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New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
IN MEXICO 1846-l848
United That War Which Added Million Miles
Of Territory to This Countrywide Woman Violated
and No Homestead Burned

escort into the city Of Mexico and there pur-
chase supplies for his army.
This was accordingly done. On September
General Scott declared the armistice at an
end, having discovered that Santa Ana, in
violation of his solemn terms, was engaged IN
fortifyng his position and reinforcing his
army. We attacked in three columns, and our
first attack was repulsed The Mexicans sal
lied from their works, lanced our wounded
officers and men and cut their throats in view
Of our army.
The principal work, the Castle of Chapu-
tepec, was captured by the brigade composed
of the New York Regiment of Volunteers,
under Colonel Ward H. Burnet. and the Pal
metto Regiment, of South Carolina, under
Colonel Butler.
In this necessarily imperfect sketch Of the
salient events of the Mexican War have had
10 omit even the name of many an unfor-
gotten hero.
1t was no holiday war; it was replete with
toilsome marches. with blstered and bleeding
feet, through hot sands and under tropical
sum- over ragged rocks and snowy mountains,
where horses and riders perished with cold.
Il abounded with tragedies. both in bloody
fields near many a smoking gun and in the
deep gloom of feyer-stricken hospitals.
In that memorable two years we fought
seventy battles and engagements without the
final loss OF single gun or American ensign.
Engaged always against heavy odds, we bore
the honor of our great Republic trumphantly
on our own advancing swords and bayonets
must not forget TO mention that the sol
diers Mexican through the whole war were
never known to stand n single charge Of
bayonets.
Blended with patriotic reflections We
proudly recall the fact that we marched
nearly 5000 miles through the country of an
enemy alien to US in race and language, and
performed no act to wound the modesty Of
woman or to suly the ssnctity of her person
The flames of no defenceless homestead
lighted up our line of march, and no matin
hymn or vesper bells were silenced by our
coming.
What has been the result Of that victorious
war; It acquired for US the vast territories
of California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico,
Idaho. Arizona and Utah, thus adding 1000
600 square miles, or 640,000,000 acres. TO the
United States, nearly doubling its area.
CHARLES j. MURPHY,
The youngest survivor of the Mexican War
and the Civil War. holder of a Congress
sional medal of honor, and member Of Com
pany D, 7th Regiment, of New York Militia
Veteran Association
New York City, June 30, 1916.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
A Good Radiance.

No tears will be shed over the demise II
the THOMPSON committee, which has been
Investigating" transit matters under a
legislative warrant which expired on Sat
urday. This body. after considerable diff
ficultv. did manage to obtain evidence
which brought about wholesome ana
much desired reorganization of the Pub
lie Service Commission here. Outside oi
that its work has been inept, incompetent
at times almost imbecile. at times posi-
lively vicious in its insinuatlons of dis
honesty and dishonorableness against men
for whose work this community has rea-
son to feel gratitude, and regarding
whom, fortunately. even this body, with
its distorted and perverted investigation
could not arouse suspicion.
THE work that this committee has done
will live" grandiloquently predicted Its
chairman, in final attempt at advertls-
ing. What will live. if anything, will be
the memory of the committees failure to
prove all its talk of graft. 1t will be re
rendered that the committee spent fat
sum of state money for hotel bills, taxi
cabs theatre tickets and similar pick
ings" over period of twenty months.
What will live will be the scandal of pro
rating" hotel charges against members
who hadn't incurred any, and the subse-
quent indictment Of an official of the com
mittee for improper auditing OF the bills.
This committee talked much, but go,
few facts. Now that it is dead, the Public
Service Commission may proceed to take
up some Of the matters Senator Thompson
and his lawyers failed to complete, sucn
as the commitments and obligations
phase of third track work on the elevated,
and clear up the issue. In the commits
sion's investigation the public will feel
that confidence which it long ago lost 50
far as the Thompson committee was con-
cerned.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
The English Channel Tunnel.
From The Boston Herald

