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German-American Relations
If one of the ronlrnctlnc parties alionld be
ejnxaretl In nor with any otlirr Power, the frre
Intercourse and commerce of the eubjects or
cllUcna of the party remaining neuter with
the belligerent rowers aliall not be Interrnpted.
On the contrary In that caae, aa In full peace,
the vessel of the neutral party may navigate
freely to and from the porta and on the coaata
of the belltjierent partlea, freo Teaaela making
free (ooda, Inaomuch thnt alt things ahall bo
adjudged frre which aliall be on board any
vessel belonging to the neutral party, although,
each thlnga belonff to an enemy of the othert
and the aame freedom ahall be eitended to
teraona who ahall be on board a free reeael,
although they should be enemlea to the other
party, unleaa they ahnuld be aoldlera In actual
aerrlce of auch enemy.
And In the aamo caae of one of the contract
Ing partlea being engaged In war with any
other Power, to prevent all the difficulties and
mlausderatandlnca that uaually arlce reapect
nr merchandlae of contraband, auch aa arm a,
ammunition und military atorea of every kind,
Do auch articles carried In the reaaela or by
te aubjecta or rlltiena of either party, to the
ep.mles of the other, ahall be deemed contra
banOSao as to Induce conllacatlon or condemna
tion o.d a loaa of auch property to Individuals.
Ne-rertoctraa It ahall bo lawful to atop auch
teaaela und artlilea and to detain them for
auch length of time aa the captora may think
Beceaaary toxjirerent the Inconvenience or dam
age -that mlslit enaue from their proceeding,
paying, howerer, a reaaonable compenaatlnn
for the loss auch nrrrtta ahall occaalon to the
proprietors, and It ahall further be allowed to
use In the aerrlce. of tho captora the whole or
any part of the military atorea ao detained,
?7Uig the ownrre the full ralue of the aame,
0 be aacerfained by the current price at the
place of tta deatlnatlon. -Treaty of 18.8 be
tween Germany and the United Statea.
TN 1828 tho Kingdom of Prussia entered
J)jr treaty Into an agreement with the
United States concerning tho treatment to
In accorded tho ships, property and per
sons at each other's citizens In tlrne of war.
That treaty is stilt In effect. It was given
a new ratification and Indorsement by Ger
many Itself when that nation only a few
weeks ago appealed to it when excusing tho
wanton sinking of tho American ship Frye
by a. tierman cruiser.
This Government, in its note relative to
tho LuslCnnla outrage, based its demands on
something more specific than the uncertain
ties of international law, a code which has
been trampled on and interpreted to suit
the convenience of belligerents. It demanded
of Germany compliance with its written
agreement, an lmmedlato compliance.
HEPI.Y IS EVASIVE
The. reply of Berlin Is evasive and unsat
isfactory. Our Interest In what has already
happened la subordinate to our Interest in
what Js going to happen. Our Government
must recognize, of course, that a great na
tion should not bo humiliated. No matter how
grievous a mistake It has made, it must
"save its face" as best It may and endeavor
bo far as possible to rectify its error with
out stigmatizing itself. But, while making all
due allowances for this situation, Washing
ton cannot sanction discussion of an ob
jectionable condition while the condition
continues. So far as deeds that have been
Committed are concerned, we are ready to
subject our position to the scrutiny of any
fair tribunal; but we ore unwilling to lay
them before any tribunal whatever so long
as similar outrages are being continued and
persevered in by Germany. We are ready
fq talk It over, but not while the explosion
of' torpedoes, sent on their death missions
In defiance of law, continues to ring through
the air,
" COURSE OP OUR GOVERNMENT
The course of our Gqvernment is clear,
It roust point out to Berlin that our inter
ests are too vital and immediate to permit
of long diplomatic delay; that our deter
mination to protect our citizens is una!
.(ajred; that we require her treaty obliga
tions to be. carried out to the letter and
that w cannot parley so long as our citt-
1
Bd property ore the vicarious vic-
s tff a kind of warfare which we cannot
UHlaflince and will not endure.
