New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-11
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The lucid, vigorous, Justly denuncia-
tory leaders on Prussian "terribleness,
Junker "frightfuness," America side
tracked" and kindred subjects in The Trib-
une are commended to all who would IN
derstand the importance OF q graphic and
faithful exposition Of the appalling events in
the Eastern Hemisphere. They should read,
those who would comprehend the structure
to be built in world permitted to relapse
into contented recognition Of conditions des-
tined to establish the barbaric splendor OF
the decadent era in Roman institutions. Not
withstanding forty years Of Prussian intrigue
and military preparedness, the retrogressive
tendency has been checked forever by the
hastily and incompletely prepared armies o!
the great French Republic defeating the
numerically greater hosts Of the German En-
pire in the mightiest decisive combat in
recorded history in the Valley of the Marine.
The deity of civilization has chosen France
as the modern embodiment Of the soul of
democracy and the socialism of Christianity,
to become the standard bearer and organizer
of the crusade for the regeneration of the
world. France has been appointed to estab-
lish conditions to weld the rrefragable truth,
TO make impossible for all time the subjec-
tion of a civilized state to the humiliation OF
vassalage The death knel to autocratic In
QUESTION was sounded on the Marne and vi
brated to the uttermost recesses of the earth
the proclamation that new freedom to
emancipate humanity from the thraldom of
4 Al. d-
of the Parliament of the World are to con
tain, reverently inscribed and universally
acknowledged, these Words "Do unto others
as you would have others do unto you
Those native Americans who have given
careful thought to the subject are practically
in accord that the time has not yet arrived
for any of the powers engaged in the great
conflict, or the neutral nations, to invite con-
siderstion of terms on which to base dec
laration for an armistice Peace at this
period would not assure the results that
should follow the suspension or the actual
termination of hostiites.
Had instruction been, among the Teutons,
liberal and truly democratic by promulga-
ton of humane principles in respect to the
right of man Individually and collectively,
the practices of the Prussian government re.
corded in that governments own documents
would have been impossible. The dangers
and weakness in modern times from speciali-
zation of the few have been observed in the
results of the fanatcal practices Of the pow
erful arbitrary former administrator in Rus
STA, the late NJ. Pobiedonostsev, onetime chief
procurator of the Holy Synod. Such excess
of zeal, it is possible, considered in the mill
tary sense, had not yet been attained in
Prussia by the North German dctators, but
the spirit of the evil nevertheless was rap
idly tending 70 a similar goal. All attempts
TO direct educational development to theo-
logic military control are now to be rele-
gated forever to the centuries that have
passed. Political power Of the future is not
to be based on mechanical efficiency Of spe-
cialists, limited to the few and developed
along lines Of martial-religious fanaticism or
militarism. The destructive agency result
ing from over-specialzation and from ignor-
ing the Divine principle Of equality and JUS
tce in political development in the regenera-
ton of the world is to end in the German
Empire. The Teutons will be reborn and