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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
Suffrage in Colorado.
ditor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent, J. c. Pumpelly,
quotes an informant from Denver who says,
in as kind a way as possible, that he and all
the rest of the people in Colorado except the
politicians are agreed that politics coarsens
women and that the ballot puts an unnec-
essary burden on them and is unfortunate
for the economics of the state. He says:
The only people in our state who do not
look at this matter as | do are those politi-
clans who" etc. And the only reason those
politicians do not agree is because they dare
not state that woman suffrage is failure
for fear it will be used against them ito
prejudice the female vote
Two questions are at once raised, one not
unfamiliar to Tribune readers: "Are Women
People" II they are, they must be included
in that great majority in Colorado who con-
slider woman suffrage a failure. In that case,
why should politicians hesitate to speak out
about suffrage lest they offend the women
The women must be with them as part of
the people of Colorado, exclusive of those
politicians.
The other question is, How can voteless
women hope to have due regard paid their
own civic and political convictions by men ~
By the Denver informant's testimony, Colo
RADIO women do not agree that politics
coarsens women, that the suffrage puts an
unnecessary burden on them and that it is
unfortunate for the economics of the state
They so strongly dissent from all those prop
ositons that it wouldn't be healthy for any
Colorado politician even to raise his voice
against woman suffrage. By the same in
formant's testimony, he and all the rest of
the people of Colorado meaning mem
couldn't say enough against suffrage once
they got going. Patiently they would get
going, too, and take the suffrage straightway
from women if it were not for those politi-
clans and their fear of their women con-
stituents.
The Denver informant has thus defined a
wide divergence between mems convictions
and women's on this great question of suf-
frage in Colorado. And he has shown that
womens convictions receive the political con-
sideration to which women themselves think
them entitled only when women themselves
are constituents of those politicians" and
so inspire in them the fear of "prejudicing
the female vote" ROSE YOUNG.
New York, July 10, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
The Iron Cross Puzzle.

A long, long time ago, when the world
was at peace, and at peace not only inter-
nationally but intellectually as well, it
was a not unpopular custom on quiet even
ings to put the pigs in clover. Those tiny
little steel pigs, how they would resist the
impelling hand, spill out of the concentric
barriers and race aimlessly about at large
in their diminutive glass inclosed area
1t took nerve and patience and skill to sit
silently within the lamp-lt domestic circle
and ever TO tilt the plane of their habita-
ton that finally they might all roll to-
gether into the middle-more nerve and
patience and skill than were usually de-
veloped in a single sustained trial.
But who in that remote and blissful
period could have supposed that the train
ing thus acquired beneath the rays of the
library lamp would now be put to military
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
A Superfiuous Warning.

A Dresden newspaper addresses a SOL
emn warning to Italian statesmen. Re-
minding them that the meanest German is
of infinitely more Importance than the
rarest work of art, whether ancient or
modern, it cautions them against imagin-
ing that Italy's treasures will be respected
as "a sort of insurance against an over
energetic conduct of the war"
1t is extremely unlikely that the Italians
had any delusion on that point. 1t is
hardly possible, indeed, to imagine Ger
man warrior suffering his genius to be
checked by anything so foreign to him.
Not that the Germans have not always
shown an extraordinary interest in every
branch of art. They are among the most
intelligent collectors in the world. They
are learned historians, great cassifiers and
skilful imitators of foreign art. The Ger
mans have always been quick to take up
new fashions in art. Cubism owes much
to German enthusiasm. Their exhibitions
and illustrated papers show, too, how quick
IiltN are W StC hlidb 10 EOON III CiiN al VI
other nations. Their only misfortune is
that nature has denied them any creative
power. Their genius in music does not
extend to painting, sculpture or any Of the
allied arts. In these they show themselves
industrious and pathetically anxious, but
all they can ever do is to sentimentalize
and vulgarize.
