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New-York tribune., 1918-05-07
June s, 1915 (Signed Letter b.
Hearst):

Let Us Have Peace with Honor-If That
Be Possible.
In our first note to Germany we de-
manded many things which we had every
right to demand, but we sought to intrude
other things which were beyond our
rights either of exaction or suggestion.
In our first note we demanded or at least
urged, that Germany suspend her sub
marine warfare upon the commerce of the
Allies. Every intelligent and informed in
dividual in the United States knows that we
had no right to make this demand and no
right to assume that Germany would con-
cede it.
Of course, such demand could not be
conceded by Germany, and it is fortunate
for the maintenance of peace that Ger
many has replied to this extreme require
ment in so moderate and friendly a
spirit.
The destruction of the Lustania
is an indictment not of Germany's warfare
alone, but Of war itself as war is now
waged on land and sea. .
Let us turn from the Lusitania, there.
fore, where these rights of interference are
so i'll defined and questionable
We are gaining every advantage by peace;
we are securing every benefit by not being
involved in this murderous and devastating
fruitful; our vaults filled with the gold
sent us by the warning nations; and our
factories are busy supplying European ma
tions with their needs.
We should not end all this and plunge
into this European turmoil, where our sons
Will be slain and our wealth exhausted, un-
less there be patriotic necessity for such
a course.
LET US STAND FIRMLY IN DEFENCE
OF OUR JUST RIGHTS, EVEN THOUGH
WE MUST MAINTAIN THEM BY FORCE
OF ARMS, BUT LET US NOT PRECIPI-
TATE THE COUNTRY INTO AN I'm.
NECESSARY WAR BY GOING BEYOND
OUR OWN RIGHTS AND DEMANDING
THE PRIVILEGE OF Debating TO FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES IN MATTERS WuIcu
HAVE NOT YET RECEIVED THE DEF.
NlT1ON AND SANCTION OF INTERNA-
TIONAL LAW
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-07

charges of corruption and extravaganza
at Hog Island, with view, if true, to
instituting criminal procedure" We
know what came of this demand. There
has been no criminal procedure"
At the same time the Presidents cor
respondence with Mr.. Borglum is made
public, disclosing that nearly month
ago the President wrote to Mr.. Borglum,
saying:
~ hope you will be willing and that
you feel it is your duty to put at the dis
posal of those whom l have appointed
official investigators all the evidence that
may be IN your possession"
This is just what Mr.. Borglum has
failed to do, since Senator Brandegee
read in the Senate the other day let
ter from Mr.. Borglum in which he de-
it be to a body satisfactory, apparently,
to Mr. Borglum
1t would be as unseemly to attempt to
prcjudge the inquiry by the Attorney
General. But it is not out of place to
say that Mr.. Borglum's suspicious were
presented to The Tribune, as they were
to "The Times" and doubtless to other
newspapers, and that it is on the basis
of these suspicious that "The Tines was
willing to go ahead last Thursday and
make its charges of "a gigantic conspir-
acy" of "bold powerful men" to wreck
and betray the whole aircraft work, and
to demand an investigation "by Fed
eral grand jury"
The public will be glad to know that
this whole miserable business will now
be thoroughly gone into and all this scan
dalous mess of insinuation, accusation
and suspicion cleared up. We shall soon
know whether there is one jot or title
of truth in the "Times" Conspiracy"
or the accusations against Mr.. Coffin
and his aids.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-07
Pitiless Publicity

The President has at last ordered a
full inquiry by the Department of JUS
tice into the reckless charges made
against the Aircraft Production Board.
These charges, emanating from Mr.. Gut
zon Borglum and the Aeronautical So
clety "of America" have been made the
basis of the most scandalous attacks by
certain United States Senators and "The
New York Times" "The Times" even
going so far as to declare that "gigan
tic conspiracy" existed to betray the
whole aircraft programme in the interest
OF Germany by men high in the United
States government and the United States
army.
If true this would have been the great
est scandal in any nation since the war
began. But the investigation is to be
made, not in response to the demands of
Mr.. Gutzon Borglum or the Aeronautical
Society "of America" nor of "The New
York Times" but at the urgent request
OF Mr. Howard E. Coffin, who organized
the Aircraft Board and the whole air
craft programme-and up to last week
was chairman of the board. Mr.. Coffin
IN telegram to the President said:
Charges of dishonesty have been made
against the Aircraft Board which demand
the fullest inquiry be had in order that
the reputation of innocent men may not
be ruined"
To Mr.. Coffin's request the President
makes the following response:
"Your telegram received. You NAV be
sure | shall cooperate in every way to
prevent what you rightly foresee may
happen. The Department of Justice will
cooperate to the utmost in seeing that
all charges are probed and the truth
got at"
1t is to be noted that this is very diff
ferent from the tone and temper of the
Presidents letter to the Attorney Gen
eral demanding an investigation into the
New-York tribune., 1918-05-07
At Last-a Communicate

