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New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
One Stump Speech Too
Many
(From The Nc,u York Wor1d)

When Speaker Clark, in his speech at
Fort Wayne, appealed for the election of
Democratic Congress next November. he
did what he could to make party the fore
most issue of the campaign He did this
furthermore, in face of his own statement
that
In the House there has been little owl;
dence of partisan politics since the be-
ginning of the war. Democrats, Repuh
licans and Independents fraternize so
thoroughly on war measures that strangers
sitting IN the gallery find it difficult to
distinguish between them.
Having testified in this way to the har.
mony existing in the present House of
Representatives, in which the two great
parties are so evenly balanced as to offer
the greatest temptation to political manin-
ulation, Mr.. Clark seems to have given the
best possible refutation of his own aro,-
ment, but it is to be feared, nevertheless
that his challenge will be only too readily
accepted on both sides of the party line
In that case the distinguished Democrat
who points out the evils of dscord and
the vital Importance in war time of team
work can hardly escape responsibility for
promoting the one and endangering the
other.
ing the people of the United States is con-
cerned, it matters little what political label
member of Congress may wear if there
are no sinister streaks in his Americanism.
With Congress made up of dependable
men, party would count for no more in
Washington than it does when General
Pershlng's army is ordered into action in
france Except for few mischief makers
IN both houses, that is the situation TODAY.
and on no plea should it be disturbed nm.
less for betterment ~
Instead of asking the election of Demo
Gratis and Republicans as such, the onlv
rivalry between candidates should he in
devotion to the cause and the promise Of
helpfuIness in the national service.
Although Mr.. Clark has fttingIy recog
nized the value of -partisanship, his
programme is thoroughly and shockingly
partisan There ought not to be another
stump speech like his while the war is IN
progress.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Are We Going to Kill U-Boats i?

M. Leygues, French Minister of the
Marine, says the submarine campaign is
declining. In actual losses, that is clear.
But it is not so clear that the submarine
itself is being put out of business. In
this connection the delayed dispatch
from Berlin, giving Admiral von Ca
pelle's latest statement to the Rcichstag.
deserves attention. He said:
"Our naval offensive is stronger to-
day than at the beginning of unrestricted
submarine warfare. That gives us an
assured prospect of final success. The
submarine war is developing more and
more into Q struggle between U-boat
action and new construction of ships.
Thus far the monthly figures of destruc-
tion have continued to be several times
as large as those of new construction"
The German Naval Minister cites the
latest appeal to British shpyard work.
ers to speed up construction as especial
ly significant. For the present, he OBJ
serves, according to the latest state
ments, British shipbuilding fell from
$4,000 tons in March to $4,000 tons in
April" He also adverts to the failure
of the American programme. Then he
adds this:
"In addition to the snkings by the
U-boats, there is large decline in cargo
space owing to marine losses and to ships
becoming unserviceable. One of the best
known big British ship owners declared
at meeting of shipping men that the
losses Of the British merchant fleet
through marine accidents, owing to con-
ditons created by the war, were three
times as large as in peace"
All these facts are fairly we'll known.
Even it our construction reaches the high
totals which Mr.. Schwab now hopes for,
it will be fall before any considerable
number of steel ships can be launched,
and not until near the close of the year
will cur new tonnage begin to be any
thing like equal to the actual sinkings,
even at the present lowered rate.
Nor can this lowered mortality be
ascribed wholly to more effective meth
DDS against the submarine. 1t must. in
part at least, be due to an actual low
ering in available fodder" Moreover.
our whole attitude in this country seems
to be one of ,supposing that the German
submarine offensive is in its present
form static and final, and that if we
could only catch up to it the submarine
will be dead. 1t is queer notion.
Is there anything in four years of
German warfare to suggest that the Ger
mans have not been wellnigh tireless
and sleepless in the invention of new
methods, new devices, new and more
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
powerful weapons? Does the seventy
mile gun, for example, suggest this?

