New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-02
Its "QuaCk NOStrumS'
Operate Toward Bar
barity, He Writes
CALLS MOVE MADE
BY u. S. RIDICULOUS
Germany'S DupeS Seen in
Body Encouraged by
MiIitariStS

"Quaek nostrums' advocated by the
League TO Enforce Peace or other
paeihst apostles Of feeble folly are,
in the opinion Of Theodore Roosevelt
not only useless. but immoral They
sre encouraged by the most unscrupu-
lous militarists In Europe, he declares,
constituting nothing less than move
against International morality, against
the national honor of the United States.
The League to Enforce Peace, the
Colonel asserts. is really operating in
the interest Of international barbarity.
Colonel Rooseyelts attack upon the
league IS made in an article in
the February metropolitan Maya
zine," out to-day. In this ar
ticle the warning is sounded that any
move for enforced arbitration. If made
or even couuteuanced by the United
States. will not only prove futile in It's
purpose to prevent war. but will bring
ridiculc and disaster upon this govern
mont
Anxious to End War
Germany is obviously anxious TO
end ;hc war so long as it can be ended
10 her advantage writes Colonel
Roosevelt. land 10 seems likely that
with this end boo view she will encour-
age and praise her dupes on this side
or the water in the movement for
league 90 enforce peace. England
seems likely 20 lake the same position
perhaps from similar reasons. none
likely for reasons Of home politics. tv
placate or fool the English pacihsts.'
Colonel Roosevelt article says ln
Part:
Germany mas just perpe-rated new
and dreadful offence against that moral
Jaw which should govern nations even
wncu they are az war with one another.
She has doported thousands OF civilian
non-combatanfs mon and women. from
Trance and tens or thousands from
Belgium and announces that she will
dcport hundrods Of thousands more.
Germany act is one Of nfamy. and
the act of any uaton or set OF men or
individual man who fails TO protest as
strongly as poss bic against IL or whose
conduct tends 10 distract attention
from 10 is iu the interest of the wrong
doer and is itself Infamous. The agl-
tation OF the League TO Enforce Peace
~ this time is therefore a move against
international morality, against our own
national honor and vital interest and
In the real interest OF international
harbsrity,
Agitation Called Futile
From the standpoint Of interna-
,iouai peace this agitation has been
utterly futile. All the pscihst agita-
ton Of the last thirty years has been
proved completely worthless as soon as
the first serious test came. These apos-
ties Of feeble folly have been shown by
the event to have failed 10 meet IN even
the smallest degree any OF the evils
for which they glibly proclaimed they
had found infaihble patent remedies.
And now. when their failure has beer
so ignominious that they are not even
objects of ridicule In Europe, they
come forward here. with piping voices,
to offer vet one more quack nosTum
for international wrong.
The proposals OF this league vary
somewhat from time 20 time; but IN .
their essence they are that nations /
shall arbitrate all questions, and that .
they shall all agree TO enforce the
DEGREES of the arbitral court by war. .
Dealing with the present, not the .
future. this means that We would have
o submit the question as 10 whether
We WOULD admit Asiatic immigrants 70
our shores, or whether Mexico should
b. taken possession Of and made
orderly by some European power, or
whether Japan should be allowed TO
lake possession OF Magdslens Bay, or
whether tho Monroe Doctrine should
ne abolished 10 an srbitral tribunal
ON which Chinese and Turkish judges
might deliver tho casting votes. IL
sl.o means that II in some quarrel
Of doubtful quality such tribunal
decided in favor Of Siam against
France. or Persia against Russia, we
should be obliged. under penalty Of
breakn1 faith, 70 devote our whole
military and economic strength 20 a \
lorg drawn and bloody war for cause
in which our people had no concern
and Of which they had no knowledge,
and in some place where we could
bardlv exert even q tiny fraction OF
our strength, and that only at enor-
nous expense.
Washington Fears Berlin
"The most unserupulous militsrists
sbraad heartily-and naturally-en-
courage pacifst movements IN this
ronptTv. PacihSm in this country 10
ths strongest aid and encouragement