The War Department has now reccg-
nized the need of an official American
communique. This is another sign of
our awakening war consciousness.
The official weekly review, which was
discontinued last Sunday, belonged to
the period Of aloofness. 1t was appar-
emily compiled from newspaper sources.
1t betrayed no inside knowledge of events
or strategy in Europe. Its acumen never
put the lay commentators in the news
papers or magazines to shame. 1t made
no appeal to the public because it failed
to do what an official bulletin is ex-
pected to do
What the public wants-and what it
ought to have-is direct official lnfor-
nation from the front If American
troops are fighting, that fact cannot es-
cape the German High Command. So
far nearly all the details of the engage
ments in which our men have distin-
guished themselves on the Lorraine
front have come to us from German
bulletins. These details are, of course,
colored to Germany's advantage No
possible military disadvantage could
have resulted from a counter descrip-
tion Of these actions prepared at our
own general headquarters in France.
The home public's craving for news
from the front is intense 1t is also
legitimate. Great Britain and France
have found way to crafty it without
disregarding the limitations of military
prudence. Our government can easily
do the same.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-07
"Out Of Washington Atmosphere"

The Washington correspondent of
The Times" prints the story that the
first thing that Mr.. Schwab did when
he was asked to become director of the
shipbuilding work was to go directly to
the President and say:
II cannot undertake this position un-
less l have complete authority. The risk
of failure otherwise is too great"
According to this story, Mr.. Schwab
was assured by the President that he
should have this whole authority; and
the first act after he took charge was
to order the removal of the Fleet Cor
poration from Washington to Philadel-
phia. 1t is now reported that Mr.. Ryan
will move the aircraft organization from
Washington "out into the automobile
manufacturing section in the Middle
West" Says the authority for this ac-
count:
"What Mr.. Schwab wanted was to get
his job off somewhere where he could run
it; to get the work out of Washington
atmosphere and interfcrence"
What is evident to every thinking man
is that we cannot make success of this
war unless we give adequate and un-
hampered authority to the men who arc
to do the job. Apparently the deeply
disappointing delay-the so-caled "fail-
ure' of the aircraft programme-wasd due
as much as anything to a lack of CEN
tralized authority, and the same was
true of all the disgraceful rows which
characterized the shipbuilding work.
If Mr.. Ryan and Mr.. Schwab have this
adequate aS,hority there may be expec-
tation of success. If they have not 90.
it, there is little hope that the deplor-
able appointments of the year pasr
have come to an end.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-07
whose forced labor is to replenish Ger
many's empty granaries.

whose forced labor is to replenish Ger
many's empty granaries.
What right, in fact has any race 0,
nation which accepts the protection or
patronage of Germany except the right
to become German bondmAn-a newer
of wood and drawer of water for the
All Highest in Berlin? The Ukrainians
have had their rude awakening. The
enslavement of the Firms, the Poles, the
Courlanders, the Lithuanians, the
Esthonians and the Livonians is only
matter of time Then it will be the
turn of the illusory Soviet republic of
Russia to feel the German knout.
Yet Lenine and his government seem
more concerned about the landing of
few japanese and British marines at
Vladivostok than they are about Ger
many's seizure of Sebastopol or the re-
establishment of serfdom in the Ukraine.
That is Slav psychology. And victim
lied by it, Slavdom, in it's infinite
childishness, has already practically
exchanged its new found and quickly
Gissipated freedom for an Egyptian
servitude more cruel and onerous than
it ever experienced Or ever could have
experienced under the Romanoff yoke
New-York tribune., 1918-05-07

rational decision between life by the
tigers law and death by the civilized
code and say: "It is not the thing to do"
The Hun has no such stopping place.
When you talk to him of law higher
than that of self preservation he accuses
you of hypocrisy. He not only does not
understand that law, but he does not
know Of it's existence
When you talk to him of that strange
moral difference between killing in cold
blood, nationally, as he does, and killing
in hot blood, emotionally, as we kill, he
thinks you are mad.
When you tell him we are at war with
Germany because of the WAY she
makes war, he is indignant. Call him a
"barhar" and he wceps Barbarians
are moved easily to tears-but only for
themselves.
We do not know why Germans are
German That is Gods business At
any rate, it is not the first thing He has
put in the world to be destroyed. That
task has been reserved to us. We have
no idea where it will lead US or when it
will end. We know only that the war
will last until we finish it, Then will
the Lusitania be monument to civiliza-
ton more abiding than bronze, reaching
to heaven. And the world will be a
different place forever
New-York tribune., 1918-05-07
The Countercheck Ouarrelsomc
{From The Los Angeles Times)

tFrom The Los Anoeles Timeo
"The San Antonio Light" says ea''o,. -.
ally that Southern California 'mainly -. ~
rends upon the vacationist, the hai''
lame and the idle rich for her daily ofea.
What does San Antonio depend ups.
The oil wells she has not? the gram ns.
vests she does not reap4 her fross-D'.sss.
orchards or the great manufacturing es.
lishments which do not adorn her stlse.Js.
Or is she living upon the lies that IT, a.
erck Law Olmsted told many years ~
about the beautiful mud creek on Nhs
banks she sits? asTs AZ
New-York tribune., 1918-05-07
June I, 1915:

