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A Justifiable FilibusterI he Tribune welcomes enthusiastically!

the decision of the Republicans in the

fcenate to do everything in their power

Bt force an extra satealon of Congres-.'That decision is the first sign given in a

long time of \irile Republican leadership:.:i Congress. The Republicans, in tahaHouse have a skulker for a leader. Fort¬

unately, m this criMs the party can look

to its representatives in the Senute far

courage and foresight.The Tribuno has urgued earnestly in

favor of an extra session ot the new Con¬

gress. In its opinion, there is as much

Deed for an extra session now as there

was in the spring of 1915. We urged the

President to call the two houses together i

after the Lusitania was sunk. Unhappily, !wc were almost alone In pressing that;sound advice on him. He was unwillingto take it, and it is clear now that his re-1

fuaal to allow Congress to meet and act Iwas the gravest error of his whole Ger-1

man policy. It led Germany to draw the

r.lmost unavoidable inference that the I

»'resident was unwilling to back up words

with force, sinco Congress was the onlybody able to supply him with the force

with which to make good his threat to

hold Germany to "strict accountability"for her murderous attacks on Americancitizens.From Mr, Wilson's neglect to prepare

seriously to defend 4\merican rights.starting from the morrow of the Lusi.«.nia masacre.all the humiliations of

ur ineffective diplomatic wrestlings withGermany have flowed. Germanytreated 03 with contempt because in the

timation of her rulers our militarypower is negligible. They still believe it

negligible (as it is), and it must remain-i it is for another nine months unlessthe new Congress convenes and takes upaaniaatly and intelligently the work of

reforming our military system.The Republican leaders in the Senate

rrc therefore right in exercising v.hateviv

power they have to force the calling to¬

gether of the new Congress. They are

rj&tified in conducting a filibuster. Theya do not trust Mr. Wilson's intentions. Theya have reason to think that he has it in" mind to repeat his costly blunder of two

years ago.holding the decision in his ownhands, trusting to good luck to avoid warand making 1.0 proper preparations forconducting war, if war comes in spite of

bis manoeuvres to avoid it.The Republicans in Congress would be

false to their duty and blind to the If-;«ons of experience if they should permitthis Congress to make a vague, deathbed.rrant of authority to the President to.onauct a near-war, or some form of pa¬irie reprisal, with Germany. If v

going to have war (and Germany and

Austria-Hungary have already in effectdeclared war on us), Congress ought tofeel assured that it will have a hand in

:onducting that war and an opportunityto pass absolutely essential military- légis¬lation, to whose passage the Admini.-ti ;i-

tion still shows an obstinate indiffen re»>.

Having been unable i-o far to secure a «

pledge from the President that he will Isummon the two houses in <ession after ¡

March 4, the Republicans in Congress are

within their rights in earning on a cam-

paign of obstruction which will make the!.ailing of an extra session inevitable. No.-¡lances should be taken in a matter of j»uch serious national importance. Thenew Congress is entitled to an opportunity10 retrieve the miserable failures of the

present one. That ought to be the Repub¬lican ultimatum. The President has al¬

ready yielded, so far as an extra

if the Senat« is concerned. If the Sen-ate minority holds firm, he will doubtlessoe brought to pee the necessity of yi'-ldirignil along the line.

More Democratic "Uplift"Mr. .lohn N. ( «aiiiajaa, who has had long

.xperienco with vuriou.^ brands of I'emo'acy in this state, iribiats that the new

group of upstate democrats, which is

attempting to organizo itself, is not "anti-Tammany or «yiü-anythir.g else." It la,he say», merely an HhAociuüon of intelli¬gent upetaU-r.s formed to command ai

future party gatherings "a respectfulrearing tur our view» with regard to poli-..e«t and candidates."If all thtae intelligent up.-taters want

is a respectful hearing for their views,their organization will not need to lie ant i

Tammany. "Mr. Murphy and Isfal assc*datesin the cli'jut which runs Democracy aro

always willing to hear anybody bay any¬thing. In fact, Mr. Murphy ha« some-

timee put himself on record for "the up¬

lift, if uplift il the word." Rut if the»e

upstater", want some attention paid to

h«-ir view-, arid hope to enforce that do-PI . '.rgarii/.atior.'« ;i.»ion,¡

will hav«- to be Hnti-Tamrnaii>.ration ol ry of j

the Democratic League and other en-1

deavors to group "independent" Demouat;> into associations to enforce theirviews against the "organisation" ought toprove that. The fiction that Tammany ismerely "the local organization of the Dem¬ocratic voters of New York City." ftl Mr.Gaynor once rut it, may please these up-st^ite independents, but nobody really pre¬tends to believe it any more. Tammanyuoiir.naU- and controls the action of theDemocratic party in this state. If Mr.Carlisle. Mr. Oshorn and air. Osborne,Mr. Murphy of Troy and the other- impli-cated in tin- newest Democratic upliftwant to change conditions, they will have'to i>e ant i Taimanaj without any fooling I01 beating about the bush. Tiny mightas well accept and act on that notion, or;

DC prepared to peter out as the Democraticleague did when it tried to be more or:

!c.-s "regular."

