New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-15

so once again il is the manhood OF the
American press which saves US, as
nation. from the scorr OF all Europe
English Homage.
The German murderers OF Edith Ca
veil refuse 20 allow even her dead BODY
70 come 70 England They cling 20 the
corpse. Death itself does not appease
their savage hate. So, as there can be
no funeral. there is 20 be a Memorial
Service in St. Paufs on Friday. The
Germans cannot prevent that; unless
rorchance they send Zeppelin 70 de-
stroy the Cathedral and are lucky
enough 70 hit IT, What JOY for GER
many il they should, or could, do that'
What greater JOY II they could destroy
not only the Cathedral but the Prime
Minister and the great company OF
great Englishmen and great English
women who will attend 10 offer their
last homage 10 Edith CaveN! No, NOT
their last, for her name Is immortal
and the reverence OF all generations TO
come is hers. This English race vii!
never forget her. nor will the world.
The King and Queen.
Nor can these hating Germans silence
the King and Queen, whose hearts go
out 10 Edith Cavell's mother The King
Of England and the Queen of England
they are sometimes England itself.
They speak for England when they de-
clare TO Mrs. Cavell in her bitter sor-
row their horror at the appalling deed
which has robbed you of your child
They kneel by the altar since they can
not kneel by her grave.
Queen Alexandra.
And Queen Alexandra-do you know
what a steadfsst friend she has been
and is TO America | do not forget,
and | hope you do not, her words OF
sympathetic friendship 70 US in the
midst Of our last war-early In that
war, when Spain was still supposed TO
be a formidable enemy and New YORK
as we ourselves at one time thought
I'm danger from Spanish feet. Said
this Sea Kings daughter from over the
sea:
81 hope your news from home Is good.
You know our best wishes are with
you"
And that ever beautiful face shone
with new beauty in the light OF those
kindly thoughts for US, her kin beyond
the sea. Hers, also, was the voice OF
the English people. II is again their
voice when she writes TO Mrs: Cavell
that she views this unheard-of act
with the utmost adherence" and says;
1--WE shall always remember that she
never once failed England in her hout
Of need"
Her Work for Germans.
Nor will England fail her. Let US
II ,La. tha Ltpo te
cousin TO the imperial butcher under
whose felon-stroke this Englishwoman
went down. The Kaiser stopped from
his throne 10 reach his prey. He fred
the shot which stilled her heart. She
had been the nurse, the benefactor, al
most the friend, of his own wounded
German soldiers. Two other women
condemned to death for the same Of
fence against what the Germans cyni-
caily call their military law he par
doned. They were not English.
There IL In Belgium no military law.
| The presence of the Germans in Bel
GUM is the violation of all law; an oct
of illegal military violencej out Of
which no law can grow; nor can any
| violation of law which does not exis;
be illegal. The only law in Belgium is
/ the law Of brute and brutal force. All
/ honor 20 the woman who swept IL aside
on her errand Of mercy!
The kaiser's Hatred.
It is no. the beginning OF the Kai-
ser's hatred of the English. It began
with his mother. He hated his mother.
He publicly insulted her; as a boy and
later. While he was still Prince Will
lam Of Prussia officers of a Prussian
Guards regiment gave him q dinner.
As he sat at table his nose bled. The
officer by his side offered him a hand
kerchief Said the future murderer Of
Edith Cavell:
mo. The more of this damned Eng
lish blood / get rid of the better"
The damned English blood wos his
mothers: then the Crown Princess Of
Germany: daughter of Queen Victorla
afterward the Empress Frederick. He
hated his mother because she was Eng
ish and because she was his mother.
| don't like to stain a column de-
voted to the memory Of Edith Cavell
with the name or the acts OF her exc
cutioner, but it is right the true nature
of this Jack Ketch-Kaiser should be
known. He takes his way down the
ages in blood and crime, with meaner
vices in attendance. Are we Americans
10 spare him because he sits on a Ger
man Imperial Throne? G. W. s.
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