ho?Ki'ties leaps to mind.
Thai, is its eflFecl upon the paper situa?
tion. When the C. P. 1. closes up and
its rivers, e-f pamphlets and oceans of
circular letters and Niagaras of docu?
ments cease to flow, there will be enough
paper released to print everything that
anybody in the world could ever possibly
think of printing?with enough spare
tons left over to fill the sky with Victory
paper every time a band goes by.
Now that it is all over, Argentinians
are sorry they didn't get on the band
wagon. Mass meetings and street dem?
onstrations in Buenos Ayres are ex?
pressing the dissatisfaction with the
Executive who declined to sever rela?
tions with Germany after Congress had
voiced the national feeling for such a
break.
Why Punish Crime?
T?) the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: If criminal Germany is not to be
punished why punish criminal America?
If the looter:-- of homes in France go free,
why send larcenists, grand or petty, to an
American jail?'' If the general who
doomed Edith Cavel] is to be spared, if
those especially those in authority?-who
made a years long pastime of torture and
murder on land and set. mutilating living
men and women and bayoneting babies,
are not to atone, why in the name of con?
sistency should we punish anybody for
any crime in any country? Why chase an
American thief or homicide around the
world and spend a fortune to convict him.
and then absolve the wholesale robbers
who left th?.- indtis?;'- o? two countries
in ruins and the murderers who drown.m?
innocent people by shiploads? Why dis?
criminate against our comparatively harm?
less offenders? Let charity begin at home,
if such amazing charity as the proponents
of a "liberal peace" demand is to be ap?
plied to Germany.
Let us truly establish justice in this
most monstrous orgy of brutality, or make
no pretence of executing justice anywhere.
Let the tail go with the hide. Either re?
in al the whole body of our criminal law,
. oui prisons and dismiss the police,
.?r make Germans understand their guilt
by punishing the guilty, thus compelling
much needed respect for international law
and foreshowing the authority of the pro
1 01 ed league of nations.
J. ALBERT STOWE.
Arlington, N. J., Nov. 12? 1918,
Danger Signals
By Frank H. Simonds
Copyright, 1018. New York Tribune Inc.
IT IS impossible to escape a sense of
apprehension in reading of the rapid
march of the revolution in Germany
toward conditions which are wholly
analogous to those of Russia at a simi?
lar period in the upheaval in the Slav
state. Indeed, the fact seems to be that
the pace is far faster in Germany than
it was in Russia.
The familiar conception of the Ger?
man as a disciplined, orderly, obedient
creature, taking his-pleasures in food
and drink rather than politics, and en?
joying his restrictions as other peoples
enjoy their liberties, may easily serve
to blind the world to the perils of the
new situation.
The truth is, of course, that the Rus?
sian revolution was made in Germany,
not merely procured by German influ?
ence, but based upon the ideas of the
German Socialists. It marched rapidly
through all the phases of an aggravated
class war, which has now degenerated
into a government by assassination, al?
ways keeping time to the tunes of the
German doctrines of socialism.
One is accustomed to hear now that
the German people are not to be com?
pared with the Russian, that they are
educated, intelligent, European rather
than Asiatic. And in the same order of
ideas it is argued that the German peo?
ple have long been citizens of the mod?
ern world, while the Russians have to
the last lived in a world medieval in
the extreme. Yet the truth is that in
Russia the basis of revolution was hun?
ger aggravated by military defeat, and
that hunger is not only imminent but
conceivably existent in Germany. More?
over, whatever be the existing condi?
tion, the rapid extension of strikes, the
growing chaos as the old system breaks
down, make the progress of famine in?
evitable.
In Russia the first days of the revo
lution were marked by little, serious
lighting. The good nature of the crowds
anil the reasonableness of the mobs were
themes of all observers. The men im?
mediately called tp the control of the
government had already conducted Rus?
sian affairs in Duma cabinets; they
represented liberal ideas, but they were
not Socialists or anarchists. Prince
Lvoff's ministry, in which Miliukoff and
many other men of distinction served,
was not. lied. After Lvoff Kerensky
still represented a measure of modera?
tion and in some fashion sought to save
the Russian alliance with the Western
nations.
But although the revolution is less
than a week old in Germany we are al?
ready informed that the moderates are
excluded; the bourgeoisie is not to have
any representation in the government,
although the bourgeoisie in Germany
represents at least a third of the whole
population, whereas in Russia it was
insignificant. P?ut. to exclude both the
bourgeoisie and the conservative ele?
ments in Germany, who still adhere tc
the older order of monarchical ideas, is
to pass rapidly from the tyranny of ar
autocracy to the tyranny of anarchy.