Putting Our Flag Back on the SeasNo one can question the fact thai Ger«

many ha.- effectually seared the Americanilag off tiie high sea;-. There .-cm-, bow-'ever, to be a question in certain quarters |.1 to just who ii to blame. Americanship owners, argued "The World" re-'cently. for Secretary Lansing ai-suredthem they could arm to protect themselvesit they wished to, and why didn't, they

and sail? Wen- thry waiting forMr. Lansing to set his permission "to rag-,time and sing It to them"?The only trouble with this glib theory

lay in the statement by President Frank¬lin of the American Line, quoted in an¬

other column of The World":Wê have made every effort to pure

guns for them in this country. Guns can

not be liouglit: that's all there is to it. Welould get .some «funner«--, but we would haveno guarantee, they wore capable Of man¬

ning »¿uns. An the whole matter stand., we«re simply uniting upon the Navy Iiepart-nient for its action.

The episode is typical of the whole im-1

possible, anomalous situation in which thiscountry stands to-day. Germany madeher threat and has lived up to it day byday. Yet our government is still in theposition of refusing to believo that Ger¬many intended anything as terrible as

she said. "Sail out, unattended and un¬

protected, and if you are sunk and enough0Í your passengers are drowned undersufficiently horrible circumstances yourcountry will do something," was what thisgovernment said in effect to Americanshipping. The sacrificial ship could arm

itself.oh, certainly! But guns could not

be provided by the government, for that,would be war. And no other guns were

available.So runs the vicious circle. And the

wonder grows as to just how much longerthe American government will pretend tobo waiting for an American ship to berunk, when it knows as well as everycitizen of the country that its refusal to

protect the American tlag is keeping everyAmerican ship safely tied to a dock.

"The Land of Luther, Kant andGoethe"

The "Voagische Zeitung." denouncingMr. Wilson's appeal to the neutral nations,

"The purpose of this invitation isnothing less than to bring about the in¬ternational ostracism of Germany, theland of Luther, Kant and Goethe."What an unfortunate list of names with

which to back up Germany's present policyof murder and outrage! Do the Germansthemselves imagine that any one of theirgreat historic thinkers would have sup-ported this Von Tirpitz terrorism? Noth¬ing could better serve to point out the con-

trast between the old Germany, which wc

all loved and admired, and this new Gcr-

many, which now menaces mankind; noth-ing could reveal more clearly how far Ger¬many has fallen from her own nationaltradition of greatness than to remind us

at this time of the Germany of Luther,Kant apd Goethe.Martin Luther was one of the world's

great liberators. I!e pent no small partof his life in open hostility to that veryreactionary monarchy with which Lu¬theran Germany is now allied. The move¬

ment, which he started contained the seedof the modern democracy against whichPrussianism now makes war.

Immanuel Kant was a thorough demo-

crat, over whose desk hung the picture of.Tí an Jacques Rousseau. He was a friendand supporter of the revolutionists inAmerica und Prance and ¦ lifelong apostleof liberty, justice and humanity. Goethewas an internationalist, a leading spirit inthe world-wide republic of letters, whoseliterary circle at Weimar lived on throughthose stormy days of Napoleon andBMcher in -uprem" indifference to theclash of arms, royalist plots and sordidnationalist ambitions. The "VoaaiaeheZeitung" would be among the first to-day jto denounce Goethe a- "unpatriotic."The Germany of Krupp «-ftui» i i;

marckian statecraft and Junker snobbish-re:-:*, lias toned away oM Germany's la t

friend. Nothing \f-% than these monthsof Prussian stupidity and terrorism couldhave convinced OS that the old Centra]Kurope, where hospitality, song and in-ItllettUil freedom had reigned BO long, Bojlonger existed. We would still like to be-!ie.e rliut this; modem (iermany, -hut off

bf its brutal folly from the rest of hu¬manity, with the liapsburg and the Tur,,as its only friends, is not the only (irr-

many then is. If ape, tOO, are forced byan In solones to draw the sword it

t.i be hoped we may be spared from thaimistake which some of («ermany's enenm

have made in belittling the good whichthe (iermany of Luther, Kant and Goethehus really accomplished. Truth and Ueautyn r< <¦ senttoUy human; they could not boOOtlsaTlaad if we tried. In protecting our

rights against the madness of th" Kaitorwe shall really be on the .sid>: of thatother hgmnn <¡ermuny which once saj -.

