New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-06
a REPLY TO THE WOMANS PEACE PARTY
The Plea of Those Weary Answered by Woman Who behe'
in War When It Is Waged for the Right

manfullv 10 do their duty, Wnen' III Nne'i
earnestness 10 rid the world o. curse Iney
have stepped on our toes. They are dolng our
work for democrscy-the work we dld brave
" In 177s and l89S-fghting Tor me ioea!'
for which we once stood-and no" We o,
panize peace societies 20 Illustrate ana hul,
I,fy their magnificent efforts 20 rio the wotIo
Of the greatest menace 20 the rights OF 'he
individual man and the individual weaker No
ton the world has ever known. Other nSu
dog, NAV break zoos. IN the not distant
ru,nro after .his war has ended; what will
he our fate then " we now seek 70 render
vain the sacrifice OF those other two great
democracies. England and France? what
.vor ,bev NAV have been in past centuries,
thew are like US now. shopkeepers, preferring
arbitration TO military strife. Since IN an
alliance with them lie our own best pros
pects for the triumph of peace and humanity
shall We NEEDLE with them now IN their
stern efforts 20 ertirpate pest
After all. the very worst penalty the Allies
yearn 70 inhict on the nations aligned
against them is to change them to democra-
cies much after Liebknecht's heart Tempo
rarv rulers have no time 20 work out the
nischievous schemes OF Calais-to-B agdad-
world dominion. Such n fate ought not 70
seem very terrible TO Switzerland or to US
Why do not you immediate pacihsts work for
that end, through propaganda among the
German people? You might proftaoiy ex-
tend your efforts also 70 Russia and Japan.
When all the world Is governed by Presl-
dents, we shall have great evils. as we know
here in America, but at least the dream OF
world dominion By any one nation Will be
silenced forever, and that will be big step
toward disarmament and peace.
No. the efforts Of you immediate pacifists
are vicious and misdirected. All Europe Is
sick. yes! Your next door neighbor lies des-
peratey i'll with pneumonia. You say 70
Yourself. 81 will go in and stop this nonsense
Precious life is being lost. The sorrow OF the
family is terrible" SO you go in and throw
the doctors medicine out Of the window, ana
YOU say: '"This is all nonsense. We can't let
il last anv longer Come on out doors and
take a walk. You've Been sick long enough.
Now be well at once We wish it. We are
disturbed by such suffering" You drag the
man out somehow. and stop the sickness right
enough-but without your meddling the man,
now dead. would have had a fighting chance
to pull through to further life and useful
ness. The analogy, Of course, fatters your
present efforts, which have no more chance
of success than your famous sympathizer's
stupid slogan: "We1 have the boys out Of
the trenches by Christmas"
The Message Of Patriotism
/. You are just as wrong as regards the
domestic question of military training IN our
schools, especially here in New York City.
We are a seething cauldron Of all nations
and, in many instances, the fathers of the
present race of schoolboys fed here in the
search for liberty they could not find IN
the monarches of Europe In this genera
ton liberty has too often degenerated to
license. as you would know if you came in
contact with their sons in our free and easy
educational system Many of them, un-
trained. would be the anarchists of the next
decade. They need to be taught self-control
and respect for authority; TO have their
brstling conceit and individualism curbed
and rightly directed; to have inculcated in
them the doctrine that the real question in
life is not "What do get?" but "What can l
give?" especially in patriotism to ones coun-
try for benefits received-most of our young
STEERS without military training are going 70
miss these lessons forever. II is only the
exceptional boys otherwise trained who make
as good citizens physically, mentally and
morally as do the boys who are trained in
our best military schools. And your organ
ization blithely seeks to tear down this hope
for the betterment of the citizenship of our
state!
Teach peace ideals, yesl Work for them
fit rcely, yesl but not with that petty pro-
vincialism which sets aside all sanity and
realization OF present world conditions with
a smiling, War is wrong. Therefore we will
that war shall cease"
You immediate pacfsts would have stopped
the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the
war to free Cuba when the work was half
done-because the sight of blood was I'M
pleasant and it was intolerable that men
should die even for noble cause. You i'm
mediate paciists live on the surface, are OPP
portunists who brush away grave national
peris as really too unpleasant TO materialize.
If you could triumph, you would heap up woe
for yourselves and for US who are humbly
glad that We belong to what Mr.. James NJ.
Beck has recently designated the minority
party in America. HARRIET GAYLORD.
New York, Nov. 25, 1915.