There is, we aro confident, no desire on
Barf, of the people, of the United States
break our technical friendship with the
n Empire. There Js w desire apong
people, we surmise, to add this Re-
t the list of ttr4 MpW No great
Uptir enmltle tap &M awataad. There)
4f rattu throughout tfM cosjiury wMufe
U rttmarkaM wlUnm IM a?niman
4Haiv of the nwm gt thawe Is in this
ajolm so jKawardteai. g uftwilMagnesa te it
Wit tritUHtlon which wy arts Nttf w we
pprcigtfv of m change wftlpit hM
MQie over the OOfCaan Uovernruajit. of tu
Hufc-no recently to give more rpBt to
nawfrst. if nut at tea. at least totepa)l
lltclpvlton3
It f ovs rtvi t huti, tbrion, tkt
M le tiw y;mi 9t t9vmm In b-
LBBk ijjfrtUg
EVENING
marlne policy, and especially in so far aa
it Is repugnant to ho United States. But
it she will not do this, if she persists in
making war against us In European waters,
we cannot and we will not hesitoto to
vindicate our high rights, be the cost what
it may. We have dono what we could, per
haps moro than wo ought, to maintain
friendly relations. Tho Kaiser will shortly
again have in his hands tho determination
of our future relations with his Empire.
Not the Time for Intervention In Mexico
MEXICO was in u bad stato when tho
Democracy came into power nt Wash
ington. It Is In a worso state now. It has
not been so low since the darkest days of
Juarez. Industry, having beon fed on for
months by bandits, Is exhausted. The peo
ple are starving. The nation has been bled
white. Among tho failures of the Wilson
Administration has been Its Mexican policy,
If It may bo said at any tlmo to have had
a policy.
Thero will be published today, it is sold,
a new noto, addressed to the warring ban
dits, which will point out to them tho Im
possibility of tho present situation and will
urge them to got together for the benefit
of their country. The alternative, It ap
pears, will bo an active effort by this coun
try to restore law and order nnd re-establish
government.
It Is a bad time to dedicate this nation to
bucIi a thankless and fearful task. Yesterday
wo could havo conveniently helped our
neighbor, today our own vast Interests are
oerywhero imperiled by tho European cata
clysm Thero was a tlmo when Intervention
would havo been popular. It would be tho
crowning folly of a long scries of follies If
attempted now. Wo must attend to our own
business beforo wo can attend to other
peoples'.
Independence of a Hemisphere
IT WAS a small part of one continent
which declared its lndcpcndcnco In tho
famous hall at Chestnut and 6th streets In
177S. Delegates from tho nntlons of South
America will Join with delegates from the
United States in Independence Hall today
in declaring that this hemisphere is sufllclent
unto Itself. This is tho natural and logical
outcome of tho financial conference that has
been in progress in Washington. And Phila
delphia, with Its historic associations, Is the
proper placo for framing and promulgating
tho now doctrlno that the Americas can
take care of themselves.
Wo are separated by tho ocean from the
conflicts of tho Old World, and whllo the
nations thero aro at war wo nro at peace
and aro actively preparing to cement a more
perfect union. So tho distinguished South
Americans aro most welcomo today.
When Managers Should Not Abdicate
It la obvious that unleaa the board Is pre
pared to turn over the management of the
University Iloapltal nnd tho l'hlppa Institute
to a clasa of young women Just beginning their
profeaslnnal cduiutlon the present rules must
be enforced.
T!IIS pertinent statement has been Issued
by tho managers of tho University of
Pennsylvania Hospital in explanation of
their insistence that the nurses in training
shall obey the rules and go whero they are
assigned
'Some of the nureeg, It BCems, object to
serving eight weeks of their courso in the
Phlpps Institute for tubercular patients.