A'iS gun, 1oI example, Suggest lIliS
Now, what are we doing? Our in
formation is that the submarine de-
tector has been developed to a point
where the U-boats might be literally
put out of business if we had suffi-
clent number of boats equipped with
them. The Secretary of the Navy knows
whether or not this is fact. If it is q
tact, why are these boats not being built?
The navy has given orders for 100
small chasers to Henry Ford, and to
him alone Our information is that with
out disturbing any kind Of present naval
or ship construction, at least three times
this number of 200-foot chasers could
be built within the next twelve months,
equipped and put into action. What
lnvincible conservatism blocks the con-
struction Of these boats?
Secretary Daniels deserves well of the
country for much good work. We can
not believe that he will let go by per-
haps the most golden opportunity Amer
lea has yet had to make a great and de-
clslve contribution to this struggle.
Are we going to kill U-boats or feed
them?
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14

iron resources are something unknown
anywhere else in the world.
According to the figures given )at the
last international Geological Congress,
North America possessed more than six
times the estimated coal of all Europe,
and more than three-fourths Of this is
contained in the United States alone.
The potential coal reserves of Germany
are put at little over 400 billion tens,
those Of Great Britain at less than 200
billion tons, those Of the United States
at nearly 1000 billion tons and of North
America at more than 5000 billions.
Only one other continent is known to
possess very great wealth in coal.
That is Asia, whose estimated resources
are about one-fourth those Of North
America. By far the larger part lies
in China.
The estimated reserves of iron are al
most equally astonishing. While the
actually known deposits of North Amer
lea are only little more than those cf
Europe, yet the estimated potential re-
serves are more than three times as
great-that is, in something of the rea-
tion of 12 billion tons to 40 billions.
North America possesses more than half
the known iron of the world, and more
than four-ffths of the deposits as esti-
mated from present knowledge.
1t will be seen, therefore, that while
the basic wealth of Germany seems very
large as compared with that of other
European nations, it is small indeed
when it is placed beside that of the
United States, and still more so when it
is compared with that of the continent
of North America AS Mr.. Parker re-
marks:
"For some inscrutable reason Provi-
dence has given to America not only the
bulk of the worlds coal, but also the,
bulk of the worlds iron"
And all future developments will be
determined by these central facts The
industrial supremacy Of the United
States is already established beyond any
possibility of destruction. Aside from
our coal and iron we also have incom-
parable possessions of copper, and with
the vast electrical development insured
for the future it is clear that for the
next century at least our advance in
wealth and power will practically be
equal to that of all Europe combined.
The larger part of these tremendous
resources is already organized for use
in the present struggle. They need only
to be diverted to the immediate demands
of war. 1t is the plain business of the
United States to take over the major
part Of the war burden and to begin to
plan now to utilize it's vast wealth and
vast power toward the successful deter
mination of the war, no matter if the
struggle should continue another ten
years or even half century.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Editor Brisbane to the PEOPLE o,
Washington, D. c.:

