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New-York tribune., 1917-06-17

Many quotations are found from "Th,
Chicago Daily News" end The Chicaeo
Tribune" The whole is an extensive com.
pendium of American opinion such as re.
ioices the Teuton mind, and the Chinese
reader must be persuaded before long
that Germany is not admired and loved
anywhere quite as much as she is in the
United States.
Gilbert Reid, who has been jailed for his
pains. had in an April number an article
on Americas Attitude to the War"
The Rev. Gilbert Reid, a person Of no
mean attainments, is known in New York,
where he gave addresses on Peace"
long before the World War. He is an
American missionary to China and was a
director of the international Institute Of
China. On June he was arrested for
seditiously libelling President Wilson, af.
ter being warned by the American Ambas.
sador that he would come into conflict with
the law if he continued to edit newspaper
supported by German funds. His active
work was editing THE Peking Post"
though "The War" also claimed his pen.
Bernard Shaw is a weekly reliance, while
the European correspondence Of "The Chi.
cago Daily News" forms the news service
OF this remarkable Oriental organ.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-17

the defeat, one after the other, of the two
leaders of the Liberal party. 1t is a CO.
incidence that at that time, as now, Dato
succeeded Don Manuel Garcia Prieto, Mar
quis of Alhucemas, who was unable to
save the Liberal Cabinet, abandoned by
Don Alvaro Figuero Torres, Count of
Romanones.
Dato was in power when the war broke
out in Europe. He was the first to pro-
claim Spanish neutrality, and while his
government was considered pro-German
and some members of the Cabinet had un-
mistakable sympathies for Germany, his
policy was strictly neutral and he resisted
Teutonic influence, which tempted him
with big rewards for Spain in the form
of territory and increase of power if he
only threatened France with an attack
on the southern frontier He succeeded
in managing Spanish affairs fairly well.
Whether he will meet with the same
success at the present time remains to be
seen. The Spanish situation is too COM
plcated ana 1ar more ulllIculI Chai IL was
a year ago. Besides the internal troubles,
the economic and labor questions and the
unrest caused by the high cost of living,
the international situation is becoming
acute. The agitation in favor of entering
the war on the Allies side is increasing
very much. Prominent and proud Span
iards think that unless Spain adopts
strong policy at once she may place her
self in the same position as Greece. Re-
Gently, discussing Spanish neutrality, Ale
iandro Lerroux, one Of the most progress
sive leaders, and strongly pro-Ally in his
sentiments, said that in his opinion Dato
was the only man who would place Spain
resolutely on the side of the Entente
Powers.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-17

Great Britain-the largest single trade union
n the country, with a membership Of over
million men, and while the leaders Of other
powerful unions find their orders fouted, as
! has been the case in recent strikes, the min
crs will do to the full what their president
/ bids them.
His power will grow. Already he has
achieved in the labor world the sign mark
Cf popularity and respect-he has ceased to
Re "Mr. Robert" Smllie, and has become
Bob" Smillie 10 a million men.
who's Who sums him up in four lines,
merely recording his official labor position
and the fact that he lives at Larkhall, in
Scotland There is no list of achievements to
mis- name, and if he were asked his tavorite
recreation he would certainly reply that he
had never had any time for anything but
work.
He was mining in Lanarkshire as lad
forty years ago, and has lived all his lie IN
Scotland. In 1886 he was appointed secre-
.ary to one of the branches OF the Scottish
Miners Union, and became its president IN
1894, passing on TO the presidency of the
larger body in 1912. In the first year of his
Scottish presidency he organized strike
of Scottish miners that lasted for six weeks,
and although only vice-president OF the
Miners Federation at the time Of the great
coal strike in 1911-12, he was the real leader.
While the lesser leaders talked indiscreetly
he was silent; while they wavered he was
frm. He kept his own COUNSEL; he organ
ized, and beat Mr. Asquith.
His failures in life have been his defeats
as Parliamentary candidate under the ban
ners of the Independent Labor party. Of
,hese there have been seven, ranging from
1904 to 1910. To-day ne could enter Parlla-
gaent without difficulty.
His speeches have not been numerous, but
always concise. He has his facts clear and
oard, and sometimes seems to be carried
away by cold passion when speaking OF the
right Of the workers to fuller enjoyment
Of the results of their labor.
Physically he is the popular picture of
dour Scot. sandy-haired, with shaggy eye
brows that are drawn down when he IS
angry. At that sign of wrath at meeting
you may be prepared for a sinister, cynical
speech, beating down opposition
No picture of his physical exterior, how
ever. gives much idea of the inner being oil
he man. and as such Smillie remains some
thing of a mystery.
Harsh in some of his public doings, he is
genuinely moved almost TO tears by the SUI
ferincs of women and children when their
ren folk are on strike, underpaid, or out OF
work. and in private he is most genial
and kindly man, albeit always on the sur
face the cynic.
But everywhere and at all times those who
meet him feel an immense force of charac-
ter a pent-up driving power.
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The financial interests which have loaded
themselves with British and other foreign
war obligations are beside themselves with
delight over the prospect that the American
people can now be induced to assume a great
part of the debt of these European bankrupts
And from "The Milwaukee Free Press"
it quotes at great length sentiments Of
which this is a sample:
Not one OF the neutral states in Europe
and South America approached by President
Wilson with view to securing their diplo-
matte breach with Germany has declared its
intention of following the American move.
On the contrary the foremost neutral powers
Of Europe and America have already taken
pains to advise this country that they con-
slider break with Germany undesirable and
uncalled for on their part.
In the columns of The New York Even
ing Mail" this outpost German vehicle
finds yards of comforting assurances,
laudations of the German army as demo
cratic institution" 1t is only fair to say
that, while issues Of "The War" at hand
are dated as recently as the middle of
April, some Of the American newspaper
editorial matter which it is quoting may
have been published here before our dec
laration of war, though not all of it was
certainlv
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Robert Snillie