They havo urged In Justification of their re
fusal that thoy were required to spend eight
hours' a day scrubbing floors, woodwork and
beds In the wards Instead of In the caro of
the sick. If they have been compolled to
work as scrubwomen to the extent asserted,
It Is evident that there should be some modi
fication in the ruled; and when this condition
is proved, there Is no doubt tho rules will be
changed. But tho young women have sought
to bring about reform In tho wrong way. If
there la to be any discipline a hospital must
be run by its managers and not by those
who aro trying to learn something about the
proper care of the sick.
"Gal Preachers"
LIKE a great many other inspiriting
I phrases, "Gal Preachers" has taken on
an aura of romantic Interest that It never
had In the days when Lucretla Mott attended
the first woman suffrage convention, back in
1818.
It was a bravo fight and a picturesque
fight that the pioneers made, but not always
an honored one. Woman was not so frequent
a figure at public meetings then, and it took
real moral courage to stand up and demand
a share of man's heritage
No wonder the teeming suffragists of the
present looked with so much emotion toward
Germantown yesterday, where a few leaders
in the winning fight honored the scouts of an
earlier conflict In the first suffragist me
morial service.
Emigrants to Health
AT NINE this morning the "Paradise Spe
. clal" began what ought to be only the
first of many regular trips. For within the
autobus which bore that gloriously suitable
title the Country Week Association packed
a delighted company of convalescent women
and children. Emigrants to the country for
the month of June, they looked forward to
the end of their Journey with as great a hope
as any alien ever staked upon America.
Cquntry weeks have become country months.
They ought to be country summers.
Who began this submarine business, any
way? Life at sea. nowadays Is Just one submarine
after another.
The drive toward Lens can be readily seen
without a telescope,
TJhe Boy Scouts camping In New Jersey
would like a Job to do some real scouting.
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The young Inventor who burnt his face
while experimenting with the movies must
have monkeyed with a feature film.
Italy will not have warred in vain if she
shoots enough holes in the Tyrolean national
costume to bar it from all future oomlc
operas.
The PieaJdeflt sjjjt wr&ths to b placed
tin the gravaa of WashJngtea, Grant, LJoealn.
MeKUly and CJevltd fm Manwrlat Uay.
It would bavs) bjum difflovH to plek ut Ave
H I - -.- "
Ovr
ta tteiark m nttVttrlaiBg eitl
hAV fiiia trying ta stop tfea aiaotrta
AV taiga' try
fans is tbe subway oars with uv Ma.
It i usual for visitors, on tbe contrary, to
atop their noses.
Whoever ia planning ig Jump turn, a bigs)
UtHs ta tbe hop of goals? woV. aa a
ptwrlt actor ought to racaJl tlu.t tiMc la a
ligpa4 hi ttuat bualoeaa only for man who
-aj)B not like a fool, d not for rctal fooia.
TttER-PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY. JUNE 1. 1915:
WHAT DOES JAPAN
WANT FROM CHINA?
Her Aimo Not Opposed to Fullest
Development of Chinese People.
Western Ideas and Oriental Poll-
tl
es.
By STANHOPE SAMS
Until rtecently Editor of the Japan Tlmea, Toklo.
TO JAPAN China is both a temptation
nnd a terror. She covets and sho fears.
In her recent demands, backed up by a curt
ultimatum, to which Yuan Shlh-kal yielded
after tho usual period of temporizing nnd
evasion, China could cteariy bo seen as an
alluring Bpoll of possible war nnd as n tcr
rlblo menace. It is to be doubted, howovor,
If nny Western power, confronted by so vpst
a temptation accompanied with so rare and
propitious an opportunity, would havo
shown as much forbearance and moderation
as Japan. For this China has to bd grato
ful to Japan's wise reading of tho future
and her patient willingness to defer for n
generation, If necessary, tho acquisition of
what sho greatly desires today.
Just what docs Japan want in China, or
with China? To answer this wo must go be
yond such trivial matters as tho Klao-Chow
incident and tho railway nnd other conces
sions Bho has so recently wrung from tho
grasp of China, and to consider Japan's
view of tho future of Asia and tho part she
lntonds to play In It her Ideals and am
bitions. In other words, is Japan treating
China ns n prey, or does Bho regard the
Mlddlo Kingdom ns tho vast stage upon
which sho Is to enact her own great drama
ol Asiatic domination?
