The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-04-28

Sarolea, we discover from his address
the other evening before a small au4-
lience Of ardent pro-allies, comes to US
with a complaint. It would seem that
the United 'tates and its people, al
though the tier have shown coIu-
mendable Humanitarian impulse To-
ward the Belgians which we are As
sured in passing they will never for
get, have nevertheless fallen far short
of their duty as the allies conceive
it. DR.. Sarolea is so frank as to III
form us that our course, while 1t has
purchased us the hatred of the Ger
mans, has not gained us the respect
of the allies-the word is DR.. Sarolea S.
The definite cause of complaint is
the failure of the United States gov
eminent to lodge a formal protest
against the invasion Of Belgium. When
asked if allied opinion went to the ex-
tent of demanding that the protest
should be backed by military action
or the threat of it, DR.. Sarolea seemel
to be unwilling explicitly to admit
this, out it is impossible to account
on any other ground for the tenor and
temper of his address, which, save
for the brief allusion to American re-
from beginning to end The same coz
clusion is to be drawn from the crit
icism of the London Spectator, but il
must come with special force from the
subject of a country into which Amer
lean relief has been poured to the eN-
tent of over S21 .000,0 900. We have no
desire to make point OF American
giving. That was prompt. ungrudgin :,
c11hStQr-
| tial. Yet if in spite of this succor and
| in spite of the fact that our mainten-
ance of a policy of neutrality and
free commerce is one Of the most vital
factors of the allies strength we are
held to have fallen SO far short OF
duty as to be without the respect
OF the allies. then it behooves Amer'-
cans to face the fact. Without respect
There is neither friendship nor, in the
long run, security. DR.. Sarolea re-
marks that if we are not with the
allies we are against them, and this
| frank admission seems to us to ex-
press not of course the reaction of all
Britons or Belgians but the general
temper toward US on the allies side
! A remarkable manifestation OF this
feeling is reported from Australia.
! The representative of a concern which
which does a large business in Amer
lean goods in Australia and New Zea-
Hand writes that sentiment against the
United States, stimulated by the press.
! has become so strong as obs srvably 20
affect the sale of American goods.
| Japanese resentment over the anti
alien laws, though politely covered by
| Officials, is natural and inevitable.
| AS to Latin-America, from the Rio
Grande to TERRA del Fuego, we ought
to have no illusions. The other day
we we're told of the feeling against
lis in Peru, where we were supposed
to be less obnoxious than in other
South American countries, but we
need no such recent testimony to the
mixture of fear, distrust, dislike, AMI
contempt which seems to be the emo
ton reused whenever the Colossus OF
the north is in the Latin-American
mind.
1t is hard for the people OF the
United states to realize that they
have become the object OF an almost
universal dislike, ranging from hatred
to contempt. But it is most import
ant that we do realize it. not to ex-
aggerate nor to make ourselves the
victims of unnecessary alarms. bus
to shape Our policy and direct our
actions with due caution, foresight,
and practical effect Better to be
despised for too anxious apprehens-
ion,'' says Burke in his essay on the
French revolution, than ruined by too
confident a security"