Anarchy rules In Russia; somebody must
do something.
THE natural somebody is Germany. right
next door to Russia.
When the dust settles, this war is over
and part of the bitter hatred gone The
civilization of Western Europe NAV ba ver,,
grateful to Germany if the war finds Ger
many with enough strength left to under
take the policing and the maintaining of
order IN Russia-developing the resources
there and making few billions of rubles
IN the process. Washington Times"
July 6, 1917.
The most powerful and effective peace
worker IN this country is W. R. Hearst.
The world wants PEACE It is mora
important than victory" y."-"Wnsbinotoa
Ian1es," august s, 1917.
How many billions do we want to spend
how many men do we want to kill in order
to get not only the peace that would cot
isiy w. but the peace that would satisfy
England and the other Allies ?n-"Woeb-
angtom Times," August IL, 1917.
We have lent to the Allies twice as
much as the amount of our national dek+
before this war began-about two thousand
mllilons-and we are going soon to lend
them four more billions.
THUS, we lend to our allies. to holm
in the game of murder, enough monev -
Dulld the Panama Canal ten times. enoueb
to give this nation the government owned
railroad system that it needs, enough to
dram our swamps, irrigate our deserts
make homes for millions of people,.
washington Times," Auoust 81 1o,,
ut is one thing to make tho wor,d ..t.
for democracy.
1T is different thing to make the Cor
man colonies in Africa safe for England
ana the Pacific islands of GERMANY safe
Tor Japan. Washington Timesn Au
gust 24, 1917.
we went into the war largely in +,o
interest of England, and onlv wber ;.
became apparent that in the sub,,.r;,o
Germany had weapon that, bv starvinu
England might beat the Allies. ."-"kVosb
amgtom Times," September 9. 1917
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Yonkers First!
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: An editorial in one of the New York
morning papers this day contained the in
formation that the city of Hartford. with
a percentage of PSI in the third Liberty
Loan drive, was entitled to the "honor" of
being the first city of the country among
those reported.
/ would ask you to call your readers at
tention to the fact that Yonkers's quota was
S1,726,200, and that Yonkers subscribed
S4,355,S5o, or 252.33 per cent; also that
this amount was subscribed by 3O,715 per-
sons, about one subscription for every
three inhabitants.
Unless there be some other city in our
country which can show a higher percen-
tage, Yonkers is entitled to publicity and
credit for its patriotism and loyalty to the
cause of freedom and worldwide democ-
racy as the first city in the land
ULRICH WIESENDANGER,
Secretary Yonkers Liberty Loan Com
mittee.
Yonkers, N. Y, May II. 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14

Always New York has been the Mecca
for two classes of unemployed-thos
who live by their money alone and those
who live by their wits. Both classes are
IN danger from the bill which Governor
Whitman has just signed, compelling all
ahle-bodied male citizens between 1S and
so to get jobs or be put to work at any
thing the Industrial Commission deems
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14

In Mr.. Leary's quite thrilling story of
the Stielow case which we published on
Sunday we feel that due recognition
York World" That paper early became
interested in this unfortunate man, and
it was very largely due to "The Worlds"
efforts that the evidence which resulted
in his liberation was obtained.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Tuberoses for Mr.. Creel
(Wiuiam Hard, sm The Neto Repnbiioj

+ (Wiihan, Hard, Sn The NetU Repnbfcj
When George Creel was reported the
other day to have lifted up his voice to
Almighty God and to have offered Him
sacrifice of praise for that we had not pre-
pared ourselves to kill our fellow men, the
Republican party, instead of attacking Mr.
Creel, should have sent him shower OF
tuberoses for services rendered in helping
to deodorize its own dead past.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14