More than forty years have passed since
the British Foreign Ofice expressly approved
the idea of constructing a tunnel under the
Channel for railway communication between
England and France. But less than ten
years later. when the question was submitted
TO a Parliamentary committee, the military
authorities took the negative side on strate-
gic grounds, and the consequence was an un-
favorable report by the committee. Many
bills for the building OF a Channel tunnel
were subsequently introduced only TO be re-
jected at the instance of the government of
the day The last occasion was in 1907. after
an inquiry by the committee Of imperial de-
fence.
But in August 1918, Mr.. Asquith promi sed
fresh investigation. In the fire Of the
present war England and France have been
welded that their parting seems impossi-
bic. The proposed tunnel would be but an
additional tie OF friendship and guarantee of
good will Two railway companies. the
French Great Northern and the English
Southeastern. stand ready to build the tunnel,
each furnishing one-half of the total cost,
which is estimated at ss0,000,000 Their
engineers have il all planned TO run through
the chalk ridge from Dover TO Cape Girls
Nez, a distance Of twenty-one miles. emerg-
ing on the French side between Sangatte
and Wisssnt, some twelve miles south Of Ca
lais. and connecting with the Calais-Amiens
line 10 Paris Whenever Parliament gives
the word the work will be quickly done.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
ENGLAND AFTER THE WAR
Now |, the Time to Consider Necessary So
cial Reforms.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: IL is sometimes difficult TO believe that
war is not the normal state OF this country
In the most remote villages war expresses IT.
self. II stares at you in the shape OF gov
ernment bills relating TO groups, reserves and
war savings pasted on telegraph poles, held
gates and farmers outbuildings. If you pass
a laborers cottage the man at the door, the
laborer. is dressed in khaki, home on leave
and sheepishly mlitaire. There IS no rest
from the war even on Sunday In all the
churches, "rising from Eden's happy plains
the parson prays TO God TO bless our forces,
on land. on sea and in the air.
In towns the voice Of war is more insis-
tant. though usually by the end OF the week
il fail. through pure exhaustion On mon
day however. you feel the bloodthirsty Jour
nalist getting himself into form. lie de.
mands from the government the heads OF
most Of the Huns. And. when TINS demand
has been satisfied the reconstruction OF the
empire on grander. bolder lines lie insists
that our democratic gains should be framed
in imperial splendor. This kind Of INK lather,
made by the pens Of the journalists ot the
irresponsible press, lasts till there occurs a
naval or military setback.
think this kind Of journalism troubles
the sane Englishman more than the war. IL
shames him 10 read these imperial vaunts
while the blood Of republican France Is stain
ing the hills Of Verdun. And they are not
incentives 10 victory, for the decay OF the
imperial idea in Germany has long beeh con
sidered n. one of the means OF ending the
war What We are going TO create after the
war can wait; there are things that need at
tention at the present time, II we only mar
rowed our vision to attend to them, "hlcn
cannot wait We need earnestly to put our
house in order so that those who return from
the war will not find England in exactly the
same condition as when they left 1t. We do
not want an anarchist element from the held
to meet one at home. There is no excuse for
not commencing social reform, for just now
all that is undesirable and socially unhealthy
stands out in lurid relief. In fact, In all the
belligerent countries the war has well silteu
the wheat from the tares. T. hIN1.
Stratton, ~ Cornwall, England. June ls'
1916.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
More Light on the North Sea Battle.

