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New-York tribune., 1918-11-02
Covered by the Appeal

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The Presidents appeal to the country to
return a Democratic majority in Congress
is an invitation to elect:
Champ Clark Speaker of the House. who
fought conscriptor and said that "in the
estimation of Missourians there is precious
little difference between d conscript and a
convict"
Claude Kitchin. Democratic floor leader
and chairman of The committee that handles
taxation bills, who voted against the dec
laration Of war.
;. H. Dent, chairman Of the Committee on
Military Affairs. who was against the draft
and was superseded by Representative Kahn.
Republican, in managing the draft ac in the
House.
George Huddlcston, Democratic Congress.
man from Alabama. whose war record was
such that the President publicly opposcd
though unsuccessfully his nomination.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-02
Nearly $7,o00,o0o,000

If ten years ago any learned profess
sor OF economics had predicted that, on
top of ten billions of government loans
IN one year, q fourth Liberty Loan would
reach nearly S7,00O,OO0, 900, we know
what we all would have thought 1t is.
IN way, as Secretary McAdco says, the
greatest single event in financial history.
But it was probably no greater than
fioatlng what now seem the very modest
loans Of our Civil War. They. too. were
the greatest in history" and incredibly
more difficult to achieve. That is the
real miracle, not the present outpourinp
OF nations wealth. but the vast expan
sion of that wealth in half century
and its astonishingly wide diffusion
among nation Of hundred millions.
we Know now. thanks to the income
tax returns, that neither this nor any
New-York tribune., 1918-11-02
"Ap Smith Of Tammanv Hall

Our plous neighbor, The Times, makes
hectic work of its Tammany campaign.
1t belabors Mr. Whitman for calling q
spade spade and it angrily resents
every attack upon the spotless virtue of
its candidate, "Al" Smith Of Tammanv
Hall
But the trouble with Mr.. Smith is not
spots but stripes-the stripes of the
Iammany Hall tiger Mr.. Smith has
many admirable human virtues. So had
Big Tim Sullivan. Mr.. Smith was =
keen legislator. SO was the late lament
ed Senator Grady. Altogether Mr.. Smith
is probably as decent a candidate as
Tammany Hall could find upon it's rolls.
But he always has been and is TODAY
confessedly faithful Tammany man.
With his record in the Legislature he
could scarcely pretend otherwise. 1t is
consistent and clear He has been a
subservient and increasingly useful cog
in the Tammany Hall machine. Said the
Citizens Union report of his Assembly
service for 1909: ole has made one of
the worst records Of the session, con-
stantly voting against public interests
on important issues and misusing his in
creased influence" Said the same BODY
of his service of 1914: "He has seldom
eXerted his influence in behalf of desir-
able legislation" With one execution
the report found his record of votes
bad"
A likabe fellow, "Al" Smith-and he
always votes for the racctracks. An eff
ticient handler of legislative machinery
always in aid of the saloons. A reli-
able and stanch friend, CAP Smith
even to the point of having an old pal
with we'll known prison record to help
run his present campaign.
What sort Of Governor would "Al"
Smith make? Has The Times has any
body, the faintest shadow of doubto A
good reliable Tammany Hall Governor
with good, reliable Tammany Hall ap-
pointces sitting on every job worth sit
ting on. To dream Of anything else
would be to ignore Mr.. Smiths consist
ent record as a legislator. his consistent
record as a friend.
The issue is not, unfortunately for
The Times, Mr.. Smiths gifts as friend
Or even his gifts as an efficient legis-
lator-savc as those gifts make him the
more dangerous a representative Of y
plundering, under world organization.
The issue is Mr.. Smiths Tammany
Hall-to-day as always the most corrupt
and most dangerous political force in the
United States.
Wash off the spots, dear Times, if you
wish. But those stripes are in to stay
New-York tribune., 1918-11-02

