The Coconino sun., 1915-12-24
HOW NEUTRALITY APPEALS
 ID THE AVERAGE AMERICAN

A BItdt many EllB lBllSi-DOIlN ana German-born men in this country are impatient that the United Sttes does not take decided course fl favor of their respective countries. This is due no doubt to that attribute which at taches to a great many people who have decided views and who with a little practice get to think that people who do not entertain their particular views must be either prejudiced or lacking in clear reasoning powers.
 Both England and Germany have been repeatedly violating information al laws since the first months of the present war. The United States could have found full justification for se- rious misunderstanding with each or both of them, and the reason it did not was not because of fear or in- volvement in trouble, but in the inter- est of peace and neutrality, which the president proclaimed when the war burst upon the world.
 As we think back little this coun- try is not under any particular obli- gations to either power. In our great Civil war we had plenty of reasons for declaring war upon Great Britain.
 In our war with Spain every Ameri- can soldier killed was killed by Ger man bullet fired from German-made gun.
 For full century all western and southern Europe has been unloading her paupers, criminals and lunatics upon us.
 We have taken care of the lunatics, given the poor honest employment and educated their children and have hanged few of the criminals. The greatest menace that threatens us to- day is an organization of criminals ninety out of every hundred of whom never had decent suit of clothing or enough of wholesome food to eat until they were supplied by our country.
 In our international dealings with the old world we have kept all our contracts; since the present war began through the generosity of the Ameri- can people. American hospitals and relief stations have been established in half dozen countries of Europe. The American Red Cross is on every battle line in Europe. Moreover, it is the expectation of every thoughtful man in this country that our country will be taxed to the limit by the wave of impoverished men, women and children from Europe that will sweep in upon us when the great war closes.
 The American hope is that because of the course pursued by the Ameri- can government and people, our coun- try will have peculiar influence when the terms of peace come to be con sidered.
 The thought is that we are strong enough to be patient with those who beyond the sea are suffering so much.
 The war has taught us the need of being better prepared for war, be- cause we have learned that some of the nations beyond the sea do not re- gard their most solemn covenants when the war horn is blown.
 The United States, because of its superior blessings, is under especial obligations to try to keep the world at peace, for all the accompaniments of war are brutal and while the history of the world is mostly made up of the history of wars, except in isolated cases they have accomplished nothing for the good of mankind.
 Our country is devoted to peace; we hope that in the next few months a policy will be inaugurated which will begin to enable us to command the peace of the world.-Goodwin's Week. ly.