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

London, October %.
Her real assassin is the Kaiser.
You. think. were the first TO make
this visible and fagrant-with your
cartoon: The dead body OF woman,
the German Emperor standing by with
a smoking pistol; and beneath him the
epitaph. "Gott Nit Uns" That is the
description cabled here. ard no com
ment has been so enlightening. To
the horror of this woman-murder the
English perhaps woke slowly. because
it is not in the English nature 70 con-
ceive Of such infamy But when they
woke il was once for all.
! do not think they have learned
or will ever learn. In the German
sense, the German lesson Of hate. Bn.
they are beginning TO understand how
loathsome thing is this German
hate; since il is but the true express
sion Of the true German nature I'VE
shall never be gentlemen" said the Ger.
man general In the same breath in
which he foretold that the English
would always be fools; obviously. fools
enough TO be gentlemen But they do
not in their folly, as do the Germans
in their wisdom. array against them
selves the wrath OF all Christendom.
How the Murder Was Arranged.
But it is only this morning that
they have gone so straight TO the root
OF all the evil as you do. Sir Valen-
tine Chirol, who knows Germany from
end to end and from top TO bottor-.
takes up your parable-which is not a
parable but the plain truth--in a let.
ter TO "The Times" He asks:
Can it be for moment imagined
that General Won Kissing would have
rushed Miss Cavell's execution as he
did. had he not been certain Of hts
imperial masters cpprovsl7"
General Won Bissing's Imperial mas
ter was at that very moment In Bel
GUM; In touch with Brussels and the
Governor of Brussels. The court mar
tisl was organized TO convict; took IL
orders direct from the Kaiser Miss
Cavell did not deny that she had helped
Belgians and English to escape. Why
should she. She had q moral and legal
right 20. With or without evidence,
her doom was determined. The Kaiser
had wiled and ordered her death She
was English. That was enough.
Each fact, as Il becomes known, adds
TO the odium Of this murder THE New
yours, from across the Atlantic: Mot
to for the firing party in Belgium, WON.
en- first" But ! suppose no German,
whether in Germany or in German
America, can understand why English
German spirit and German act, nor why
OF Miss CGycl's "martyrdom."
She il martyr 20 German hate
and 10 the bsseness OF the German nat
ure toward women. We all know how
women are treated in Germany; a Ger.
man wife. something between a mistress
and a household drudge, chivalry is q
word unknown 10 the German; a thing
10 him inconceivable. On the contrary
the weaker his foe the more hellish his
delight In torturing and killing. Never
will he understand why the name OF
Edith Cavell, because OF her noble life
and nobler martyr death, stands hence.
forth high on the list of English saints.
Our Minister'S Efforts.
For what Mr. Brand Whitlock, our
Minister in Brussels, did, FOR his un.
availing efforts 20 save this English
woman from her predetermined fate, no
tribute can be too high. The Germans.
the official, responsible Germans, in
Guiding General Won Kissing, lied 70
him, deceived him, baffled him by
treachery Behind Mr.. Whitlock, says
the cable, stood his government. Il
was therefore to our government at
Washington that the Germans, as their
habit Is. lied. II was not only Mr..
Whitlock but our government whom
the Germans flouted and insulted; as
their habit is. And il is again our
government, in the distinguished per
son Of our -proud-to-f President,
who again. as again the cable tells US,
can find in this fresh insult no occasion
for protest. He takes il, as he ha,
taken others before it. lying down. And