New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-04

there were not set up as the result of that
knowledge currents of opinion sane enough to
indorse what was reasonable in the desires Of
their adversaries and formidable enough to
correct what might be unreasonable in the de-
mands of their own rulers
PRUssIANS EVERYWHERE.
For example, despite the clamOr of our own
lingo publicists, literary men and politicians
and do not forget on your side that We too,
like you, have such elements among us: that
we have our class which wishes for its own
ends to "Prussianize" the nation, and that we,
too. have our INSCRIPTIONS and powerful
journalists who constitute the mouthpiece of
that class and who are prepared even in the
very midst of this desperate struggle IN whlcn
we are engaged. to throw mud at any and
every Minister of the Crown whom they be-
lieve to be opposed to their pollcy;-despite
these "Prussians in our midst" were the people
Of this country to learn through such a
dfuarche on the part of your President that
Germany was prepared to evacuate Belgium
and the north Of France as result OF a COM
promise which would restore her oversee
possessions or pave the way for her acquisi-
ton by negotiation of similar outlets elsewhere;
and if they were to learn that on the strength
of assurances such as Sir Edward Grey offered
her on July 3O-when the tramp of armed
legions was already shaking the plains OF
Europe-that the British government would
endeavor to promote some arrangement, 10
which Germany could be a party, by which
she could be assured that no aggressive or
hostile policy would be pursued against her or
her allies by France Russia and ourselves
BRITAIN, jointly or separately" that Ger
many-on these basis-was prepared to dis
cuss a cessation of the strife; were the British
people assured of this, believe there would
arise popular movement in favor of the con-
clusion of peace strong enough to sweep every
thing before it.
believe that. because, for the British peo-
1,le this was war entered upon on behalf OF
Belgium; because the inspiration which moved
tens of thousands of young Britishers to offer
up their bodies TO Moloch, was indignation at
the violation of Belgium and pity for the
wrongs inflicted upon her, and because the
alternative to such German offer would mean,
in any event, the continued sacrifice of Belgium,
the proongation of the German grip upon her
if the Franco British armies could not break
the German line, her utter destruction II,
breaking that line, the Franco-British armies
contested as they needs must, every yard OF
Belgian soil with a desperate remedy and with
annihilating effects for Belgium. Indeed, were
the interests of Belgium alone at stake every
humane man and woman on both sides OF the
Atlantic should ardently wish that her liberia
ton might come by negotiation and not at
price which would leave her one vast ruin and
cemetery combined.
would even go so far as to express the con-
viction that if the British people became aware
through the intermediary of President wilson
that Germany were willing to accept IN prn-
chile the creation of an international Council
upon which both the belligerent and the neu-
trail powers would be represented and before
which the governments would undertake TO
bring all their disputes for adjudication
binding themselves to give publicity to the
councils proceedings and to exercise diplo-
matte, economic and in the ultimate restore