B*Bjoctod the Germany not only of Luther!and (vent and (¡oethe but of Humboldtand Hegel, of Schiller and Hein'-, of Mo|bejri and Durer, of BaOtho*/en and S. bubert mid Wagner the «.crmaiiy whichm piled Catiyle and guv« Carl ftehuri to

America, and which we hope, after this

UM Kaiserifm has broken its neck, willbe the Germany of »he future.

East Side Feminism''What for are these judges and these

Albanie.-'."'It is the cry of the feminist movement

awakening OB the Kast Side. Woman's

place is the home inevitably, v hen thereare many children to be cared for andBO money for nursemaids, but the per¬formance of home-making necessitatesgoiiig out of the home at least for theshort space of time required to do the

daily marketing. Small flats without re¬

frigerator^ and shops without deliveryiy mi make I he going out of the home

as inevitable as the staying in it. The

police official who told the women to stayin their homes if they didn't want to getbit was as ignorant as he was insolent.

'I'lli going to market and feeding thechildren is the whole business of being a

woman on the Lust Side. If cultivatedminds could accomplish the task in a fewhours, with time left over for interior dec¬

orating and voice culture, the averagemind of the Kast Side cannot. The femi-nist argument that women are built forsomething nobler than cooking runs

>traight up against the blank wail of thefact that most women do not and can not

do anything nobler than cooking. Mar-beting and feeding may be lowly as com¬

pared with the career*' which ^figure infeminist lecture?, but they are the wholelifework of these women, and if the womenfail in their lifework. it is disgrace.

It is an interesting phase of the feminist movement which Miss Helen Todd hasdiscovered in her visits to the homes ofthe submerged tenth. Civilization rolledever these women for years. They knew

nothing of woman suffrage, nothing of pol¬itics, nothing even of labor unions andstrikes. If the man of the family was

working, he brought home his pay enve¬

lope. It was not for woman to under¬

stand or to criticise its amount or the

way in which it. was acquired. It was

hers tu buy with it what sho could, infood, rent and shoes. If the man didn'tbring ¡i home, it was his fault; if he did.and she could not take care of the familywith it. the fault was hers.

It is the disgrace of *>ai¡¡<i, whining chil-1dre:¡, the OOnoo of ha\ ing fallen down on

their jobs, which has roused these women

.this and the inflammable temper of un¬

taught minds, which has driven them to

rioting. Something is wrong when honestmoney wont buy food enough for the chil¬

dren, arid the women are setting out to

find out where the trouble lies. They are

inquiring, "What for are these judges andthe;.c Albanies'.'" whom they find mixed up

imehow in their trouble.Their experience bears an illuminating

resemblance to the stories of the FifthAvenue women assembled at a recent

meeting to confess how they became con¬

ceited to vornan suffrage. It was be¬cause in their attempts to effect sociallegislation, to better housing and food con¬

ditions, they, too, found these judges andthese Albanies mixed up with their trou¬

bles. Tile eaoence of the suffrage move

meal lies not in the actual remedy which

may result from women's votes.that is

a highly problenraticiil question.but inthe fact that women once aroused to thefact of their present helplessness turn tothe obvious relief that offers ttoelf,The women of the Last Side will not be

able to effect an immediate reform in the;food problem of so complicated a city as

New York, neither will the women ofFifth Avenue reform the social problemsin which they are interested; but that doesnot mean that it is not a good thing forthe men to have their help or that thewhele collective intelligence of the com¬

munity may ooi accomplish more that,half the collective intelligence, and it is

to be hoped that when the women lose

the fust freshness of their enthusiasm ami

find that they can't accomplish everythingin a minute, they will find comfort in re¬

ff, that the men couldn't do it. either.

By Order of Germany<r,-,>,n |**m Werfg)

eeka ego to-day President Wilsonwent before Congress to announce ihat behad severed diplomatic relations B/ttl, Qtmany bOCaasa of tl.c Imperial government'«proclamation et' ruthless submarine warfare,

and that if "American ship? and AmericanIhres" should be acriticeil by German navi..

eeOBOaaadars he -would again appear before

Congress "to ask that authority be given ñu¬

to US Bay Bseana that may be necessary Pot

¦¦'.<¦ protection of our seamen and our peopleIn the prosecution of thcr peaceful and Isgitissate eiTi.i.d« on the high seas."

