The Washington herald., 1917-02-15
New Yorr rimes,

new York Times.
The pacifists insist that they represent
the great majority Of the American peo-
pie. IL that be true, then .. calamity
worse tnan all the horrors of war hai
areaay befaiien MS We should have te
iook upon ourselves as "a land where
wealth. accumulates and men decay" as y
land whence the many virtues had fed
where the courage Of the people had been
sspeed and their fiber softened. We have
neen warned that we are becoming enenn'
mate. That was a slur and a slandei
upon women. There are millions oi
homes In this country within which live
women still capable Of Indignation at q
puonc wrong and with the courage to &c
noble part in redressing 1t. From the
doors OF those homes no woman has evei
gone torth to preach the doctrine OF non
resistance, to declaim against the defense
OF our just rights or against preparation
Tor IT, And there are millions of Ameri'
can men who would give the last ful
measure OF service to the country TO de-
uVer II from the appalling fate invoked
Tor 1t by the propagandists Of peace with
oishonor. The pacifists belle and caium-
niete american manhood and womanhoot
IN tneir counsels of abject cowardice ano
submission, they speak for themselves
themselves alone. not for the nation
Were 1t otherwise, no devastation of wal
could reduce US 10 a condition worse than
that IN which We should already be living
New York Evening Post.
Again and again, since February /, dis
patches from Berlin have given the SOL
emn assurance that nothing could change
the determination of the German gov
ernment to press on with its unlimited
submarine warfare. The reason given
was that nothing could happen which
the German authorities had not fully
weighed In advance. All possible conse-
quences had been foreseen. Provi-
dent in everything. serene, unshakable,
II would proceed without varying or
shadow OF turning straight to the goal
which IT had set for itself
Well, how do the events OF the past
few days square with this theory of a
superhuman German government? Rattle,
badly. ~ But the chief proof that the
German government has not. after all
the supernatural power of seeing the end
from the beginning. is furnished by the
advances which IL has just made, through
the Swiss Minister at Washington, ask
ing President Wilson to reopen the sub.
marine discussion. .. What happened
was that the President took up her over
lures and pointed out what In them wai
inadrnissiole. he could do no less. He
did no more.
In this matter there is no doubt thai
American opinion sides with the Presi-
dent, but at the same time Americans are
justified in believing that this latest steI
of the German government argues a dis.
position to try to come to terms with
the United States. -. 1t indicates, say
what Berlin may, a hesitation about
carrying out the German threats in al
their literal brutality. The Kaiser is. in
reality, guided to some extent by public
opinion in Germany. There is evidence
that this was worked up in favor of going
to the limit in the use of submarines
But if that policy shall presently appeal
to be substantially a failure, and a mis-.
take in provoking neutrals, German pub.
lie opinion may soon be organized in the
direction of change of policy. In that
event, of course. We should be told that
this, too, had been accurately foreseer
by the all-judging Joves of the German
government! They foresaw that they
could not foresee