New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-17
GERMANY ATTACKED
AT PEACE MEETING
Professor Ortiz Calls for
Action Against Her by
Neutral Nations.

4 meeting was held last night at
the Broadway Tabernacle Church IN
der the auspices of the New York
Peace Society.
But that does not mean that 1t was
a particularly neutral or even peace
conserving meeting.
More than one speaker threw neu-
trality overheard, and the harder he
threw il the better he seemed TO be
liked by the audience. In fact, al
though it was a church service, they
applaudod vigorously 1t the almost
belligerent and frankly snti-German
remarks OF Professor Samuel 7. Ortiz
Of Cornell University.
Another who went even further IN
attacks upon the Germans was Dr.
Louis Livingston Seaman. former
surgeon major in the United States
Army, who was abroad during the be-
ginning Of the war.
81 have been through eighteen cam
paigns." DR.. Seaman said, land IN none
have | ever witnessed such exhibitions
of barbsrous atrocities as practised by
the Germans on the little children
women and old men in Belgium. Their
repeated disregard OF the usageS OF
war was so great that | sent cable 70
the President saying that unless tne
barbarism Of the German Kaiser cease
civilization will be set back hun
bred years, and that this was not war
"The best friends Of civilization and
Of Germany will be those who speed
the Allies 10 Berlin. This war IS the
most colossal and deadly IN history
The sanitary conditions are crlmtnaliy
bad. In the summer, when the flies and
MOSQUITOES come, great epitemics are
sure to follow. and there will be great
danger Of spreading them throughout
Europe, and even 10 the United States
This fight is as much Americas as
II is the Allies. II has proved that
moral suasion IS not applicable 10 the
twentieth century, and it teaches its
lesson against unpreparedness. II IS
,ccrudescence Of bsrbarism, and VIC
tory Of the Germans will establish that
might is right"
Professor Orth said that the problem
Of international law, a. OF national
law, is one Of isolation of the abnorma!
t.ation. as Of an abnormal man-"the
Kind Of men who are seeking place
in the sun. instead OF IN hearts, the
kind of men we call common crmi,
rails in contrad 20 crowned
criminals" international law, he said
Was coming TO a point where ISOLATION
Of the abnormal nation would be nos'
-iblc.
lie assaulted German disregard for In
ternationa law both in regard TO non
combatants and neutrals. speaking OF
the effort of German diplomacy to eX'
cuse itself by technicslities.
"Murderers and embezlers, I noticed
when practised law" he said, were
always looking for technicality to
hang their innocence on. The adver'
tisement of warning against sailing or
the Lusltania is an example OF nation
looking for technicality II was 50
himsy and ridiculous.
"War is menace 10 neutrality anC
the rights of neutrals. And where are
the neutral nations now? Are they go
ing 70 stand back timidly, resorting tC
diplomatic notes? ~
Oscar Straus presided He said the
United States owes il 10 all nations
that the rights Of non-combatants be
preserved. and that neutrality means
the preservation of the rights Of neu
trails. We owe II to humanity, he said
that universally acknowledged right:
be preserved.
Other speakers were Professor JohT
Bates Clark, DR.. Arthur J. Brown, sec
rotary of the Presbyterian Boad o.
Foreign Missions, and Professor Frank
lin II. Giddings, of Columbia Univer