ing that he didn't know what would
happen if the Allied ships came back the
next morning
They didn't come back. They lay off
and waited for the army which was on its
way from Egypt They had given the
Turks ample warning and time for prep
aration. But in spite of that the Gal
lipoli peninsula might have been cleared
from the Hgean side if the land opera
tons there had not been sadly bungled.
Gallipol was tragedy from start to
finish--a tragedy of lost opportunities and
Intellectual heroism. An evil fate pur-
sued all the Allied adventures in the
Balkans. Allied diplomacy went to wreck
in Bulgaria and in Greece. Serbia,
Montenegro and Albania were lost and
as soon as Rumania came in Russia
wilted and surrendered.
The direct road to Constantinople re-
mained barred for nearly four years
The Allies had to find another road to
it--through Jerusalem, Damascus and
Aleppo. When Aleppo fell, few days
ago, Turkey saw that the end had come
and that the citadel on the Bosporus
would have to be surrendered
The Dardaneles are the key to the
Near East. The Allied fleets, entering
the Black Sea, can relieve Rumania.
clear Southern Russia of the Germans
and start an anti-German uprising which
will affect the Ukraine. Poland and even
the already partially Germanized Baltic
provinces If Germany tries to continue
the war she will soon find herself defend
ing East Prussia. West Prussia, Posen,
SILICA and SaXony, as well as the Prus-
sian Rhineland and Rhensh Bavaria.
Had Constantinople been taken in the
winter of 1918, the original members Of
the Entente might have been able to de-
feat Germany and Austria-Hunearv
without aid from Italy and the United
States But after Gallipoi tnat was NOT
to be. Russia was to perish through
treachery and weakness. The true ex
tent Of the Teuton peril was to be un
folded to a world which did not under
stand it in 1915 and 1916. All the moral
and material forces of the great demo-
cratic nations were to be enlisted to
stamp out German lust and madness.
Constantlnople falls now when civiliza-
ton has at last brought the foaming
German monster to its knees.
Perhaps it was better thus. For now
civilization will never tolerate another
Prussianlzcd and Hohenzollernized Ger
many.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-02

previous loan could have been achieved
by any levy upon the richer class of peo-
Pile nor by any transcription Of wealth"
Neithe" the income nor the "wealth" of
all the rich would have been adequate or
available. 1t had to be Popular Loan,
a Peoples Loan, or nothing The pres
ent indications are 100000 more sub
scribers' names than in any preceding
loan. That would mean ten or twelve
million in all. The average for each
actual subscriber, in such a number,
could hardly be more than two different
subscriptions. which would mean q total
Of not less than five or six million new
creditors of the government. The effect
of this upon after events. political as
we'll as econoi T., will be pervasive. 1t
has inspired millions with thoughts of
thrift and the feeling OF property pos
sessed. 1t will tell in a popular way
how fantastic was the cry of a richer
rich and poorer poor. 1t will, We con
ceive, wholly put by the remotest posi-
bility of a recurrence in this country,
whatever may take place in Europe, of
such manias as Populisn, CoXeyism.
Greenbackism and the various forms of
Polsheyjkism
New-York tribune., 1918-11-02
"Prir7ted in Bavaria"
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In the present most commendaDle
agitation against German made toys, the
German Christmas card should not be over
looked. Only day or two ago found in
one OF the large shops on Fifth Avenue pile
after pile of Christmas cards stamped in ex-
cessively small letters "Printed in Bavaria"
There is surely strange irony in the
thought of sending to our friends, most OF
whom have dearly loved boys cover there"
cards emanating from that nation which
represents all that is vile, all that they arc
lighting against.
That these cards were doubtless bouph,
before the United States went into the war
has nothing whatever to do with the case
Germany had been planning the war for
forty years. No American worthy the name
can possibly be willing knowingly TO touch
German products of any sort or kind The
message Of goodwill and cheer and affection
supposedly carried by the Christmas card
becomes loathsome mockery when that
card is printed in any part or province or
city Of Germany.
LOUISE MAUNSELL FIELD.
New York Oct. 81, 1913
New-York tribune., 1918-11-02
German Is German
{ From The I,Ilnoc,


