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New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Statement of
Secretary of State Lansing

"There had unouestionably been growing
up between the peoples Of the two coun-
tries (Japan and the United States) feel
ing of suspicion as to the motives inducing
the activities of the other in the Far East,
a feeling, which, if unchecked, promised to
develop serious situation. Rumors and
reports of improper intentions were increas-
ing and were more and more believed.
Legitimate commercial and industrial enter
prises without ulteror motive were pre-
sumed to have political significance, with
the result that opposition to those enter
priscs was aroused in the other country.
The attitude of constraint and doubt thus
created was fostcred and encouraged by
the campaign Of falsehood, which for a
long time had been dGroitly and secretly
carried on by Germans avhose gore1n-
ment, as q part of its foreign policy, de-
sired especially to so ALLEVIATE this coun,-
t1y and Japan that it would be at the
chosen time no difficult task to cause a
rupture of their good relations"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
THE SOONER
WE FINISH THE SHIPS
THE SOONER THE WAR
WILL BE ENDED
Music a War Horror

tFrom The London Daily News)
A grim story is told of the air raid on
Paris. If its truth were not vouched for BY
the most respectable authority one would
say that it was an invention of De Maupas'
SAINT in his most mdcdbre vein. While the
work of rescue was going on by candle iighs
in one of the houses which had suffered
most the crowd was suddenly horriied oy
the defiant notes of the "Rakoczy March,
blarcd out apparently by strong brass
band. Every one was aghast at so bruta
an insult till the tenant of a fiat on an
upper floor said that he had an orchestrlon
which played that particular tune. lns
explosion must have set it in motion, !"
the risk Of their lives some iremen man
aged to reach the machine. but in the ca,A'
and not knowing anything about its meen,
anlsm, they could not stop it. 1t went on 'n'
the floor on which it stood collapsed.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
The Latest
CanQrd

10 show that agencies are still working
TO dlscredlt Japan, the following excerpt is
taken from the February number of the
Japan Society Bulletin:
More than 1000 Japanese, a large num-
per OF whom are known to be reservists.
nave LETT Mexico for Japan within the past
1ew weeks. Such is the substance of an
article which received wide publicity in the
American press last week.
The latest available census shows thar
there are less than 2,4OO Japanese-men.
women and children-in Mexico. Assuming
that one-half of them are Japanese re-
servlsts, which is absurd, how did thew get
back to Japan? Ships operating between
Japan and Mexico are not available to carry
them and they could not have sailed from
an American port What is the need OF
tncm IN Japan? What authority takes them
from their occupations and business in
mexico! How many of them are of age
Tor military service? What is the reason
Tor such canards about Japan? What is
their source?
The American public is beginning to
scrutlnlze such sensational news items
about Japan, although there is still n LARGE
number of people who accept them in good
faith"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
A Hint to Professor Veblen
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: thank you for printing your review
OF Thorsten Veblen's book After reading
what Mr. Wood said about it felt it neccs-
sary to read the book myself, just to solve
the mystery of how fundamental democrat
IKE VebIen could possibly justify despot-
ism, or submission to despotism, or what he
could have said that so deceived Mr. Wood,
Now the thing is as plain rs day. Many
times have I suffered misunderstanding
when, by trying to state clearly the point
OF view OF an opponent, have been taken to
be on the side of that opponent. The ordi-
nary unthinking person does not wish to
understand his opponents. lie wants to
know whether you intend to act as he acts.
Mr.. Veblen should have put up headline on
every page something like this: "This is
not my opinion My opinion is stated in the
last chapter" ARCHIBALD CRAIG.
Jersey City, N. j.. March !, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09

the misery and enslavement of weaker
states and races. His vision of German
conquest is Satanic vision. The world
cannot afford to see it realized. The real
meaning of this war is that out of its
storms and sacrifices erich, strong and
happy" nations shall arise which owe
what they are to peaceful effort, to hon
est dealing, TO an observance of the laws
of humanity and neighborliness, 20 re-
spect for the rights of the innocent and
the weak. The Prussian ideal must be
cast into outer darkness. In the now
world which is arise after the war there
can be no place for Prussian pirate
state.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Song of a Wounded Soldier

n TY WATCH ticks beside the bed, ,
wi Sinuous, strangling hands of pain
Embrace me, strange fancies pass
Like steel thrusts through my brain;
| sec the way ahead
Stones for my naked feet to tread.
1t is not long now till the morning LIGHT
Breaks at the window. 1t may prove
lying, traitor friend, even as did the
night.
My thoughts turn to the soft comfort and
cool sheets
or health and home. 1t was but yesterday
The gray dawn is here. Still the watch
beats!
III
SCARED body stretched beneath the quilt
like hill;
l think if it were mine and felt for me
1t could not lie so still!
"
The bright day brings dear release
From pain; with the new peace
MY heart strange sweet message sings:
From every drop that you have blcd,
On stones your naked feet did tread
A flower epringsl"
<. THATCHER.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Statement of Lindsay Russell,
President Japan Society