The Sieges Alice in Berlin probably rep
resents the common German conception of
true beauty. And though the destruction
of Italy's treasures would doubtless give
great pain to many German connoisseurs,
the bulk of the population would think
Italy honored if the treasures were re-
placed by gaudy things in the modern
German taste, just as most Germans prob
ably look forward to the new Louvain with
great pride. The Italians cannot expect
much reverence to be shown to their treas
.ures. German art speaks for itself.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
STRIKES AND GERMANY
Through Her Socialists She Fo-
ments Trouble in Alien Lands.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: That interesting letter signed IAN
American" in to-day's issue of your great
paper brings valuable confederation of a fact
which has ong since been surmised, though
il was difficult to prove, viz, that Socialist
schemes have been abetted in the United
States, as we'll as they were in Northern
France and PARIS, by German emissaries from
abroad acting under high orders in the in
torest of the war that was coming and of
their Fatherlsndl II it were not so, it would
be quite impossible to account for the
friendly understanding which obtained all
Of sudden two years ago between the Ger
man government and party that until then
had been branded and condemned as destruc-
tive of the very foundations of civilization
itself.
The French government, | am informed,
has incontrovsrtible proofs of the completely
of certain German mddlemen in the strikes
and anarchical plans that in 1913 and 1914
brought trouble and ruin to some notable
centres of French industry in that region of
France which is still held by the Germans.
l. must now he absolutely clear to all that
Germany has been connecting this great war
for very many years; that the imperial gov
eminent had made up its mind to work, if
necessary, hanG in hand with the most I'M
scrupulous elements of society at home and
abroad and also to resort to the most in
human, immoral counsels which could be de-
vised to be successful, no matter how.
If France, England and Russia have any
sense of elf-respect it will be a whole GEN.
tpry before they resume any kind of inter-
course with a nation of cruel and demented
savages, on par with the worst that history
knows of. 1t is dire pity, well sore
disappointment, that our great American
Commonwealth does not see its way to siding
effectively with the peoples that are vindi-
eating the cause of civilization at so ire
mendous an expense of blood and treasure.
CHARLES RIVER.
Quebec Canada, July IA, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
ITALYS TREACHERY
She Joined the Triple Alliance
Voluntarily.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: wish 70 thank Mr.. Fantini that hs
places me in the category with the Kaiser
(supposing he means the German Emperor.
Francis Joseph, Won Jagow, Reventlow, Bue-
low, Dernburg, Berchtold, Burian, Tisza, Gio-
litti, Bryan and others. | am really ver
proud of it. | appreciate also the citing OF
the Italian saying: "A mailman and drunk
ard always understand each other" As re-
CARDS Mr. ]. Tortora's letter, I am satisfied
that he is not surprised by my expressions
never had any reason TO assume a false
name, and as an authority in a certain pro-
fession and member Of national society
men like Andrew Carnegie, Charles Schwab,
Thomas Edison. John Brashear, the late
George Westinghouse and other similar gres:
authorities were never too proud 10 shake
hands with me.
Nobody compelled Italy to go into the
Triple Alliance. Mr.. Tortors forgets that s-
poleon III was the enemy Of Italy and never
wanted that there should be United Italy;
consequently Italy had to go into an alliance
with the enemies of France. Therefore, II
was not done by the pressure Of Bismarck
but it was natural consequence, which cor
responded with Bsmarck's wishes and plans
Anyway, the friendly relations between Aus
tria- Hungary and Italy started long before
1881. Another natural consequence was,
regards the Tunisian question, that Germany
promised to help Italy if she wanted 70 tai"
Tunis, as she would not have dared otherwise
TO do it.
z1rc .k,S L.1
from this alliance. 1t must be remembered
that before the alliance Italy was bankrupt
and after few years she had a conslderses
surplus in her budget, and still Italy was 'ne
Cinderella of this alliance.
Austria asked the late Italian Minister Of
Foreign Affairs, the Marquis di San Giulano'
in 1918, il Italy would support her in case she
wanted 10 crush Serbia for her revolutionary
Vaccinations against Austria-Hungary' in.s
proves only that a good reason existed long
ago to stop that and the assassination OF u.
archduke made it unavoidable any further ~
give Serbia a lesson.
