New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29
TEN THOUSAND MOTHERS
And Not One Willing to Sacrifice
Son.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir. Your editorials since the torpedoing
of the Arabic have decided me to address a
letter to you.
There are thousands of men in these
United States OF ours who believe ,ha'
President Wilson has done just exactly rlght
in every problem he has had to solve ana
every question he has had TO answer as re-
oards the relation of the United States 10
the war in Europe.
And there are tens of thousands OF mothers
who think the same, and who are not Willie
20 Give their sons to enable few fooilsh
Americans 70 cross the Atlantic on English
ships.
These same ten thousand mothers th'hN
your editorials, many of them, not ALL are
most reprehensible, tanning to whlte neat
the war fever which is always in some men
veins. IT,, .Li,L
These same ten thousand mothers thlhk
I+bot tbav have a tremendous right to OBJECT
IN war for this country unless the cause ID
far different from any at present III SIg""
We. law down on the birth bed, not KNOW
ling whether further life was 10 De our -
and cheerfully brought our sons INTO thls
world. We toiled and sacrificed TO oIIhg
.bor nm. We cherished and we nourished
them. we trained and educated them, ana
now Won and few other editors are sitting
in your easy chairs IN your sahctumS anu
writing such editorials as those of August
% and q. and all because you want Ameri-
cans TO be able TO cross the ocean on Enghsh
Sims and not to be torpedoed by the
Germans -,
Suppose the case was reversed? the
Germans were running the liners and the
English the submarines and the Americans
travelling on the German ships? What then
How would you write? Have you any sons you
would be willing to give to be blinded by
gas bombs or liquid fire as these young
men have been?
| have several sons and I would not give
one of them for any present cause OF COM
plaint that has so far come up between the
United States and any Continental power
Suppose war was declared between this
country and Germany; while the declaration
NJ war was being signed the Germans in this
country unnaturalzcd would have the
liouid fire and like devilsh instruments IN
Ioperation, and where would you be? Sitting
i'm your ice-cooled, ste'm-heated, bomb
proof. absolutely safe sanctums, and our
bows would be out on the firing line, and our
homes subject 10 German atr0ciues' we
like Of which have never been heard OF since
barbarism lay down to sleep for a fe"
centuries.
Why not advocate in your paper John
Wanamaker's grand idea to buy Belgium
for SlOO0O0,OOO. give Belgium TO the Bel
CLANS and let them pay US back as they can,
and then absolutely forbid the sending by
this country OF munitions OF war to any
foreign power?
You know there is coming a day when we
shall be judged according to the deeds done
in these bodies of ours.
Your attitude and your editorials on this
subject will certainly entitle you to be
classed with those who work for the "abom-
nation of desolation," and President Will
sons attitude and utterances on this same
subject will raise him to the company Of
those angels who once on Bethel ems plains
sang Peace on earth good will to men"
CHARLOTTE ESTELLE GILBERT.
New York, Aug. 81 1915.