New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-17
Pacifsts Grow
Bolder in Attack
On Government
Bull" and War" Spread
Propaganda That People
Want Early Peace

Pacifst literature is growing in bold
ness and abundance. As the snti-wsr
agitation is spreading through the
country, the peace societies, with the
added financial support which comes
from incYeased memberships, are al
most daily sugmenting their propa-
ganda. The idea that the United States
is conducting an unjust war a. the
"vassal' of England and that the people
want IAN early peace" is being carried
to every spot reached by the mails.
Under the guise of attacking Great
Britain for pulling Uncle Sans leg,
the American Truth Society, headed by
jeremiah A. OLeary, has issued the
September number Of Bull The
thirty-two pages of the magazine,
which is addressed 70 10000 readers"
are replete with attacks on the govern
ment's war preparations At the Of
flee of the society, 20 Firth avenue
yesterday, II was said its propaganda
was not racifst-"hut merely anti
| British"
The first page is decorated with a
colored cartoon called "A View Up
Fifth Avenue" II shows the avenue
obscured by a British flag. Another
cartoon represents Colonel Roosevelt
as standing on German-Amerieen'
watching his son, Kermit. kiss the
British flag and saying, 81 didn't raise
my boy to be an American"
Extracts From Bull
Here are typical excerpts from
"This Is your country-our country
Conditions in il are rotten 70 the core
The liberties of the people are no
longer safe, the Constitution is being
swept aside in a tendency toward i'm
perial absolutism, and our resources
are suuandersd with reckless abandon
or with lack Of scientific control.
There is a danger that Andrew Car
negie's dream of British American
Union NAV become hideous fact,
that our young Republic may become
the political partner of a bankrupt and
disintegrated British Empire.
Senator Harding, of Ohio, says we
can't force republic on Germany.
Dear Senator, Mr.. Wilson can do any
thing. Can't he force Congress to do
everything he wants?
"'Seerctary Lane says the United
States may lose the war.'-News Item.
If Mr. Lanes foresight we're as good
as his hindsight, the United States
would not now be suffering from some
body's oversight"
'Varderlip says aeros will win
Headline. Vanderlip, dear readers, -
one o; the Morgan gang. We are well
advised, dear people; bankers have now
turned into military experts"
Anti-Conscriptionist Active
The Collegiate litarism
League, which has members in thirty
five colleges and universities, yester-
day issued the August number OF
WAR;" which contains anti-war ar
ticles by Owen Cattcll and Charles r.
Phillips, the former Columbia Univer.
sity students who were convicted OF
obstructing the operation OF the draft
law, and by Eleanor w. Parker, who
was acquitted OF the same charge
Phillips in an article headed Con
scientious Objection" says:
az am conscientious director
Young man Of conseript age who VIII
refuse TO be drafted. | don't think /
have ever been 80 utterly opposed to
anything as | am to this war. | feel
that it is a futile, reckless murder,
and that no human interest is being
served. And neither God nor man can
fore, me TO forsake the cause OF inter
nationalism and fight in II.
81 believe in conscription-conscrlp-
ton of wealth, CONSUMPTION Of indus
try, CONSUMPTION Of men for social serv-
ice. But let there he no conscriptlon
where a mans conscience says No
II is impossible TO have conscriptlon
Of conscience without converting gov
crn n,nt into a tyranny"