Thu. fur no American ships DOTS been

sank without wanting and no Ante m

hare Lien aaerMeed by the destraetien of an

America** -lop. but this good fertaaidue to German forbearance or German re-

saect for in-.".What ) in Basjf-eaed i 'h«' the Atlaaticl

ports of the United .State« are blockaded b>By gad "m ship owners arc «Irani to

i- tkeii legal rights, Breo Iks American jLin" ships, which curry the (Jailed states

nia.!. are, all held in port by Ofdei "f the

German government.We are doing precisely wnaf Germany com¬

manded sa le do. our aisishael »hipping;no loagor sader the aovereigaty oi the United

hu' uridi r evereigaty of the im¬

perial German government. Germany says"e mio' not hi! trie asas, endet penalty of

death, and WS 'lo not sail the ícmh. It couldhardly make i' erden more etfecti'. c .«o far;.. American ship BTS concerned if it« sub-asariaea had takea physical ponseiision of our'harbors and the regulation of our merchant»hipping had been formally turned over to

the Qerman Admiralty.Thia aitaeties cannot continue indefinitely

while waiting for Gerasaay to commit mi,"overt BCl." The policy of ruthless sub¬marin« warfare is in ltrelf an overt act, andThe World Believes that it i« the immédiateduty of President ITilsea to mk Ceagra fat"authority to ut-e any means that may ho

B000SBary for the protection of our «rami*n

Sad oat people in the proiecutioti of thtiipeaceful errand«: on the high .-eas." We mu.-t".i a- art SOI iito'ht» or «unender them,

and if we ai, t., Mirrcnder them it WBS notworth while to go to the trouble of lOTSriagdiplomatic relation« with Germany.Beery <J«y that American .-hips are afraid

to put ie «en secaaso of irrnmn eefsaee silaw and civilisation our lights are invaded,!

hoeOT II Snllled and our po«ir a« a

greal nation challenged befen Ihi srld.

A SOLDIER'S TESTAMENT..Prom tué larsaío« >.'«"«'

If 1 come to dieIn this inhuman «thfe.

I grudge it not, If IB] laying down my Iif*Do might at all to bring

A day of chanty.When pride of lord or Mag

Un-powerful shall b«To «pend the nations' atore,

lo »pill the peoples' blooil;Whereafter evermore

Humanity'» full floodI. ntroubled on shall roll

In a rieh tide of peace.And the world's wondrous soul

I nervieileil increase.But if my Ufa be given

liT'iy thut lords el.'I kingsMay <&} : ">Ve well have atmen!

Seel where oar banner flingsIt» falda upon the breeze

Tttaaka, bobIc Bin, to you!See! how the land«, «nd »e»i

Hava changed their pristine hue."If after I am dead

0 goes the «am« old game.With monarch- laalBf red

And saiaiaten aBaaio.And nations drowning deep

In quarrels not their own,And peoples called to reap

The woes they h»ve not sown; . .

I f all we w ho are slainIla\e died, rl* spite our hope.Only taj twist again

The old kaleidoscopeWhy then, by God! we're BOldl

Cheated and wronged! betrayed!Our joutli and lives and gold

V.'a ted the homes we'd mail.Sbattend In folly blind,

Bj treachery and »pite.By cowardice of miad

And little men »nd light .

If there be none to buildOa( of this ruined worldThe temple ¦»« ha\r willed.

With our flag there unfurled.If rainbow none ihere ihin«.

».cross these ¡ikies of woe,

It' BOO» of yours »nd mineThrough this ¡»ame hell must go,Then may my soul and those

it all who died in «allBe they of friends or foes

I'.i.-r and come back »gain1 rum pesie that knows no end.

From faith that knows not doubt,To haunt and «ear «nd rend

1 no men that sent u'i out.Bajaes, Egypt.

Nightmare After Talking with WomanWomen| ¦/' Otkt r,

On the feai post.- of ¦» bed. ,

At the i'oot and at I he head.Phantom bird*, in silence de«p¦rimly watch my troubled sleep

Parrot »it:; on one head po«'Like a controversial ghos«.(Jiving insult and offenceChallenging lo eloquence

Pigeon, on the other BidePreens, the coo aha la deniet.Sticky coils <'.' »»ccharlneBaara my rast that might have Lie:,

Stork, the time worn humorist.threaten: jokes that ha>o not missedPoignant antiseptic biteSiaea Eveil lirst-born sa*» tho ligh*.

Laat, the ( arrien Crow I she keepsPatient watch while her meal sleep«,iiloomy. hungry Carrion ¡row!Daara appear: at last ttyy K"I'lap. flap, flap, »B heavy wingThriujrh the tr ¡light vanishing

LLI.TAH HA.

Air-Castles/ ri'i/i ¡'unch

tYrien grow up to be. a msn and wca

". hate'er I please.Black-cloth and serge and Harris-tweed.

Hill have nom- ot these;1-er bhag|;y men wear Harris-tweed, so Har

ri.-,-tweed won't do.And fat commercial travellers are dressed i

dingy blue;Lack-lustre black to lawyers leave and BS»

souls in the City.But I'll Brear Ltauey^oolaey because

sound? so pretty.I «iiTi't. know wh«t it looks like,

1 don't know how it feels.But Linsey-Woolsoy to my fancy

Prettily appealAnd when 1 lind a loicly muid to settle ai

rajr cash on,She «rill 08 BIBCe. too beautiful to need th

gauds: m' fashion..No tinted tulle, or taffeta, no stile or crepc-de

calasWill the BMlden of i.¡> fancy wear.n

chiffon, im Miteen,Vu muslin, no embroidery, no lace of co--tl

nnce.

