New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-24

from all blame as when she destined hall
million to the orphans Of Granados, tho
musician. Germany is to-day our only
friend. Our best doctors. chemists. archi-
tccts, all got their science from her.
"Therc have always been great nations
which have exercised their hegemony over
the globe. That Of England has been dis
astrous and must end. Then will stand face
to face the two largest nations-Germsny
and the United States. The latter is a race
Of traders the former. of philosophers and
scientists In the United States they wor-
ship the Pork King; in Germany they are
building universities and laboratories. The
United States stole Cuba, Porto Rico and
the Philippines from US; Germany, ever
though she took the Caroline Islands, paid
US q good price for them. The United States
declared a war on US; Germany has always
made protests of friendship. All we Span
iards should therefore desire the German
triumph and work for it in every possible
way.
Let Spain Be Guided by Germany
"Thc Ally sympathizers here are merely a
few bohemian painters who have never been
further from Spain than Montmartre, and
consider it the end of all earth. Such ideas
are Anticipated. The standard bearers Of
civilization are not French painters. To &C
complish anything in life it is necessary to
coordinate the intellectual faculties, and that
is something which neither we Spaniards nor
the French painters have yet learned to do
But Spain, if only she were guided By Ger
many, could learn to do it and could re-
cover some of her former splendor
1T is the duty of our government to lead
its people along the road Of truth. IL IS
also its duty to verify, if it can: our state
ment that the war will end this year, and,
having done so, to attack with all its might
any word Of Ally propaganda which might
be in the slightest degree objectionable to
Germany. Thus would it obey the will o.
the governed
The puerlity of this twsddle shows the
low class of intellect to which it is directed
and the utter lack of high-mindedness in its
appeal; the constant reminder of self-inter-
est, with no mention of personal convictions,
shows that no Spaniard wrote it, He would
have known the psychology of his race bet
ter besides, there is the infrequent word
"camarada.' As TO the half million pesetas
magnanimousy destined" to the Granados
orphans (even though Germany had been
absolved of the wanton drowning OF the
PARENTS, if the sum ever reached it's desti-
nation it was paid so quietly that no one
ever heard Of it. To do such an act deli
cately and untrumpeted is not Germany's
way.
As an example Of the insults to the rep
resentatiyes of the nation which is riding
the steed of Victory" may be cited the visit
of the distinguished French philosopher
Bergson to Madrid in the spring of 1916
He spoke at the Ateneo to a wildly enthusi
astic audience. Although no mention of the
war was made, every man and woman shout
ed "Vive Ia France!"-shouted themselves
hoarse. when the conference ended. And
that night, at banquet given the visitor in
the Ritz, the same demonstration was re-
peated. The German Ambassador, 70 whom
the news was Quickly conveyed. declared the
ovation TO have been distinctly unneutral
and refused to attend tn. opening of the
Cortes, to take place two days later unless
suitable apology had been sent by the Span
ish government
Noted German Agent
The above paragraphs from the Germano-
phile press are picked out at random from
hundreds of the same sort And in the re-
mote districts of CASTLE no other war lit
crature is received. Hardly E. member of
the clergy, urban or rural, has ever resd
word OF news except that furnished by "El
Debate" a pro-clerical sheet moribund at
the outbreak OF the war and quickly re-
suscitated by Germans. Its chief contribu-
tor is one Armando Guerra, formerly writer
of venomous anti-French editorials for the
"A. b. c." until that daily, constantly pro-
testing its neutrality, was forced by the
clamor of its outraged readers and adver-
Users to dismiss him. Then he went TO the
Debate" more bitter than ever. When the
United States showed signs of tardily enter
ing the war Don Armando gave the "atheis-
tic French" respite, and began TO assure
his readers that Germany had nothing %
fear in the entry OF this new enemy--the
United States would send only negro troops;
indeed, 10 rid herself of her black popula-
ton had been her main reason fer joining
the fray--and the German army would soon
dispose of them.
Apropos Of the use Of colored troops on
the battle front, an apparently educated
Spaniard was recently overheard telling his
train companions, between the French border
and BQrgos, that England had put plenty os
men in the field, but they were all genie dc
color; as yet hardly a drop of English blood
has been spilled" And the war was then
nearly three years old! Perhaps the speaker
had read this very statement in The De-
bate"
One meets with stray wisp Of comfort,
though, even in far-off places. Out in the
interior of the island of Mallorca, stopping
to rest one day on a long tramp, a courte-
Gus blacksmith, whose shop stood near the
road, came out with armchairs. "You are
English, perceive" he said as he offered
them; "and tell me how the war goes"
mot English, senor-Yankees, but English
in sympathies, and unwilling to talk war
with you, for you in the country districts
are all pro-German."
without word he turned into his forge
and came back presently with an armful OF
pamphlets. all pro-Ally propaganda. From
the pile he selected two, thrust them before
us, and asked, solemnly: Gould any one