The House of IIohcnzollern is the richt
expression, take it all in all, Of the Ger
man people. of their pridcs and their hopes.
The German nacture is bellicosc, monarch
list, and fcrccl% religious, andit finds its
full symbol in the botoed Religious repre-
sentative of God, Wilhelm H. War-vcari
ness, cold, hunger, sorrow these plus Sc
ductlve arguments fay very we'll induce the
German people to DO what will secure an
immediate truce be it revolution or what
ever else, But is it not more wise to face
squarely and as he is one with whom VIC
have matters to arrange. than to force him
to come before us with unnatural mien and
artificial behavior" For can We trust the
German people. whatever their government
to keep kaiserism overthrowne IF We
think we can. then we have learned moth
ing from the past four years.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-02

tire to the German frontiers as success
fully as Napoleon got back to France
after Leirsic; but how long would the
home front hold with the ever growing
prospect Of invasion?
Germany must surrender or die: die
as Russia has died and as Austria is
dying. Her future depends upon her
immediate escape from war which is
subjecting her population to exactly
that sort of agony out of which revolu-
tons inevitably arise. All Germany to-
day is approaching the condition of
Paris after the siege, the condition
which made the Commune inevitable
and terrible.
Whatever Germany saves from the
wreck now she will save by negotiation
and not by fighting The military phase
of tho war is already over. and the prob
lem which remains is whether Germany
in the peace conference can repeat the
triumph Of Talleyrand at the Congress
Of Vienna and save by diplomacy what
she has lost by arms. This is the great
peril; ths is the remaining danger for
our alliance. Germany means to use the
plan for d league of nations to save
herself from punishment and payment
as Talleyrand used the scheme of the
Holy Alliance against democracy to save
France from 'the consequences of the
revolutionary and Napo,eonic STRUGGLES
But to-day Germany must surrender
and surrender promptly, the longer she
is held up with her back TO the wall the
more patent becomes her helplessness: ::
and the longer the strain of the war is
kept upon her civil population tho more
terrible will be the consequences when
this civil population at last gains the
power it is bound to gain now. Ii is
impossible for Germany to escape a
measure of the Russian anarchy. nor
ton of the Austrian dissolution. save h,-
swift surrender. tt erefore, the sur
render is assured
The war is over. Not because the
German army is not capable of fighting
another campaign No authentic ev;-
dence of collapse in the army is vet to
be found. Nevertheless. the collapse of
the nation behind the ARMY means that
IN no long time the army itself must
collapse. as did the Russian. the Bul-
garlan and now the Austrian, once the
home front was broken. Such a collapse
means only one thing; it means revolu-
ton, anarchy.
Germany will surrender. The sur
render will not be long delayed, in my
judgment. Instead of haggGng over the
terms OF the armistioe, Germany will
abandon the fight in the field and turn
all her energies to the fight around the
green table. On the military side she
must surrender or die 1t will be diff
terent around the green table. The war
Is over. but the struggle 20 preserve the
lnestimable advantages gained for man
kind in the asar has only just begun.
VIC have won the war, but we may vet
lose the legitimate fruits of victory.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-02
Discovering Roosevelt
Irous The Erentng Posb

But II q man has the stuff OF hero in
him be viii ignore such things. He will
confront unpopularity with cquanimity. az
MIR Roosevelt is doing, even though popu-
la'ltE was supposed to be the breath of his
nostrlls. He will go on ploughng his
lonely furrow. Men may not understand
him, they may rcbuhe and attack him. but
when great principle is in question thcrr
Is nothlng for him to do but to say: "Hcrc
stand; | can do no other" Circumstances
may change, but the principle never varies.
Six weeks ago Colonel Roosevelt was point
ing to our duty to declare war on Bulgaria
and Turkey without the loss OF an hour.
bulgaria has since surrendered uncondi-
t;orally. SO that yesterday Mr.. Roosevelt.
could call for declaration Of war only
upon Turkey. If the tottering Turk makes
peace in a day two the principle Will
nevertheless remain the same This is the
advantage Of taking high and firm ground
for abstract truth. Mere facts cannot dis
lodge you. Thus Colonel Roosevelt speak,
Indignantly of. the Presidents using the
word "associates' instead Of allies, but
does the fact that Lord Robert Cecil used
the same word in the House of Commons
yesterday expose Mr. Roosevelt to any
laughter except that Of the unthinking
He goes his way, whether men will hear
or forbear, the solitary but heroic figure OF
the hour.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-02
Through the Dardanelles

