New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-16

SLAMS. with whom they are now fighting out
family row.
II would be very gratifying to me II Eng
land who thinks the English should never be
criticised, and Germany, who thinks Germans
are holy, were fighting this out with eacn
other without the assistance Of allied ma
tions. England, who has dominated so mucn
Of the world with her nayalism, and Ger
many, who wishes TO dominate so much OF ~
with her mlitarism each OF them shows
much the same spirit; each Of them IS 2
Teutonc tribe that has by strength ana
phlegm and stold resistance and selt-loye
and accident with great eating and staying
powcrs, become an empire. The bnghsn, ne
ing not all Saxon, but little mixed with
other strains, have acquired surface veneer
of manner so that they know IT IS not good
policy TO indulge in atrocities when hghting
white nations. The Prussian tribe mas not
learned that. But the essential underlying
spirit is very much the same.
The objectionable sin is TO critcisc Eng
land. The objectionable sin is 10 criticlse
Germany.
Nv own ancestry is part English, part Ger
man and part Irish But my people have
been in this country a long time. am an
American But all Americans arc Europeans
inclines them to certain sympathies when the
nations Of Europe fight. Personally, wish
70 sec Germany defeated in this war. She
has acted with bad faith and with brutality
and she menaces liberty. do not wish 10 sec
her crushed. In spite Of its dreadful egotsm
there is much good in the German character
an element that the world needs But TIC
n.ople have been misled by their rulers
They should be whipped and allowed to re-
organize about more liberal idea. Inc Ger
mans can learn. and will learn.
doubt whether the English arc as teach
able as the Germans They are not so great
menace 70 civilization in their egotism But
tbev should be led 10 see that their lmps'
thence Of any critcism-their impatence OF
any plain truth told to them-proceeds from
the large Saxon, the large German, strain IN
their blood; that IL proceeds from the less
civilized portion of them. They should un-
derstand that they are no more immune tnan
Americans. French. Belgisns, Russians, ital-
ians. Irish, Scsndinavisns, from criticism.
Il is especially distasteful to an American
70 hear Englishmen in this country at the
nresent time call Americans cowardly, "nen
America is harborng these same tngllshmen'
The seas are open to Allied ships; Englisn-
men who feel hot have clear passsgeway
TO the front Germans can't get there.
Americans have been misled by a weak
leader into playing a part that must appear
disgraceful In all patience they have neard
that part so characterized by their puolcists
who are patriotic They allow themselves 20
he criticised and acknowledge that as nation
thev deserve the criticism, Ihey crltlclse
themselves in an effort to reform themselves
And. criticsng themselves, they claim the
right TO speak the truth to and about All ma
tionalitics So far the English and the Ger
rons arc the only two nations who have
shown that they cannot bear criticism cannot
listen to truth.
These Teutonic tribes are all pretty mucn
alike. The world should thank God for its
Col.ic and Latin leaven. POLLARD.
Rrooklyn. n. Y, May IA, 1916.