Anti-Japanese propagandists have had
practically no opposition in the campaign
which has been conducted for ten years past
10 create hostility in the United States
toward Japan. Not only in this country, but
in Japan, with equal vigor, their forces have
been at work, instgating the publication of
wnr-scare stories calculated to prejudice
public opinion in America and japan. In
sulting cartoons and bascless so o-caled news
articles have been favorite instruments of
the propagandists. Many stories having for
their object the disruption of friendly rela-
tlons between the United States and Japan
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Statement of Ex-Secretary
OF State Elihu Root

"There never has been in this country so
far as my observation and reading go, any
more dangerous and persistent misrepre-
sentaton regarding the relations, the pur-
poses, the character of another country with
which we have relations than in the case
of the relations between the United States
and Japan. I haven't the slightest doubt
that the representations and the at
tempts to create that feeling among the peo-
pie who have it all in their hands now, the
attempts to create bad feeling between the
United States and Japan, have been very
largely the result of a fixed and settled
purpose, and that purpose, it seems to me
it is growing day by day more clear, was
the purpose that formed part of the policy
of that great ruling caste of Germany
which is attempting to subjugatc the world
tO-dav"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
In Newark

Americans are supposed to have short
memories. 1t is o pleasure to print the
following letter from reader of The
Tribune who does not so easily forget:
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Several weeks ago there appeared
sympathetic and patriotic letter from
Kenyon West in regard to the work of
the Vlgllantes in trying to eliminate
from the Newark Library reasonable
books. Will you kindly print this letter
of mine and append to it the information
as to whether these books have been
thrown out Of the said library? I heartily
concur with what Kenyon West had to
say but have not seen anything since in
your columns in regard to the matter
Certainly it is time that the country rose
up as one man to fight sedition and trea-
son and everything that paralyzes our
energy and enthusiasm in overthrowing
militarism end treachery and wrong and
frightfulness.
would be much obliged if you would
give us some information in regard to
the Vigilantes. Till | read Kenyon Vests
letter | had not heard of them but this
praise OF their efforts prompts me to be
curious about them. E. S. KITTREDGE.
Orange, N. j., March s, 1918.
The Tribune regrets to inform Mr..
klttredge that the books have not been
thrown out. The trustees of the Newark
library have rejected the protest of the
Vigilantes and voted to retain the uues-
tlonabie volumes on the library's shelves.
We understand that in so doing they fol-
lowed the views and recommendation Of
their librarian, Mr.. John Cotton Dana.
AS for the Vigilantes, concerning
whom our correspondent inquiries, they
are body Of patriotic Americans, COM
prlslng some of the ablest writer's in the
country, who have organized to fight sedi-
tion wherever it shows its head. They
are fighting we'll. And they, too, have
good memories. So has The Tribune.
The repositories of sedition in the United
States will wear their iron crosses long
after the war is done.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Why the Submarine Secrecy

We gave in yesterdays Tribune a
long review of the submarine situation,
tending to show that the definite figures
given out by the German Admiralty are
possibly not as eXtravagant as we should
like to believe.
The facts are now fairly we'll known.
They can be pieced together, as we did
yesterday, from the various statements
made by the English authorities
Why further secrecy?
The day before Baron Inchcape,
chairman of the great Pcninsular and
Oriental Line and one of the leading
shipping men of England, said before
the Chamber of Shipping:
"Our tonnage is being sunk at rate of
which the people have 10 conception.
There is a curious lack of realization in
many parts of the country as to the grave
situation with which we are faced"
It is Baron Inchcape's view that if
the public were told frankly about the
situation they would then waken to it's
gravity. If this is true in England it
is doubly true in America.
Ever since we entered the war we
have been lulled into feeling of false
security by wonderful stories of what
American inventive and strategical gen
ius would do to destroy the submarine.
The latest of these stories appeared only
yesterday.
Some time these. hopes may be re-
allied. The present effect of these
stories is simply to keep up the indiffer-
ence of the American public to THE
TREMENDOUS IMPORTANCE OF
SPEEDING UP ON SHIPBUILDING
There is no other question so para
mount as this now. Without ships all
the vast industrial, financial and mill
tary power of the nation, for the pur-
poses of this war, is simply paralyzed
and blocked.
Our present shipping programme is
wofully inadequate. 1t is nearly six
months behind what it might have been
but for the long delays. And even now
1t is threatened by shortage of materials
and the continuous menace of STRIKES.
These columns do not often use capi-
tai letters. The plain fact that we would
like to proclaim from the housetops and
the hllltops is that unless. we can build
ships in unparalleled quantity WE
SHALL NEVER GET INTO THE WAR.
1T we put the whole nations hears
and soul into building ships we can and
willard win it.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
The Libel of Tapan
document from The Japan Society," aohh takes this method of
batting the pro-Cerman propaganda

