New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Sir Thomas White, Finance
Minister, Rejects peace
Without Victory"
NOT TOO PROUD TO
FIGHT, SAYS DR.. EATON
Dominion Men at Banquet
Here Jeer Mention of
Kaiser'S Birthday

SIR Thomas White, Canadian Min
;s,cr Of Finance, delivered last night
:, the Canadian Club dinner. in the
uotel Biltmore. what his listeners be
loved was Canada's answer to Presi~
dent wilson's address before the Sers
,,e Peace was impossible, he de-
e,ared. while ideals were in conflict.
The Introductory speech of the Rev.
Charles A. Eaton, pastor of the Msdi-
con Avenue Baptist Church, who was
postmaster, lent color to the diners
view Of the Canadian Minister'S ad-
dress. He brought Sir Thomas White
"a his feet hard upon reference 10
ensace without victory" and ito proud
10 fight
- ~ the Kaiser's birthday showed
hat al least 400 Canadians were IN no
friendly mood.
"Only True Americans"
eve Canadians" said DR.. Eaton, ARE
tho true Americans to-day because VIC
are not too proud to fight. We do not
believe that Germany and Belgium are
fghting for the same object. we see
no virtue IN peace without victory q,
There has been talk o. peace, salo
Sir Thomas White. but there can be no
durable peace while the ideals remain
AZ war. Let Germany establish demo-
cratic government and she Will have no
diFculty in making peace.
&c We consented to peace before
firmly establishing the ideal OF world
pesce for which we are contendlng, our
heroic dead would ask Us from their
Graves for what they had been called
upon TO die. -.
"Tbe real issue is whether the spirit
which perpetrated the Belgian atrocl-
tics slaughtered the Armenians, devas-
tated Poland. Serbia, Montenegro and
Pumania. which executed Edith Cayeli
and CAPTAIN Fryatt, which sank the Luz
sitsnis and sent to their death hun
dre6s of innocent women and helpless
babes and eXulted in the murder
whether that spirit shall rule the world;
not II the British Empire can prevent
it, IT, '''
Will See II Through
"Thc nation Of Cromwell, Of Chat
ham. Of Pitt. the nation of Nelson and
Wellington will see it through TO the
very end. Never has its spirit been
more indomitable or its people more
united. This is not the first time that
Great Britain. against despotlc ambl-
ion. has made Roadway for the free
dom of Europe and the safety OF clviii-
1ation.
@What else can Britain gain in the
war; What had the world TO fear from
Britain before the war? What has the
world 10 fear from Britain after the
.v. ffrhfipn a eouOner a
durable peace for ourselves and the
world. and for no other purposeH
Canada, said the speaker, from Its
100000 poulation, had raised and
eouipped an army of 100000, three
fourths OF which il h2G sent from 5000
TO 5000 miles to MAINTAIN It's ideals
by force Of arms.
Like a Great Crusade
No such sailings." he said, ever
left the shores of America as those
which took our soldier sons overseas.
There has been nothing like it since
the DAYS of the Crusades-iJ is IN real
ity crusade
Rodolphe LemieuX, a French-Cana-
dian and former Postmaster General of
Canada. declared that he was like the
British grumbler. who saw nothing
good at home, but when he was abroad
proclaimed the virtues of his land
Then he proceeded to prove 1t by sd-
hitting that at home he frequently
failed to "scc eye to eye" with the
Minister Of Finance and quoting Pitt
10 make clear his views on peace.
The world" said LemieuX, "wlll
echo to-day the words Of Pitt: 1 see no
possibility at this moment of conclud-
ing such a peace as would justify that
liberal intercourse which is the essence
Of real amlty. As a lover oil
peace / will not sacrifice II by grasp
ing at the shadow when the reality is
rot substantially within my reach.
Why, then, do / refuse peace? Because
i deceptive, because u is perllous,
because 1t cannot exist"
Darwin 2. Kinsley, vice-president of
tic New York Life Insurance Company,
oppressed the "fervent hope" that the
future would sec an Anglo-Saxon feder-
oion which would make war between
Great Britain and the United States as
stmoto as between New York and Mas
achusetts.
False Pride Opposes
THE force that stands to-day against
iederation Of the Anglo-SaXOn world,
ac declared, els the same false pride
mat controlled George clinton Whcn ne
ought Alexander Hamilton all through
,he summer Of l7SS and so nearly kept
tuis state out of the Union. BY the mar
lowest of margins Hamilton won; but
hc won because his logic had in it the
iCrce Of Thor's hammer. because his
rccch had in il a divine eloquencc.
IN this struggle between the SOW
,olgEties Of Europe there is a logic
more compelling than Hamilton's; 1t
beats upon us with the power Of thun-
lcrbolts. 1t says TO the Anglo-SaXon
rOrld.
"'Federatc! Federste and neutralize
he evil wrought by King George III
Ha his ministers. Federate, because
YOU are all democratic, and frontiers
uc the enemy OF democracy. federatc,
because the dogma Of sovereignty must
over again be permitted to cruelty hu-
nanity. Federatc, because that way lies
rcace.'
Let the swelling millions Of our
.ommon race pray for a greater Wash
gton and a greater Hamilton and n
-rcater Pitt, Earl of Chatham: and
hen they appear. as they must if the
Anglo-SaXon ideal is 10 survive, let Us
put aside our false pride and follow