Fair-minded men will not be intolerant
of the German inquiry into the status of
the Lustania. That vessel WAS on the
roster of the British navy as an auxiliary.
She built according to Admiralty
plans, enjoyed subsidy and subject
to call to the fleet in time of war. The
Germans claim she was armed--our off
cials deny it. The Germans claim she car
ried munitions of war-we claim the small
arm cartridges she carried have not been
SO classed. Yet if both these dis
puted points be settled in our favor, it
still remains true that the Lusitana was to
Germany an enemy vessel subject to capt
ure and destruction.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-07
Under Pharaoh's Rod

Nov there arose up neav king ovcr
EGYPT aohich k11eav not Joseph. e.
And the Egyptians made the children
Of Israel to serue NTH o'iqour
And they made thci, Nves bitter
avith hard bondage, IN mortar ond IN
brick, and IN all manner of seruicc IN
the field: All their se7uicc, achereir
they made them scrue, ras soith
rigour.
History repeats itself.
The clearest possible light is thrown
on German purposes in the Ukraine by
ViceChancelor Won Payers speech last
Saturday before the Main Committee of
the Rechstag.
That speech reads like passage from
Exodus
Explaining the proclamation of Ger
man martial law in the Ukraine, Herr
Won Payer said
owe had a lively interest in getting
foodstuffs as speedily as possible. e.
The Rada had no means of insisting
on the delivery of the grain by the
population The Germans, therefore,
had to concern themselves with OBJ
tanning deliveries in accordance with
the treaty.
"Our activity in this direction has
been to a certain extent source of
discomfort
"The field sowing decree was issued
because opposition to the proposed land
appropriation created the danger that
great part of the soil would remain
uncultivated.
General Won Eichhcrn, in entire ac-
cord with the German minister, de-
creed a state of enhanced protec-
ton, under which all offences against
public peace and order may be Judged
by field tribunals"
Here the whole case of Germany in
the Ukraine is put into nutshell. The
Ukrainans must serve Germany's needs
by raising grain. If they do not raise
it voluntarily they will be compelled to
raise it. This service in the field, like
that of the ancient Israelites in Egypt.
is to be exected with military rigor
Won Echhorn, Won Hoffman. Won
kuhmann and Won Payer all speak the
same language. 1t is the language oe
the Pharaohs who knew not Joseph.
Throughout the whole tragi-comedy
staged at Brest-iLtovsk Germany had
but one fixed purpose. 1t was not to
give the Ukraine, Poland, Finland, Lithu-
ania, Courland, Livonia and Esthonia
''self-determination" and freedom, but
to reduce them to slavery.
The children of Israel, who had gon.
into Egypt in quest of larger economic
opportunity, found it turned for them
into land of bondage. The German
Pharaoh has gone as a stranger into the
old border provinces of the Russian EN-
pire, offering them a phantom inde-
pendence, and within three months has
converted their inhabitants into poems.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-07
A. Lincoln in Charleston
(From The Charleston Ne,,s a,s c.,

(From The Charleston Ne,cs and Cou,y.r,
Liberty Loan posters bearing the ,;k..
ness Of Abraham Lincoln are to be seen in
Charleston windows to-day.
We desire to cali this fact to the atten.
tlon of those newspapers of the North
which are still doing their best to keen
alive sectional animosity Let them NON.
der it little, remembering all that Charles
ton was and recalling the things that han
pened here little more than half CEN
tury ago.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-07
COlLED IN THE. C-HEARS-S-S-S-ST
The Lusitania' s Orun Fault


torpedoes, with mines or with gunfire
:. These are not matters between
America and Germany, but SOLELY MAT
TIERS BETWEEN GERMANY AND GREAT
BRITAIN.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-07

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We make GOOD promptly II the advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1918-05-07
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The Associated exclusively entitled to the use
for repbicaon Of all dispatches credited To 1t or
otherwise credited in this and also the local
news spontaneous origin published herein.
All rights of republication OF all other matter herein
also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-07
May 8, 1915:

