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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

With ell due respect to the Attorney
General and the Federal Trade Commits
sion, the country will prefer to accept this
doctrine, if it must be accepted, from the
courts and not from their Judgment of
either law business. 1t is necessary to
affirm this with decision because agree.
nents between these two organs Of gov
eminent and those whom it selects for
prosecution supplantine the courts in
many cases, and with sacrifice of the prin-
ciples involved There is no official rec
crd of the number of cases which have
been thus removed from the decisions of
Jurles on the facts and of judges on the
law Instead, there has grown up prac-
tice Of the Department of Justice and the
Federal Trade Commission to bring de-
PENDANTS before them and to agree with
them whether or not the prosecution shall
be dropped. The proceedings are not even
OF court record in many cases. The re-
suit is a series of imperfeetly recorded
presidents which are making practice,
even If they do not make law, and that the
defence Of the people against the Gripping
of trade interests is going by default
Nothing be ludicrous about this
serious matter, but it is ironic to remark
how differently the government proceeds
when it does business and when it attacks
business. The government does not fear
size when it combines all railways and all
wire services The government appoints
regulators of the trusts rates and con-
duet, and abolshes regulation when it
takes over the business Of the trusts. The
-
by all others, but demands monopoly for
itself. Who will bring the government
into court Who will compel the govern
ment to give services as good or as cheap
as the trusts have suppled?'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

as We cut single nails As the biggest
war example of the Americans daring wav
of tackling an adventure in industry the
experiment at Hog Island at last has scored
The Philadelphia Evening Public
Ledger" said:
Any launching nowadays drives deeper
nome Americas answer to the Hun chal-
lenge. Hog Islands official debut. however.
presages something truly titanic High tide
at a shipmaking plant, whose magnitude is
unparalleled in history can now be fore
seen, and the spendor of the food of ships
for liberty fairly dazzle. the imagination"
And 1.-THE Philadelphia INQUIRER"
wrote:
hog Island is by means the first yard
TO get into action. Scores of ships have
gone down the ways on both the Pacific and
Atlantic But, there has been glamour.
something OF a mystery, perhaps, about
hog Island It's metamorphosis from
swampy waste to the greatest shipyard in
the world has been little short of mar
vellous. Strictly speaking, it is not a ship
yard, but a plant for the assembling of
the parts of vessels, and these parts have
been manufactured in dozens of mills in
the East West and as far north as Mont
real The finished product is the'fabricated
snip, concerning which We have been hear
ing so much for year or more
The launching of the first ship at Hog
Island is cause for jubilaton, for this
hrst ship is to be followed by a second
and third very shortly, and after that
they will be sliding down the ways in an
almost constant procession"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

France for The Christian Work." illu-
inmates the meaning of "bombing" in
this paragraph from the current issue Of
the periodical:
After passing through the gas chambers
we visited the bombing section of the
training school Here each man has to
throw one or more live bombs and receive
his final coaching. The bomb is about the
size of lemon, and is made to break into
small fragments. 1t contains enough of the
high explosive to kill whole group of
men. The boy advances and grasps the
bomb; he draws out the pin and holds
down the lever. Once this is released it
explodes in just five seconds The man
heaves his bomb over parapet at a dummy
dressed in German uniform. The whistle
blows and we all duck There is a terrific
explosion like small cannon and you hear
the pieces whizzing through the air. Every
man is holding in his hand and welding a
terrible power. Wrongly used, it is death
to himself and his comrades. The other
day boys hand was moist with perspira-
ton and the bomb slipped killing the
group. Another prematurely exploded as il
was being thrown, carrying away the mans
own hand and killing the instructor SO it
is n dangerous business. During the morn
ing there were only four 'duds,' IT bombs
that would not 60 off -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

