New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-05
ENGLAND AND GERMANY
Some Reasons for the Partially Of
American Sympathy.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue Of to day John v Row
land asks certain questions in regard to the
attitude Of England toward this country at
the time Of the Civil War. Whatever de-
fence might be made of England in this con-
nection, it does not seem to me that Mr..
Rowlands indictment Of England has
weight as applied TO the present European
war. The responsibility for this war and the
odium attached to the methods Of It's wag-
ing rest entirely on tho nation or nations
that, both positively and negatively, made
such a thing possible at time when the
world had good reasons, apparently, TO hope
that such terrible reversOn to barbarism
could not happen.
would ask Mr.. Rowland if he thinks, in
the light or the darkness) OF the tremen-
dous weight Of evidence against Germany
that she would hesitate to injure this or any
other country in any conceivable way that
Germany might think necessary? What rea-
son has Mr.. Rowland to think so? Is the
Lusitania a case in point?
I also should like to ask some questions:
Whose was the blood, whose the princi-
pies whose the spirit, that linked in spiritual
kinship the sieners Of the Declaration Of In
dependence with the signers Of Magma
Charta? ENGLAND'S.
Against whom did the English-American
patriot5 wage the war of independence?
AGAINST THE GERMAN FAMILY AND IN
FLUENCE AND SPIRIT THEN EN-
THRONED IN ENGLAND.
Where did George Washington and all the
other fathers and founders Of this Republic
get the blood and the spirit that enabled
them to do what they did, and which has
handed down TO US the splendid inheritance
that will make US proud and grateful on this
coming Fourth of July? FROM ENGLAND.
Who, Of all the more powerful nations Of
Europe, was the only one friendly toward
this country during the war with Spain
ENGLAND.
Whose naval commander. in contrast to
Germany's i'll disguised hostility, clearly
showed his friendship at Manila Bay?
ENGLANDS
Who only among the warning nations has
in cold blood and by generalization slaugh-
tered the citizens Of neutral countries, in
Guiding women and children? Who has
made war more like hell than ever? GER
MANY.
Against whose brand OF hultur, whose type
of government, whose ruthlessly brutal mil
itary methods. whose whole system and spirit
has the United States most need 70 srm and
be prepared? GERMANY'S
Whose university professors historians,
newspapers official spokesman, have so bru-
tally and frankly and openly expressed them
selves about war and matte | ambitions
during the last twenty years as TO keep the
whole OF Europe in the condition of an
armed camp, and more than any other nation
has kept alive the warike spirit? GER
MANY.
Who alone could have prevented this war
by conserving to arbitration? Upon whom
depended the final cast of the die? GER
MANY.
Every nation in the world might be indict-
cd for something Mt some time. Upon whom
now rests indictment for the crime Of all the
ages? GERMANY
WILLIAM HENDERSON WATTS.
Son OF veteran OF the Maryland Line"
c. S. A.
Haedon, y. j., July !, 1915.