EXX7HY not do what the Russian peo-
w pie have done" This interroga-
tion occurred in England and produced a
mild sensation.
Why? Because the man who uttered that
phrase commands the fullest confidence
and devotion Of a million industrial work
ers, who could, if they would, paralyze
the national mechanism Of the British
Kingdom at his order. His name is Robert
Smillie. He is the president Of the Miners
Federation Of Great Britain. To more
than million men his word is law, and
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Eduardo u. Iradier

EDUARDO DATO IRADIER, the new
II Premier of Spain, is the recognized
leader of the moderate faction of the Con-
servative party. He is native OF Co.
runna, siXty-one years old, and one of the
most prominent lawyers in Spain. In that
capacity he was best known until about
ten years ago, although he had been elect
ed to Parliament to represent some of the
provinces.
He came into prominence as a states
man and politician at the time of the ex-
ccution of Ferrer, the noted anarchist and
reformer Don Antonio Maura, the Pre-
mier at that time, was the author of the
execution, which was the elimination Of
Q policy Of persecution, reaction and ultra
conservative tendencies. Although Maura
was the head of the Conservative party,
his policy was not approved by a good
many members of his own party, who be-
lieved it opposed to modern ideas and was
injurious to the progress of Spain. Dato
was placed at the head Of the opposition
and repudiated the policy that ultimately
caused Maura's downfall-in fact, his poll
tical death.
Since that time the Conservative party
has been split and the majority of its men,
bers have followed Dato's leadership. In
that capacity he was called by King Alfonso
to organize a Cabinet in 1918, following
New-York tribune., 1917-06-17

DROM out of China issues a strident
r Teutonic voice, or rather an echo,
which repeats the soothing phrases
of American periodicals of pro-German
leanings, when it is not garbling the words
of American pacifsts and critics and MAX
ing all do service in the Orient as German
propaganda. -
This voice is "The War;" daily news
paper, published in Shanghai in the Eng
lish language. The recent arrest in CHINA
of Gilbert Reid, the American associate
editor, for uttering libels against the
United States gives this Shanghai organ
additional interest. China is now in the
throes of internal dissension, fostered in
part by German intrigue among the Chi
nese reactionaries.
Thus, curiously, our own familiar news
papers Of a not too patriotic stripe are
made to do triple service, once at home,
once in Germany, where quotations from
them are eagerly read by the enemy for
comfort, and once in China, where, thus
remotely, they stimulate the Teutonlc
cause. Observe the indicated tone Of the
article in the adjoining illustration.
"The War" quotes with great gusto arti-
cles from "The Chicago Examiner" of this
sentiment:
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his influence is steadily growing over the
entire labor class Of his country.
"The London Daily Mail" writes Of him
as follows:
The importance Of Mr. Smillies utterances
''es in the character Of the man himself lie
is the most powerful labor leader in the
United Kingdom to-day. Other men have the
shadow Of power the ability to pass resolu-
tons and 20 issue orders through trade
Unions. Mr.. Sml!ie has the substance. lie
can command the devotion Of his followers.
He Is trusted. His word IL Law. In their
opinion he has never lod them astray. He is
us president Of the MinerE' Federation Of
New-York tribune., 1917-06-17
"Name Unknown"