In our present temper and nttltuda as to
Japan and our traditional friendship for
and protection of China, wo aro too dis
posed, perhaps, to consider the Japancso as
Inordinately aggressive nnd ambitious. Wo
havo heard more of tho Chinese side, and
aro moro Inclined to accept It. Hut n sur
vey of tho cntlro situation, nlded by a closo
observation of the lenders who aro direct
ing Japan's present policy, has convinced
mo that Japan's activities In China aro not
without warrant of Justice, and that her
alms and ambitions are not opposed to or
inconsistent with tho fullest development
of tho Chinese people.
Tho European War in Asia
As to Klao-Chow, Japan, the successor to
all German rights, has legal tltlo In tho
leased territory for nearly the remainder of
this century. Sho has never promised to
restore It to China, and sho has never oven
hinted at any definite tlmo for such res
toration. If Bhe uses her possession of tho
bay and Us surrounding shores as a point
to aid her negotiations, demanding con
cessions from China In return for its res
toration, sho would be Justified by Interna
tional law and by abundant precedents. Yet
no one, I believe, doubts that Japan will
restore Klao-Chow to China long beforo tho
expiration of tho old German lease.
It Is not wise to attribute to others a
virtue that wo do not ourselves possess, and
we need not expect Japan to show herself
more moral and Just than her Western
guides and exemplars. It should also be
remembered that Japan feels what sho con
siders Just resentment toward China for tho
latter's attltudo and conduct during the
Tslng-tao campaign While President Yuan
Shlh-kal loudly proclaimed and talked
neutrality, ho feared Germany's mailed fist
too much to permit him to be perfectly
neutral, nnd the Germans were allowed to
move freely In Chinese territory around
Shantung Province In provisioning and
oven In reinforcing their garrison after the
commencement of hostilities. Besides, Ger
mans that escaped wore not Interned, and
China even permitted tho Germans to organ
Izo nnd start an expedition from Pcktn to
attack tho Siberian railway of Japan's ally.
Chin jiected and dreaded this Just anger
of J..i in, and sought to propitiate her when
Pekln saw that the Kaiser was not the in
vincible giant of Yuan's nightmare.
In tho recently granted demands of
Japan tho primary object of the statesmen
of Toklo was to equalize the position of
Japan in China with that enjoyed by other
Powers. They wished to avail themselves
of an unusual opportunity to obtain rights
and privileges that other nations had pro
cured sometimes by brow-beating Japan,
ns, for Instance, England nt Wel-hal-wel,
Germany at Klao-Chow and Russia at Port
Arthur and in Mongolia. Of course, Japan
had ulterior motives also. In tho favorite
phrase of Japanese statesmen, sho wished to
"consolidate the basis" of her position in
China and upon the Asiatlo continents, her
vast future theatre.
Those who have most closely and
directly studied and observed at first hand
the situation In the Far East are generally
of the opinion that Japan has no Intention
to attempt tho conquest or even the master
ful control of China. She is pledged to
respect and maintain the territorial integ
rity of her great neighbor and relative.
But It Is almost certain that she will ob
tain a small portion of Manchuria, which
she needs for homes for her overflowing
population. It is quite probable, as the
Japanese assert, that this would really bene
fit China, by making more compact and pow
erful the Immense and chaotio region and
congeries of peoples that we call the Chinese
Empire or Republic. It would be, at the
worst, no more than Japan's obtaining an
offset to England In Tibet, France in Ton
king, and Russia in Mongolia. These things
,aro not moral considerations; they are only
world-politics.
That Japan now seeks no more than this Is
due to her fears as to the future. She has
lately acquired quite a Napoleonic terror of
an awakened and aroused China. She fears
a too weak or a too powerful neighbor; a
weak China would mean bitter and perilous
rivalries with Europe and America, and a too
strong China would Jeopard her own exist
ence. To Japan, the ideal condition of China
would be a country of extensive and prosper
ous industries that would both buy and sell
vast quantities of produots, Insuring the
financial prosperity and power of Japan; but
a eeutury not given over to military fever
and aggrslon. Japan is willing to fight for
such a China even to. fight China herself in
order to make her such a country.
