New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-09
THE END is NOT YET
A Reader Who Disagrees Totally
with The Tribune's War Editorials.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial in this mornings ed
ton, Toward the End" and the previous
one, Germany Is Beaten are evidently
written to bolster up the moribund cause Of
the Allies. You are to be congratulated for
making 50 readable and plausible an srgu.
ment, and 10 such an extent, out Of the mate
rails at hand. Passing over Jour statements
that men, money and food are beginning to
fail the Central Powers (Which are highly
debatable) was most interested in the par
allels that you draw from history as applied
to the present war. The Trbunes favorie
analogies are that the German campaign Is
similar to Napoleons and that Of the Con-
federacy.
France was past her prime and going down
already when Napoleon ! appeared on The
horizon. The nobility and aristocracy had
sucked the life blood of the country, and the
common people at last rose in revolt and
the terrible Revolution was under way THIS
had been predicted by Louis XIV, who SAID
after me, the deluge." The French Rs'0'
luton, as is well known to all readers Of
history. was the most terrible interviews
struggle that the world had ever known. A
one faction after another gained the asesh'
dancy the others were condemned and pup
licly executed A Goddess of Reason 10 sor
of public Venus) was set up in place OF koy
religion. The sans-culottes, the star chan
Der trials. the busy guillotine, and all me
other paraphernala of the Reign OF Terro,
were in full swing when the Little Corpo"
cowed them by his budding military genius
His success in Paris awakened the cream
of foreign conquest in his breast, and ne "'
forth on his adventurous career WHICH nav
ing so base an origin, could not but ieSc
ultimate disaster II has always seemed 70
me that Napoleon was one OF the most o'e''
rated men in history, considering his mou''s
He was a tyrant and he was not frehe"
Thomas Carlyle, seeking a subject TO INN
talze as a great hero, at first selected ~.
poleon, but after studying his matensis
suddenly threw down his pen and EXCHANGE.
1.-THE poor mani" He later selected FredeheA
the Great. "a,
The other parallel that you draw "'a
Germany is the Southern Confederacy, wn'es
desired to perpetuate the institution "
human slavery at so late period OF TINE
the middle Of the nineteenth century III"
was also foredoomed to failure, because
was wrong, and because it was out OF oa'.
The handspring of action in both Napo,eos'
and the Confederacy's cases was "a.
therein lies their failure. How eouia w
Confederacy's cause prevail!
Let us now consider the German campse"
for a moment. Their plans from the 0es
ming have been purely defensive. Iney ne.
swept their enemies back in all diree''s.'
from their own soil and will keep them NV.
They are at this moment finishing up IN
antagonist, the weakest, Serbia, sha
arrive at Constantinople on schedule ~ ~.
This will release Won Mackensen ano
legions for good work elsewhere pei".
France. In the meantime, the Russians -.
practically hors-de-combat-no need
auer all Russia A mighty drive 70 .,
would very likely take the rest Of the nd
out Of Jean Crapaud. Italy is negl'g'''.h ,sh
there would only remain England
shorn of her allies, would prooapN 20.
great light. All this can be done by 4.
which is In the right; whose msinspr's
not conquest, but the natural eyoiu'ios .ss
great power which must pass tnroak" ~.
fire TO achieve its destiny. Make no "...,ls
the future historians will write TINS WV
down as great and no villains. o,v
N.vark N I Nov 1915