New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-18

e,ress" is at least as barbarous as
and is far more aggressive than the
Turkey of Sultan Abdul Hamld. In
the hands Of Germany 1t has ceased
even in appearance to be bulwark
of peace and is openly used as an
instrument of conquest
Under German officers Turkish
soldiers are now fighting In lands
from which they had long been e1-
pelled, and a Turkish government
controlled, subsidized and supported
by Germany has been guilty of mas
sacres in Armenia and Syria more
horrible than any recorded In the
history even of those unhappy coun-
tries.
Evidently the interests OF peace
and the claims of nationality alike
require that Turkish rule over alien
races shall if possible be brought TO
an end, and we may hope that the
expulsion Of Turkey from Europe
will contribute as much to the cause
of peace as the restoration OF Alsace-
Lorraine to France, or Italia IRE
denta to Italy, or any Of the terri
torial changes indicated in the Allied
note.
Map Change NOT Enough
Evidently. however. such territorial
arrangements, though they may
diminish the occasions Of war, pro
vide no sufficient security against
its recurrence. If Germany, or
rather those in Germany who mould
It's opinions and control its destinies,
again set out 10 domineer the world,
they may find that by the new order
OF things the adventure Is made more
difficult, but hardly that it is made
impossible.
They may still have ready TO their
hand a political system organized
through and through on a military
basis; they may still accumulate
vast stores of military equipment;
they may still persist in their meth
DDS of attack, so that their more
pacific neighbors will be struck down
before they can prepare themselves
for defence. If so, Europe, when the
war is over, will be far poorer IN
men, in money and in mutual good
will than il was when the war began,
but it will not be safer, and the
hopes for the future of the orld
entertained by the President will be
as far as ever from fulflment.
There are those who think that for
this disease international treaties
and international laws may provide
sufficient cure. But such persons
have i'll learned the lessons so clearly
taught by recent history. While other
nations, notably the United States of
America and Britain, were striving by
treaties of arbitration to make sure
that no chance quarrel should mar the
peace they desired TO make perpetual,
Germany stood sloof.
War Was German Ideal
Her historians and philosophers
preached the splendors of war; power
was proclaimed as the true end of
the state; and the general staff
forged with untiring industry the
weapons by which at the appointed
moment power might be achieved.
These facts proved clearly enough
that treaty arrangements for main
tanning peace were not likely 70 find
much favor at Berlin; they did not
prove that such treaties once made
would be utterly Intellectual. This
became evident only when war had
broken out; though the sought dem
onstration, when IL came, was over
whelming.
So long as Germany remains the
Germany which, without a shadow
Of justification, overran and barbar>
ously III treated country il was
pledged TO defend, no state can re-
gard its rights as secure IL they have
no better protection than a solemn
treaty.
The case is made worse By the re-
lection that these methods OF csleu-
lated brutality were designed by the
Central Powers not merely TO crush
to the dust those with whom they
we're at war. but to intimidate those
with whom they were still at peace.
Belgium was not only a victim: il
was an example.
U-Boat a Weapon of Terror
Neutrsls were intended 10 note
the outrages which accompanied its
conquest, the reign Of terror which
followed on its occupation, the de-
portstion Of portion OF its populs.