OMEWHERE in France Too delicate he thought as though m'
y
in before that azed
Yet, onea Engands
and the
English sky He wondered he wondered how
Sinks IN the hea ana stays He! Then other
there, Unknown him, public places
Part of the spirit marveIousy fair
In London nstrees,f of and boys
And
With friends nights Of
thoughtful
Al Chrtm when filed
o'e M ~" the
l0uc"ins 20 sou ~ ~ with bundles munchns
F0'''
' Dc " ~ 'e' "N inc
By daylight the running With @ a b ia sndorand its
Z
All this back-in binding i"e "eO'"''ue' '' ~
~ Across which q far faint bell was
calling
said - ~ ~ 0 ' Andla amp it, and dusk "as
nidnight falling
wind wacr toward the hmt
thcu SO light left the grain unronoed ~
one
OF But spread abroad ire i"
sweetened "
DUSK
Forum
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Elihu Root

ELIHU ROOT, one of the outstanding
IL figures Of contemporary American
history, has arrived in Petrograd on a mis-
sion of democracy 10 New Russia. The
choice by President Wilson of so noted a
conservative on such an errand to pro
visional government made up Of Work
mems and Soldiers delegates is made less
remarkable by knowledge Of his distin-
gushed achievements as a diplomat.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-17
Alexander Kerensky
Bv ISAAC +. MARCOSSON

Mr.. Marcosson, the lgeII-kno,0n Ameri-
can journalist, acas among the first to
reach Petrograd after the outbreak Of the
revolution There he met II. Kere''sky,
zone Of the men lCho made the revolution"
and the man Who has noC been appointed
Minister of Var, and ,orote the fOllOloing
sketch of him for "The London Daily
Mail"
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ndemnities" policy. This policy was for
mulated by the Council Of Workmen and
Soldiers, Of which Tscheidze is president.
"The Daily Chronicle" writer proceeds as
follows:
NJ Tschedze, in appearance, is our owr
John Burns in duodecimo. He challenges
the whole world by the carriage of his
head. He squares up to mankind, in genera.
He wears the same full mustache and
clipped beard as the old Lion Of Tower Hill.
And he affects a double-breasted, blue serge
coat. turn-down collar and bow tie.
Nature has done badly by him in the matter
Of inches, but his soul is as pugilistic as
you could wish He is rather Jewish in
features, with an almost disconcerting di-
rectness Of eye. His eyelids tend to draw
back while he is devouring you with his stare.
All his movements are quick and vigorous.
and so also is his speech. There were times
in our conversation when | thought he would
never stop. While we talked together in one
of the apartments of his worSmans fiat in
the next room his very beautiful daughter,
who had opened the door to me, sang an old
Russian love song, picking at the strings Of
a balalaika. 1t was an odd experience, COM
ing out of a sleigh and a snowstorm, to hear
NJ Tscheidze discussing the most modern
economic theories to a subdued obbligato o.
that eternal desire of the heart for tender
ness which is like to survive all systems OF
government.
After courtesies this brisk little gentle
man, sitting sideways on an upright chair,
with both hands clasped on the back of it,
announced that while with all the will in the
world he would answer any question about
Russian Socialism which ! cared to put to
him, he would first of all be greatly obliged
if / would allow him to address a few ques-
tions TO me on a matter Of very first rate i'm
portance.
Some Important Questions
His questions did not at that time seem
TO me of very first rate Importance. | now
realize how important they were-nay, how
important they are still. Indeed, the future
OF our relations with democratic Russia may
turn upon the answers which Britain makes
by her policy to these questions Of ~.
Tscheidze.
Briefly his questions come to this: Is it
not true that the war has destroyed English
Liberalism? Is it not a fact that we have
New-York tribune., 1917-06-17

rgresbc incident not regards the war but raher only
regards the future relations between two great peoples who had
no cause to quarrel and whose historic mutual amiy h,
uselessy been interrupted.
The approaching debace OF our enemies Is written Ia
eyerv message that comes from their countries.
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The Approaching Debacle.