UNJUST TO ITALY
yrow the New York Bun. ,
The Cologne Gazette is hardly fair to Italy
wlun it says that "Italy will hajp baveausa st
thinks ac ha taken Ote W at tfe vietors
and vletory is $." As a matter of fast, Italy
entaMd the war In the s&adow of the greatest
dbutsitr tfevat tbe Teutonic allla had laalotad
upvM) BusjI sine the war bagaa-
NO PUBLICATION PROBABLE
rraa tfc 8. LAUt tUnvbUc.
W areaetly hop that th Uaa will aot
coma for the appajuaBiai ot a r3, whit asd
UtM book.
ACTIONS
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SCIENCE AT ODDS WITH FAIR PLAY
Inventions Which Have Revolutionized Without Reforming War
Have All -Been Denounced as Unsportsmanlike Some
Answers to the Question, Can War Be Humanized?
By ROBERT HILDRETH
When Camillas, tho Roman general was
beateslns Fnlerll an opportunity was offered
to accuro a victory by murderlns a number or
children of the Fnlrlans who had been treach
erously placed In his power.
Tho proposal was ao shocking to Camlllus
that he said to those who were by.
"War at beat Is a savage thine nnd wades
through a eea of blood and wrong, yet even
war has Its lans, which men of honor will not
depart from: nor do they so puraua victory
as to aall themselves by acts of villainy and
baseness " Plutarch's Lives
THE greatest cost of war Is Its Inhumanity,
and it is doubtless a cost which will con
tinue as long as war Itself shall last. Never
yot has tho cost of war prevented war, to end
which, however, men havo proposed that It be
made as barbarous as possible.
But you cannot fight war with war, except
on tho dcfensUc. War breeds war.
As long ago as tho tlmo of the Ptolemies
tho end of war was prophesied as the result
of tho Invention of a terrlblo engine of de
struction described In a manuscript found
with the mummy of tho man who had made
this contribution to the causo of peace. When
rapid-fire guns came Into use It was declared
that they would prove tho most powerful of
all humanitarian weapons against war.
Though tho codes of modern society aro
supposed to exclude all use of poisons and tho
employment of certain types of treachery, and
so on, moro new dovlces for killing men
abound among civilized people than the Bav
age could ever dream of, and the present war
shows unmistakable reversion to tho ancient
type.
Yet the Issue of humanltarlanlsm and good
sportsmanship In warfare Is of hoary age.
On the other hand, tho sentiment of "all's
fair In war" Is both ancient and modern.
In the Trojan War the Greeks violated tho
rules of good sportsmanship by resorting to
the expedient of the wooden horse.
Achilles committed an atrocity when he
dragged tho body of Hector tied with a rope
one end of which was fastened to hut chariot
back and forth before tho walls of Troy.
Tho Trojans, If not tho Greeks, thus re
garded it.
Yet thero was mercy in the warrior's heart.
Touched by the grief of Hector's father, he
spoko to the aged Priam:
The gods ordain the lot
Of man to suffer. Besides Jove's threshold
stand
Two casks of gifts for men one cask contains
The evil, one the good, and he to whom
Ti.e Thunderer gives them mingled, sometimes
falls
Into misfortune, and sometimes crowned
With blessings. But the man to whom he gives
The evil only, stands a mark exposed
To wrong alike unloved by gods and men.