The passage of the Allied fleets
through the Dardanelles into the Sea of
Marmora marks one of the dramatic eli
MAKES of the war 1t is a climax not
without bitter memories. 1t wipes out,
after four weary years, one of the most
disastrous of the Entente's military
failures.
Constantinople and control of the inlet
10 the Black Sea have been strategic
prizes Of the highest Importance. They
were worth even more to the Allies in
1915 than they are to-day. Thau pos
session then would have localized and
shortened the war. 1t would have linked
up the Western front with the Eastern
stront. 1t would have enabled the Allies
No sustain Russia with guns and muni-
tons and to reach the food surplus of
the Russian grain fields. 1t would have
cut Turkey completely off from Germany
and Austria Hungary and abolished the
iurco-German threat to Egypt, Persia
and India. L. would have cowed Bull
garia, enlisted Rumania at once. saved
serbia and Montenegro from invasion
ana made impossible Constantine's in
FAMOUS intrigues to deliver Greece over
20 ms brother-in-law in Berlin.
The Allied attempt to force the Oar
danelies was based on the soundest
strategy. 1t was one of the really hold
and striking conceptions of the war II
was entirely feasible in a military sense
1t failed only because of wretched plan
ning and half-hearted execution.
1t is clear now that if the land and
water attacks had synchronized. the Oar
danelies defences would have fallen early
in 1915. Because of the Turkish short
age Of ammunition the Unsupported
naval assault was on the very point Of
success when it was abandoned.
An eyewitness Of the Turkish defence.
Mr.. George A. Schreiner, recently pub
Iished book in which he tehs Of the cx-
haustion Of the Turkish batteries and the
extreme apprehensions Of their German
commander. This office, on the last
day nf the bombardmcnt, advised Mr.
schfeiner to pack up and get away, say
New-York tribune., 1918-11-02
Demopsychology

Herbert c. Pell. ir., Democratic can
didate in the 18th Congress District,
has been sending out a campaign letter
in which he pletends to be anxious
about the effect of Tuesdays elections
upon the minds OF Our enemies He
says. If we give them The excuse OF q
Republican .-llousc of representatives
they will think they see Il less united
United States. and it might be the very
thing to make them hang Oh ith the
fighting over another winter For them
to lengthcn the war would be no help
to them ard it will cost us thousands;
Of lives and billions of dollars--too high
/; price to pay for a partisan triumph
That is to say, if you vote for the
Republican opponent OF Herbert c.
Pell, jr., you do so at the great risk of
sacrificing thousands of lives and billions
Of dollars unnecessarily.
We give Mr.. PeI the benefit of the
doubt, SO far as to assume that he be
licves his own statement, in which case
it betrays merely defective mentality.
vict him of defective character
The friend who sends us a copy of
the Pell letter sends us also a copy of
his answer, from which we quote the
folIowing
I have, however, long doubted that
the President absolutely in favor of
demanding unconditional surrender OF
'he eitral Powers; | have felt morally
certain hs5 our allies while necessarily
outwa lily applauding his acts COR rather
mis- words). had exactly the same doubt.
and this moral certainty has been trans
formed to an absolute certainty bv She
words OF very prominent 100 per ccns
American who has recently returned from
abroad. Under such circumstances feel
that the election of Republican Con
eress, when every prominent member Of
that ATTY who has expressed himself on
the subject has come out flat footedlv in
favor Of unconditional surrender. would
greatly strengthen our war position by
showing our allies (not those associated
with US IN this war) and our enemies
that, whatever may be the Presidents
attitude, the country at large stands
unltedly for the absolute surrender of the
Hun. The Presidents appeal of last Fri
day has immeasurably strengthened nv
belief that such would be the case"
We felicitatc Mr.. Pell upon a certain
curative experience that will happen to
him next Tuesday,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-02
Speed the Parting Soldier

1t may seem a joke that the sticky
and too polite hostess who will not let
her guests depart is proving menace
to the American soldier, Vet such is
the case. A bore, you say, but how a
menace? By helping the soldier to over
stay his leave and miss sailing on his
transport is the answer Thcrcfrom
flow countless consequences of sorrow
for the unfortunate left behind, who
necessarily is severely punished for his
heedlessness.
Perhaps something moro than Just not
being too polite is what is really needed.
Leave taking is an emotional time.
Missing ira is the easiest thing all
lackadaisical nortals do. What civilians
must realize, hostesses, hosts. sweet
hearts. wives, friends and families, is
that they all owe Il positive obligation to
help send off their soldiers in ample
time. Find out the definite time limit.
Make sure of the trains or other trans
portation. Then allow an ample mar
gin to spare for mischancc And see
that everybody lives up to schedule.
Here is a small and not very obvious
way in which all Of US can help along
our army and incidentally help keep our
friends out of trouble Now that it is
duly called to every ones attention bv
the authorities, is there anybody too
stupid or lazy to lend u hand? Speed
the parting soldier.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-02
Strange Democrats

