New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-24
LODGE ASSAILS
PEACE MONCERS
Senator Says Conditions
Are Not Yet Ripe for
Intervention.
u. S. MUST OBSERVE
STRICT NEUTRALITY
Clarence H. Mackay Gives the
Alarm for Small Fire
on Liner.

on Liner.
The White Star liner Olympic. with
the largest and most representative
passenger list Of American homecom-
ers brought back since the war began,
arrived Yesterday from Liverpool Sic
carried T76 saloon, 72l second and Dos
third class passengers. Among her
saloon passengers were Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge, George +. Baker, Cor
relius Vanderbilt, Frank A. Munsey, II.
j. Topping, Henry Phipps, Daniel Il.
Reid. Clarence Fl. Mackay and Ernest
T. Bicknell. =.
Senator Lodge, who is a disciple OF
American neutrality in its strictest
sense, decried the recent efforts OF
peace mongers who sought TO end the
war through the agency of the United
States. The time for peace, he said,
was not at hand. Peace dickerng at
this inopportune time will, II not
stopped promptly, he said, have
an i'll effect upon ana weaken the in
fuence this country may exert later
with the belligcrents when peace is
actually taking shape.
Senator Lodge said: 81 am chiefly
interested in having the United States
maintain strict neutrality, one which
will not be relaxed at one point to
help one belligerent and frightened at
another, Absolutely honest neutrality
is what we want, equally honest and
equally rigid for all belligerents. The
time may come, and ] hope it will
come, when our good Offices may be
used in the restoration of peace, but
the time has not yet come. This
talk of peace just now is originated
by German agents for the purpose Of
testing public opinion here and else
where.
There is no reality in it. and If
our government permits itself to be
used at this time by the originators
of this peace talk it not only itself
will become absurd, but, what is far
worse, our future influence, which
ought to be of great value at the right
moment, will be crippled and weak
ened.
Only Lasting Peace Wanted.
81 take no sides; advocate no cause
in saying this. We must dismiss from
our minds any idea of speedy peace,
which will leave everything in the
same condition that existed in July.
II will never be. Either Germany will
win Or the Allies will win. Germany
will dictate the terms of peace, or the
Allies will. There will be no halfway
about il.
"If Germany conquers France. Eng
land and Russia she will dominate
Europe, and will subsequently extend
that domination. if she can, TO the rest
Of the world. Great Britain and Ire
land. France and Belgium believe they
are fighting the battle of freedom and
democracy against militarism and au-
tocracy, the battle of the public against
the law of the sword and for the right
of small nations to exist. Russia be-
lieves she is fighting against German
domination for the freedom and right
Of Sav populations everywhere. All
the Allies are determined to put an
end to the conditions which made the
hideous calamity of this war possible.
They will fight on until that purpose
i "complished. These are plain facts.
e must look them in the face. 1t
- us TO maintain our neutrality,
AID at the right moment to use all our
influence for peace that will be last
ing and which will bring with it a
general reduction OF armament. No
other peace is worth having"
Ernest P. Bicknell, national director
OF the Red Cross, who went. abroad on
board the United States cruiser Ten
nessce, returned yesterday on the
Olympic.
Surgeons and nurses are reeded
abroad now more than ever" he said,
land there is an abundant need for
medical and hospital supplies. Little
definite Information is to be had from
official reports, but the number Of
is already in the hundreds of
Mary have been brought
into Paris and Berlin, and already the
hospitals are filled. Public buildings
ard private houses have been converted
into temporary hospitals. and still from
the vast battle swept area come more
wounded. We need nurses and sur
geons. and let no man imagine that the
Red Cross can do too much for the suf-
ferers."
On Monday at 1890 a. m. the intense
heat OF the galley fues of the liner
caused the dust in them to catch on
fire, causing a great amount of smoke
This was carried away by the uptake,
but some of the fumes were blown
down into the alleys by the ventilators
which supply fresh air 20 the state
rooms. For time it caused some un-
casiness among the passengers Clar-
ence II. Nackay, who returned to this
country from England and Scotland with
his three children. was one of the first
to raise the alarm. The smoke was
soon traced to its place of origin and
the galley fues were shut off. The
damage from the fire was slight.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Phipps, who re-
turned on the Olympic with the chill.
dren of their daughter, Mrs. Lionel
Guest, had to undergo little govern
mental red tape when they endeavored
to leave the vessel with their grand
children. Lionel Guest is an officer in
the British army, now in active service.
lie and his wife sent their three chill
dren, who are between six and ten
years of age, to this country until the
war is over
The immigration law requires that
alien children under sixteen, to land in
this country, must be accompanied by
parent or guardian. As the entry of
the children with their grandparents
was a technical violation of the law,
the immigration officials found it nee
essary to ask series of technical uues-
tions. The chief aim of the law is to
prevent dependent children from enter
ing the country, but as Mr.. Phipps
could easily prove that his grandchil-
dren would not become public charges
the immigration authorities permitted
the children to land.
Among others on the Olympic were
Mrs. Charles NJ. Oelrichs, Mrs. B. II.
Warburton, Miss Marie Louise Wanna
maker, r. f. Westcott, Mrs. John b.