The Sentinel=record., 1914-08-16
NEUTRALITY Is NEUTRALITY.

American people by President Wilson Is an injunction that ought to be pre- served in its strictest sense by al those who love the Stars and Stripes above all other flass-
 at Is difficult thing to be abso- lutely neutral An ahso.ute neutrali- ;y calls for a higher citizenship than has been demanded before from our people. America has been called Melting Pol~ Of the citizenship of the world. So it is. And in this critical hour of the worlds history the test of its melting wia be made. The dross will be eliminated
 Our people do nos want ;o be draun into this war. We have seen other nations disinteresied brought into tae WAT and ih@sr people caused 10 saf- fer Belgium was an innocent by siander. Holland, quiet little peace loving country. has been forced to cal eso,0a0 of her men from the field to protect herself from invasion. Al most without the slightest cause or pzevoeaiion. war reaches out it's ten tacles and withers the world
 Our people ought to be without bi- as and without prejudice. Ii is ex- reciea of them. It Is demanded of them. Che waFrsaE nation has made the request from one of oar finan- eial lords for large loan. IL was we'll the matter. though individual. was taken up with onr government A fund is being made up Of millions for two allied nations. one of which is still boasting of its great horde of chests of gold for years for war pur poses. Isn't the making up of such fund treading on dangerous ground?
 Absolute neutrality will be diffice.t to maintain But we can be just as neutral as it is possible 10 be. Those of our citizens of French or English descent or of German or Austrian ie- scent may have their feeling in this European war. hut they must have 1irst allegiance, and ii that first al legiance is to America they viii not be unreasonable in their expressions. If their first allegianee is not t9 America. then they should join the rs- serves and return to he the real pa- tFiots their ambition suggests.
 Their has been a great huilabaloo abont the prejudice of ihe American press. II Is not justified The Amer ioan press Is giving ihe news of the war just as it can be gotten under the stress Of war. Reasonable mea know that cables are cut, and that censor ship exists. and that conditions are not such that 8 press can get what it 4ants. The press takss what t can get and viii continue to do so under the stress of war. There is no pre5u- 6ice in so far as the American press is concerned. though there may be liAs in the reports coming today and tomorrow.
 The best advice given the Ame-i- can people in a long time came from President Wilson ar an hour when he was dividing his time be;ween the ga- ierest Of his country and the death bed Of his wife. That advice was that we should tn our individual lives and in our individual actinns preserve neutrality. which taken thea as . whole. is absolute neutrality of the natioa. That was fhe meat in the nat os the situation.
 4 great worlds var Is CD. Ne are not involved. Ne are far asoof from fAe scene. Bat no man can forsee the conditions Of tomorrow. If in the final analysis ol the situation this na- ton were to be involved in 8 world wAF-it fate should so aexree. it must not be because of any mistake that we make. En 8 crucial moment Ike shis we must all be Americans first and Americans last. our patriotism beginning and ending paralle. win fhe interests of the government whnss benefits re enjoy and whose stability rests upon our patriotism and oar loyalty.
 
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