New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-01
Kisses FOR WOMAN,
foe OF GERMANY
Miss Kingston Defends
England in Spirited
War Debate.
AND ACTRESS HAS
LAST WORD, TOO
DR.. n. N. EWers Replies to Argu-
ment Against kaiser-TellS
Of Hatred.

A debate on The question, "Will
World Progress Gain More by an Al
lied than by a German Victory ," ended
al the Park Theatre last night with n
womans last word and p mans bow
The woman was Miss Gertrude King
Ston, the English actress, who upheld
the cause of the Allies. DR.. Hams
Heinz Ewors, German poet and novelist.
was the man. Almost every other ques-
ton touching on the war was answered,
but 1t was left TO the audience to an
swcr the question which il had come TO
hear solved.
Slush in the streets last night seemed
TO have injured the Allies cause. be
cause when Chairman Alexander Irvine,
the author, called the meeting TO order
at $3.50 o'clock German Sympathizers
were in the majority
In Introducing the debatcrs Mr.. IT.
vine seized the opportunity 20 hold a
pretty little debate all by himself. lie
told the audience he had often Won
dcred what a million widows and or
phans and the countless dead would
say II they had an opportunity to
answer if "kultur" could be promul-
gated at the lannon's mouth.
Miss Kingston, relieving the back
ground in a dress of flaming red, spoke
first. She told her audience that she
would not express any i'll feeling
against the German cause, such as had
been done in similar debates. and then
promptly proceeded to. ignore her
pledge.
England has what Germany wants
and Germany set out to wrest from
Il k.N
she started to the accompaniment of
German Kisses. Undisturbed, she con-
tinued:
THE Bernstorf- Dernburg lobby in
this country has been trying to Offset,
without avail. the unfinching logic with
which the American press has been
presenting the war. England's cause
and, therefore, that of the Allies. is a
holy cause. That of Germany is one
Of aggressive conquest, shrouded in a
clever, fabricated romance, which il
called the cause of war. Englishmen
have always had the highest 'kultur,
which. according to Goethe. their fore
most poet and philosopher. Germans
could not acquire in centuries. And
Goethe was right
Quite unperturbed by the repeated
outbursts Of displeasure from her evI-
IDENTIFY Teutonic audience, Miss Kings
ton discussed some of her own eN-
periences during her residence in the
Kaiser's realm, denouncing the bureau
cratic spirit of German oficialdom,
criticising German character, which she
called a curious mixture Of honesty
and mcndacity, and ending with a de-
nunciation Of the German compulsory
military system, which she called re-
dictionary and urdemocratic.
DR.. Hams Heinz Ewers, English mon
ocle in his eve, arose to present his
side and received an ovation before he
had said a word After devoting con-
siderable time TO eXcusing his public
pcarance to fight a woman" he read
appearance to Eight a woman" he read
a mass Of statistics, tending TO show
that under British regime her sub
iects had been starved and mistreated
and fallen off in numbers, while under
German rule, the German people had
been happy and had doubled in num-
bers since 1870.
"They ask US Germans why we hate
the English. They have called the
KaIser-the one man who deserves the
most credit for making Germany great
mad dog, and then they wonder
why We hate them he said amid
thundeTous applause.
The speaker defended compulsory
military service as the most democratic
institution in the world, because it
brought high and low, rich and poor
together TO serve in the same rigid
school Of discipline and manly train
ing.
Thirty years ago the last Tasmanian
was killed by the English and his skin
and skeleton were sent TO the British
Museum in London. In due time the
same will happen to the inhabitants OF
other British colonial possessions
Dr. Ewers then pictured what would
happen if Britain should be victorious.
at will mean British world rule, the
end Of free democratic government in
North and South America and the loss
of the Panama Canal, which Will be
wrested from the United States"
Miss Kingston, claiming her seN's
privilege to have the last word. wound
up her argument by saying that Britain
knew where sympathy for her lay, be-
cause the bond of a common language
was a strong tie between the American
and the British people.
The net proceeds derived from the
debate will be divided between the Ger
man and the British Red Cross.