If the recent course of events in Ger?
many be not promptly changed nothing
seems more certain than that we shal
at no distant time find ourselves facing
eastward over the Rhine upon a vas1
teething mas-, of anarchy, extending
from the Rhine to the Siberian waste
end including within its limits the 300,
00(1,000 people of Russia, Germany ant
Austria.
If the present movement in German'
continues we shall find, also, that thi
hostility which swept over Russia afte
the revolution, the hostility for the West
ern nations, the hatred of Britain ant
of America as reactionary states, wil
appear in Germany.
All contemporary signs point to th
swift arrival in Germany of exactly th
same sort of control which has plungei
Russia into anarchy and ruin. Germai
autocracy has failed in its effort t
make over the world, but German so
cialism, which has already conquere
Russia and Germany and has invade
Austria and Bulgaria, is no! less nos
tile to th" Western form of democrac
than was German autocracy.
The thing Americans as a mass d
not and can not understand is that t
the German and Russian Socialists th
American form of democracy seem
more hideous than their own expirin
autocracies. The men who now contre
the German and Russian revolutions ar
as hostile to the form of representativ
democracy under which we live as w
should be to the Hohenzollern or Hap?
burg rule, which was for them but a
intermediate stage between slavery an
complete liberation.
A new war of ideas has begun b<
tween Central Europe and the Wester
nations. It may lead to a new we
before the old war has finally bee
liquidated. It seems bound to lead 1
new horrors and fresh anarchy. It ma
preclude any settlement such as tl
league of nations provided, becau:
tiie Germans and Russians of the rev
lution may refuse to deal with natior
which they regard as reactionary ar
capitalistic. To national war intern;
tional class war may now succeed, wi
now succeed if Germany and Russia ca
bring it about.
All of which is sound reason for ii
dulging in no immediate expectations i
a return to old conditions of peace aj
quiet. It took Europe more than tweni
years to I' uidate the French Revol
tion, even temporarily, and the Russ?e
Revolution is still les3 than two yea
old and still spilling over into adjoinir
nations.
SHOES & SHIPS &
SEALING WAX
UNCLEAN!
Outside the ancient walls of Jericho
They sat or crouched, a loathsome, piteous
row,
With fteshless hands outstretched and sup?
pliant mien.
They wailed their dreadful cry: "Unclean!
Unclean!"
The casual traveller, with quickened pace,
Passed on the other side, nor turned his
face,
Except he chanced in eharity to pause
And toss a coin. The pack, with greedy
claws,
Fight for the meagre alms and then again
Take up their moan of misery: "t'nclean!"
Outside the pale of truth and right and
grace
There stands to-day a loathsome, leprous
race,
A thing apart. Crouching behind the wall
Of countless mangled dead, they suppliant
fall
To beg an alms. And one, with frenzied
eye,
Uplifts his withered hand, and, craftily,
Implores with anxious, fevered lips for !
"Peace."
Humanity, with stops that never cease,
Walks on the other side. Her shuddering
mien
Proclaims that cowering thing, "Unclean!
Unclean! "
Where is he now, All-Highest One, your !
Gott?
Perchance he sleepeth, for he hears thee
not!
Aye, call him louder! Louder! Yet again!
All other cr.es for aid were surely vain.
Not all the waters of the Rhine that surge
Nor the eternal tires of Hell can p_rge
Your scarlet sins. For all Eternity
Be it your doom to cry in agony,
Unheeded and unheard, unfelt, unseen,
Behind your ghastly wall: "Unclean!
Unclean!"
VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS.
"Hurry up with the peace conference."
moans Germany, aiid she, of course, is not
going to delay it by loud and lengthy
protest when the Allies tell her what is
going to happen to her.
BACK HOME STUFF
Pedro Joe
Pedro Joe was sometimes called
Whitewash Joe. He did all the odd kal
somining jobs around town and put in
glass windows. Some said he was a
Spaniard, and others said he came from
Austria. He talked with an accent and
was a steady drinker. He lived in the
stable in the alley back of Schreck's
meat shop.
He used to be up every morning at
4:30 o'clock, and was always the first
customer at the Blue Goose. There had
been stories that he killed a man once,
but he seemed harmless and very fond
of children. He used to cut baskets out
of buckeyes for them, and he could
make a noise like a sheep and imitate a
sawmill buzz saw.
In the spring Pedro Joe used to go
back of Reservoir Hill, on the lower
river road, and gather herbs, and he
hung them to dry outside his shack.
There u/as talk that Dr. Cromlish got his
famous recipe for Cromlish's great
blood restorer from Pedro Joe. Pedro
Joe always had a cough, and people
would see him on the streets gasping for
breath and sometimes spitting blood.
They never thought he would last
through the w*inter. But he liver' to be
eighty-eight and died with the smallpox
at the county poorhouse.
