The sun., 1914-08-26
UNHIPIIENATED AHERICANISM
Remarks on the Attempt TO Fight the
Hattics on Thi, side OF the water.

Remarks on the Attempt TO Fight the
Hattics on THIS side OF the water.
To THE EDITOR or THE SuN--Sir: To
the sober minded American who not
merely lives In this republic but who Ia
conscious Of his nationality this root
ing for one or the other of the European
combatants In print or by word Of mouth
appears as puerlle exhibition OF part
OF tile American peoples wits gone
a-woolgathering The fact that my pro-
gentor was born In Germany and that on
! the maternal side have ancestors whose
cradle was rocked in England has. thank
God, not warped my perspective to such
an extent that ! cannot see the light
/ from a United States point of view. The
Kaiserism of Germany, with its attendant
/ milltarisr1. is not one bit better nor one
| whit worse than the Imperialism. with
/ it's rule the waves policy. of England.
surely the nominal cause Of the present
shndy. whether Servia was 10 permit
Austrian Investigators to probe the az
sass,nation Of The ain Archduke and his
wife OF the left hand had no more bear
/ ing on our national welfare than did the
! cutting Oft OF their queues by our Chinese
! friends. Now to those OF us who do not
have to boost the circulation OF German
newspapers by chauvinistic tommyrOt and
who have no English duchesses or other
/ esses in tho family. the effect OF this war
: ON tnt lnlteh states lS the onIy worth
! while phase Of the whole sorry mess
SO far as the outcome is concerned. II
! doesn't matter particle to us. except
Z that IL come soon. What, then, are the
things that concern US?
/ First and foremost. our EXPORT and i'm
I port trade has been shot to pieces for
the time being. That hurts all OF us
I infinitely worse than II the nsor should
blue pencil the Kaiser's touching suppl
! cations to the only one whom he has
ever admitted to partnership. II the war
| should last for any length Of time Tho
buying power of our former European
customers will have become go negligible
| quantity that the only thing there will
he "A market for In Europe wilt he Amcrl-
can donations TO alleviate the Inevitable
, suffering and famine. The only remcd y
We have for the present. to restrict our
/ resulting losses. is to cultivate more in
/ tensoly our South American markets live
make at home much OF the merchandise
We have been buying In Europe. In so far
as that Is possible
Secondly, Japan's declaration OF war
on Germany Is OF direct Interest to US.
for the simple reason that Japan notified
the United States that she was going 10
seize kiao-Chow to hold It In trust FOR
China. THE SUNS reliable Washington
dispatches stated that China asked this
Government what she should do In the
circumstances. and whether. If Germans
offered to restore to her the property
she had grabbed 1bccause certain other
nations had grabbed pieces Of China)
and she should take IT, tho United State
would support her In receiving II bach
directly. over JRptn's protest. JapaI
being insistcnt that she should have tho
privilege Of lamhnstlng the Kaiscr's Chi
| nsse gqrrisons Mr. Bryan said TO China
I'VE can't AFFORD to get mixed up in this
mess, wherefore "" are sorry tho' ",
cant answer your question" There are
some fellow citizens OF the peerless
NehrasEan who feel that he might with
perfect prupriety have answered an In
dury 10y one who had squatter ON his
. ground that II the property was Va
. Gated the thing to do was To take Il auS
to see to Il that Il wasn't stolen tn,
second time. The kind of firm diplomacy
that made England back down In th'
Venezuela sQuabbic might have gone fai
toward setting this Government right IN
the eyes OF the world at this Juncturc
As for getting into a brawl with Japar
over this "Klein Deutschland' On chi
uese soil. there was no necd OF Il; hut
Just to keep the records straight, a NOR.
fearless answer to Chinas question
+ would seem TO have been more consistent
8 with American love for fair play an'
, lntrepiHitv.
/ Thirdly We have directly brought hom,
to us IN the nclghboring Dominion con
, dltlon OF affairs that must needs cause
. us 20 sit up and take notice, being s.
close to home. 90 from Detroit Il
Windsor a few minutes ride; from
Buffalo TO Fort Erie. from Ogdensburl
. 10 Prescott, from Sault Stc, Marie to tn
. Canadian 500, and you viii hnd our dea
Canadian cousins rnttlng ther swords
/ Just as though the Zoe was only a leaEu'
away II isn't very comfortable TO con
: template that every time Ensland's thirs
:or world power gets her into an armed
conflict we must endure exposure to tn
war fever at our northern boundary.
Aside from those three Considerations
cant for the I'VE OF me see why an
= American should care a p!cavune whethe
the Kaiser, the Car, John Bull. Ii
, Re'le f'aucc or King Pet r comes 1ut n
top OF the heap In the ruthless slaughte
, that is now going on In Europe an
sure that II Carl Schur2 and oswald OF
tendorfer were alive to-day they wou
not l1hel themselves, as some prominen
y Tcutonc Americans DO nowadays, Ger
II mon symra,hlzers," They would. like al
b Other Americans, say; It's none of ou
$ business. W. c. II
q ANN ARRoR, Mich, August 23.