years hence, by mere mass and growth,
Germany would dominate the Western
European powers that have now fought
her. This would mean that the United
States would be left as her victim.
In the first place, she would at once
trample the Monroe Doctrine under foot
and treat tropical and south temperate
America as her fields for exploitation,
domination and conquest. In the next
place, she would surely trample this
country under foot and bleed us white,
doing to US on gigantic scale what she
has done to Belgium. If such a peace
as IS above described were at this time
made, the United States could by no pos
slbllity escape the fate of Belgium and
OF the Russian territories taken by Ger
many, unless we ourselves became a
powerful militarist state, with every
democratic principle subordinated to the
one necessity of turning this nation into
huge armed camp. I do not mean an
armed nation, as Switzerland is armed
and as l believe this country ought to be
armed; | mean nation whose sons
every one of them, would have to serve
from three to five years in the army. and
whose whole activities, external and in
ternal, would be conditioned by the one
tact of the necessity of making head.
single handed, against Germany.
Involuntary Milifarisna
very strongly believe that never
again should we be caught unprepared
as we have been caught unprepared this
time. l believe that all our young men
should be trained to arms as the Swiss
are trained. But I would regard it as
an unspeakable calamity for this nation
to have to turn it's whole energies into
the kind of exaggerated militarism
which under such circumstances would
alone avail for self-defence
The military power of Germany must
be brought low. The subject nations of
Austria, the Balkans and Western Asia
must be free. We ought not to re-
train an hour longer from going to war
with Turkey and Bulgaria. Thew are
part of Germany's military strength.
They represent some of the most cruel
tyrannles over subject peoples for which
Germany stands. 1t is idle for US to nre-
tend sympathy with the Armenians un-
less we war on Turkey, which, with Ger
many's assent, has wellnigh crushed the
Armenlans out of existence.
With the President
When President Wilson stated that
this war was waged to make democracy
safe throughout the world he properly
and definitely committed the American
people to the principles above enunciated
and for the American people to accept
less than their President has thus an
nounced that he would insist upon would
be unworthy. The President has also
said that:
There is, therefore, but one response
possible for US. Force-force to the ut
most-force without stint or limit-the
righteous and triumphant force which
shall make right the law of the world
and cast every selfish dominion down in
the dust"
The American people must support
President Wilson unhinchingly in the
stand to which he is thus committed. and
must resolutely refuse to accept any
other position. We must guard against
any slackening of effort. We must re-
fuse to accept any premature peace or
any peace other than the peace of over
wheming victory.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14

"a NOW seems likely, II the great
~ German drive fails, it is at least
possible that, directly or indi-
rectly, the Germans will then start
peace drive. In such case they will
probably endeavor to make such seeming
concessions as to put a premium upon
pacifist agitation for peace in the free
countries of the West against which they
are fighting. To yield to such peace
proposals would be fraught with the
greatest danger to the Allies, and espe-
cially to our own country in the future
Let US never forget that no promise
Germany makes can be trusted. The
Kultur developed under the Hohenzol-
lerns rests upon shameless treachery and
duplicity no less than upon ruthless vio-
lence and barbarity.
An Empty Price
For example, there are strong indica-
tions that Germany may be prepared, if
she now fails on the Western front, to
abandon all that for which she has
fought on her Western front, provided
that in Middle Europe and in the East
there is no interference with her. In
other words, she would be prepared to
give back Alsace and Lorraine to France,
to give Italian Austria to Italy, to give
Luxembourg to Belgium, and to let the
Allies keep the colonies they have con-
quered on condition that her dominance
in Russia and in the Balkans, her domi-
nance of the subject peoples of Austria
through the Austrian Hapsburgs and
her dominance of Western Asia through
her vassal state, Turkey, should be left
undisturbed. To the average American,
and probably to the average English
man and Frenchman, there is much that
is alluring in. such programme It
might be urged as a method of stopping
the frightful slaughter of war, while
securing every purpose for which the
free peoples who still fight are fighting.
Yet it would be infinitely better that
this war were carried on to the point of
exhaustion than that we yield to such
terms.
Such terms would mean the definite
establishment of Germany's military as
cendancy on scale never hitherto ap-
preached in the civilized world. It would
mean that perhaps within dozen wears.
certainly within the lifetime of the very
men now fighting this war, this country
and the other free countries would have
to choose between bowing their necks to
the German yoke or else going into an
other war under conditions far more
disadvantageous to them.
Then One Empire
A peace such as that above outlined
would leave Germany, Austria, Tur-
key and Bulgaria as really one huge
empire. The population of these four
countries, plus the population of the Rus
sian regions recently annexed by Ger
many, is over 200 millions. This popu-
lation would be directed and dominated
by the able, powerful and utterly brutal
and unscrupulous German governing
class, which the very fact of the peace
would put in the saddle, and the huge
empire thus dominated and directed
would become greater menace to the
free peoples than anything known for
the last thousand years.
Short sighted people will say that this
power would only menace Asia. and
therefore that we need feel no concern
about it. There could be no error
greater or more lamentable. Twenty
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14

them fitted to do. New York is the third
state thus to endeavor to eliminate eco
nomc parasites by law during the war.
Maryland and New Jersey have adopted
similar statutes and, moreover, are en-
forcing them. 1t is sound doctrine.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Coiled in the Flag-Hears-s-s-t
His Man Brisbane
Editor of the Washington Times
and Hedrst's Chicago Herald
and Examiner
Secretary Daniels to Editor Bris-