have been directly traced.to German sources.
Our own Department of State confirms this.
Some of the more conspicuous stories which
have been published over and over again in
one form or another are:
An attempt to secure a naval base at
Magdalena Bay.
Japanese troops in Mexico.
Secretly organized armies in Hawaii and
California.
Publication of anti-Japanese hymn of
hate.
Plot to seize the Philippines.
Taking soundings of our harbors and
coast.
(Utterly ridiculous when such infor-
nation appears on charts that may be
purchased in any map storc.)
False quotations from Japanese papers,
Persecution of American missionaries
in Korea.
Plans to destroy the Panama Canal.
If these same stories had been pub
lished in the United States against England,
France, Russia or Germany, at once, from a
thousand sources, denials would have been
forthcoming, but not so in the case of
Japan. There are only three or four jana
ncse in the United States, so far as I know.
and only a few Americans, who have the
ability and inclination to answer such
charges, many of which are so sensational
and absurd as seemingly to require no an
swer. For instance, four days after Great
Britain and Germany had declared war, that
is, on August 8, 1914, a cablegram was sent
from America to Japan stating that the
entire American battle fleet had passed
through the Panama Canal on its way to the
Orient
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
But that seems perfectly harmless.
When Picketing Stopped

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Slr: In the interest of accuracy please
permit correction of an Associated Press
dispatch from Washington published in to-
days papers. 1t relates to the decision of
the District of Columbia Court of Appeals
holding that the police court convictions of
the White House pickets were ilegal--thc
decision which generally expected.
The dispatch closes by saying: "The
plckcting campaign was abandoned some
time ago, soon after the Administration
came out in support of the woman suffrage
constitutional amendment"
All of the pckets who were in the iail
and the workhouse were released by order
of the court the last week in November.
and the picketing never was resumed after
that time. President Wilson announced his
support of the Federal suffrage amendment
on January 8, the evening before the vote
was to be taken in the House of Repre-
sentatlves, about six weeks after the picket
ing had stopped. The President gave his
sanction to this amendment at the earnest
solicitation of committee of twelve promi-
nent members of his party, who went to
the White House and laid the situation be-
fore him from political standpoint 1t was
we'll known to various persons that he would
have taken this action much earlier than
he did had it not been for the pickcting.
and that it would have been deferred much
longer had it not been for the impending
vote in the lower house.
1t is a complete MISREPRESENTATION of the
facts to say that the picketing campaign
was not abandoned until after the Admin
istration had come out in favor Of the
amendment. IDA Hustled HARPER,
Editorial Chairman, Leslie Suffrage Bureau.
New York. March s, 1913
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
War Before Wilheln's Time

TIObc)
Before the Bochc converted warfare into
an orgy of lust, murder and rapinc, plus
scientific burglary and pocket-picking, the
mutual respect of beligcrents led to many
pleasing courtcsies. When Louis XIV was
beseging Lille. in 1867, the Governor of
the boleaguercd city sent him every morn
ing supply Of ice, without which the
kingly cuisine was tastccss, One day
the monarch complained of short rations,
whefcupon the courtly Governor excused
himself by replying that he desired to con-
serve hia stock of ;he commodity in order
that the siege would be \ long ono.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Statement of
James w. Gerard

All during the winter of 1914 in Berlin
Germans from the highest down tried to
impress me with the great danger which
they said threatened America from Japan.
The military and naval attaches of the
United States Embassy and were told that
the German Information System sent news
that Mexico was full of Japanese colonels
and America of Japanese spies. Possibly
much of the prejudice in America against
the Japanese was cooked up by German
propagandists which we later learned to
know so we'll. (F'rom "My Four Years in
Germany" Copyright, 1917, by George
II. DOraN Coz
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Raucous Pirates
our day.

