Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-21
ogoRoE wAsHlNeToN oN NeUTRALlTY


 GEORGE WASHINGTON ON NEUTRALITY
 George Washington didn't have our advantages, and yet he may have been just as as any Mayoe he was wiser Anyhow here is what he'd say to the American people about their war conduct were iy- Ing today The phraseology rather odfashioned but never mind that; the quaint phrases are full of
 Against the nsdious wies of foreign influence" said Mir Washington at Mount last evening, in an exclusive statement to the Associated Press (we might just as well give it any modern touches cam. the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake since history experience prove that foreign influence is one of the banefu foes of republican government
 But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial else it becomes the instrument Of the very be avoided instead a defense against it
 Excessive partality for one foreign nation en cessiye dislike for another cause those whom they uate to see danger only side and to veil and even second the arts of influence the other
 "Thc great rule of conduct for us in regard to for egn relations is, in extending our commercial rea tions to have with them as little political connection as possible So far as we have already engage ments let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith Here let stop.
 Europe has a set Of primary interests which l.. us have none or a very remote, relation Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies the cause of which essentially foreign to our concerns Hence therefore, it must be unwise in us inplicate selves by artificial ties the ordinary ycisstudes her politics ordinary combinations and collision of her friendships or enmities
 "our detached and distant situation invites an( enables us to pursue different course If va remain people under an efficient government, tine period distant when we may defy material injury iron external annoyance; when vc may take such an att .ude as will cause the neutrality we may at any tim resolve upon to be scrupulousy respected; when baI nations will lightly hazard giving us pro vocation when may choose peace or war as our in ,erest, guided by justice, shall counsel
 Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a git uauon? Why quit our own ground to stand on for eign ground? Why, by ntertwning our destiny vii that of any part of Europe. entangle our peace anC prosperity in the tolls European ambition rlvalship interest humor caprice?'
 The circumstances in which the Father of our nov somewhat perturbed Country made this statement wel. surprisingly like those of today t was the year 179. a. the close of Washingons second term France an, England were war. and there had arisen In America frenzy Of partsanship It was even worse than th, Dartisanshp Of today For the present German facto. here was then the French faction, composed not o FrenchAmaricans but Of sympathizers with the Frenc Republic IL controlled a strong political party and wa. eager 10 give France substantial aid in return for h lehp France had given the Colonies in their war O independence against Great Britain Another faction though smaller just feryid in its sympathy witt England. Washington, standing midway between th two in unswering neutrality, had invited the augr criticism of both He particularly condemned fo expressing the operations of Citizen" Genet th French minister to the United States who had the au daciy to cooperate with Americans in fitting out oriyateer at Charleston to prey British commerce It was not until years aftarward, when mems hl1o had ooed and their judgment had returned that thi advice from Gen Washington given in his famous Far well Address, appreciated at anything like its fu U value
 It is worth even to the lOOOO0OOO of us toda, torn as we are by strong war sympathies than it wa to the 4OOOQoO or 5OOoOoo Americans who first read