Bat -he'll be clad in Dimity because it ><oundso alee,

I don't know whet it looks like,I do not know it» feel,

B dimpled BMid in I > m 11 >'.'. a- ever my ideal.

Purposei iv iI i ¡'oeinj /;, 11. ., / mtseeu

some lay I'll die, but how, or when, or w neu

1 do eot greutly care.Because I know that witii the flower BB

we,

My life proceeds¡f mi I Brill laaida u giatiou» lea\o flav

My death will b«\ nor mischievous aecidnr.lluTiVr he«prent

Iff bjood upon the b»ttlcf¡eld's black turfOr m the -urf

Of thunderous comber¿ on the ungatlierc <,-.

But it will beAn Savions hint of a Supreme Design.

A little claw of mineLeft BBensled by the trench or beach to te.l

"Pass, iiiend, alla well."i.KObLL w. nrrcuisox

The Little Houteraw The I'oelrg Jounieti

lii. i.,i iitlle house.House -.'. in white window«.LOW dOOfwava ancl gentle roo:

Little house that make» sunshineSo nu ¡low wl.ero it fall* auo<- yea

thru» hold;Tiiat make» the lamplight aasl such quie

shadows:

Ueingiiaiit looi'i.-

Tell me:In all the year, ti.al you a*«/« been bu.lt.Were you ever M co«ey as now with 01 ?Did you ever hold »o great content as oursWere you ever io happy?Were you ever to loved I

HELEN HOT!

A Challenge to Fate/ .," The Por'ni Revúu; l.unHom

Roll on. fa B avs'Blow forth, ye windi'lo »II l.ternity,No »urge, no blastBut closer binds(lod's great fratemit;

p.icharh 101*8».h m s Dnadaodght

STRICT NEUTRALITY

"Well, that nun has rohbed and murdered rnj inighbor. vha!l I tell liim he is.

a murderer.' After all, it a/ould be more neutra! to salute him politely."Louis I'm markers in Land and Water edition

SWEDEN'S ALSACE-LORRAINEBy JOHN G. HOLME

No neutral country lia.- .uffered SO arut

from the war fever as Sweden. As nathcalculate (heir OgCi it was only year bcfla-t that Swedes wai oir of thi foreamilitary' power- of tin world, that the RalSea was a Swedish lake, that, Riga was I

.econd larpre^t city in the kingdom I id tl

Swedish arm.« were unconquerable. Swed

lory iS almost BS romantic a« that

France. It is ablaze with purple patchescording heroic achievements. Gustavu-i Ad

phus has been allotted a place among the

greatest cneral- of hi«tory by the forem<

militar;, critics. ToftteasOB, one of his gr»leader«, commanded armie« and won butt

ii: the Thirty fears' wa: from a

where he lay half paralyzed. <~har'<overran Rusai*, and Roland while still a b<The legend lives in Sweden that one Swedi¦¦oldier can lick ten Russians. Nations simjcan not and will not forget '.heir past gtort<They may IMS in power and prestige, b

each succeeding generation brings fortii

crop of chauvinists to fan old laSSCS,Sweden has. had to bow to numerical

-trouper foes. Bbc loaf, Finland a little mo

than a century BgO, not through Etussilmilitary skill, but partly through numbeiand mostly through a series of Bapardonatblunder«. It «as a tragedy ae appealing

r dramatic that neither the Swedes nor tl

j Ptnas will ever forget. Moreover, it wi

immortalized by the Swedish-Finnish po

i Johan Ludvig I'uneber-- in what i- BCtha*the most inspiring cjcle of patriolic ballai

n ever written, "Faurik Suis Sauner" ("TITalcs Of tnugn Steel"). (I believe some i

r' the ballad« have been translated into F.n¡¡ish.i There ii probably not B BShoelhojSweden or Finland who ilocs not knov "S-.c

Dufvu." "Dobeln," "Sandel?" and "'The VillagI'irl." It is impossible to estimate whi

Runcberg alone he« done to unite in -nir

his two countrie-,

Runeberg and I.a Revanche

Wi u the United states own nothing likS "Kanrik Btal Sagner." and it is therefor

hard to explain the BSBgiS influence of th

ballads. They ate the Staff that turn bo;.- i

their teen: from tomuch worship to her

worship. There arc perhaps several «lundrei

y model ASBOficea citii'.en« of Swedish birth ii

greater New York who in their youth knev» every one of the BOBgS by heart, and sivon

mighty oaths they would grow up to OS sialors and do nothing but kill Russians tilFinland was freed ef the Slav yoke.Finland is primarily the cause of Sweden':

pro-Germanism in thi-- war. Finland is Swe¬den's Alsiicai-Lorraiiie. When we cotisideiFinland plus Roaeberg as the yeast in thispirit of "revanche," it is small wonder thai

