New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-22

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the truth without varnish. That is
Another thing is that continued Ger
man brutalities and barbarities to-
ward the Allies wounded and prison
ers, and toward the civil population
Of the occupied districts of France and
Belgium are putting very stark, grim
temper into the British, French and
Russian armies. You know well what
happens when the more good humored
and indulgent temperaments, If pro-
voked long enough, rise without
word, but also without ruth, to bruise
a bully.
Throughout the English speaking
world this is universally understood
bu. il has been quite useless to try to
explain it to the Germans. They per-
sist in thinking that frightfulness in
timidates and quells, whereas it only
hardens and exasperates their oppo'
nents. With inexplicable faulty the
enemy still clings to the CHASTITY pre-
conceived pedantries of the German
War Book without any attention to tho
change of circumstances, or any ration
al and balanced consideration Of what
the consequences must be.
Finally, there was the murder OF
Captain Fryatt. 1t touched England
on the maritime side like the sinking
OF the Lusitania, and on the mora
side like the fate Of Edith Cavell. This
II. ba "
either of the others. 1t filled up the
cup.
There is always in England a strain
of sentimental idealism on which Ger
many, by a more clever and plausible
policy, might have worked TO the deer
prejudice Of British national interests
Blu; the enemy has eliminated for Us
what we thought at the beginning
tional danger.
Fryatt's Death Last Straw.
The murder of Captain Fryatt ex-
tinguishcd the last faint lingering pos
sibility of a weak peace. In that re-
spect n curious thing has happened
France, which longed for a speedy end
a year ago, is preparing as a matter OF
course for a third winter campaign
and another years fighting.
Britain has simply put aside all
speculation about the duration of the
war. Our people from top to bottom
are determined now to make q clean
thing. There is no more talk of
"clenching teeth" or Setting jaws" or
of anything like that. There is no
further need of such conscious ex-
preston. The mood | describe is en-
tirely noiseless and automatic. To
bring home to the German mind any
sense of what that means would be
impossible.
That is why say that the killing
has only begun, and that the final
stage of the war will be by far the
bloodiest. 1t will last for nine months
or twelve or little more until the
Central Empires go under.
We know then what the Allies will
do. What will the Germans do? II
Is nonsense TO suppose that they are
yet at the point. when they can at
tempt nothing big; and, but for the
blind side that goes with their ability
they might yet be dangerous. Let us
examine their possibilities. However
they look at it, their problem is such
as they never for a single moment con-
templated until two years of war had
nearly run their course.
The enemy can no longer have the
least hope of wearing out France, OF
eliminating Italy, of restraining Ru-
mania or preventing England and Rus
STA from piling strength on strength
Add 10 this the prospect for Austria
Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey. II the
Germans were a free people able "a
examine into the truth of the present
position and TO decide upon it they
might we'll think il wiser to cede.
But the German people are not and
never have been effectively free. They
do not know and they never have
known. Many of them are still ignorant
of the fact that the Battle of the
Marne ever took place. just as the ma
jority of them imagine-snd how car
they help it-that the Battle OF Jutland
was some sort of a naval victory.
Germans a Penguin People.
In these respects they are turned By
their rulers into a penguin people
They will take another shape in the
end. but for a long while 10 come they
will be unable to help themselves
They will do what is directed from
above" All we have to consider is
what is the state Of mind on the part
of those who direct from above"
We need rot cred.t the Kaiser and
his camarilla with any supermansnip
in respect Of clearness OF vision and
fertility of resource. They are able
men and no more. They have marked
limitations. They are capable OF blum
ders. and from beginning to end have
made blunders, stupendous IN magni-
tude, and prodigious errors OF cslcuia-
ton, about Britain. France, Russia
Italy. Belgium, Serbia, everything
Still, they are able men WIN IA. q mag "a.
nificent national machine at their dh-