The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-07-10
Don't Understand U.s.

Don't Understand U.s.
An "American mining engineer" writing in the Cana
dian Mining Journal, says:
An Englishman who recently visited the United States
declared that in all London there is not a man who under
stands America. "And," he continued, mo one under
stands It. 1t is too varied, too big, too rapid in its transi-
TONS" OF one thing I am sure, the average British news
paper understands America not at all. The news items
which they Gull from American papers for reprinting in
England are one-sided, sensational and altogether misrep-
resentatlve. Like any other country, America is a lot of
things at once, with dozens of angles and facets, and it is
altogether misleading to select one phase of national life,
perhaps a derogatory one, and say that it is the entire ma
ton. Any Englishman would laugh at any foreigner who
thought he understood all about England from the
reading of a few sensational articles extracted from Lon
dons press.
AS to what the people of the United States, it's one
hundred million population, think and feel about the war,
about the Germans, about Belgium, about the British and
the French, there is one great and significant fact to be
taken into consideration. The Americans are not fools!
They know what has been going on since last July, are re-
markably well informed on every point, and have been de-
celved not at all. The elaborately prepared German propa-
ganda, of which so much has been heard, has accomplished
nothing, nor changed American ideas a particle.
But why, asks the average Britisher, did not America
make a formal protest at Gernany's outrage of Belgium,
since the United States was one of the signers of the Hague
treaty, which guaranteed the inviolability of the little
buffer country? The answer is that it was expressly
stated in the same treaty that under no consideration was
the United States expected to forsake it's traditional policy
of non-interference in Europes internal quarrels. America
has always made a particular effort to keep free of dissen~
sions, policies and entanglements which concerned the
countries of Europe alone. Such is the natural and logical
attitude of a young, growing nation with the ideals and
ideas of the y. S. A.
President Lowell of Harvard university saws the aver
age man reaches his mental maximum at twenty-nine. The
wonder IS how President Lowell became president.
-O-
An exchange suggests that one way for the Austrians
to stop the Italian advance would be to blow the II O'Clock
whistle.
1t is said intervention by the United States in Mexico
would unite the factions. Then why hesitate?
Somebody has figured out that the European war is
costing 100000 an hour. 1t isn't worth it.
"A Chicago man not only made some counterfeit four.
dollar bills but passed them-in Illinois.
Bryan will find out just how popular he is when he goe,
TO Milwaukee.
The American casualty list was nothing to brag about
this Fourth.
Brother Bill Bryan is already out for peace. prohibition
an suffrage.
In this country it is not the gas that asphvxiates but
the bill.
Nobody can blame Harry Thaw for believing in safety
first.
AS between kultur and cholera the latter is the lesser
evil.