" the warlike BSnllSBQBt of a nation that iui

j only a few j-enerationa ago a great militar-,

! power ha- been stirred deeply. Sweden'« fOBl! Of Rimia's further encroachment in BBTebof a. r It open ths U'ur around ha; been ad«ranead as tho Best reason for bes sympathieswith the Teuton, but this appréhension does

rein to be based on say too strong a

foundation. At any rate, the Swede- have

never been able to con» iaec the NorwegiansOf the .Slav pet 11. and Norway is BtlOBgly pro«Ally. Vet if Rvusin planned aggressi-in in a

northwesterly dirsetiofl «he would hardly .-.topat a Swedish port, by ths acquisition of which

«he would be little better otT than Ot present.Germany could and prohahl] would counter

the move merely by swallowing Denssarh sadreatrelling the aonad beitwees Penmark andthe Baltic peninsula, Ii i« more probable'.hat Russia ¦¦ ill either leave Su eilen aloneos cut a erees lection »ff the Baltic paaiasala«nd BOOl port: in the fjords of Noiwiiv. Hut

think of the distance from t*hc SOBtrs of Ru-'' sia to the fjords of Norway! 11uw much good

would a Weatera Vladivostok do Ruosia?

.lust how close Sweden came to throwingher fortunes with (iermany when the «rmiesof the Kaiaer '.«"re pmhing their way into

BbbsIbb Baltic provincei «rill probably never

be known till long alter peace la made andthe diplomatic records of neutrals and bel¬ligerents en opened to the world. The ac-

tlvistl of Ssredea wore gaining in power daily.An inspired book. "Swedish Foreign Policy in

the Light Of :he World War." purporting to

have been written by Swedisn Socialista andcalculated to aria e\er to the activist w.ng the

leetlOB of tiic Socialist ami Loft partie-», atillpro-Ally or- devoted to neutrality, ¡old bythousands. Pi B*s»>B pointed out that a Ger-man victory 'u- BSMBtlal to the progress of

sm and world peace.

Bui military e'e-its took a ~,..¡<iei, turn,

coolinp the ardor of Cue Swedish activist«.Germany halted bnr northern campaign or

v«Hs halted. The Kai-er turned hi:- attentionto the Balkan.-«. German troop» bombardingtheir way toward Petrograd were immadiately«placed by German propagandists shellingStockholm. The favorite ammunition of tho

r was the Bait.o question.Lerman Propaganda

Baltia question was mostlr a productof German political efficiency, but it failed to

work. The Batees were told 'hat Germany'.«li\ed war programme included the weakeningof Básala ni the Baltia region. Kusiia was

to be »tripped of Courland. Livonia, Esthona»od Fialaad, leaving the Slavs only Petrograd»ad a bit of surrounding country' a mere

porthole on tho Baltic In return Germanywould favor crying Basslo an outlet on thoIndian Oeao i, where she could di»cu?s herfuture commercial and oaval progress withher preaeai illy, Fng'and.

Phia adro t campaign of speculation vac

sanuwiclied her- and there with hints that"German) knew her strength" and did not need

B'a help. In iHct, It might be unwisefor German-, te eOBSailt her.seif to the inter-

..- g ciien In return for whatever helprcdei might offer, It,might not be a

;ro."i politrj far Germany to complicate herlaaala by proclaim,i<r beraelf

:¦. guani.an angel lor Scandinavia, It Brighthappen that Germany might i:*id It to herinterest to proclaim disinterestedness in theBaltic peninsula.

It was blowiag both hot and cold for Swe¬den. But the neat team work of the (Jem.anwriters in their campaign of naïve cajolery,ba I I ''y BBd thuirlike threats .va-' a flatfailure, it <ii,l not unsettle the equilibriumof King Gustaf ar.,¡ Premier Hammarskjold.Military even's alone could have brought Swe¬den around, it' indeed lier statesmen wouldnot have proven strong enough to resist theactivist-. The German propagandists made

.r.e rhey have made since thewar began almost »very word they wrote

ra» SB insult to the intelligence o!' the peo¬ple whom they addre- I

Even at that Sweden remalaa pro-Ga»rrr,amBat the Bsatlviata are aol as strong as theyonce were The aristocracy ii stronger* ir.its leaning, Uiward the Kaiser. Th« titledBwadai havo been accused of being more pro-Qonaaa thai pro Be/eeaa, They have beenmttuaoi of contemplating a political unionwith Oenaaay as materially and morallyfavorable. Germany's, acts of aggression are

condoned by the aetivtsta of tha Kifc-ht partyad tha ft^Ir tha German un ad o Pel

"lore the." likely that th.- Swr-.l-s --ouldhave jene,i In lbs '.'r«y. I inland, the oldcockpi' "f Rubí and Bweaie, soald ba*

dea «nd Finns v. ouldprobabl) b« tarving to«day, bleeding te death»nd chanting l.uneberg'a magic l«ys over new

Of blsBI and attlaOa

The High Cost of War., . .., /. y laata.. I ¦

A few year« ago a French military critic

. said it cost tweet) thousand dollars !0 kill'

one soldier in war.