Dr. Cromlish paid ail of his funeral
expenses. Not a soul went to his fu?
neral but the undertaker and the Rev.
Alva Gee. OOM.
The dear old "Evening Post" having
lifted up its voice to demand- that any
new epidemic of influenza be "nipped in
the bud," it is now in order for sofne one
to express the hope that the totals of
new cases in the old epidemic drop with
a sickening thud.
CARDROOM EPITAPHS
MILL OOOF HAS LEFT US SPEKDILY.
iUS LOW DOWN SPIRITS STRUGGLED
FREE.
I HELD TURKI-; ACES?SO DID HE.
With no more Germans to kill, what
are our men in France going to do for
amusement? It's up to you, folks.
You're sure to find some one to give
your answer to to-day.
F. F. V.
Red Sadness
To the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR: I could not pass a day without The
Tribune. In these days of stress and
strain my sense of humor has been saved
by those most entertaining remarks of P.
Wilson, I have often wondered when the
end came and the loot was at last divis?
ible just what would be the division. I am
grateful that The Tribune, my favorite
paner, has fallen heir to the Kaiser's God.
In this morning's editorial. "God's Re?
venge" you spc-.k of the Red Flag sadly
ami in large capitals. About 'he time we
entered the war I was strolling down Fifth
Avenue during a parade. The Russian
revolution was then hailed gayly as a
friend in need. In the windows of the
Union League sat a number of smiling
gentlemen beneath a motley array of flags.
There were the tricolor, the blood red flag
of Britain and, to my great amazement,
the plain red flag of the Russian rev%lu
tion. I told that story everywhere and ex?
pressed the fear that I should live to see
that smile fade out when those prosperous
gentlemen realised that, the red dye was a
fast co'.or. ? judge from your use of the
capitals in this morning's editorial und i
your hasty adoption of that forlorn and
abandoned God that the time is here.
MARY TAYLOR.
New York, Nov. 13, 1918.
THE SPIRIT OF NAPOLEON RISES
Who said St. Helena tor the Hohenzoliern?
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Suggestions of St. Helena in connec?
tion with the exile of \?iluam II are to be
regretted. No American needs to revise his
opinion of Napoleon's ambitions to appreci?
ate the fact that St. Helena is sacred
ground to the dearest friends we have on
earth. I!' William is to tie sent away,
Devil's Island, in French possession, has at
least an appropriate name.
Bul is there any use bothering with him
or about him? Any comparison of his case
with Napoleon's confers the dignity of
supreme greatness upon merely a vicious
accident.
To asse*nble a court ?if lawyers to trj a
man whom the whole world has alreadv
convicted is silly. If he had ten millic-, I
lives and each one separat? ;y takable ?t; I
in writhing agony couij be put to dtat'i
every day for ten million days he would m;
at the end of that time have ?xpiated h
crime.
So iet this outcast live. Outcast be Butt
be wherever he lives. Ho cannot iive u
long, for every day cold, fearful dropi ?ill
stand on that man's trembling flieh, u.
never can he close hie eyeB except to mi
the sights of Bosworth Field.
LEMUEL ELY QUIGG
New York, Nov. 18, 1918.
a Swiss
Extract ?rom the Z?rcher Morgen, Zeitung, August 10, JOls
ACCORDING to the conception of our
days, the heroes of Homer conducted
themselves before their bloodthirsty
battles like little children. THiey stood be?
fore their warriors, shook their shields,
brandished their spears and ejaculated
murderous shouts, overwhelming their ene?
mies with slander and praising their own
heroic deeds. He who shouted the most
would have the advantage of not only over
shouting his enemy, but also to frighten
him accordingly. And only when all were
hoarse from shouting did the battle begin
in those happy times.
It may be that these heroes not only
frightened their enemies, but succeeded
in giving themselves courage by prais?
ing their own deeds. This curiotffe idiosyn?
crasy, of which we are told from olden
times in Homer's undying books, and which
has nothing particularly heroic, seems to
have found its joyful resurrection in our
days.
From the New World
The warrior's cry of the oideii days, ac?
companies the American crusade to Euro?
pean battles. Just as the Indian warrior
of the New World smeared his face with
frightening colors and adorned his head
with feathers m hen he went forth to battle,
in order to decorate hi3 wigwam with a
few scalps of the paleface, in accordance
with tradition, so the modern American
sends ahead of his black and white troops
a fearful noise, a wild cry of his might and
greatness. Instead of the colored face and
the eagle's feathers on his head, he places
the modern equipment of cable, telegraph
and dinner speeches, interviews and press
notice?.