any case, raw materials and transport will
have to be dolcd out by government for
some time, and why should they be passed
on to Germans, all anxious to cut our
throats in trade, when the people who have
been fighting together need them vitality
for the rehabilitation of their business
There time when this sort of war
after the war looked unbusinesslke, as
we'll as inhumane. 1t had to be condemned
on sound trade principles they existed
before the war But that was before it had
been made necessary by the German aggres-
sion for our governments toa&ake over prac
tically every source Of business supply. We
are all in the position now of an industrial
army subject to the orders of government.
We cannot be disbanded and turned loose
on what has been the field of battle without
some consideration for our future main
tenance. In short, the Allied governments
must look out for their own citizens with
their raw material and transportation until
normal conditions are established
1.-THE corollary Of this position is that the
Central Empires must look out for their
own people. If it ia true (nnd it certainly
is) that they absolutely dependent
the Entente nations for the largest lines of
raw material necessary for the rcestablish
ment of theiE industries, why, that is their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

lookout and not ours. They should have
thought of that before they made war
upon us
'The New York Tines observed: "A
boycott, sentimental if not official, there
is long like to be. The economic boycott
is a continuation of hostilites." 1.-The
Newark Evening News" said that Ger
many needs to learn lesson, and "she
will not learn it by having the way made
too easy for her to recover from the in
jures she has brought upon herself"
"The New York World" also made dis
tinction between official and unofficial
measures, saying that the more the war
fixes the attention upon the iniquities of
the German political system the greater
will be the number of those who will
buy no German goods and have no deal
ings with Germans for years to come.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
Eancy Treating the Kaiser
! Like a Normal Man!

Speaking further of Lord Lansdowne,
ne same writer declares che should in
sme way be suppressed 1.-The Indian
spolls News reproaches the English
Spokesman for thinking at all "to deal
WIN the Kaiser as though he were a
normal man. "The Omaha Bee" points
ou' that what Lord Lansdowne and
nose who are of his mind have shut
@eif eyes to is the fact that the course
Vi the war has brought to light anew
~me fundamentals that had been for
gotten. These have become the para
''0ans issues, and cannot be put aside"
The Philadelphia Enquirer" calls him
craven pacifst" and says that in de-
4Aaasng less than unconditional surren-
vet ne Is "a positive menace to world
scurlty.' "The Public Ledger" saws.
more eloquenty:
'he Germany that stands in France, that
' "aa's Its heel upon Belgium and points
- ' loaaed pistol at Paris-the Germany
h~S cut up Russia for mast;cation,
"' over Constantinople and the eau
' ana regards Vienna as a provincial
a'~wouid enter any peace conference
sy Win an unbroken sword which she
''aid clatter defantly on the table ar the
~ ''"'fadlctlon. The Allies can only
permanent peace with chastencd
''pehtant Germany Peace must still
''usns Tor On the stricken field.
lie real peace negotiators Of the pres
N'nhoent Germany would be linden
- ~ Aaoendorf, Hoffman,, ct al. SO long as
-. true our peace negotiators must be
'' rsrsning, Hag and Diaz"
:. Inc ST. Paul Pioneer Press" brings
~ attack directly to the door Of the
English peer himself:
=. Lord Lansdowne has seen one great
."ppie az direct result Of the war.
..m thrones are threatened And if they
va, aug the wave Of democracy sweeps on.
.,. "'' become Of the privileges Of the
HI as's'ocracy of England? II il more
|. ,... sa~" not that such an apprehension
,hg the brain Of supposed British
In. ~a"' az the tide Of battle begins TO
:s'hst Germany, raises the cry of
. s'a''a for peace that will put an end
i.,.s ''s which, ne implies, are being suf-
~, "s houston Chronicle" says, less d.
s.." Lord Lansdowne takes, Of
t.. an impossible attitude when he
l. @"'s mat an acceptable peace can
l.. moulded on anything that Germany
"m or proposed" 1.-THE Cincinnati
star says Of peace discussions
wv ~ this time that they "are es-
10y futile" "The Macon TeIc-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
The German Press Handled
1 Lansdowne Variously

