New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04

London. March IL.
,or,nisht this Government has
Z" .,ildbed. and only on Tuesday
S'' 10Th inst, was delivered OF
''| -, in Council. Whatever else
" =, think Of it, you will agree it
P' robust infant: none the less
50 ..n.e it vas duo March S. The
-, travail has been long and at
-, dangerous. simply because the
lew laws Of Nature were deh'd;
Kan. only neglected. To put it
,r when the Prime Minister on
..,.s announced to the House Of
..,r, and to the world. and rather
,.rti,ol.rly to the United States the
'.,,,, Of the Government to prevent
.,mmodi,ics from reaching or lcav-
- Germany by sea, The details OF the
.,..r, had no, been thought ont.
II, omission is characteristic Of Mr..
.;,s and Of the Cabinet over which
,r,ides. They have done great
,;cco trc war began. but they
zone them, FOR the most part. in
.,.3 to mouth sort OF way. They
~. 10, she S.ft OF intelligent pre-
80, When said they had not
,,,,st out this question in detail I
,,lv repeatinc what one Of Mr..
,,gj,h's party and personal friends
"a Of him: He does not think"
r,. all epicrams IL is too sweeping
SOL suppose il IS true that Of imagi-
.,+,, foresigh, he has no supply in
marion TO his general abilities.
tNFVi
~ .o he launched this momentous
,.,sure in a fluid state. On the gen
81 scheme he and his colleagues had
,.,oprblv made I'D their minds. or
4. means by which the scheme should
80, in force and carried out they
a bu, a nebulous conception.
sovhen they came to tackle the pro-
.5ure they discovered unforeseen diff
,sies. The best example Of them | can
ne you is their trouble over the ques-
On what 10 do with the neutral ships
iv should seize They suddenly be-
fought themselves that in all the open
,or;s Of Great Britain there is already
congestion Of ships and a deficiency
, labor Where then were they 70
.,5 the hundreds Of merchantmen
mich would fall into their net: 1t Is
credible. but it is true. Here is &
,ver. the greatest Naval Power the
mid has ever known, greater than
.f in the greatest days Of old-a
Power which has covered the seas with
g, ships. which rules the waves as it
-ersr ruled them before. And, having
ore that. it is perplexed by the prob
en- Of finding berths for the ships it
aptures.
There were, Of course, other and
more important difficulties. The United
States was difficulty, and the desire
q the Government here to relax rules
favor Of American shipping. From
Ia, difficulty they have not shrunk or
srned away. The Order in Council 49,
| D, the whole. a sitter document than
H. As.uJh's original speech. 1t is
~, ,i.t every effort has been made TO
rnmlze the inconvenience and loss
Wessarily falling upon the United
Na,es and other neutral Powers. The
ADMINISTRATION organ in New York
nd up for objections. finds in this
andy soiicitudc an insult IT IS
insult" 10 take note OF the financial
nd economic objections we have put
'rvsrd and pressed whenever Ameri-
~ interests were or seemed TO be
'rsstened Well. if IL be an insult
isss same interests would apparently
glad to be insulted a little more. Slr
ltvsrd Grey's dispatch Of the loth
ryes how anxiously England has
Hght to conciliatc America.
The inference this New York organ
i President Wilson draws VIII not
ar drawing. Because England tries TO
lake her policy as easy for Us as she
n she means, argues the world, to
\ 'lIy that the dollar is the only thing
Htsre for; that our protests are only
and when dollars are in danger
're is not in all the yoluminous
'sish dispatchcs on contraband, war
e' and the rest q single word from
e'h such an inference can be drawn.
re inference is domestic and in
'''y sense Democratic.
he English view is not at all what
hVorld supposes. The English view
4 nat sc United States. as the great
"Hreutral Powers. considers that it
1 "a duty to itself and to other neu-
IA fege Tho Government of the