For months past there have appeared in.
the French papers regularly whole columns
of description regarding the effort and the
tremendous exertions of the Americans en
tering war. There may have been good
reasons for this; the French population
was getting tired of the war, and looked for
the American aid like old Noah looked for
the dove of peace, and needed some stimu?
lation.
And so they gladly intoxicated them?
selves in France with the magic image of
the irresistible America, whose mighty
power was to drive back these Boches, that
would be unconquerable behind the Rhine,
and which wa to bring the sister nation
tht final victory that would not cumc.
Bui this American attempt to create a
tion in France is not all. Curiously
enougl ' ' em tQ think it necessary in
Washington to embrace peaceable little
Switzerland in the domain of the Ameri?
can war and victory's intoxication. Where?
fore is quite inexplicable.
The American Press Bureau
Switzerland is, compared with America,
.ci small und its population in number so
insignificant that one cannot see what the
Americans seek with their own idolatry in
Switzerland. We are grateful toward
America that it allows Switzerland to get
some of its products?although in moderate
quantities?from there. It seems hardly
necessary or possible that this gratitude
should have to be enhanced by admiration
of the peculiar method of America's war
propaganda.
By a peculiar misconstruction of the
Swiss psyche, there was nevertheless an
American press bureau established which
sends its messages by code to the American
Legation in Berne, and distributes all sort?
of piquancy a la Barnum ?fc Bailey, accom?
panied with drums and fifes.
Here is stated in a flourishing cablegram
from the New World that over there every ?
ten minutes a munition caisson is made, '
that during October every three days t_en
will be in a single shipyard a 9,000 ton ihn
launched, that the fuctories of a ringle m
manufacturer turn out every ten mint'?,
(op was it hours?! a completely finiii-.
automobile, that daily 'or every minute
it is impossible to keep up with the space f
time) 50.000 rifles, millions of cartridge?.
etc., are furnished foi he American arm;
that there arc in tht American ground ?
billion tons of coal _nd similar material,
that there will bi - million trees h
France, tha nerican trouper? an.
boots get lar,-. , American soi
diers love above all colored sugar cano?
sticks, etc., etc. Uncle Sara stands before
the Liberty Statue in New York Har?
bor, brandishes his '-word and shield, m
cries Europe to perdition. The picture '?'
the modern Homeric
The Best of Everything
.in prop.
ganda are many powerft
cial peopl
So ha* mi mbers of tta
American Congress, which came to seek i**
formation on the situation in Lnglar.d.mi"
a great noise. Reuter took charge of W
matter and sent to tiie Swiss press quit? >
voluminous account. The account il H
powerful that some of it must be preierve
from oblivion. In the first place, W
naughty Central Power?, who will abBois' ?
ly not understand that they ?simply to"-*
disappear with America's entry into ?*
war, are told that Am'-nc'? has 25,09.^
men able to bear arm ? ? t?te tit
America can feed all the peoples of?***
Great Britain, Italy and the United Str?
and still furnish all the fighting troops ('
posing the Prussian ri m their v.
(ions
The American soldier ? >. wonderful, >? ?
wonderful bis weapons ? pija?sU.aJ
clothing was of wool ^:e Ger*5
soldier is probabl; l?)? M t,:
the besl rica had so manyrif'-'
that each Boldier got two, Every *?'
there were manufactured 5-4,211 (not ??*
212; rifles and 5.000 machine gun?. 1.
American army had . ?0 of ab?
ridges for machine guns and received ?*W
day 15,000,000 more, ?n addition to ?W
shells. The account says further that ever**
week there were manufactured l.OOO^K
shells for precision (here there is s??
thing not quite rig multiplie?*'*
And what not? ?'
burning, in the Amei .'The
man leaders would have to regret tbc1^.
barian war method.-?: i'hey say, tit**
at present America is making 25,000 ae
planes, and they had in America alone 1 ?
000 fliers. The American aeroplane? **J|
cross the ocean in twenty-four hoars ^
throw a rain of death and destruction??
Germany. They continue in this roBe
Germany Is Beaten
And as final apotl i '*rm*cj ,,
beaten!" a roll of H rune, flourishing"
trumpets. . . . "Why'." asks ***?,
ished European. You have not to J*f
must believe. Faith transport? ?oonj?s's
Germany, trembling on account of
tirades and boastings, will isnmedI|?lf,';
throw away her weapons and hide m ^
corner between the Aisne and the "**"_.cS
frightful war painting of military **"^
will show Its effects in the Germ?? ?%
Or might something else happen,
the rentrai Powers take it tfpon th?'n*f,i
to stand the test and let the *f*^>
schoolboy in the world war do hi? 1?* '
The future will decide this. For mf\ ?
ent it would seem a? if in ^"wfc-*
wisdom of the "great mind" at the ^
o? the Mississippi tbere had come *
of Intellect.