It has COOt the Allies about twenty.threethousand dollars to kill one of their foe« it:the pre-, nt war.

Theie estimates take t.o account of thewounded and prisoner«, who go into (In.

j bloody seal«.- tor SMON measure.

It cost Kngl»nd nearly lortv thousand ¿..'-ilan to kill .m Americas leldier darlag thea**evetattoa.Catching o Mexteati vim |« itill uneOughl

hris coxt the United State« tens of millions,.«riieh i- undoubted!' the most expensiveBian hunt on record

A Colossal TargetHi . BaTftSSa

Bntisli import« last year were much thelargest m the bistat) oi' the L'nited King¬dom. I hey exieeded tue record for 1015 by»boat $<.i5.utiii,iH)U and surpassed the biggestligaras aver scored in time« of peace by.0no,no(i,i»00. 'Ihe SXparta exceeded the rec¬ord of every other year, except 191:!, andmade » gain of »bout SdOA.000.000 ovar 1916The high water mark of 1913 was left aboutJi»6,"0i\00n ahead of the latent war year. Theto'al for importa an,! exporta together madea jr«in of .xeS.nOO.OOi) owe Ifst. the ye«rwhich held the previous r«cord.Such aoaasaeras <« a colossal t«rg*i to aim

at, and the task set the German submarin«*la about the hardest job th« v»r has put upto »ri\ branch of the naval or military ser¬vice of any country

GLORIOUS FRANCEB> CLEVELAND MOITETT %

France! *

Loved and honored land!Tenderly loved! Supremely honor«**c American« thrill for you with

trida, brother to b:oth«r. «,,t*r to ..J1"WO behold your valiance in this *<,£'*guish. this world peril. *

France!Indomitable France!Weakest of three defender«, icomed Wa

invader who thought to crush J0U .¿J.Vet it waa yon »lone who hurled th« ,.¡¡7hack. It was ;.ou atone in that Srp...Jl.eli who saved a continent fron, »err-uT

Liberty! Fquallty! Fraternity!For these three ;.ou BUT« hatUrd «ni

glorious apiri! o' Ufav«tU, th«.. .Dlritleea of Arc. the Rastillo apir t Kor tka!three you have Rallied the ultimate »trrt-and great-souledne^, 0' the oattea, th.-is« of ever. BBSS sad woman t.Pianos, the readiaeea of e\er\ mill

woman to die for France, and. standi.f'.he Marne, standing on the Summe. .m«,Mat Verdun, you bave eried ont; "TheyaaBnot pa««!"

Libert*-! equality! Fraternity!lor the«e thrv yea wsvc shed -ouru^

hrd poured out your trea«ure. r-'inr er»a>

thing, luffenng everything, to th« «nd u.

tyranny »hall be driven from the earth,t«|Lend that the right« of man, the right« «f*weak, shall henceforth and forever à. -

spectcd.Oh. my brother AmSCJOBBI, any tur« «,

cot Lattled aide bj side with the «ere««,.France for the rights of man, the «ecurlt»»'the weak, the ovc rtbrow ,,. the de«poil«r*

MarV.! The whisper ol a name! Wuhiifteal And another name' Lincoln! Il

theie namei mean oaythiagl I« Uc -pint»'76 dead In us'.' Il the I'cr'iaratiuri of laitpendones forgotten ! Ant the speech at Gr.tyskargl Doe« it no lonr«r matt.er to fr*Americans that tyranny «talk« ortr thi rat0«ned earth ? Under the reddtned se»? "*!,.nations are staaleeedlFebruary the third, 191,'Thank (iod. we have rrmciubrrcJ! wtal,,

beard the call. Wc ha\e drawn th« iv«k

Our children'.» children will not itand,Bii*flipped and dumh. when tho«c tanntiag, m«Wfl word» »re spoken;

I'.c'p-'iin,' Laartaaia! Poland! Araná'History will tr'.l them that we, too, dide«r

part when the Temple of Peace «u trav.

erooily defiled; that when the world «a

writhing in inconcevable agony the I'i.SkStates of Amorica refuaed to exploit tat'

agony, bat came forward in the bittertitint

and stood at the side of France, ginig fe

treasure, it» resourve., its SOBS and dtafit» r-, battling in the o.d spirit for the right«Of man, for the security of th* weak, for th«overthrew of the despoiler. to th« end tin

liberty shall not perish t'rooi the earth.