There is perhaps no suer sign oi 'ne Imminent 'u'
of the Enente.Powe than the mass OF scary Reuter-
reports re things German and The revival OF the aocy press
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w that persuaded
Mr. Anderson the b
Of varied
He rtyye DID, married
cQncerned discovery what commercially known me" bust
ness md
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not In position to be further taxed.
Country Richer; People Poorer.
Ground down by the high cost of
living which in recent months has
reached such alarming proportions
that an insistent demand has gone up
for a system Of food control to curb
manipulation of food supplies by Spec
ulators and thus effect proper food
distribution, the imposition of a direct
tax on articles of popular consump-
ton is bound to have serious conse-
quence and add to unrest and discon-
tent. But those who are pleading the
exemption of large incomes from a
substantial share Of taxation refuse to
admit the existence Of such condi-
tions. They completely overlook the
fact that while the country is getting
richer the people are growing poorer.
They compare wages paid labor today
with those paid in the past and glibly
assert that 1.-The American people were
nver In more favorable condition to
pay a reasonable amount of taxes for
war purposes" OF course, they ig-
more such trivial circumstances as
that the increase in wages has been
more than outdistanced by the in
crease in the cost of living.
We believe it was Amos Pinchot
who in statement recently gave a de-
tailed comparison between the in
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war finance literature in the shape of
this fatherly advice urging the nation
to let the rich down lightly.
Quality Of Patriotism.
There is one feature of Mr., Kuhn's
article that throws q very dubious
light on the quality of his patriotism
and indeed upon that Of his fellow
capitalists in general and that il tho
threat he makes to the effect that
should congress place 'unduly and
unnecessarily high rates" Of taxation
upon our millionaire capitalists the
latter would turn their backs upon
their native land and emigrate to
Canada where mo income tax exists"
This is surely an astounding declara-
ton from a supposedly pub1ic-spirited
financier while the country is ut war.
We do not. however. believe that
the temper of tho country is such at
the present time as to pay heed to Mr..
Kuhn's appeals or threats urging the
exemption Of tho rich from contribu-
ting very materially to tho cost Of the
war. The people are determined to
see to it that this war il justly finan-
ced and that means the wealthy
classes must part with an adequate
proportion Of their accumulated
wealth in direct propoytion to the sac
rifices Of the ordinary citizen.
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WEALTH MUST BEAR ITS JUST SHARE OF FINANCING THE Wal

poses than at the present time Your
committee has endeavored to distri-
butte equitably this additinal burden
OF taxation and so to levy the pro-
posed taxes as to necessitate as little
readjustment or disturbance to busi-
ness as possible"
There you have it! Business is not
to be disturbed, big corporations are
not to be hampered in their operations
by the imposition of heavy taxes.
And though in recent months incomes
of the very wealthy, both personal and
corporate, have been soaring skyward
at dizzy rate, yet it is intended that
the revenue tax shall reach out for a
small fraction of them, while it shall
take some thousand millions of dol
lars from the masses Of the people in
the shape of tax upon those things
which the ordinary man or woman or
family uses.
All this, of course, is highly pleas
ing to our capitalists whose idea Of
universal liability" in the conduct of
the war is to shift the burden Of pay
ing for it on to the shoulders of the
wage earning man in the street, while
very rich who can we'll afford to do
SO escape with a minimum of taxation
And this, also, in face Of the fact that
the ordinary people Of the country are
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WEALTH must ! j PAY:
WAR EXPENDITURE h
K|TCAII||lh||1|||EcLAREs
Says Tax Burdens of Poor Must
Not be Materially Increased
at Present.