As regard the future blows at Italy, ! "
sure Mr. Tortora tina: il does not disturb u!
sleep, as history can prove that Italy IS us's
TO beatings by Austria. But that Germsn,
will get from Italy what she escaped tl'"
the Allies, that is really something ior
vaudeville jest. A..
| can further assure Mr.. Tortora ana NJ
Fantini that according TO my knowledge ! IN
not Of German, Austrian or even Italian
scent, but true and good American eiuses
II Italy was an ally for thirty years Wv.
countries she had no business 70 go ags'n''
them in their most bloody fights and iner.'ss
murder, starvation and misery. And deem"
again that this is what we have 10 call W''''
out any doubt treachery and nothing else.
New York, July 7, 1915. b. NloLA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18

purposes. Yet those who became expert
in coaxing the pigs into the clover are
being requested to volunteer for no less
an undertaking than that Of
putting the Allied armies in Berlin. The
same qualities of mind and heart are
necessary, but instead of the series of con-
centric pens to stump the swineherd one
has labyrinth TO conquer like that which
the French took inch by inch not so many
weeks ago. And there are five spherical
armies to keep in hand while conquering
it. Little wonder that one wins the iron
cross at the same time.
What The iron cross for taking Berlin ?
But how? An, that is a part of the
Iron Cross Puzzle.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
Resents an Inference.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: May ask your American" Of to-
days issue to explain his meaning when he
says: Socialism has made our men women!
Goes he intend to stigmatize women? Had
he a mother or has he a wife? Did he find
them towards!
To him the physical ability to get out and
fight for ones country constitutes bravery.
Then the women in war-stricken Europe lack
bravery! Do they? Theirs is the stolid,
dumb -mouthed bravery that eats their hearts
away, that suffers them to bear all suffering
in martyr-like silence; to sacrifice not their
own lives, bat that which is infinitely harder,
the lives Of their loved ones. | challenge
any man wh) claims a woman to be less
brave than a man. My sisters throughout
the world will battle with me-
ONE WOMAN.
Douglaston, Staten Island, July 10. 1915
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
Our Latest Submarine.

The reports of the recent trials in Long
Island Sound are too meagre to justify any
very sweeping conclusions about the capa-
biities Of the G-3. The main point is that
the modified Diesel engines seem to be
a great success and are to be used in all the
Lake submarines now under contract. Mr..
Lake says there is no doubt that with her
new engines the G-3 could cross the At
lantic and return without dependence on
base of supplies, and this opinion is ac-
copied by the chief of the Bureau of Steam
Engineering.
1t is a mistake to say that no other sub
marine has so great radius of action as
the G-3, and Mr.. Lake apparently makes
no such claim. The latest British and Ger
man vessels are probably capable of at
least 1000 miles, perhaps nearer 5000, at
full speed on the surface, and could doubt
less do 5000 or more at reduced speed.
The G-3 is said to have a surface radius
of 5000 at speed of eight knots. She
is a comparatively small boat-only 100
feet in length. The seven new vessels, we
are told, are to be $50 feet long, thus easily
exceeding any of the German submarines
of which we have precise information. 1t
will be a year and half before they are
ready, however, and it is conceivable that
by that time new standards may be es-
tablished
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
Sweetness and Light"

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: have clipped "On Bastile Day" for
reading to my father, Lucen Ssnial, eighty
years young, libertarian and Frenchman.
That for one cent thousands should have
m hand to read as they run this masterpiece
of the controlled, climactic style, that live
probe that fetches up the tear from the
heart deeps through the quick of the under
standing-that this should be is in truth
sweetness and light"
The day of the newspaper has arrived 1t
is teacher, poet, drsmatist, philosopher and
knight-when it wills!
If ever the white spirit of noblesse oblige
were needed to hover over the editorial nib
that moment is now
DAISY SANIAL GILL.