II congratulate you upon the privilege Of
preaching patriotism to the patriotic peo-
pie of the patriotic Middle West"
-F'ron, q letter on Bris5ane's cp-
poimtment as editor of Hearsts "Chicoqo
Herald and Examiner"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14

ignorance and failure to grasp the real
spirit of patriotism, the love of ones own
native country.
FREDERIC C. DIERKINC
Brooklyn, May 12, 1913
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A Yoke for the World
"The Dangers of Premature Peace'
By Theodore Roosevelt

Copyright, 1918, by The Kansas City Star
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14

a S NOW seems likely, if the great
IA German drive fails, it is at least
possible that, directly or indi
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14

At meeting of the Public Forum
Sunday night, George Creel, chairman
of the Committee on Public Information,
appointed by the President to tell the
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-04-02

army of middlemen all over the Uni
ted States. We are prone to believe
that the time is fast approaching
when the people will work in harmony
and the cut-throat competition will be
done away with and at the.same time
the savings secured by cooperation,
unification and publication will go
back into the public purse and help
to lift the yoke from the labor slave.
In fact the time is approaching when
the highest honor that can be bestow-
ed upon one will be that bestowed up
on those who have done the most for
the enlightment and betterment of
their fellows and the man who has
stored up wealth will be looked upon
as parasite upon the breast of hui
manity. When that time comes, we
believe it will go bit further and the
great fortunes accumulated under the
now unjust and unreasonable methods
of doing business will be wiped off by
an income tax which will take back
all the unfair profits and make it inn
possible for anyone to accumulate
more than he needs for comfort and
happiness.
The following is from the Tampa
Tribune:
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-04-02
PATRIOTIC MERCHANTS AGREE
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breasts and desire to give their clerks
a chance to do something besides to
stand behind the counter from twelve
10 fourteen hours a day.
When the merchants cooperate they
will see that it will not cause the loss
IF one dollars worth of trade. The
people have so much money to spend
md they can and will spend it during
The hours of trading, be those hours
'ong or short.
The merchant is not a producer. He
s a middleman taking toll from the
public. He is very necessary link
n the chain, but should the number
# these links be reduced the general
public would not suffer-that is if the
remaining links were not permitted to
make extortionate charges for the
'ack of competition. Common logical
easoning shows that the greater
he number of stores the higher the
rice of commodities must be to meet
he overhead charges. And the people
must pay for the upkeep of all this
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-04-02
GREEK BOY PROUD TO SERVE
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The best kind of men and women to
rule over her. l love the flag of the
q. S. which is my Emblem; love the
Constitution of the U. S. which max
guarantee liberty of conscience, free
DOM of the press and freedom of
speech. l like to express my thought
for the present war that U. S. flag
stands for self-sacrifce for the good
IF her people which fly now on the
battle. 1t is beautiful flag with its
stars and stripes and we must to do
he best we can to make this country
L union of love, union of strength,
md union of harmony. We must
= Ill work together to bring this about.
[ send to my brothers, Peter and
George, my best wishes and by with
Gods help will also be able to help
Jring honor to out native land. Why
We must every one to love the U. S.
because the government is founded on
The will of the people. Many nations
in Europe have constitutions that al
low their people considerable liberty
and freedom, but the Constitution of
he u. S. is ordained and established
by the people who are to be governed
by it, and every one in our country is
a ruler. He helps make all the laws;
ne helps to elect the mayor of our
>ity, the governor of our state, and
the President of our nation. That is
the reason we must to love the U. S.
/ am sincerely
Your friend,
NICK SACLARIDES.
1915 Locust st.