New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-18
ON A KEG OF DYNAMITE
Where the Administration Sits
Brandishing the Torch of Liberty.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Can it be that your valued publiea
ton has Joined the ranks Of the "bather-
skites"?
When Mr. Roosevelt at Pattsburg upheld
the very American belief in supporting
President as long as he supports the eoun'
try, and not so much because he is President
as because he has done we'll, certain D. 7.
Malone first accused him Of almost trea.
SON.; 1.-THE Evening Sun" said ian indul.
gence in mere generalities"; and "Ths
World" cried "blatherskite"
Yet-"in some quarters it is held to be
'disloyap to question the Presidents conduct
of foreign relations. But happily neither
of our ex-Presidents subscrbes to that sub
servient and undemocratic doctrine"-in The
Tribune of September s! Well, frankly, you
certainly have lost caste with the whole
"World" What must your neighbor think
of that brilliant article you have recently
published under the title "CarranZa-Or
Nothing?
am a Republican who in the past had ad-
mired Mr.. Wilson; but despite his graceful
and vigorous speech the weakness he has dis
played has disguised me. Just is pointed
out in this mornings article from Washing
ton on THE Presidents Dilemma: The
Strict accountability" note, in which neither
Mr.. Wilson nor his advisers were aware o.
the force of their words, committing botn Ihs
administration and the country TO the de-
fence of international law and neutral rights
was issued without the slightest appreciation
of this fact Mr. Wilson with his forcefu
and timely utterances has built for the Ms
ticn's view a man of words who IS not NC
real Woodrow Wilson.
have sympathized with him because Of
the unhappy Mexican legacy he was os'
oueathed. But what can / say suiieienp! b
abusive Of both his action and absence I"
action in this matter since?
If, as we can hardly expect, the present ~
ministraton ends still in what some t'u's
ing souls insist is 4 state Of peace (as |"
takes two TO make a fight, the one WV
supiney submits to lambastlng eeHa,hy
can claim il is itself enjoying, so 70 speaA'
state Of peace), il will go out of ONCE WIN
record of having seen perhaps more ma
two or three hundred American lives shu"'S
out with nothing but perfect grammar sDS
incessant exhibitions OF marvellous CON-.
of the intricacies OF speech exerted 10 VIZ"
behalf {.
We are told Mr. Wilson is a great man va.
has kept us out of a hellish war "Nlln'.'
modelling a regiment or assembling w..
by sheer logged answering pefsn,sss's.ss.
2 -. - ua
surrender Cd OF the proudest, the most a,'v
CANT. the best armed of nations, and he n1
done it in completest self-abnegation' Dun /"
fullest. most patriotic devotion to Ame.issss
ideals" are the words used by New w..
paper to describe the great triumph W" ,,,S
utter ignorance Of international imm0i'"'
and INSCRIPTIONS Germanism!
The readers of your paper know 'ha' -,
Tribune prints the truth-why not 20 ,S'
this matter more thoroughly? A'eF nl. s...
months Of danger our present admin 80
publishes two letters written TO the ms I.
Navy Departments in which the Presios". =,
not quite certain whether he does or does 49, ~.
advocate sort of so-called preparedness o.,
keeping with our national traditions 49,,
national traditions, to state II rouhui'
candidly. have been not TO have an Ai-'
until attacked (as a certain statesman
Gently said, IL care for facts, not nsms'
If such a "Chinafcation" policy % W.
tinued, Mr.. Editor. we, too, the iO,s, ,hs
America, the land Of the former free o -.
ever brave, will in the not distant 's
share the fate which the persistent onn '',lv
Of our country's misguided officials so 'D'"'
deserves. ho.s
The writer is a devoted American VIZ S;s.
heart bleeds, so to speak, as ne views ~
may the spectacle Of our present @u 49, ~
tration seated for fifteen months on ~.
dynamite, juggling from hand TO nsnD
torch Of our priceless American hoetyc
R. T. CAvANAuGh'
Brooklvn Sent IL 1915.