Then Achilles announced a truce of ten days
that Ilium might pay funeral honors to her
dead hero,
The "Progress" of War
Since then the world has known Progress,
scientific and humanitarian,
What of It? Tho famous Greek scholar,
Professor Murray, in his preface to the
Eurlpidean war play, "The Trojan Women,"
to be presented at the University of Penn
sylvania next week, tells us the difference:
"Borne 13 years ago, when I was steeped
In this drama of Euripides I felt that, vivid
as It was, It belonged to the horrors of the
far past. War might come again, even,
among civilized nqtlona, but It could never
again be this kind of war. Mankind had
advanced Bince the days of Troy or Melos;
thero were rules of honorable warfare firmly
established, pathetic efforts made by man In
his gentler moments, to Insure that, even in,
his fury, ho should not sink utterly below
! the brute. Women and children were afe.
prisoners were safe, the wounded were safe
So mush, seemed certain; and yet the very
reverse was true. Tbe next war was to bo
Uasr ad cruvler than the old wars, just aa
U was vaster in extant."
War cannot change its spots
The earliest men fought with their 1'sts.
Qradually thoy made, for thmsvs
waVtjMMw. If we may Judg froro known hl
tery every new vtgine at warfare adopted by
eae tritgs was rwadly condemned by tbe
enemy trlbw.
Science is the handmaiden of war and not
only the servant of civilisation. Betweeja
clvulwutoo and war it stands neutral. Science
oiB8 Um mod of warfare 8Ad laavaa toe,
nature at war unebMged
SoUace advutoa an bUBUsltartaaiam Uga
aionT twhind.
tlitapowaUr wm invested ac4 the human
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itarians of the world protested against Its use
In warfare. Slnco then they havo protested
against every new dovlco which science has
added to tho means nnd methods of waging
war.
Always, too, thero has been tho doctrine of
"Fair Play," which has much In common with
humanltarlanlsm, except that It reveals moro
of tho warrior's own point of view. The mil
itary tactics which General Braddock disas
trously employed in his expedition against
tho American Indians wero tho "Fair Play"
tactics of Braddock's tlmo and place. Tho
remnant of his forces were forced to adopt
tho tactics of their Indian foes. (Nations
likewise adopt tho tactics and tho Instru
ments of their enemies In self-defense.)
Tho ubo of artillery In battle was at first
thought to bo Improper and unsportsman
like. Whon cannon were employed at
Chloggla In tho 14th century all Italy mado
complaint against this manifest contra
vention of fair warfare; tho ruling classes,
soelng their armor, their lances and knightly
prowess rendered useless, vigorously op
posed tho newly Invented arms, declaring that
thoy wero calculated to extinguish personal
bravery.
An Inconsistency
Various kinds of shells and bullets were
Invented. Humanltarlanlsm and good sports
manship condemned them, one after another.
Yet, while Great Britain prided herself in
not using explosive or expanding bullets In
the Boer War, she did not scruple to Are
lyddite shells at men, women and children
at Paardbcrg.
Submarine torpedoboats were first heard of
at tho time of the American Revolution, when
some of David Bushnell's craft made unsuc
cessful attempts to sink British ships.
It was declared In the War of 1812 that
the submarine attacks on British ships were
mostly unauthorized nnd that tho navy men
"preferred the more chlvalric method of sink
ing vesselB with 18 and 24 pounders, or
mowing down their crews with grape and
canister."
Humanltarlanlsm and the doctrine of good
sportsmanship have provon of no avail
against the advance of science, and science
la neither friend nor enemy of war,
England's admiral, "Old Fisher," knows
something about war: "The humanizing of
warl You might as well talk of humanizing
hell! As If war could be civilized) If I am
In command when war breaks out, I shall
Issue as my commands: 'Tl)o essence of war
Is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
Hit first, hit hard, hit all the time, hit every
where!" Humanize warfare! When you wring
the neck of a chicken, all you think about is
wringing it riuickly, You" don't give the
chicken intervals for rest and refreshment."
DEAD TURK TOTAL LOSS
From the Christian Herald.
Each of the armies In the great war has
a regular system which enables It to Identify
the dead The Russian soldier wears a num
bered badge, the French soldier has an identi
fication card stitched into his tunic, the Ger
man soldier a little metal disc bearing his
number, the British soldier has an aluminum
disc, with Identification marks and church af
filiation: the Japanese soldier has three disss,
all alike, one on the neck, another In his belt,
and one In his boot, the Austrian has a gun
'metal badge, locket shape, with Identification
on a tiny parchment leaf wlthfn. The Turk
Is the only soldier who Is so lightly valued
that he carries no badge. Identification evi
dently being regarded as needless.