The later and more detailed report pub
lished by the German Admiralty adds but
little Of Importance to what we had al
ready been told of the naval engagement
of Nav 81. On a number of points 1t is
at variance with the official and unofficial
versions from England, and 1t cannot
easily be reconciled with some of the more
speculative attempts to reconstruct the
battle; in the main, however, it is con-
sistent with the original outline, except IN
50 far as it embodies the subsequent ad-
missions regarding the fate Of the Lut-
zow. the Elbing and .he Rostock.
As the navalS correspondent of the
"Schlesische Zetung" explained some
weeks ago. the military reason" for de
nying these losses was disposed of when
"some survivors of the Elbing were taken
to Holland by Dutch fishing boats and
"wreckage on the North Sea revealed to
other neutral seamcn the fate of the two
other vessels; but since the sea has given
m no more of its secrets further contes-
sions were hardly to be looked for on this
occasion. For the rest, IT is still main
tanned that Several officers in German
.hips observed that battleship of the
Oueen Elizabeth class blew up under con-
ditions similar to that of the Queen
Mary"
The vague reference in the first report
to "an enterprise directed northward" /;
now explained as implying a cruise under
taken "for the purpose, as on earlier D.
casions. of offering battle to the British
feet A common assumption outside or
Germany has been that the purpose was
either to attack Archangel and Kola or to
release some fast commerce destroyers to
repeat the exploits of the Emden and the
Move. Admiral Hautefeuille, Of the
French navy. was quite satisfied that the
Germans had both ends in view, believing
that the Wicsbaden and Elbing were The
cruisers intended for raiding purposes in
the Atlantic and Pacific. There Is reason
to believe. however. that the Germans
rave come 10 lne COilVluSioi ''A' ''"'N
ures Of this kind are too risky and do NOT
pay. In that case the German eXplan1-
tion is more probable, only we must as
sumo that a partial engagement was wha.
they hoped for.
Admiral Penrose FitzGerald has given
it as his opinion that the enterprise IN
question was in fact trap to catch the
battle-crusers. He attributes a great
deal to the work of German spies IN
England, and presumes that the Germans
counted on the British taking dangerous
risks in the endeavor to cut off their re-
treat; the only reason why they were not
more successful was. as he believes, that
the British proved superior in gunnery
and in the handling OF their ships. How
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
New York a Convention City.

Rv the time the annual convention II
the National Education Association getS
into full swing there will be at least oo'T
COO teachers. school and college ofhcialS'
state and Federal officials and other edu-
Gators and persons interested IN educa-
t;onal matters gathered in this city. New
York will endeavor to make them wei
come and through a committee on ar
rangements will proffer hospitality But
so far as the individual New Yorker Is
concerned, unless he sees few badges IN
tho subway or at the theatre, he Will
scarcely know that this great city houses
ono Of the largest conventions in the
world.
This NAV or may not be an advantage
Delegates to the convention Of Women $
Climbs. which met here recently. were
sadly put out because they didn't have the
entire front page of the newspapers and
ether attentions which, they said, they
would have received in some smaller com
munitv. Nevertheless, they appreciated
the advantages of the hotels, cluDS' inca
tres and stores here, the transit facilities
and the nearby resorts. And more and
more New York's unparalleled facilities
for caring for convention delegates are
teing recognized. Greater New York
the official organ of the Merchants AsSo-
citation. declares that this year the me-
tropoHs "for the first time in its history
has distanced Chicago as a convention
city
That is a good thing for New York. 1t
means business for the city. 1t is also a
good thing for the convention delegates
With all modesty be it said that nowhere
in this country can they have at their dis
posal better accommodations in all things
which 20 to make a visit pleasant They
can transact their business easily, and II
they don't enjoy their spare moments its
their own fault, whether they have At
Museum or Coney Island tastes.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Regarding the latest Red Cross stir,
while believe the intentions OF all suoscrlo-
ing are above reproach, still ! cannot help
but feel that this sort of thing is reflection
upon rs all. Isn't il a fact that no one should
ask for charity except when he is incapable
of caring for or supporting himself? Does
not the organization Of such society iead
those abroad 10 believe that this government
is remss in it's duty to care FOR those VINO
give their all to preserve the ideallsm for
which our flag stands? Doesn't it only show
that this government, like all others, is
purely commercial and perfectly willing to-
take advantage OF the we'll known sentiment
ever existing in the hearts Of the American
public for those in need Of assistance in or
der 10 economic?
Why should any one he in need who is
really and truly fulfilling the highest obliga-
ton to his country and his flag or why should
any one who is depending on him be in Iced?
Why should any condition be permitted 10 ex-
ist or be possible that would demand public
appeal to charity of any kind, care not
whether il be for bandages for the wounded,
medicine for the sick or food for the hungry
children or adults in this great and wealthy
land OF unlimited resources? If the govern
ment faithfully fulfilled the sacred obligation
which it has taken upon itself At the expense
of its citizens there would be no need for prl-
yate effort II does seem 10 me that such
government is very penurous IN pocket as
we'll as in mind when it is willing to take
advantage Of the aforesaid in order that
when adding up the sum total OF the cmer-
gency it will show to their (assumed) cum
nngly economic minds, but not to those VINO
think, a saving on the financial end regardIeSs
Of the cost in human life and suffering.
ROBERT P. WHELAN.
Jersey City y. j.. June 30. 1916
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
The President as Peacemaker.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: | don't know whether you would be
interested in inserting the following extract
from a letter addressed TO me by the head
master of one of the large and well known
schools in England. If you decide to give
publicity to this | think it would be just as
well to limit the signature 20 the initials:
Il am interested to hear what you say
about public opinion in America. Speaking
for myself, | find it extremely difficult 20 un-
derstand Wilson's diplomacy. Sometimes he
seems TO speak quite clearly, and one feels
that he is at last going to do something, and
then one finds he does nothing, and later on
comes a speech which seems 10 unsay all that
ne has said before. am afraid that his
speech about ten days ago to the League Of
Peace created a very unfavorabe impression
here. and his statement that America was not
concerned with the causes which led up TO
the war betrayed such an unstatesmanlike
and incomprehensibe state Of mind that the
rest Of his constructive policy, outlined in his
speech. made very little impression upon peo-
Pile II seems TO me to have been one OF the
most unfortunate speeches that he could have
possibly made, but | am glad TO think that I,
cannot possibly reflect the general opinion
among the American people allude 20 the
opening part. The constructive policy is
good But | do not think that people ere
would care to lntrust 10 him their interests
in any peace negotiations F.SYr
New York. June 30. 1915 ES
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
Our Mobilization.