Americanism in the WeitTo the Lditor of The Tr.bunc.

Slri I have read with ror.«i<ler»b!e indigution Is your i««ue of January 8, 1917, i-

anonymous communication dated a* Medí»*-.

Ore., December W, 1916, estltled "Th* l't

manly Wee«.tS hen it .-ornes to Amer.car.isni there s i

serious difTerenc» betwerii say one lett-a-

of the United BtatM and «ny othtr wetitr

There are "bieertcbrsti -." "molljcoddiwand "sissies" in N'ew York I .ty, in New Ei¬land and in an> oiiiei aeetiei of the reuatr;

but they are not ." numbar» v.

where to be justly u.-ed to stigmatii« u

great section of oar eosMBOB country,

would be just a« ungrac.o'i^ »nd ai uuuv

tS tigSSatise the entire population af BWLnglan.l or Neu tbl lineuir* ?'

your anonymous corn «pondent, becaui« ithe preience of "invertebrate«," "moli-cocdlaa"' and "sissies" in thaw communitin, i

to SOeh to stigmatize th' irrr»t home-lotil"country -loving and 1 iba. rt v-loving Welt, txcause we, perchance, ha-. « in our tnidit tan»

specimen, o'" "invert.ihn te.'." "inoii'coddlfiand "sissiee."A sufficient answer to yoBI anonymen* «*

tnbutor m to his sllegatieai »giinit th:

State, for ilutan. t'ic recent u

tional campaign, whicb Si »aged here »

elsewhere by the Demoersef under t*

slogaa "He kept u- out of eat'-agfaaalone among the states, Is the V/eit «ran»

that slogaa.The country need BOrei feel M appeal ti

tue V\ est «whether to that portion of tbi

a est, like Oregon, which refassd to fol-«*

the slogan "He bepi u. eut of wir," Kwhether to other portion., which for «t»,:

eenaideratiee eeted Is farol oí tfc« fr*

ponent of that doctrine upon any r*»¡ f*

triotic iessaad.It i. true that the West il absorbed. «»'...

oaatry Is, in ths upbuilding of *.. .**_terial resource«., but it ia Dot so abaorhedtn»'it will turn a deaf car loi a single mon«»'« '.'

the call of patrio' that uM sn*'

come. May I remind Th« Sew York Tr-»»'*

and Its anonymous correspondent that u<

Oregon volunteers wire ths rlrat within th

Spanish line.* at the fall of Hsails md .»

the Oregon troops srera the I tat, or »a*0«'

rat, to entrain foi the Mexican bord«

In the present nplaasaataossf Ae I *ti**

oa srery nagstafl ol creat city fie« t*

American la|mmity of our people in ths pr>-»en: aehmjany call that may bo mad« upon us by «

Fiesident of the I'nited Sts'r«.ROBIKT TMAT rtafflTl

1'oitland. <'i-o., Feb. IT, IflY.

Germany at Costa RicaTo the Kditor of The Inhv.-

Sir: With rsforeaeo to th« .¦. cent »«*..¦

tion in Cosu Rica, of wh eh tl thane«« .

travel made t.ie an <.... '*'".

I '4 <J

important s tätem f.*. te mase, a i»

I the !»-T*Ids t»e a

of Baa;'. ". !"'

a eer*i | of Oerssas i ih< ;

.ere arm d with tier. IB (1 thf r

ore bald guni which i san »era -,¡,gü'r*1(In the colonel'-, billiard room on the »e<^Beet Of Ubi SO**taeha turre v^ere f,,u'i*ldows commanding the road. abOal llv* '*

itra.gh: hue to the cay of Sea J«*«- »^b ;i t.erm»-! machine tun

-aeaated, pels rig Ithe ro;ul in th« direction o' the (

io much struck with thi« that ¦ * ^young »o'dier who Was conducting me *n

they "eeet bod rseelatio -"'* *

He, of couric. «aid "No." ' JjM*. «-«. *ha revolstii i

i

".al Tinoco. I «iter^ard me'. - ver«! P«... _. .i ,A..«l,ii<..n. »lu **^

*, few day« later ths revelsties »uo«-jbroke out. and the entire army *''ntJ.^« bodv to Ike revolutio'ary pafty..'^jand QOatrOllsd by the Mi.ualer of «»r-

who took part In th« reveletloii. .***£Catned that it had been arranged a longv**-

II «dvance. A« for the reeolatlo« in t »*

has undoubtedly been p «nncl by <...*£in order to And occupation for the t

States army and nao oui.id« th- *¿.TZaTaoae, WITOAMO «AOWWHot Spring», Ark, Feb. w% IWf«