THE LESSON FOR US
From the Charleston Nawa and Courier.
Whatever elae oomes of the Lualtanla tragedy
there must result from it a qujekanad raUatUm
on the part of the American people of the ncs
slty of being always prepared for possible war.
In the face of the stark realities which now eon
front us, the sophistries of the extreme pacifists
who oppose any increase of our naval od mili
tary strength are exposed In all their Ucllbwneas.
The central and fuadamatat fallacy of tbe
paetAst doctrine can now deceive u no longer.
It is the theory that if the United States sin
ccrajy desires to ramajn at peace with all MA
tteus and f It pursues a poltsy of fairness
toward all and aggression towards none, it will
always ba able to remain at peace. In this hour.
If cvr before, the American people realise how
faja ia this theory Sincerely destreaa of jr
roajntng at ? with all th European Batten,
pursuing a policy of falrna. toward sJLl of
them u4 aggraaaion towards none, thtt country
nods Itataif today, In spite of the moat hones
and earnest and dlllseiit atforta to praserv tb
u Wiast eutraiit reading a loo death Use of
Americans, men, women, and children, killed by
a foreign power.
The lesBon should sink deep into our con
sciousness. To love peace is not enough to as
sure us of peace. Wo have loved peace and
striven for peace with all our hearts, and yet
tho question In every mind today 1b, "Docs It
mean war?" Ono truth that we shall surely
learn from tho Lusltanla horror and the crisis
which It hns created is the truth that this
country's safety depends solely and simply upon
its ability to defend Itself by physical forco
against nny other country with which It may
unwillingly be forced Into conflict.
NAVAL PREPAREDNESS
To the Editor o Evening Ledger:
Sir From your editorial today on "Prepared
ness," ono would bo led to Infer that the Demo
cratic party hns done little or nothing toward
providing us with nn adequate navy, while tho
Republican party (having saved tho Union) Is
tho only party able to provide us with a navy
commensurate with our needs.
When Cleveland became President, on March
4, 1SS3, after 20 years of Republican rule since
tho Civil War, he found practically no navy.
Some old monitors, three light crulBers and a
dispatch boat mode up our navy.
It was under Mr Whitney, ns Secretary of
the Navy, that our modern navy was begun. In
fact, Mr. Whitney, a Democrat, was styled tbe
"Father of the Modern American Navy "
After 20 years of Republican rule It remained
for a Democrat, Cleveland, to bogln our navy:
and again, after 16 years of Republican rule. It'
has remained for a Democrat, Wllaon, to make
provision for the largest addition to tho fleet In
the history of the Republic.
In view of these facts It seems odd for you
to Intlmato that the Republican party Is or,
can be made, a "big navy" party, unless, ns it
begins to appear, that party may be hard
pressed for an Issue. t
I should like to repeat Mc Geutner's query:
What has become of tho American mercantile
marine? S. j
Philadelphia, May 23.
1
IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD 3
To the Editor of Evening Ledger: 2
Sir Yaur valuable paper has done much good,
with Its general news. It la n clean paper
which should bo In every houshold.
WM. McM. CULL.
Philadelphia. May 20.
FAIRY TALES
A half-starved flock of littlo city strays, .
They sit expectant. In tho warm schoolroom,'
Lighting with their wan smiles Its ordered
gloom
And breaking the smooth current of its ways
With eager shuffle. He In rags displays
Bare feet all dusty from the weaving loom.
And she the Btamp of early, tragic doom,
In sunken cheeks and fervent, hollow gaze.
But now they hear blue waters beating free
Upon tho prows of Jason's gliding ships; '
Now, shadowed by the dragon's brazen wings.
They pluck the golden apples from his tree,
And, draining this sweet cup with thirsty lips.
Soar In a land of rainbow-tinted things.
Laura Benet, In the Outlook.
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