,rrom tn, Phtiad>phia Ercnir0 L'd9rr)
rrronean observers will probably be at a
loss to understand the process Of mobiliza-
ton through which this country has just
nossed. The events Of the first week OF their
wars were all dependent upon speed in mobili-
zation. and the blame for the war is frequent
l., laid on the country which modified first
and fastest.
That is because in Europe mobilization
means what it means: making an army mobile
susceptible of immediate shifting to the point
Of necessity In this country II means call
ing out the framework of an army and plac-
ING il in training camps with such recruiting
as comes to it in the process. The army OF
the United States, which was really capable
Of mobilization. has been for some time in
and near Mexico. The National Guard needed
to be recruited 10 a peace footing before II
could entrain for concentration points, and
these points are thousands Of miles away
from the danger. Furthermore, mobilization
applies TO transport, commlssary and sup
plies.
What our European observers will still not
understand is why the National Guard was not
complete, why provisions had not been made
10 face an emergency which was really in
evitable England will understand this be
fore France and Germany, because England,
TOO went through such a crisis, as i'll pre-
pared for it as we are. That was two
wears ago, and the lesson Of England, which
hardly has been learned there, has not crossed
the Atlantic. Il is said that experience is a
hard school, but fools learn in no other.
That is scarcely true Experience is hard
school, but fools do not learn in it. Wise
men alone are capable of prohting by their
eNpprience
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
New York's Honesty.

New York is now an honest place. We
know this because the police have seized
and melted 100000 false weight scales, and
this week will make bonfire Of the 100000
false measures that have recently been con-
fscated This shows that the government
is bent on honesty and that the food dealers
have not the wherewithal TO be dishonest
until the crooked manufacturers can supply
the market with 100000 new false weights
and 100000 new false measures. The great
burden of this false weight and measure
graft falls upon the very poor. They buy
IT, small quantities. weighed and measured
in bits, and already paid for at an excessive
price because of the smalness Of the quaint
ty The New York police aver that the poor
pay from five 70 ten times the ton price for
coal and from two TO five times the bushel
and the pound price for food. The moral is.
Why be poor7
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03

