New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-30
PEACE THE ONLY PATH
War Will Not Guarantee the Tri.
umph Of Right or Justice.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: From day TO day | read with sorrow
end dismay your editorials. They seem to
me calculated to stir up all the passion and
hatred possible, to make our people, ALREADY
unfair toward Germany and forgetful OF the
horrors war would bring Us, more unfair
still end still more forgetful. shall per
haps be acquitted of being pro-German when
say that not only are my sympathies With
the Allies. but four of my near relations are
at the front or in the British navy sighting
for the Allies.
Would that your paper set different e1'
ample in this dark age of blood and hate
Would that you tried to remind US that tn.
Germans are a nation Of human beings Of
like passions with ourselves; that they BE-
lieve themselves to be fighting for their own
life and liberty, just as the French and Eng
lish and Russians believe themselves TO Be
fighting. Would that you would remind your
readers that war is by no means certain or
ever probable, to issue in the victory Of JUS
tice, but rather to hamper and confuse JUS
tice. 10 blind the eyes of nations, 70 let loes.
the blacklist passions We have long been IVY
ing to subdue. 10 undo all social progress 70
burden the already overburdened poor VIE
fresh taxation, TO spread disease, to waste
revenue. to increase insanity, TO take away
the fit. the young. the strong, and leave the
unfit, the old and the weak and after slL
very possibly, to be beaten.
There is no reason TO believe that victory
goes with justice. Nor can your gospel OF
preparedness for war endure the test II"
veal has given, for the better PREPARED rs
tions are to murder each other The longer
they can keep the murder up, AMI the more
thew commit social suicide in the Imbeels
race for armament the more they may CON-
NIT it There is 10 limit no rest and no re-
lief IN that mad dance of death.
"ln time of peace prepare for peace Le'
US do friendly deeds, even TO those that nave
us. We have good authority for doing So
We have fed Belgium; we have heaieo
Serbia Let US do deeds like these by 81
nations and we need fear none.
Your editorial a day or two since tskhs
seriously the charge that German inhuen"
had brought about the Bridgeport and Bay.
orne troubles astonished ME greatly. surrey
no outside influence is needed 70 make e~
zens who work hard and are poorly paid ~
volt against employers who ar lining tnsn
own pockets with fat profits. Bet u one ea'
swallow such charge as that OF German u.
huence in these disturbances a charge NO.
very cheap and easy to make-surely 'a'
wiser advice to employers would be 20 mai'
every concession; not. as you advise them
make none. To make concessions would De
take away the handle OF the German ~
1uerce," If such there be. Conceive youl'sn
a German stirling up unrest and you VIII ''
now thwarting TO your plans concess'0"
would be.
But why, one wonders, were not wss',
raised long ago If the interest OF 'aoor az.
capital is one? What a curious thing 'hI
strikes should be necessary to raj wages :
such time as this, when. 70 quote ne Ii,r
une, the ammunition making business IS %
boor' basis?
And why are not these striking citizens
well worth sympathzng with as The pas%ss'
gers on the Lusitania? S. y CLEGHOkN'
Manchester. VI, July %. 1915.