New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25

pathies Of American people are with
the Allies. and that these thoughts and
convictions are daily expressed in
print by every respectable newspaper
in the United States. Even the Kaiser,
amid his cloud Of sycophants, who
would tell him only what is agreeable,
knows that.
English and German Papers.
So important. and even urgent, has
the Press question become for the
whole world that | will add another
word TO what | have said before. The
efforts of German emissaries in
America arc directed TO SOW distrust
in the American mind of the English
newspapers. Well, il is my business
TO read English and all other papers
critically, as journalist must read
them. In matters of news our business
Is TO have no prejudices, no sympa-
thies; what We want is the facts; and
after that, freedom TO make such use
of the facts as we fairly may. So of
the English papers and their war news.
must say this: that they are acting
in good faith. They do really try to
give the public the truth. The truth
is doled out from headquarters often
in very small doses. But in the papers
themselves ] see no attempt TO dis
tort the facts or to color them. Any
such attempt, if made, would recoil
on themselves, since they publish, as
you do, both sides. The German YER
sions Of events stand side by side with
the English, and French, and Russian
the Russian being, as | said, much
the fullest Of all, and at least as
trustworthy as any other.
As for the German accounts, official
and other, you will form your own
judgment Whether they tell the truth,
whether they mean TO tell the truth,
whether they supply their readers with
the means of comparing their own
stories with other versions; whether
they have allowed Germany to know
the true history of the last four weeks
in France-all that and much else can
be determined by American readers
each for himself as we'll IS If he were
In London, and very much better than
IL he were in Berlin.
Our American Letters.
The Postmaster General In Washing
ton seems at last to have discovered
that the North Atlantic is not in the
possession of German cruisers, and
that United States mails may be safe
~ sent in British ships. The Maure-
tania, which arrived on Monday,
October 5, brought us letters down to
September 90, the day she sailed from
New York, OF the day before. For
which a great business community and
multitudes Of people who have friends
in America are blessing the Postmas-
ter General in Washington. During
the weeks when mails arrived under
neutral flags, three days late, there was
no more danger than now.
know, and I presume they knew in
Washington, something about the Brit
ish arrangements for policing the At
lantic. Such matters are not dealt with
In print, but il is evident enough that
the German missionaries TO America
knew of them. Herr Dernburg, we are
told, has lately been lifting up his Ger
man voice TO warn us against the dan
ger to the United States from British
naval supremacy. That is one of the
awful spectres he exhibits on his Ger
man magic lantern for the American
people TO behold and shudder at.
hope he will continue his exhibition.
Every letter | get from home pays a
tribute to the unsurpassed skill with
which he and Count Bernstorff have
confirmed and crystallized the Ameri-
can conviction that the cause of the
Allies is the cause of freedom, of JUS
tice, of civilization. Perhaps the Post
master General is one of their con-
verts. In any case we are much obliged
TO him for letting US have our letters.
G.. W. S.