the sins Of commission Of which Mexico has
been guilty against us.
Somehow new and rational relations
must be established between us and the
Mexicans. 1t may be necessary at TINS
time TO draw the sword. although the peo'
pie of the United States will never be con-
vinced that the desired results could not
have been obtained by intelligent clplo-
matte Intervention. "Do you think that 1t
is our duty to carry self-defence to the
point Of dictation in the affairs Of another
neople9" Mr.. Wilson asked the other night
at the New York Press Club dinner An
extraordinary question from PreSident
who has been interfering in Mexican al
fairs ever since he has been in office Inc
country has never disapproved the policy
" Intervening. Intervention of some sort
was absolutely indispensable. 1t does
deeply regret the pitiful results oi Mr'
Wilson'S intermittent and mischicvous IN
,ervention. which has now united all Mex
ican factions in an implacable hatred OF
the United States.
The country will go TO war, II IT mas 10
do 40. with a heavy heart, because 1t feeis
that the right sort of diplomatic inter
vention would undoubtedly have secured
vha, we we're entitled to ask and would
vet have left large element OF the Mex
can people our debtors and friends
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
Patriot or Paranoiac =?

Though Roger Easement is evidently
resolved to carry his appeal even to the
House of Lords, if necessary, he must feel
little uneasy at the recent activities of
some of his well-wshers. They are him.
ing at possibilities that might indeed save
his life. but would surely rob him of all
show of heroism and spoil his fair hope Of
martyrdom.
More than two or three Of his kind
friends have been whispering and tapping
their foreheads, and at least one infuen-
tial journal confesses that his project
according to our British processes of rea-
soning, might well seem to point to a DIS
ordered brain" What a prodigious dis
appointment were his enterprise TO lead
nowhere but to a ward in Broadmoor
Yet he would not be the first hero spoiled
by miscalcuation of time and place
"Thus. one man choosing a proper junct
ure. leaps into a gulph, from thence pro
ceeds hero. and is called the saver Of
his country; another achieves the same en-
terprise, but, unluckily timing it, has lef
the brand of madness fixed as a reproaci
upon his memory; upon so nice dlstlnc
tion are we taught to repeat the name o
Curtius with reverence and love, that ,
Empidocles with hatred and contempt
Hatred he might escape, but the best n
oo,, hone for. If his amable friends hav
their way. is pity and lodging at the pu9
lie expense during his majesty's pleasure
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
Bryant Park improvements.
To the Editor OF The Trlbune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Having had occasion 20 pass throw
Bryant Park almost daily for thirty yea"
have been greatly distressed a. times 70 Z"
the neglect of this previously oyer-iHnl'
park. During the past year there has 's'-
marked improvement in the foliage '"'
berry and grass plots. The PARK mas
looked better since the tree butcaery o.
mer years, and the public is 20 be eo's''
lated on having some one able 10 give
telligent attention to this little beauty =
in the centre of busy New YORK ] a'
know just who should have the cre''.
this improvement, but If 10 belong
Commissioner Ward he should nave . h..
preston of appreciation occasiona"!
citizens who take pride IN our parA' '''
appreciate good public service. ,,.. N
A park in the midst OF a cry ~ .
York is not only a breathing spot !"
children and for older people "n' 81.
obliged 10 stay here during the 10.
mer months, but is also little su,P'",l
our visitors who come 70 Us from al p -
the world II is satisfaction TO nv, =
under the present city adminisus,., y
have many other civic improvement, ..,,.5
special attention is called 20 this par"
park improvement .....r,
BRYANT Park would be addiuo"s.il =
proved if the Health Department W. 80
that sanitary drinking fountain "e'. s5'
therein. Our smaller parks are ne.,, ,ss s
common resort for the derelieis 0i sIs ~
and great sanitary precautions mus :, -
for obvious reasons. partieulary, y,,rgR,I i
drinking fountains. A. b. nv
New York Julv 1915
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03

ever that may be. there is but little con
ISOLATION for the Germans in the latest of'i-
cial report. Their feet did inflict great
damage, but it was at a cost they could
i'll afford, and it Is manifest TO all now
that the original claim Of great victory
was wholly unjustifcd.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03

You can purchase merchandise advertised IN
THE TRIBUNE with absolute safety-ior
if dissatisfaction results in any ca.e Iht
TRIBI Ne guarantees to pay your money back
upon request. No red tape, no 0uibbling We
make good promptly il the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03

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