New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20
b. ROLAND C. USHER,

2, ROLAND C. USHER,
,aov oF .PAN.GERMANIsM" AND "PAN-
ANERICANISM."
-HF German government is willing
III TO have the German people be-
Ill Geve that there is a secret alliance
3<v,.n the United States and England.
1,msny is anxious to suggest to the
3-,ican people that they have been
- uicked and betrayed into nothing
r. than vassalage to England. Here is
, real issue Of significance.
4 That said about an alliance in 1897, what
n -, about facts which happened twenty
q 90 ago what the German defenders declare
a ,.G,v. | said about both, are all secondary
ruinportant compared to the fact that
German government is willing to have the
~. people believe what is calculated to
,x them against the United States-that
RE vassal state Of England's.
h German Press Bureau does not waste
{f- When il acts we may not understand
\ rssons for its conduct, but we may be
n, thew have been carefully determined.
H. prolonged attempt to appeal to the
--i,sn p.ople by legal and diplomatic evil
:. there comes a shift. After an era OF
5rs1y feeling comes one of suspicion and
,-ls.nt. The Americans in Germany have
4. difference keenly.
i. attitude OF the imperial government in
a5narne cases, in particular the recent
H. On the Lusitania, was calculated to ere
he impression here that the sinking OF
l. Lustaria was justihable and that the
.,si States government was misinformed in
4ai to obvious facts Of such nature as to
z,ast. that our neutrality was only mask.
IN, Simultaneous with these events, we hnd
press campaign started in the official Ger
4 organ, The Fatherland," in New York
q pursued with promptness and persistence
isEy German organ in this country and by
= uheal press bureau of Germany. Past
pzsnce with German methods teaches us
n such condolences mean something.
Avery minor issue from the present point
lsr;v has been suddenly raised by the official
Srnan agents to a matter of international
=1,fn But it certainly has not been done
@rect errors Of history or to expose my
Il Of information. "Pan-Germanisn" was
"a IN Germany when it appeared, was la
xs dangerous and quietly suppressed. 1t
N not ANSWERED by Germans in this
Saay or in Germany.
We can be quite sure that the German Of
IA agents are not bothering themselves to-
2 about historian, whom they cannot tail
consider obscure and i'll informed, or with
understanding between this country and
't1nd twenty years old, except to create
aansnt for deeper and more important
"a An understanding between the United
KS and England in 1897 is no more I'M
cani to them than Noahs arrangements
y the animals in the ark EXCEPT AS
3~@oBoRATORY EVIDENCE OF AN
OUTSTANDING TO-DAY WHOSE
lSTENCE is ALREADY PROVED TO
I'm BY OTHER EVIDENCE.
'-sy no one is so lacking in sanity as to
r'0se tha, the German government accepts
slianee as a verify on the authority OF
s-1ermanism' or is so ignorant OF the
~~n people as to suppose that they would
~ such fact even from their own press
"a on the unsupported authority OF one
not before known to them. We can be
as' there is more in this than meets the
lnose American editors who have been
NSng my idiooy and folly on the basis
'e German accounts have obviously been
1S INTO the hands OF the Germans and
= Precisely as the latter hoped, creating
~ the sort Of reaction expected. They
~'Sed the bait, sinker and Sll. Once
me matter has already proceeded be-
NC question Of my accuracy or rehabil-
ana my book are now merely incidents
really significant issue.
evidence which really satisfies Ger
~ ana to which the German agents are
sppeaiing is the admitted facts about
Hssent attitude Of the American people.
'H night they expect all these statements
past alliances to be read in this coun-
~ IN Germany; only in relation to them
= ~ese historical issues the slightest pres
a'erest or significance
J. ~e last August it has been clear to the
sso'e that the vast majority Of AVeri-
IS sei'eVeo the Allies were in the right and
Is ''Hans very much in the wrong. To
been added a dominant desire in
ian opinion for victory for the Allies,