In England Winston Churchill, Min
lister of Munitions, wrote "Why should
we seek peace at the moment when Ger
many is declining and America is Begin
ming? That is what Lansdowne be-
seeches us to do" But the Germans
were sympathetic, lending an agreeable
ear. The Cologne Volkszeitung" de-
clared: Lord Lansdowne would not so
speak and write if he did not regard the
Entente's war aims as reprehensible and
ours as discussable." The Hamburg
er Nachrichten" feared the utterance as
having some hidden potency meant to
harm German ambitions The "Rhenische
Westphalian Gazette" the Krupp paper,
called it "a distinct peace feeler on the
part of England"
The most stirring answer to Lans-
downe's talk of peace came in the form
of message from Lloyd George, circu-
lated on the fourth anniversary of Eng
lands entry into the war. "Hold FAST"
he urged And continued
I'VE are in this war for no selfish ends
We are in it to recover freedom for the ma
tions which have been brutally attacked and
despoiled, and to prove that no people, how
ever powerful surrender itself to the
lawless ambitions of militarism without
meeting retribution, swift, certain and dis
astrous. st the lands Of the free nations of
the world. To top short of victory for this
cause would be to compromise the future of
mankind.
III say, Hold fast!' because our prospects
of victory have never been so bright as they
are to-day. We cannot seek to es-
cape the horrors of war for ourselves by
laying them up for our children. Having
set our hands to the task, we must see it
through till just and lasting settlement is
achieved
"ln no other way endure world
set free from war.
"'Hold fast'"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

IN my compartment on my second trip
might have been bound for a weekend
party. They read magazines, looked bored,
went to sleep. They were on the road TO
Verdun, and might be dead on the morrow.
Not one looked as if he were apprehensive
tired of his job. After all. war. in Mill
tary nations. IS mans job. and there IS
nothing ne likes quite as we'll. Since thai
visit have talked with many people, both
French and American, recently come to this
country. and they have invariably reported
tha- the spirit is the same.
"Wnen Mrs. Deland echoes her American
friends gloomy belief that it would be bet
ter Tor the Allies to lose. pulling the Ger
mans down on top of them-she omits to
say just how this may be done-in order to
purge the world of materialism, she was
arguing from the standpoint of one war
alenc~the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
AS result of that war Germany, from
being a kindly, easy-gong sentimcntalist,
became the most grossly material nation in
the world, and g result nothing but the
earth would satisfy her greed But Mrs.
Defsnd forgets that Germany was debsuched
by Prussia, which, Poultney Bigelow
points out in his 'Genseric, King of the
Nandals and First Prussian Kaiser has not
changed an iota in fifteen hunQred wears
The Northern German is the same preda-
tory beast that he was in the days Of Attla
A!meric and Genseric. Napoleon was en-
phatic IN his belief that as long as Prussia
endured there would be no real peace in the
world. The Allies know history. and Amer
lCpn k>-,
eXterminate Prussia if it takes another
thirty Years War and suffering to which
this is the mere prelude. And no woman
with the historical sense. with the imper-
sonal mind that is able to stand apart and
see the present making of history in its
true light; no woman with the orly real hui
manlty-the determination that the chill
dren OF this age at least shall grow up to
ENJOY sane and safer word-would cast
thought to peace until the Prussian HE
rarcny and the debauched and brutalized
minds that have supported it shall have
been extirpated root and branch.
Mrs. Deland deprecates hate. What
more stimulating and magnificent than the
hitherto unrccognized power to hate as mill
IONS have mated since this planet was flooded
with blood by barbarous race with no mo-
tive Tor war but greed and oppression. 1t
mas made US all feel younger, exploded our
egos out OF their narrow ruts am no
lover Of war, but recognize its Inevitable
Ivy, and we may as well take the benefits
that accrue from it and give thanks.
There are two other things | resent in
MRS. Deland's srticle. She asks. Why arc
girls permitted to come over here Whv
not? Why should they not do their part
when men, old and young, are doing theirs
What more magnificent education for life
could they have? And do not the vast ma
Jorlty of women in times of peace suFe,
from broken hearts, or dull domestic rou
Clne' or poverty, or narrow personal lives
1ar more than they will suffer in France
from air raids the sight of poor wrecks
of men? And they have behaved with a
nerve aud On endurance which must hav.
surprised their untried selves
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
Mo One Expects Us
l Y To Be Perfect