Il the world were only urs4de down 1t
would be rela tiyely a simple place to i've
H.. But it is faif upside down and half
light side up. Democracy IS asserted in
the language OF i.utocracy. The Nec
Eepublic, which purports to bear alott
the torch Of tue democracy, cannot Wait
until its next publication date, but mus;
take full page Of advertisement in Ihe
Times to cry out in alarm that people arc
being persuaded to "repudiate Wilson's
fourteen points" and to abandon the
League of Nations
What of it,
The people have a right to repudiate
the fourteen points, or to amend them;
they have right to abandon the League
of Nations.
Democrats apparently do not believe
this. Divided counsels scandalize them.
The President appeals to the people to
support him without discussion, and the
Democrats are using their control of the
Senate to prevent any debate on the
fourteen points.
The Ne~ Republics anxietyc goes
much further. 1t says:
There have even been threats that
the Senate would reject treaties made by
the President upon his terms
Upon his terms.
When did the President of the United
States acquire the right to make treaties
upon his own terms
When did the Senate lose the right to
reject treaties?
Section =. Article II, of the Constitu-
lion says Of the Presidents power:
He. shall haze poacer, By and mith
The ddulce and consent of the Senate.
TO mate treaties, prouided two-thirds
Of tho Senator's present concar.
IN the same section it is provided that
the President shall nominate. and bu 1cith
the adcice Of the Senate appoint. an
bassadors.
Yet he sends ''hs personal representa-
tive. Colonel House. to press his four
teen points upon the Allies. The Repub-
llcans have been calling for "dictated
peace. meaning a peace dictated by the
Allies. The President evidently is intent
upon debating a peace not only to Ger
many. but to the Allies, to the United
States Senate and the American peoplc-
a Wilson peace.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-02

There is enterprise in California.
Tourist travel elsewhere may decline be-
cause of the war, but not there. Rather
it is the patriotic duty Of every one to
gather under its sunny skies because Of
the possible coal shortage in the East
Hearken to the argument of The Los
Angeles Times: every family which
comes to California is contributing to the
public welfare just that amount of coal
which It would consume if it passed the
winter in frost-locked Eastern city"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-02
BACK HOME STUFF
MunrOe Arthur

Munroe Arthur lived with his grand
parents in Maple Shade. above town. He
never played marbles for keeps and he
came 10 school in a carriage driven by
the Arthurs hired man. He had the
slickest pencil box in town-inlaid with
pearls. He got two white rabbits for
not missing or being late at Sunday
school. Munroe, withal. was a likable
boy, and | remember admiring mothers
used to say 'blood will tell
Munroe's father travelled There was
some mystery about his mother. Some
said she was down in New Mexico with
galloping consumption. Mr.. Arthur
came in of the road every Saturday
night to spend Sunday, and he and Mum
roe took long walks back on Cemetery
Hill, where you can see clear to Proctor
vile, down the Ohio. The bend where
the big Cincinnati packet went aground
is there. too. They seemed to be happy
together enjoying this view.
Then some news leaked out. Mrs.
Arthur had run away with another man
"a prominent banker, they said Mr..
Arthur began to age. Munroe used to
drop into the poolrooms, and he got to
drinking and wearing a cap over his
head He shot up the Blue Goose one
night and left town. From time to time
we heard of him-always in trouble.
Then he appeared in court in Chicago
and went up to Joliet. He is there now.
Blood will tcll' is what they said
back home when he was sentenced.
DOM.
IFAotcuo' be the ar0,istico terms thot
the War Council intends to impose o.,
Germany, 1rc mi9lt as aceN prepare ou,
cars noan for q east and discordout Teu-
tonic scrcech Of outraged innocence.
f. F. V