The Washington herald., 1918-05-22

thing openly and aboveboard in favor
OF Tammany? That is. anyone moi
directly connected with the organiza.
tion-someone who professed to see In
II something not entirely political n
ma ture
Well, whether you did or not. some
thing has been said-and we take
some of our space this morning in
showing what unusual things have
been hiding in this famous organiza-
ton all the time. Some of the viT-
tues have been sensed before by the
workers, and some of them doubtless
have been as indiscernible from the
inside as we thought they were when
one looked upon the organization from
the outside,
Prof. Charles Beard. formerly OF
Columbia University. breaks ground
in projecting this new thought upon
us. Prof Beard told a group of social
workers the other day, and with a
deal OF oluntress in his manner, We
suppose:
"Tammany IL our greatest social
service agency, and it holds its power
because 1t understands sympathettcai-
ly the needs and trials of the masses
lI9 lcdutTS NiSll luOoC VIM o. = 49, e'-
in prison. Indeed. they help TO keeT
out of prison many who have COM
mitted trial offenses. They give drink
to those nthirst and bread to those
who are ahungry. Tammany asks nc
questions and fills out no pink an6
green cards. It's office hours are not
from 10 to 4, but continuous.
Mr.. Beard then insists that our silk
stocking" and "high brow reformeIs
are beginning to understand why ]
is that the people can not be weaned
AWAY from tho ward boss merely ny
exposures Of graft and incompetence
and by promises to administer tht
city's affairs at a saving to the TAX
PAYERS and with more scrupuious re-
gard for conventional honesty ano
morals.
He thinks Tammany comprises al
| both ends of the scale. 1t acGNlesce'
| in the special privileges and the grave
economic injustices OF society; po yo
from the beneficiaries of injustice t'
| mitigate the harsh effects of the pre-
yaiIing economic regime. In this re
spect it is not unlike organized char
| ity with the difference that II Is al
| ministered by men who come iron
the people. and who, If they do no
| Try 10 HDODSu a 'NusN
on il for the peoples benefit. 1t!
| virtue is its humanity. its under
| standing of the human needs OF tn'
! common man. Its vice Is Its com
promise with the causes OF the very
suffering that it helps to relieve. l
| accepts what it cannot change, ana
| like a popular robber Of the Middle
/ Ages, divides its spoils with the poor
As between such a robber and I'M
great baron on whom he preys, TN
people will choose the robber, toi
| they have an uneXpressed feeung una
| il is better to be frankly disrsputabl'
than to cloak extortion and cruel ex
| ploitation under a mantle of law ant
responsibility. But as soon ~ tneN
are powerful enough and sufnelentlH
alive to their common interest anC
their collective power they will DIS
pose Of the robber and the oaror
both. And in this they will get less
resistance from Tammany than IRON
the so-called business administra'
tions."
We confess we are deeply puzzled
by a statement lately made by Prem
iers Terauchi of Japan in which the
premier gives us some apprehension
We report 1t as it was written oS
Gregory Mason of the outlook.
Mr.. Mason asked the premier this
question:. You may permit me to ASH
a very bold question-what Is youi
Excellency's opinion of the posi-
bility of a German and japanese al
lance?
To this the count replied: THAT
will depend entirely upon how the
war may end. 1t is impossible to pre-
dict the changes which the conclusion
of this war may bring. II the eXi-
gencies of international relationships
demand it, Japan being unable to
maintain a position of total isola ton
may be induced to seek an ally In
Germany, but so far as l can see
from the existing condition of AFFAIRS
/ see no such danger"
II one has to be in a quandary up
10 this time, to see the necessity OF
whipping Germany, he will find in
the above ample confirmation for the
repeated statements of some of our
shrewdest leaders that we must win
at all odds.
While the count qualified this state
ment somewhat his intimation that
ground could be found upon which
an alliance with Germany could be
had, is a bit disconcerting to say the
least. The only thing we can do is
to make Germany such a badly shat
tered country that no nation on the
earth will want an alliance with it.
This will prevent 1t and nothing else,
so far as we can see, will accomplish
that end.
Mr.. Lockwood, of Indiana, who
comes here to begin publication Of a