Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-15

.io loNo,ioil o1 tut IT cOuntfyS paTtlC- lpatlon i'll the war. They believe ev- cry legitimate step consistent with the nations dignity should be taken to keep out of it. And they point out many widely different reasons for this belief.
 Americans Argue Against War
 To begin with they urge that the lnalienaDle right of all neutrals to cross the ocean in belligerents ships is no excuse for Americans travelling in British steamships when an Amer ican liner leaves England for New York every week.
 The matter of a private bath was responsible for the death of one of the two Americans who went down with the Arabic. This passenger re- fused accommodations on the Amer ican liner Philadelphia because there was available no stateroom with a private bath attached. Opinion in London is unanimous that a people should not be called upon to go to war over the death of an individual who jeopardizes his life for such a reason. T trTM
 The admralty's reasons for wish ing the United States to add it's powerful fleet to Britain's are suf- ficiently obvious to need to eXposi- ton. The attitude of the foreign of flee is less comprehensible on the surface. My informant is sure he understands the feeling of the men nigh in command in Whitehall.
 Would Injure Britain.
 Accepting the assumption that the United States would refuse to make an alliance with any of the allies it can be seen that England as repre- sented by the foreign office, might well question whether a declaration Of war by the United States against any first class power would be to the advantage of Great Britain. Con- vcrsely the reasoning of the foreign office furnishes about the only good reason that can be advanced for such action by the United States.
 Only by declaration of war could the United States be sufficiently en- thused to yield voluntary soldiers in sufficient numbers to count for much in these days when armies are count ed in millions of men.
 The foreign office is not at all sure that Great Britain's interests will be best served by seeing the United States become a great military pow CT Conditions of today may easily find themselves transformed in an other decade-perhaps sooner. And so the foreign office infinitely prefers a continuance of existing conditions of, st9nifpe ercial activity and military sIothH H:itlsatfie. United States to war declaFatian that might mean first of all ,hm' Absolute cutting off of all mu- nitions which are now being literally poured into this country.
 Germany's Reasons for New Attitude.
 Incidentally Germany much-discuss- ed climb-down is not altogether the result of her fear of what the United States might do military-wise. Ger many knows very well what might easily happen to her tremendous in- terests in the countries of her ene- mics if she did not have the invalua ble assistance of the American en- bassies and consulates in these vari ous countrit S.
 Here in England, for example, the American ambassador is daily eX- pending very large sums of money on behalf of the German government ill taking care of it's business here. The clerical staff in charge of the German embassy in London is almost as large as in peace timeS-and word has come from Berlin that never has it's work been done so well, so econom- ically, so efficiently as now. If for no other reason Germany's desire to let American diplomats handle her business in enemy countries is quite cogent enough to induce her to go to any lengths to prevent an interrup- tion to existing conditions.
 Anxious to Ram Subs.
 Meantime one wonders just how submarine can "warn" trans-Atlan- tic liner-without standing first class chance of seeing her prey es- cape her. The question also arises as to what the liners attempt to escape might do in the way of justifying the submarines subsequent torpedoing of the runaway.
 Shippers of liners with whom have talked since the war began have all declared unhesitatingly that ii they had the smallest chance they would either ram or try to run from a submarine, whatever the risk to their passengers, their argument be- ing that their chances of destruction would be at least no greater than by coming to stop.
 A significant consequence of the sinking of the Arabic is the statement by an official of the White Star line who told me today that almost nine out of ten of the Arabic's survivors have refused the White Stars offer to give them passage on an American line ship. Almost 90 per cent Of the Arabic's passengers have decided to remain in England until the end of the war. It is Illuminating insofar as it shows how relatively unimportant is the business which is taking ocean voyagers into the war zone.
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