WASHINGTON, Aug. Tax bur-
dens of the poor must not be mater
tally increased, declared Majority
Leader Kitchin, :, chairman Of the
house ways and means committee, in
raising the additional s., ,ooo. .0oo, 900
required to carry OIL the war until
July 1. 1918.
Ability to pay, should be the only
standard upon which. the tax should
be assessed, Kitchin will insist, and he
believes the taxes On necessaries al
ready contemplated place about as
large a burden on the poor man as
he can stand. The first and largest
advances, he argues should be made
therefore in normal income and ex-
cess profit taxes. r.:
If the tax bill now pending will
provide. sufficient funds to meet ex-
penses until some. time early next
year, as administration leaders say,
Kitchin believes congress should not
draft a new tax measure before the
next season. He .,ill confer on that
point with Secretary McAdoo, how
ever, before he takes: up the situation
formally with his c0r:mittee.
This is war for. democracy, we in
sist, and hence its expenses should he
met by a. democratic tax" Kitchin
said. THE only possible way to levy
a democratic tax Is : base 1t strictly
upon ability to pay.
Convinced that the changes made
in the revenue bill now before the
senate finance committee are in the
main unjust to all except the wealthy.
Democratic house leaders are prepar-
ing vigorous aeqs2n1t on the measure.
Meantime, however,, the senate COM
mittee will proceed with its revision
Of the measure along the lines it has
laid down, leavil-::: differences with the
house leaders to be. fought out in
conference. The committee" will meet
to consider increasing the bills total
to at least s1.943,000,0Oo. and prob
ably somewhat nearer 100000, 900.
with any furthe: bond authorization
omitted.
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comes Of ordinary people and the cost
of living between the years 1900 and
1914. He found that during that time
the wages, salaries and earnings of
small people had gone up about -
per cent, while on the other hand the
cost of living, figured out in food, fuel,
clothing, rent and household utensils,
had gone up in the same years about
40 per cent The sharp upward turn
which the cost of commodities has
taken since 1914, when the European
war began, does not enter into thie
but it gives added emphasis to it.
Campaign Dangerous.
The campaign undertaken by our
financiers and capitalists generally to
force the public to pay for the war
while they themselves reap profit
from it, is, as may be expected, a pow
erful and influential: one and more
dangerous than any foreign propagan-
da. Every attempt to obtain liberal
income and profit taxes from them
arouses a storm Of protest and every
conceivable bogy that can impress
congress and the public with the al
legged danger which threatens the ma
ton should big business and big in
comes be adequately. taxed is trotted
out and exaggerated ten-fold: s,szs'..,
Even the recent proposal of con-
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gress to levy the extremely reasonable
tax Of Is per cent on extra profits
caused unwonted commotion in cap
italistic quarters and yet we know that
the rich in Great Britain consented
without any outcry TO give so per
cent of all extra profits to the state:
A tax on excess profits in any shape
or form or substantial increase in
the income tax which would guaran-
tee the wealthy paying a just share Of
the cost of the war is looked upon by
that small class in these United States
g per cent, statistics show, owns IS
per cent of the Wealth. as an en-
croachment Of the "doctrineA Il So
cialism."
Otto H. Kuhn, member of the
firm Of financiers. Kuhn, Loeb & Co.,
is one Of those who are very solicitous
lest the rich" be "discriminated"
against as regards war taxation. and
while he is, generally speaking, more
liberal in his views as to the extent
war taxation of the rich should take
than are other rich men, still his ar
guments reflect the usual trend of the
capitalistic mind.
Blames Paciiists.
In 4 brochure entitled Some Com
ments on War Taxation" Mr.. Kuhn
airs his views on the subject and pro-
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(By RICHARD HAZELTON)

Those who originally believed that
! ihe wealthy classes would cheerful1y
assume the great portion of the finan-
Nal burden of the present war are
I I'w ready to admit that, judging
: 'Hlom various recent developments,
{ 'kiey were badly fooled. From the
4 Tart rich bankers, capitalists, manu-
: lecturers and so forth, have been
! ,rerlastingly on guard to see to it that
I; h1 unduly heavy tax be levied. against
! Hem in the shape of large income and
] esrofit taxes, and their numerous
!, ,Epokesmen in congress and out of it
seemingly have gotten in good work
thus far. Congress, apparently, has
. fallen for their line Of bunk about
= "penalizing wealth." "dislocating
business, etc. and so taxation as
usual" seems to have become the logi-
cpl corollary of the slogan business
as usual as witness the following ex-
cfrpt from the house committees re-
plort on the revenue bill on Monday,
May 9, which says:
( Business Not Disturbed
"Your committee believes that the
american people were never In d, more
Favorable condition to pay 4 reason
i'aole amount of taxes for war purposes
in addition to those for normal pur-