do not doubt thdt q rlch, strong
and happy people will arise out the
storms and sacrifices of this tinae
Thus William II writes to the VICE
president Of the German Reichstag. In
these phrases he expresses what has
become a faith, religion, sub-con-
scious obsession of the Prussian mind.
Frederick the Great might have used
them in 1740 to excuse his stealthy seiz-
ure of Silesia, then one Of the jewels in
the crown Of Maria Theresa, Queen of
Hungary and successor to the Hapsburg
inheritance. She was a woman, her right
to sit on the Hapsburg throne was dis
puted and many covetous claimants
sought to divide her possessions. She
was the sort of victim just to the cynical
Frederick's liking, and fitted in exactly
with his designs to make Prussia erich,
strong and happy" through territorial
piracy.
He might have repeated them when he
joined the first partition of Poland, which
gave him the greater part of West Prus-
sia and thus more nearly united East
Prussia with the parts of his kingdom
lying west of the Vistula. Frederick
William II, his successor, might also have
rung the changes on the "rich, strong and
happy" theme when he became a bene-
ficiary of the second and third partitions
of unhappy Poland.
To grow great by war has been the
deepest instinct of the Prussan state.
Napoleon dismembered Prussia after
Jena. But when the Napoleonic wars
were ended Prussia emerged with much
of her Polish booty restored, large part
of Saxony in her hands, extended hold
ings along the Rhine, and Pomeran1a
cleared of the last traces of Swedish
occupation.
Since then the process of accretion by
the sword has continued steadily. In
1864 Prussia lured Austria into a con-
spiracy't to wrest Schleswig and Holstein
from Denmark. She made pretence of
dividing the spoil with Austria and then
forced war on Austria and the pro-
Austrian German states. Victory after
sixty days confirmed her title to both the
Danish provinces and also enabled her to
swallow Hanover, Hesse-Cassel, Hesse-
Nassau, the free city of Frankfort and
various minor German principalitles.
Bismarck, the apostle of blood and iron,
engineered all these appropriations. He
also jockeyed France into war in 1870
and, when France lost, annexed Alsace
and Lorraine to the newborn German
Empire.
Thus have Prussia and a Prussianized
Germany been made erich, strong and
happy'-piously grateful also to the
tribal divinity who, the Germans fondly
believe, has cheerfully worked with them
for Prussia's ACKNOWLEDGMENT. To-day,
when RUSSIA greater Poland-is being
dismembercd and an array Of Prussian
vassal states is being created, stretching
to the Urals, the Caspian and the Him
alayas, the same raucous jubilaton bursts
forth and the same unctuous tribute ia
being paid to the German sword as q
creator of empire and economic pros
pcrity.
Faithful to the tradition of his house.
his caste and his people, the Kaiser can
sec no greatness or happiness for. ma
ton which is not based on might. on
violence and bloodshed, on the uncounted
| crimes Of wax as Germany makes it, on
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
When Peace VIII Come
,From The Ne,o Yorker rolks=eitunol

,From, The Neso Yorker IolkS=cituno)
pamphlet that was distributed dur.a.
the last great strike in Berlin con'a'H'
among others the following passage; :.
when Germany is ready for itand the t''ns
is approaching.
1t will come when the German people is'
drawn its lessons from the war; when IL hs'
learned, even as every nation had to iea..s
that the voice of Europe cannot be o''.
obeyed with lmpunity =.
The hour of peace will strike when "
Germans no longer listen to the voice =
those who have brought about the wass
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Zimmerman
Note

America was startled on March l. 1917,
by the disclosure in Washington of the
secret message from the German Foreign
Office to the German Minister resident in
Mexico. directing him, in case hostilities
between America and Germany should
actually occur, to propose to Mexico that
Mexico join with Germany in attacking the
United States. For this Mexico was TO get
the lost territory in Mexico, Texas and
Arizona" The German Minister was also
TO say to President Carranza that "the
President of Mexico on his own initiat;vo
should communicate with Japan suggesting
adherence at once to this plan and at the
same time offering to mediate between Ger
many and Japan"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09

In the current issue of "Muscal Amer
ica" it is reported that Mr. II. E. Kreh-
biel has severed his connection with The
Tribune. That is untrue. Mr.. Krehbiel
is at present in Florida, where he is re-
cuperating from a nervous breakdown.
His connection with The Tribune is, we
hope, for the remainder of his life,
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Up to the Senate

What has become Of that painstaking
committee Of the United States Senate
Just what Eepator La Toilette said in his
~. Paul speech and TO what extent :hat
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
MEMBER OLE TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or
republication all dispatches credited 20 1t or not
otherwise credited in this and also tbs local news OF
spontaneous origin published herein.
All rights OF republication Of all other matter herein are
reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09

You purchase merchandise advertised In The
TRIBUNE with absolute satetyMor u rs
suits In case THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your
money back request No red tape. No euibbllag.
We make good promptly II the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Hog Island
By THEODORE Al. KNAPPEN
. ARTICLE VIII

NHILADELPHIA, March S.-The labo,
~ troubles of Hog Island are not Of
strikes or wages or quantity They
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
GUARANTEE

Entered the Postoflce New York Second Glass
Matter
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Try a Want Ad nor resultA.

For three years America has
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VIII you Ear less - wheat
meat - fats and sugar
that we may still send
food in ship loadsg