Another thing | resent is Mrs. Delands
structures on our attitude to tn. war W
arc not serious; We are stepping out into
the cataclysm with sunshade and smiling
face That is utterly untrue IS Mrs De-
land must know that she has returned
to this country. The United States IS awake
and concentrated upon the business of war
from end to end. We have our rotten spots.
Of courSc-cowardy pacitists, pro- Germans
frivolous women, ctc-but we are a popula-
ton of over hundred million Of every n1-
tonallty, and no one expects US to be per-
feet.
Nothing could have been further from
Mrs. DelGnd's tired mind than to insult the
trencn and the American nations, and yet
tn her own detriment and to ours, she has
done Her article was so charmingIy
written, so full of fancy, that everybody
was bound to read it, and with It's regret.
table substance bound TO be seized upon BY
the crafty propagandists of Germany.
Just what, also, does Mrs Deand mean
by this: They the French know that the
present situation is far beyond the dec
laration of war in 1914 as the declaration
OF war vas beyond the pistol shot in the
street in Ssrajevo.' Surely Mrs. Deland
knows that this was directly the out
come Of that pistol shot. If IT was not
directed from Berlin, but from Vienna be-
cause the old Kaiser had learned that Franz
Ferdinand was intriguing with the German
Emperor, the result was as certain as night
following day. And as the Kaiser had made
up mis- mind that the time had come to grail
the world, he would have fired the spark
himself if his wicked old friend in Vienna
had not given him the excuse he wanted
But from beginning to end Mrs Deland's
article shows complete lack of historical
sense. 1t is written by woman who has
spent her life writing delightful stories of
village life and neglected to study the great
world, past present
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

ME- agreement between the gov
eminent and the International
IA Harvester Company resulting
in an order for the dissolution
of the latter has left commentators in
a state Of perplexity. After six years,
in which the company was ordered to
dissolve in Federal court and failed of
a decision in the Supreme Court, the
agreement to dissolve was finally ar
rived at between the government and
its prosecutor. The Harvester Trust
was known as good trust" The only
question involved was as to whether in
acquiring such great power, regardless
of the uses Of it, it had violated the law
with respect to great combinations
1.-The New York World" says of it ed-
torialy:
AS issue of law, the Harvester Trust
raised the distinctive question whether, in
deliberately and arbitrarily acquiring
power to monopolize and restrain trade in
farm machinery, it had violated the Anti
Trust act, when matter of alleged fact
it had not used that power in an offensive
and burdensome manner.
"The withdrawal of the case from before
the Supreme Court on promise Of dissov-
ing the combination leaves this question of
law still unsettled. But we may venture
the opinion that no more great combina-
tons in trade will be organized on the
principle that goodness in the exercise of
an unlawful power will excuse the acqui-
sition Of such power"
The Tribune points out the curious
which it calls "the far-away echo of a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

be to replace the tonnage that was lost
in the days when we were far behind in
the nerve-racking race with the sharks Of
the sea.
We are going through with the ship
building programme to the finish, and we
are going through with the war to a finish
The American government is planning for
long war, because enduring peace will not
be in sight until the militaristic system
Of Germany is broken
The men who have worked on this shin
launched to-day and on other ships that
are being launched, are makers of new
America. Through the efforts of the ship
yard workers, large army is now in France.
and through their continuous work an
army steadily growing larger and larger
eventually will overwhelm the carefully con-
structed military machine with which Ger
many has sought to dominate the world
~
The launching gave 1.-The New York
World occasion to say under the head
ing Hog Island scores:
Less than year ago Hog Island was
9oO-acre mudbank. Yesterday its nearly
completed shipyard of fifty ways and sew
enty-hve miles of railway track launched
the first of fleet of 10 7,5oo-ton cargo
ships of Identical pattern, built with the
latest time saving devices of fabrication.~
OF the methods of production adopted
there this paper wrote
only two types of ship are planned. to
be put together by specialist workmen NOV
ing from hull to hull as they finish their
bit The war has taught US to mill ships
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
What They Think of Bel
GUM in Ireland

