The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-10-14
THE mad HOUSE"
IS NOW COMBINED
HOLLAND HAS NO POLITICAL
STRIFE FOR THE FIRST TIME
IN MANY CENTURIES.
Protestant and Catholic Differences
. of the Dutch Are All Forgotten in
Their Looking to Nations Future
Welfare.

The Hague, Oct. 10.-4Holland at
present has no politics. at is a
blessing" said a very intelligent
burgher. For the time being We
have forgotten the awful strife which
during the iast ten years had made
Holland a political mad house For
once Protestant Holland and Catholic
Holland realize that they have some
thing in common"
But while Holland has no politics,
1t has political fears. Conscious Of
their weakness her people ask: What
VIM" England is not trusted, of
| course. The Boer war was a Dutch
affair these men will tell you, and
| the end of the two South African
republics is too recent an event to
| have been forgotten, Notwithstanding
what Louis Botha and other Boer
| leaders have said.
Under the old arrangement Hol-
land was able to play no inconsider-
| able role in Europe. With the Triple
Entente occupying fully the attention
of the Triple Alliance, Holland man
aged to look after her own affairs
without interference. WHAT is more
her East Indian possessions were
then considered absolutely safe Now
the colonies have become the subject
of much worry. Java, Sumatra and
Borneo are desirable property and
while there is nothing to indicate that
they will not keep them, it is felt
that it is far better to have an inter
national political condition under
which the cupidity of one great
power checks that of another than
to depend entirely upon the good will
of any single power. For the taking
of the Dutch East Indies from the
Dutch, Germany would have gone TO
war had she been left out of the
deal, it is said here.
Tne Hollanders confess, when they
will talk at all, that they are appre-
hensive over the great war. With
Germany defeated they see Schelwig.
Holstein again Danish, East and West
Prussia and Posel Russian and AL
saceLoraine in the hands of the
French Then with the German for
tications RACED, and with the afmy
and navy limited to impotency, Hol-
land sees a loss of those guarantees
which the European situation has
formerly provided.
| This feeling recently has over
Swallowed the anticipation that Ger
many's loss in foreign commerce
would in part become Hollands gain.
| To know that until international af-
sufficiently to establish a new bal
ance of power, Holland would exist
| entirely by the grace and good Will
of either England or Russia fills the
thoughtful burgher with dismay. He
| is in the sad position of disliki1g the
German, loathing the Russian and
mistrusting England. Honest inter
est ne takes only il the French, fear
ing at the same time that Germany
before she succumbs, should such be
greatest shambles of history.
What his country may expect UNI
der these circumstances he cannot
| foretell. He hears rumOrs that Rus
STA will try to get possession of the
entire Baltic seaboard, and that Ham
burg ald Bremen are even Included
in this ambitious plan. Needless to
say that makes the Russian a neigS
| bora near neighbor, a conclusion
attended by the thought that after all
Germany, by stemming for years the
tide of Russian advance, did a service
valuable not only to Holland, but the
remainder of Europe. A prominent
editor remarked that for this he could
even forgive THE Germans the many
studied sights they mad heaped upon
the Dutch and their country. That
is great deal for a Holiander to say.
But war has its brighter side, even
in Holland. The Dutch papers print
side by side-and recently with CON
stantly increasing editorial notes
the news of the day of both sides.
Sucn glaring contradictions have
never been run off the press any
where. At the head of the column
the knglish and French official com.
muniques appear; further down those
of Won Stein, quartermaster-ge neral
of the German army. The English
and French dispatches insist that the
allied troops have taken such and
such place, while the German dis
patches, always brief, imply by their
contents that such is not the case.
The Dutch editor takes the Official
news as ne gets it and permits the
public to judge just who is the great
est press agent" With press bu-
reau dispatches and other commune
cations he deals differently. In most
cases he appends note to the effect
that the item is evidently gross ex-
aggeration, or that it is colored to
suit the interests of the country OF
origin. The editor in otner words
warns the public against the accept
ance OF what he presents-not as
fact. but as news matter that has