New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-16
NO TIME FOR PEACE
Satisfactory Settlement Can Come
Only with Hohenzollern Downfall.
To The Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: As a Canadian, a national of a bel
ligerent country, with relatives, friends and
neighbors in the army and the bodies OF
many who were friends and neighbors filing
unknown Belgian graves, crave space for
reply to Frank NJ Franklin's query, "Why
not stop the war?' in your columns Of to-day.
To stop the war now would be crime
against humanity. All must die, whether we
90 to war or not. The age at which we die
or the manner of our decease are matters Of
detail and Of little consequence. The one
question Of importance is whether our lives
have been used for the good Of humanity or
given TO that cowardice which urges the self
qualification Of clinging to a few more days
of existence in violation Of the highest in
stincts OF our being.
/ The hen partridge when alone is the most
/ tmid of creatures, but when mothering her
flock will futter under the huntsman's feet
/ in assumed lameness and practically offer her
own life in exchange for her chicks salvation.
Across the inner consciousness Of every liv-
ing creature is written the eternal unchang-
ing mandate: THE individual life should be
spent in promoting the welfare of the spe-
cics" If through dread of the present effu-
sion of blood and the other horrors of modern
strife we were to agree 20 an indecisiye peace
we would be doing what a partridge would be
ashamed to do, viz.-saying our own lives by
giving the childhood OF our nation over TO
future slaughter. Il would be shifting hard
and uncomfortable duty from our own shoul-
ders 70 the backs Of the growing generation,
with a very good assurance that the burden
would grow much heavier ard in all possibl-
ity crush our children. Stopping the now
would not mean peace-it simply would be a
truce, to last until the Hohenzollern had re-
paired his war machine so that he felt conf
dent OF his ability to oyerwhelm in slaughter
the people OF the nations now at war with
him. and the next time he would not make
the miscacuation which. fortunately for the
world characterized his present action.
Since the days OF the Mad William the
Hohenzolerns have no sooner terminated one
war than they have begun 20 prepare Cor an
other. The Hohenzollern lust of conquest is
like a VOLTS lust for blood As the death of
the wolf is the only guarantee OF the lamb
safety, so the final and permanent dcthroniug
Of the Hohcnzollcrn dynasty Is the only sde-
luatc guarantee Of tho continuance o. orr
present civilization.
Against the Germans as . laco there is no
fault except in ,her easy yielding 10 the
HohenZollern will II they would chase that
family from their midst. ba@ and baggage
peace could be made ~ q day. Bat present
indications are, unfortunately Tor the world
that the German people are obsessed with the
Hohenzolern fever for world power and so
will need to have that spirit well beaten out
OF them, which undoubtedly will lake consid-
cradle time
M Franklin is in error in concluding that
one side cannot eventually overmatch the
other. Russia IS just beginning to make her
weight in men fel,. The British Empire. in
comparison to her potential military strength,
+ has merely scouting party in the field.
/ Next spring the vanguard Of her army viii
/ begin 10 appear y Che front and in about &.
year from tina. date her main army will be
coming up TO the battle line In two or three
years The grand army o! the British Empire
would probably be out in force With her
population OF five hundred millions OF people
she could readily place thirty or rty mill
ions Of men in the field and keep her army
at that strength for an unlimited time. II
the Central Powers have not vet reached
their maximum strength in men they will
eventually do 30, and when that time arrives,
be it sooner or later, Russia and the British
Empire will still possess uncounted reserves
Ct men to draw from. When that time comes
and the Central Powers no longer have men
with which TO replace the casualties the be-
ginning Of the end will be at hand. Until
that end, which means the downfall OF the
/ Hohcnzollern family. arrives in behalf of the
growing childhood Of the civilized world the
war must proceed.
| This is written without any feeling OF NAL
! ice toward the German people In Canada