MAJOR WILLIAM REDMOND, of
wi the Royal Irish Division writes in
this months issue of the "Lettres Cahto-
liques Mensuelles":
There perhaps some who think that
Germany would not do any harm to Ireland
and could even do her good. hope that
the people of Clare viii not have any con
fidence in such imprudent projects. If the
Germans come here they will be-
come our masters and We shall be at their
mercy. What this mercy will be can be
judged by the mercy shown Belgium.
"As long as live wish to do my best
to show that Ireland at least IS faithful TO
her treaties and is in way ungrateful to
the friends which she has throughout the
world. Any Irshman worthy of the
name would not wish TO be under obligation
for the slightest favor to the men who have
ruined Belgium" -Fr3m The Belgian
Bulletin.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

We'H build to you, boys. so keen
'em at bay,
We're doing our bit 1uith the
11vet machine.
Boys, keep up your courage, ue're
getting to you;
Khaki or oUeralIs, count us all
Knopsacks or dinner. pals, 2ue're
fighting, too,
And doing our bit Nth the riret
machine.
IN camp or IN shlpyard ne oil of
us s1Ueur
That the hope ye are building
aclU spar to Berlin:
We're all Of Us soldiers, to do or.
to dare,
And we're doing our bit Nth the
rivet machine.
Louis K. Anspacher, in The
Wireless Age.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

tempest adjourned" and goes on to saw:
There appears at this point very curt
Gus contradiction. The government with
one hand is eliminating competition as fast
as possible, notably in case Of the rail
roads, IN order to achieve greater wartime
efficiency with less waste, while with the
other hand it is still working to restore it
IN private industry. Has the principle of
regulation been abandonedo Hereafter
shall there be nothing between competi-
ton which is VIGOROUSLY wasteful, and
government control, which is experiment
tai"
"Thc Philadelphia Inquirer" points
out that the agreement, arrived at be-
tore any Supreme Court action on the
matter leaves the country in the dark
as to what the Supreme Court would
say upon the question of monopoly, good
or bad
THE dissolution of the international
Harvester Company has been ordered upon
the ground that monopoly is illegal per
Sc, but whether that is the opinion of the
Supreme Court the record under the cir
cumstances will fail to show"
THE New York Times" comments in
the same manner:
When announcing its victory the De-
partment of Justice asserts that trust
may be dissolved merely because it is large,
and, although it has not been guilty Of
anything obnoxious to good mercantile
practice That is like tying the hands of
those engaged in either domestic or for
elgn trade. The worlds business is not
done by small and smaller units If COM
blnatlcn is forbidden to the United States
alone with foreign countries competition is
restored at too great price.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
Telling Lansd0wne
Why We're Fighting

graph looks at Lord Lansdowne with
understanding but not agreeing eyes:
"The trouble with Lansdowne is that he
has become all at once a great humani-
tartan but it is not humantarianism
learned and gained through sacrifice and
suffering and experience, the love of man
that is born of having fought with man and
won with him in all the battles of good and
evil that make up the daily life of all of U.S.
He sees only the blood and the filth and
the change in the minds and spirits of men
the European weller is bringing about for
all the world. To him the fighting is bigger
than what it is all about And so he would
stop it willy nilly
There are quite a few people like that
scattered through the Entente countries
We have in America, sincere and
earnest folk whose souls have not been able
to glimpse the great prize at the end of the
race, the greater light behind the altar
fires. They feel only the pain and they see
but the suffering. and as for themselves
these things are wrong, SO to them the
is all wrong in itself and there is nothing
in this but fighting and madness and
destruction.
"They are wrong, but they cannot it,
and the rest of understand them well
enough and they trouble us not. just as the
Germans a stupid people and they may
really think that because Lansdowne thinks
England should talk over peace with Ger
many right now major sentiment in Eng
land probably thinks the same way. The
Germans aren't very bright about such
things and are capable of acting largely on
mistaken conclusions. Which makes such
utterances as that of the British peer dan
gerouS to some extent"