Both parties to the struggle which is
racking Europe have held themselves
superior to that code of laws and customs
by which civilization has tried to remove
from war something Of its ruthlessness, to
amelioratc somewhat the hardships and suf
ferings it imposes upon -combatants.
To enforce wholesale starvation upon
the peaceful population of enemy is the
task which has engaged the minds of
statesmen and the overwhelming naval
force of one nation, while to bring swift
sudden and unseen death upon peaceable
ocean travellers under hostile flag has
been the cease1ess study of tae rulers of
another belligerent The fact is
only emphasized to-day--thc Fact that has
long been apparent-that neither the Allies
nor the Germans give to international law
cr custom any more adherence than may
suit their immediate ends They are both
estopped from discussing this frightful
tastrophe in the light of any international
law or usage. AS to its cruel and, in the
end, futile and useless violation of every
principle of ordinary humanity there can
be no two opinions.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-07
CHAR PANTFF

Entered a, the Postoface at Second Class
Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1918-05-07
May 10, 1915:

How small company, amid the millions
of souls of men and women and children
who have died in torment since this war
began, are the sad ghosts of the Lusitania' s
slain! How few are they amid the innu-
merable hosts of Europc's dead!
New-York tribune., 1918-05-07
May II, 1915:

The Lusitania incident in itself is, of
course, no cause for a declaration of war
Cruel it was, and barbaric and shocking to
every human mind. But the circumstances
attendant upon it sharply distinguish it
from those outrages which would justify
an immediate declaration of war upon the
part of the United States.
Humanity is quite as much outraged
by the barbarities perpctrated upon Amer
lean citizens in Mexico by the slaughter
of American citizens upon British ship
If the disordered state of govern
ment in Mexico made it impossible to fix
definitely the responsibility for the atroc-
tiles committed upon Americans there, so
: the uncertain Interpretation of interna-
tional law under modern conditions Of war
fare makes it difficult to fix precisely the
responsibility for the deaths of our people
on the Lusitania.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-12-13
Pennsylvania.
LANCASTER, Pa, Dec. S, L


Stagnation in the loca. trade has re-
fiected on the growers, as witnessed by
a lessening of their demands in the
prices of the new crop They have
been doing their best in the way of ex-
tolling the merits of the 1918 tobacco,
but they haven't convinced the buyers
that they have crop that will equal
the 1917.
The 1917 tobacco is reported TO be
showing up fine in the sweat, in spite
of the fact that a lot of it was dam
aged If the market improves it will
be crop that may give decent mar
gin OF profit in spite of the high prices
paid for it. If market for old goods
would only open up now packers would
be happy. They are not worrying over
the buying of the 1918 tobacco yet, and
are willing to let the growers put on
their thinking cap about prices.
What disposition the owners of old
goods in Lancaster city and county
warehouses, of the years 1915 is IL, in
tend making of these stocks only the
future can tell. All this is good tobac-
co and dealers here say they do not see
fhe wisdom of the holders. mostly big
cigar concerns, selling any part of their
stock, as has been intinated would be
done, and replacing it with 1918 tobac-
co, even if cheaper than the old goods.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-12-13
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARkE.T

EDGERToN, WIS, Dec Is, 1918
The fourth casing spell since the new
tobacco crop was cured came this week
in the form of an ideal tobacco damp
that brought the hanging leaf into
splendid condition. Growers immedi-
ately began to clear out their curing
barns and it is probable the entire crop
| is now removed. Stripping will again
proceed with prospect that it can be
finished before the holidays and at
date much earlier than the average
season. Having the crop ready for de-
livery by the New Year, the upper
most question is when the buying
movement to lift the balance of the
crop will be resumed. We have before
US the sales of half dozen crops rang
ing from 20 to 25 cents, but until more
extensive buying occurs such figures
can hardly be used to determine the
market price. None of the large oper-
ators have as yet released their buying
forces in the field. Outside the Loril
lard concern no receiving of early pur-
chases has been made in the southern
district so far.
None of the eastern centers report
any revival in the cured leaf market.
The shipments out of storage reach
$50 cases and 8 cars of bundles from
this market to all points since last re-
port.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-12-13
<ssSss 49, w. -'Sss e. . e
NOTE 8oOK SKETCHES


We fear there are some disappolnt-
ments in store for the packers who
loaded up heavily with 1918 Wisconsin
crop at unusually high prices early in
the season, if the reports coming to US
from the results of warehouse handling
are later verified. What little of the
crop that has so far been run over the
sorting tables not much better than so
per cent has been received that has
been packed for binder purposes. The
present crop has mostly been stripped
in one grade and after the filters,
trash, rags, grasshoppered. off-colored
leaves are eliminated the real service
able binder tobacco falls below expec-
tations. So if percentages hold good
when the handling season is more ex-
tensively under way packers viii find
they have a good bit of low grades to
dispose of to the stemmers. 1t is con-
fidently believed that in the northern
growing districts a much better show
ing can be made However, the grass
hoppers have done more extensive
damage to the crop than was generally
supposed though the early harvested
portion was quite fairly free from the
injury.