New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-05
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
A PLEA FOR ARBITRATION.
THE sELF-CONTROL OF THE FOREFATHERS
TO BE REMEMBERED IN THE
PRESENT CRISIS

PRESENT CRISIS.
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your calm ard temperate tone in this hour
of National crisis encourages one not 20 rear 10
approach you with question.
In your editorial Of Sunday. entitled "War ana
Peace" you paint the horrors and results or war
with an able and graphic hand: but you conclude
your editorial with the assertion that there ls
time for war; there IS time for peace ana
that this Nation cloves peace much. but loves sun
humanity. and honor. ard everlasting JUS
tice' That Is so true il Is like saying the plateau
is higher than the valley bat may we not go
further and say there is stu greater height than
either-the mountain top-and as a Nation OF
boosted aims and high ambitions we Will ann al
the highest? . ,..x l.,
Will you grant me the privilege o, saying N
your columns hat the press as whoe o gaon
these days of grave danger TO our Nation seem M
10 me TO have tried force the question into the
alternative which you suggest in the conclusion Oh
As a rule. the two positions taken by the public
ths peace OF igno'n' IS al" os and not igno
and T Dot s gs The The Intelligent deliberate poss
OF peace must be the most agEresSve iorc ekas tc
suits Impossible The man who strikes out In I'm
patient heat settles one quarrel only TO have an
o;her thrust upon him. but the man who has the
impeding power Of self -conquest and serene bear
this out and II IT is so with man. why may
not be SO with nation? o. In. 20 ,orrer
We have now an opportunity 70 loon s ~ l on
issues than the moment and to put 70 the
seeing beyond the COHlp"i at,NN " -
superlative Humanity may be more thaii pe1VS
hut is not 4 large humanity better IMAM socai VI
limited humanity? Honor may be NOR man
neaCe bu; Is not the honor which guards ils own
deeds higher honor than the honor when reseh'S
an insult? ,-z., ,r,,,cs "a for
nreclude a partial apprehension OF Justice? justice
tn6av is temporarv not everlasting: justice to me
Cubanz or TO our own Nation must or neSessi.
no limited and partial. An everlasting Jus'Cvv
Would take into Consideration all the issues 70 Az
the world for all time. To the faction IN SPAN
that is not In sympathy with the agsressoIS "a
the non-co,nbat ants there ard here VINO Wouiu
suffer IN countless ways as you heVe snow ~
vour editorial so forcefully; TO the generSuoh ~
;nhorn who would be heirs TO ''depauCheiA S s
6ereneretion'' TO your own worHsl WiliCH io.-
low in the wake of Ia not that hation cNt ~
iastinev lust which disCerrs the greater lroI .te
iees-which considers the evolution OF H., Peop.e
into a larger life, broader Apprehension OF ilo!o,
and Sner ideals % universal duty-rathcT IMAM
net.on which is concerned with the noheiil, VIZ VIZ
old traditions and with the methoos WnscH INC
mass Of men admit relics or Daroarlsin ...,
In the calm deliberate moments or our , natioila
ifs we felt the force and potency OF aplt, ~.
When Lord Russell made his stirring appear 10 W
Two wears ago on behalf Of arbitration IL ~. IL
with a quick response in logical ana 'i'ousi'''"
minds. . - A,.,br,ch,tne sanity
md self-control we have inherited from ouI ~
tan forefathers-to forget In an eNclteo ino'''c''
~hot we have approved In a quiet one;
Ihankng you for your generous heatlh X, CT,
NeW"York. April a. 1888. KATRINA IRASN'