New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-27

Opinions Of Various Readers on

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In their spasmodic efforts TO Justify
or pallate the Iaissey- taire German policy Of
President Wilson his apologists have eXhib-
tied weakness which makes all their eX-
cuses and protestatons appear absolutely
lidicrous, as well as inconsistent, FOR they
ondeavor to reconcile pusllanimity with Dig
1ity and bluff" and copious verbiage with
sincere and forceful language. Your various
editorials on the vacillating and puerlle policy
Of the President are not only pregnant with
truth and literary ability of a high order
but are singularly fair and dispassionate. az
we'll as worthy Of great paper which has
always risen above party prejudice whenever
the exigences of the occasion demanded It or
the honor of the nation was involved.
Your article under the caption "Mr. Will
sons German Policy" in your issue OF the
22d inst, appeared, to the subscriber at least
rot only eminently impartial but one of the
most lucid of your editorials on this vexed
question. for it cleverly denotes the various
ramifcations of German duplicity and the
supine attitude OF the President IN the
presence of all the palphble evasions and
subterfuges which were employed in an at
tempt. as stupid as it unmitigatedly
insolent to convince the American people
those sympathies were not of the hyphenated
variety that. instead of being war mad,
intriguing power, drunk with miltarism and
the lust for territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, Ger
many was much maigned country that was
philanthropically seeking 70 spread the
light" Of her very much exploited "kultur'
and to extend her paternal form OF govern
ment to include countries which, incidentally
it may be added, had no need of the
"Kultu" and were TOO far advanced along
democratic ideals and too much enamoured OF
free institutions TO substitute Kaiserism and
all that il implies for representative govern
ment
In spite of Mr.. Wilson's great ability as
scholar and writer, it must be evident TO
the merest tyro in craftsmanship that he
either lacks stability of purpose or has some
Interior motive in maintaining what IS virtu-
ally passive attitude in this aggravatlng
crisis: and, although the subscriber feels
compelled 10 take ex-Presdent Rooseyeits
cbulitions cpm grGnO sails ever since ne
violated his pledge never again to seek the
nomination for President, he believes that II
Mr. Roosevelt or Mr.. Taft had been the
Executive during the late controversy IN
stead of lot of finely rounded but practi-
cally meaningless phrases having been dis
matched to Berlin, there would have been a
message that would have made ii clear to
the seemingly obtuse but really conniving
Teutonic government that the United States
government and people were not yet sufi-
GENTLY Germanized to abrogate all their
rights in favor of the Kaiser, and that there
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body Of the American people would ever re-
gard with any appreciate degree of favor
the yagaries and idiosyncracies of Teutonic
psychologists. miitarists and imperialists,
the sum Of whose philosophy and diplomacy
was expressed by the unspeakable outrages
committed on the noble, patriotic, indus
trous, God-fearing people of devastated Bel
GUM. JOHN JOSEPH ODKlSCOLL.
New York, Sept. "a, 1915.