New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-09
U.S.. AND GERMAN
UNION COMPARED
Peer Contrasts Systems
Built Cd on Army and
(2) on Peoples VIII.

London, April S.-Lord Newton VINO
as Paymaster General occupies a place
in the government only single step
below Cabinet rank, expressed 70 The
Tribune correspondent TO-DAY his views
on the German Imperial Chancellor
recent speech in the Reichstag. Lord
Newton said:
"The failure of the German oitensiF
al Nerdun, the testimony winch the
increasing hardships suffered by Ter
mans bear 10 the ever-tlghtenlnG press
ure Of the Allies blockade, the incIeas-
ING German sense OF isolation from
those even who originally were mos.
ready TO admire Germany, but VINO
now turn from the practices OF het
military caste IN horror, German iOle
bodings as to the staying powers OF
her allies, the casualty lists ana lhe
never-ending stream OF wounded
what would all this lead intelligent Cd
servers 10 expect!
Surely. il needed no prophet 10 an
ticipate an optimistic pronouncemenI
from a high quarter spread through
and outside the German Empire by an
the resources Of Germany publicity
people ana reassure her friends else
where am not going into details OF
the Chancellor iacI.e description OF
the military situation. His respect for
neutral rights or for any rights a. al!
has been shown in the last two or three
weeks weeks which have seen the
sinking Of the TuDantla. the sussex
and the hospital ship Portugal and the
manning Of nOn-cOmbatant5 ln arr
raids pronounced on the testimony OF
neutral spondcnts 10 be devoid OF
military purpose or result.
"The Chancellor's artlfce is very
simple. lie probes the guilty con-
science of his nation, and at the recoi-
lection Of each vicious act he assumes
a Numerically opposite virtue. Yet
note the Inconsistencies starving Ger
man people victims of brutal Allied
navies, but totally unaffected by the
blockade. as The experience Of l9l5-i6
proves to all cool heads. Belgium neu-
tralIzed that Is, freed from all inter
national entanglements, freed from
Anglo French vassalage,' and promot-
cd by her Prusslan neighDor 10 col
laboration to mutual advantage.
Has Germany learned nothing from
her experience of countries flInging
bdNh vi Hfi AdSc LiAt biOIfAtu noENs VI
dlshonOr?
"Prussisn militarism is receiving
every day a shock, and it grows per
petually more unloyeiy as doubts begin
20 dawn on the PrussIan mind Of uitI-
mate success. There - none Of the
chivalry Of the South in your Civ.
" ar. recognizing the deadly nature OF
LlncOln's blockade or OF tarragut sea
power, but lighting with honor and
with honorable methods 10 the last.
"lhe Imperial Chancellor, too, in
vokes the spirit Of German union, but
what a different union and how differ
ent its inception from that OF the
United Statcsl The rrussian's empire
is founded upon an army which Is used
alike TO crush small countries like Dem
mark and within its frontiers TO stiAc
German liberty.
The contrast is suggestive. u is
the best commentary i know on Ger
man action and on German professions.
ttterances like this of Won Bethmann-
Holiweg. full as they are of banied
venom and mendacious allusion. can be
left in perfect confidence 10 the Judg-
ment of any man who has schOOIcd
himself In the uttcrances Of Lincoln
and who is familiar with the true
union, the possibilities of which Lin
coin so richly grasped"