Douglaston, Long Island, July Ia, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
The Plant of a Civil Servant.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | am in a rut. | have the power nee
essary to pull myself out, but cannot get
a foothold. It's discouraging to see others
go flying by, whose engines are not bit bet
ter than mine.
| am holding civil service job, for which
am paid 500 a month. | phrase this ad-
vsedly; am paid 500 month for holding
the job. Ny days endeavors and my con-
tribution to the worlds progress consist Of
putting in the hours from a. m. to 4 D. M
at my desk. When the clock strikes 4 the
worlds work, so far as | am concerned, has
been done.
| am not money mad 500 a month does
me very well. But how much better would |
feel if were making even less, but krsowing
that every day had accomplished some lit
tie thing that counted! | am ambitious, but
ambition in a civil service job is superfuous.
am original, and originality in my work is
dangerous. / am honest, which | find not
only unnecessary but Objectionable; refer
ring, of course, to honesty of purpose
| am on eight civil service lists. Whv I
took eight civil service examinations don't
know. | do not feel at all lattered when Of
fered an appointment to another position
than the one hold But how different would
| feel were some one to offer me a position
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18

leaders. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan b..
Anthony. Ida Hustled Harper, Ibsen and
Ellen Key, and, in far-of South Africa,
Olive Schreiner, to mention only few OF
a multitude.
But in the battle for her political rights
the American woman can present better
claims than any of her sisters elsewhere
in the world. OF the giant task of con-
ouering this continent her mothers and
grandmothers and great-grandmothers
performed fully half the work and bore
far more than half the burden and hard
ships. This nation, more than any other,
is the creation of its women as much as
of its men. Their status in our civilIza-
ton, even in our most backward South
ern mountain vastnesses, is but evidence
of the American mans recognition of this
equal partnership in nation building. VIII
he who thus did justice according to the
/ light of an earlier day close his eyes to
the new light thrown upon the forward
path by his women? We know better 1t
is not by books and lectures and speeches
and theories but by valiant work that the
American woman has won her right to a
voice in the affairs of the nation that is so
greatly the work of her hands and brain.
And she demands that voice in order that
she may hereafter continue to work and
build to still greater purpose. In these
United States woman suffrage, when it
comes, will not be revolution, but logi-
cal progress from antecedent conditions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
Thinking Straight. 4"
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir Permit me to express TO you my high
appreciation of the force and timel!ness of
your editorial yesterday entitled Thinking
Straight" 1t is of the utmost Importance
that our people should be awakened to the
peril that threatens our country and its in
stitutions from the subtle propaganda that
German intrigue is starting here, as it has
already done so successfully in Turkey and
has attempted in England and Italy.
II is all the more dangerous among US, be-
cause it masquerades movement for
peace and for humanity and strict neutral
;ty, and therefore makes a strong appeal TO
a peace loving people. There is great need
for thinking straight, as you aptly term it,
when so many of our best people and leaders
in philanthropy and reform are thinking any
thing but straight.
They are doing a work Of fearful temerty
in rendering our country unprepared or
keeping it so, when a task Of such vast and
solemn Importance may impend at any mo-
ment.
What gratitude should be ours and that OF
all free peoples to France that she armed
herself and has so nobly borne the brunt of
the terrific onslaught which menaces the
peace and progress Of the whole world!
Would that there were more general appre-
citation of it, such as you have given in your
editorial ION Bastile Day"
LEIGHTON WILLIAMS.
Marlborough, n. Y, July 16, 1915
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
Feminist Literature.

With the recognition Of the American
woman's right to the ballot, which cannot
be far off, a period will close in the his
tory of feminism and of feministic litsra-
ture. That this triumphant ending Of the
political phase of the general propaganda
will probably coincide with the end Of the
world war will be little more than a coin
cidence, though, no doubt, the future his
torian will read into it profound mean
ings and come to attach to the recent
women's peace conference at The Hague
a significance out of all proportion to its
actual influence and results.
Meanwhile, with the question of woman
suffrage in this state before the Constitu-
tional Convention at Albany, it may not
be amiss to review briefly the literature of
the movement in its first phase, bearing
in mind meanwhile that in recent years
this literature has only been an indirect
influence. The real campaigning has been,
and is being, carried on by more direct,
forcible and convincing methods.
