s none, that is a photograph of him. Last autumn there
were Americans who wished the papers would stop printing war news and
give their readers a change. So we have their photographs, as well as
those of other Americans who merely calculated the extra dollars they
could squeeze out of Europe's need and agony. But that--thank God!--is
not what we look like as a whole. Our sympathy has poured out for
Belgium a springtide of help and relief; it has flowed to the wounded
and afflicted of Poland, Servia, France and England. A continuous
publishing of books, magazine articles and editorials, full of justice
and of anger at Prussia's long-prepared and malignant assault, should
prove to Europe that American hearts and heads by the thousand and
hundred thousand are in the right place. Merely the stand taken by the
_New York Sun_, _New York Times_, _Outlook_ and _Philadelphia Public
Ledger_--to name no more--saves us from the reproach of moral
neutrality: saves us as individuals.

Yet, somehow, in Europe's eyes we fall short. The Allies, in spite of
their recognition of our material generosity, find us spiritually
wanting. In the _London Punch_, on the sinking of the Lusitania,
Britannia stands perplexed and indignant behind the bowed figure of
America, and, with a hand on her shoulder, addresses her thus:

_In silence you have looked on felon blows,
On butcher's work of which the waste lands reek;
Now, in God's name, from Whom your greatness flows,
Sister, will you not speak?_

This is asked of us not as individuals but as a nation; and as a
nation our only spokesman is our Government: "Sister, will you not
speak?" Well--we did speak; but after nine months of silence. This
silence, in the opinion of French and Belgian emissaries who have
talked to me with courteous frankness, constitutes our moral failure.

"When this war began"--they say--"we all looked to you. You were the
great Democracy; you were not involved; you would speak the justifying
word we longed for. We knew you must keep out politically; this was your
true part and your great strength. We altogether agreed with your
President there. But why did your universities remain dumb? The
University of Chicago stopped the mouth of a Belgian professor who was
going to present Belgium's case in public. Your press has been divided.
The word we expected from you has never come. You sent us your charity;
but what we wanted was justice, ratification of our