New-York tribune., 1918-05-18


cations indulged in was constructive
criticism" - WILLIAM RANDOLPH
HEARST.
Ne1u York American, April II, 1917
"Strpping our country Of men, money
and food is dangerous policy.
Every shipment of food and military sup
plies from this time on is blow at our
own safety. -. We urge you not to
weaken our country's preparedness, not
to give away our money by shiploads, not
to squander our men and our food re-
serves upon Europe :"
New York American, April 22, 1917
"Citizens, let us build our own navy
and build it strong enough to protect us
not only against Germany, but against
England and Japan"
NeU York American, April 24, 1917
eve affirm that neither our
battleships nor our money nor our ship
ments of supplies can have the slightest
appreciabe effect upon the decisive bat
tie raging in France or can in any sub
stantial way affect the predestined sue
cess or failure of the submarine siege of
England. 1T IS TOO LATE"
New York American, May II, 1917
"Our. only correct strategy is to spend
all our money and all our labor in pre-
pairing our navy and armies HERE AT
THEIR NATURAL BASE and so COM
pelling Germany, if she wants to fight, to
come to us and see how she likes the
taste Of OUR GRANITE"
Ne1v York American, June rs, 1917
"We will send our boys to fight for
England only when England has rallied
all her own. 1t is neither neces-
sary nor right that the flower of our
young American manhood should be sent
sacrfcal offering to the Red Moloch
of slaughter while England has men
enough to fight her own battles for many
months ahead"
NeaU York American, July 27, 1917
Sending million men
year to be offered up in bloody sacrifice
to the ambition of contending nations
foreign battlefelds.'
Neav York American, June 29, 1917
Further service in the war should be
a matter of choice for Americans. . .
These papers have said consistently, and
will continue to maintain, that the Amer
lean soldiers who go to France should go
as volunteers and not conscripted men
sent by the will of the government.
We believe that in the mag
nificent contribution our country has al
ready made to the battlefelds Of the
Western front of Europe it has given
ALL THAT THE NECESSITIES OF THE
ALLIES OR THE SAFETY OF OUR OWN
COI1MTPV TIICTTCyEC
1T IN GIVING"
Neao York American, July 27, 1917
"Is it not better to make peace now
than to look forward to year after year
of such national and individual sorrow
and sacrifice, to such wastage and woe, to
such destruction of the best specimens of
the human race, to such irretrevable
demolition of the sustaining structure of
our Occidental civilization? How long
will people tolerate such slaughter
and such sacrifce?"
NeaO York Journal, January 29, 1915
"The government has now been nearly
ten months trying to interfere effectively
in the settlement of European affairs"
Neao York American, March i, 1915
"What does it matter how the white
races are grouped, among themselves;
what does it matter what the shifting
lines and confines of the white nations
are; what does it matter whether this or
that group of white people is embraced
in the Muscovite dominons OR the Teu-
ton dominions or the Anglo-Saxon domin-
ions? Any day the opening gun
of the only important, the only vital war
of the world, the war between the con-
flicting systems, societies and civiliza-
tions of Oriental despotism and Occiden-
tai democracy, may be fired. Is
it intelligent to allow our yellow oppo-
nent to strengthen himself at the ex-
pense Of our white allies-for all the
white races are our natural and inevitable
allies in this world racial confict?"
NeaO York American, March 9, 1913
II cannot get so violently excited as
some people over the possible effects in
Europe of this present war."-W R.
Hearst.