New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06

writes-incidcntall tending to weaker
morale at home this winter:
"ln every countrv--warring and
neutral alike, including the United
States -- innocent non-combatants,
mon, women and children, will be the
victims of war want during the COM
ing months; WiU ANYTHING be
canned on, this east sacrifice? WtU
mobler? is 1t ,voliu meccssatu?
WIN not stop ',oaU?"
Praises Germany
And Condones Her Crimes
A second phase of Nearing's cumou.
tagged pro- Germanism Is his praisine
things German while condoning by
silence Germany's crimes. Not salts
tied with social and economic condi-
tons in this country, he turned to Ger
many for comparison. Even after two
has become indelibly impressed upon
the entire world, Nearing finds Ger
many a model which this country and
the rest Of the world might protitably
follow: Only a year ago, in an issue
of "Thc independents" and under
cover of his all-embracing schemes of
social reform. he paid the following
tributes to Germany:
"Ge1nlanu IS undoubtedly the
the most successful nation IN the
:acorld at the present time. There
Is no group OF people to whom My
Country First Deutschland uber
yV1,
life.
Germany has outdistanced all
the countries of the Old World in
her provision for the German people.
a series of reports by the British
Board of Trade on the working and
living conditions Of workingmen in
France, Belgium, Germany and Eng
land have made it quite evident that
the advantage enjoyed by the Ger
man working men was considerable.
d1u1na the past tauentN gears
Ge1wan,u has beer the achmowl-
edged leader OF. Europe and IN
"Even Amsericc. the land of OPP
Dortu1atu. has been far outdis-
tGnced bU Germany. IN the direc-
ton of social legislation
If the last forty years alone are
considered it must be apparent that
the achievents of Germany in
making the land good living place
for the common man have far out
"Germon energy is phenomenal.
She is unusually productive in
education, science, architec-
ture. business, art, literature. music,
poetry. 1t IS absurd to speak and
qc1'ite as though German energy
had been directed to the produce
tom of engines of 2rar.
Above All, She Is
Efficient
Germany has shown herself the
most fecund of nations. She faivlu
bubbles ouer quith ideas IN euery
field Of cndeavor. 1t is not in one
direction, but in all directions that
her boundlcss energy and enthusiasm
display themselves.
There appears in Germany res
ervoir, apparently incNhaustble, of
moral enthusiasm.
"But, ABOVE all else. she is efficient
Her standards Of Industrial, social
and educational octiuity haze
been beacon lights of the nine
teenth and the opening decade of
the Twentieth century,"
The old German argument of Eng
hsh Jealousles is thus rcvampcd:
IA great (Germanl merchant ma
rine has been built up in the face
of seemingly insuperable obstacles.
1t was the success of this German
commercial policy as much as
anything else that statng Great
Britain into fierce 1'iunlyy."
At the same time Nearing argues
that America is less democratic than
Germany under the Hohenzollerns:
"1'he fact remains that on the
avhole the ruling classes of Ger
many are little If any more auto-
cratic than the railing classes of
England and the United States,
achale the German people feel that
they hare more Of q stake IN tho
coat,at1y than do the people of
either the United States On, Eng
lnnd."
In addition. Nearing has shown great
anxiety about "the German side of
things" In July, 1916, he said
During the last eighteen months
the newspapers of the United States,
almost without exception, have been
carrying on one of the most scandal
Gus propagandas that has ever been
carried on; they haze been DELHI
erntely suppressing me1vs regard
ing the German side."
Aspersing the Motives
OF u. S. Government
Nearing and the Peoples Council arc
and have been conspicuously silent on
German outrages in Belgium and
France, German intrigues in the United