New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29

Fortunate it is that Great Britain is COM
PEELED to cast her sword into the balance
without further loss Of time.
1.-THE issue is now joined Either German
autocracy must be crushed or European
democracy will be obliterated. There is no
middle course. II the forces that the Kali
ser has loosed are victorious the map Of
European republicansm may as we'll be
rolled up and the American people prepare
to make the last great stand for democracy.
All Of Continental Europe that is not Rus
sianzed will be Prussanized. France will
be reduced TO the status of a third-rate
power Belgium, Holland and Denmark will
fall successfully into the NAV of German
imperialism. Italy will become a vassa!
state, the sun will have set upon the British
Empire as well, and the mailed fist of the
conqueror will make ready TO strike the
final blow at democracy in the New World.
"The course of the German government
during the last week cannot be reconciled
with any theory of political sanity. Wan
tonly and deliberately the Kaiser has plung j
his sword into the heart of civilization. The
"lplt "OllN 10 paying the ptidlNs VI iLlo
madness, neutrals as we'll as belligerert5.
Upon the American people alone, 5000 miles
from the scene of conflict, is levied a tribute
of millions Of dollars day in disorganizel
commerce, dsorganized industry and diso--
gained finance, and the final reckoning that
must be paid for this maniacal onslaught Of
German autocracy defes calculation. The
e .
the inevitable consequences of this supreme
achievement of paranoia.
at IS still possible to sympathize with the
German people in the great tragedy that
has ovortaken them, with their backs to tAe
wall fighting a more powerful coalition than
ever Napoleon faced. But there can be only
one answer to the Ksiser's challenge to Eu-
rope. German autocracy has made itself
the enemy of mankind It's destruction will
be the emancipation of the German people
themselves as we'll as the salvation of Eu-
ropean republicanism.'
1.-The New York Call" on July %, 1914,
said
:" Fortunately war is now-thanks
TO the spread of the socialist movement in
a
aces the lives Of millions of the working
class, but also the rule of their bloodttirsty
and conscienceless masters. We are
now due for thousands of apparently learned
but mystifying announcements informing
US that the assassination of the Austrian
, Archduke has precipitated this crisis. And
though assassination changes nothing it
is regarded as the immediate cause of the
necessary wholesale assassination of mill
ions. That the racial animosites of Slav
and Teuton are irresistible and boodletting
is imperative. Capitalism, of course, de
plores' racial hatreds, but it is always ready
to profit by them, and will fan them into
fame for that purpose.
Capitalism of necessity mixes up every
thing with falsehood chicanery and misrep-
resentation, but these 100000 armed men
in the European countries, and those vas,
fighting fleets. are no myth. They are kept
in being for grim, stern and undeniable
purpose.
"There are, perhaps, besides the aforesaid
! 20, 100000, some hundred million European
dumdrudges TO draw upon for the hecatomb,