New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-07
OUR ATTITUDE AS SEEN IN ENGLAND
British Observer Who Believes That the Future with the On'e ~
At rnWh We
Has Been Altered by Recent renA

dosarting Denmark in 1864 and France 1,
1870 the first at the instance Of the pro.
German Queen Victoria, the second at The
instance OF the great pacifsts, Gladstone and
Bright Both assertions were crimes again,i
humanity. and we know IL now. But Ia
roint is that our fathers knew it THEN and
sinned against the light. is not that WA,
the United States is doing to-day?
at is true, of course, that war is COZ.
t,nuatjon OF policy SO Clausenitz says, and
so all Germans have been taught. Sine.
their policy of absorbing the Balkan State,
and the Turkish Empire for the future o.
Germanism could only be accomplished By
var. wa- had 10 come. Tho only question
was the exact moment when possible oppoa.
epts would be at their weakest and the Ger.
mans AT their strongest. That moment can.
in August, 1914, with the crops safely bar.
vested. England distracted with the Irish
question. France torn in two by the villsny
Of Caillaux and his more wicked wife, Russia
on the verge of a universal strike. No ons
in England denies the right of the German
race TO expand its limits, by war If necessary.
any more than we deny the right Of the Al.
lies to stop her doing so at their expense,
That is not the trouble, nor would a war On
those lines necessarily call for any interes,
in the United States. But this war set aside
all humanity and all possibilities Of recon.
Citation.
"Can YOU not, then. realize how q comfort.
inc word from the United States goyemmen,
would help to shorten the war, even by 4,
influence on the already shaken German PEG.
nleq Both Pope and President seem to labor
under a vain idea that one or the other may
he asked to mediate. No mediation Is OF
will be possible
"Tbcre was an article in The New York
Tribune on August g. | think, on the feeling
we have against Germany. Every word Is
true. The blood of the crucihed Canadians
AZ Ynres and of the bayonetted South AIN.
can wounded in the Delville Wood is between
Germany and Great Britain forever. W.
only wish the United States would see Il ID
the same way and--SGy so.
81 am one of those who believe that The
future is with the United States. But she
must find herself Does she not to-day re.
semble the steamer on her first voyage
which Kipling describes, settling down in
agony as her plates and engines are squeezed
end pushed into their working positions'
"To find herself she needs an apostle, pos.
siblv a great war-something TO sweep aside
the rubbish which dominates her politics.
Another Lincoln might be necessary TO save
the people and to impart direction and
soul.
81 hope that that war will not be wag.i
against Great Britain and her allies. II !,
certain to be in defence of the Monroe Doe
trine. which cannot stand by mere talk, and
il NAV be that the Huns, who are now for.
mally expelled from Africa, may cast eyes
on that great unexplored territory Of Brazil,
probably the richest UNEMPLOYED country IA
the world. 1t is certain that to-day no Euro.
pean power would hinder her activities il
| that direction, state of affairs for which
cur American cousins may thank their psel.
fists"