IIdlO deserves uISl HeHllOH, Oh course,
as the philosophical father of feminism,
but he has to-day only remote historical
interest. The hetaire of Athens paid a
heavy price for their privileges and in
fuence. Of the great ladies of imperial
Rome it must be said that they were not
so much consciously and purposefully
feminist as "emancipated, to revive for
the moment a now forgotten meaning Of
that adjective much employed in the seven
ties and early eighties of the last century.
The Renaissance gave the woman Of
quality opportunity to cultivate her intel
lect, but little more, and it is not until the
France of the encyclopedistes that the
first STRINGS of modern feminism are
seen. From a French woman's "Dec!ara-
ton of the Rights of Woman" to Mary
Wollstonecraft's "Vindication" was a
transition, and thenceforth prog
ress is uninterrupted. if not unimpeded,
until we reach, paying special tribute on
the way to John Stuart Mill, the modern
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
Cotton for German Ammunition.

According to the reports OF the Amerl-
can Association of Commerce but little
cotton is now imported by Germany. 1t
has become more difficult of late to secure
delivery through Sweden and the Neither
lands, and Of cargoes detained at Genoa
alone the value is estimated at about SlO,-
100000. On the same authority, however,
it is asserted that the supply for military
purposes is absolutely assured and
that even for a prolonged war the raw
cotton taken in Belgium, France and Rus
STA will abundantly suffice.
On the other side, recent Berlin dis
patch announced that the military COM
mandant of the Province of Brandenburg
had published an order limiting the use of
cotton in the manufacture of clothing, bed
sheets, tablecloths, ETC., a circumstance
which seems to indicate certain anxiety
on the part of the government.
Whatever the present conditions may
be, there is no doubt that hitherto the
Allies have shown little inclination to
control the trade in cotton. Moreover, if
"The Manchester Guardians" information
is correct, the restrictions hitherto OBJ
served by the British government are
about to be relaxed. Some months ago
there was a strong demand in England
that cotton should be placed on the list
of contraband, but the President of the
Board of Trade apparently took no steps
to that end. The question has frequently
been brought up in the House of Com
mons, but those who hold that only by
cutting off the supply entirely would it
be possible to deprive the German troops
of ammunition have generally been put
off with evasive answers or vague assur-
ances. More than two months ago the
Attorney General in reply to certain
critics contended that the Order in Coun-
Gil of March IA was as good as an order
formally declaring cotton contraband, and
added that the steps already taken were
extremely effective" This is hardly
borne out by the evidence at hand.
Sir William Ramsay, who has been
very active in bringing pressure to bear
on the British and French governments,
expresses himself strongly on this sub
iect, declaring that the decision to keep
cotton on the free list "has, and will, cost
Britain and her allies many thousands
Of lives" He is hopeful that the new
British government, now fully awake to
the importance of ammunition, is begin
ming to understand the necessity of de-
priving the enemy of the material used in
preparing it. His own opinion is that not
only cotton but all substitutes should be
declared contraband, for only by such
means will it be possible to insure victory.
Setting aside these possible makeshifts,
there is little reason to doubt that some
cotton still enters Germany. Otherwise
it is impossible to account for fact ad-
mitted by representative of the Board
Of Trade in Parliament, namely, the
enormous increase in the exports Of cot
ton and yarns into Sweden, Norway, Den
mark and Holland.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
Thinking Straight. Il"
tor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The trouble with your edi'en''
Thinking Straight" is that it shows every
thing but that.
You start from wrong PREMISE. 'a'
rot the sinking Of the Lusitsnia but %.
position in regard 10 II "''
brought on any crisis. g.
OF course your editorial represents en.
your opinion, 10 which you are entitled w
rot the opinion of Americans generslly'shs,
OF course it finds approval in the eyes =,
those that from the start wanted US 70 hs''
tecause of fare atrocity stories.
HENRY W. SrRUSS
New York, July Is, 1915.