The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-08-10
SCENE
Of TRADE PLOTS
AGAINST AMERICA
Campaign Against United States
Is Being Pushed Vigorously
2Y'f In British 0ceania
PRO GERMAN EDITORIALS
ARE cABLED TO COLONIES
Seen In Slump Of Ex-
ports to AustraIasian
Commercial Centers

Almost every ship arriving here from
Australasia brings notification of the
bitter feeling which exists among the |
people Cf the Antipcdes against The
United States because of the American
policy rcsar ing the European war
There is o widespread feeling in Brit
ish Oceania that the United States
should have joined the Allies agaius,
the Germans when the latter invade
Belgium, because Washington was
signatory party to The Hague cOnvon.
tion which declared Belgium a ncutra
state, and this feeling has developed
in many parts Of Australasia into hat
red for Americans and everything
American.
Private advices just received in Ho.
nolulu by a certain high military officer
whose name is withheld because of the
strict injunction of the President call
ing for neutrality in the military serv-I
leo are TO the effect that federal Off
cials in Washington engaged in watch.
ing the commercial pulse, skilled in de-
tccting premonitory symptoms and In
diagnosis of American foreign trade,
have discovered with considerable
alarm and insiduous campaign of anti.
Americanism in the Antipodes.
Viewpoint Of Washington
The information Just received here
from Washington gives the following
conclusions as to the cause and effect
of the anti-American campaign arrived
at there by certain federal officials who
have been investigating the matter:
seThat the great European coniIic
is, Fundamentally commercial wal
has been maintained by many. Th
German plea of wanting more room
in the sunshine is nothing less
than a clamor for widen Icommercia
scope. And, insofar as it is such =
contest, the United States is dreaded
equally by Allies and Teutons as the
war 3 probable future beneficiary.
"Europe saw the United States &c
after the trade of South America
The prospect of Yankee capture OF
| that commerce was quiteuas dis
pleasing to the Germans as it was
to the English, to the French as
| But there was nothing Europe cOuld
do about 1t. The descendants Of the
Portuguese and the Spaniards had little
sympathy with either side in tho war
| little more than one would have with
two rival corner drugstOres engaged in
death grapple over cut rates u %
"But something happened RICH
away, quick, when the hint got abroad
that the United States had cast its eyes
on the trade of Australasia r
Campaign Is Farreaching -" .
"The anti.American campaign is eb,
ing carried on in New Zealand and IL
Australia along the most complete and
up-tO.date line of publicity. "a
Every newspaper in New Zealand
and every one in Australia receive,
every bit of pro.Teutonic editorial mat
ter published in the American press
Nor Is this distribution done in thu
lcsurely fashion of mail correspond
cncc. Instead the Australian editor re-
ceivcs his copy so quickly after pub
LEGATION of the pro-German article in
the United States as to show conclu
sivclv that the cable is used for send
| ing from this country to Australasia
and, in many cases, the distribution
there is by telegraph to place the pro
TPutOnic editorial before the AUSTRIA
asian reader while his memory still
holds the incident about which the edi
toria is written.
"The intention. of course, Is II
create the impression in both Australir
and New Zealand that the Unitef
States is entirely and unreservedly pro
German.
Ono distribution takes place of Uni
ted States newspaper editorials writer
either in a neutral or in a pro- Alliel
vein. Nothing sees the light of dav IL
this campaign of publicity save pro
German editorials from American news
papers.
=, ."Apd the respltf Why, the New
Tca landers and the Australians con
cludr rs a matter Of course that ther,
is neither neutrality in the UnitcC
States nor even a division Of senti
mcDt: and there is a very strong an
growing determination to have no com
mcrcial intercourse with a nation
whose sympathi"s are wholly and unre
scrvCdIv an tn" Gcrmanic side,
Commerce Is Large
"Thc commerce of British Oceani
is larg" and growing larger. Sh
| nlNS American HUJO"ODllPs. Tor III
stance. Mt the rate of upwards q
$3.50 600 worth month. In Apri
, 1914, she took S"5I 400 worth ~ Amer
ican--mainly Detroit and Michigan
motor cnrS. In Anril Of this year sh
: bought $270,O0O worth. In the to
morthS endino Anvil. 1914. she bOugh
. Ar'eri"an motor cars to the value o
~ $685. nnd for the cnrresnondin
. period ending April. 1918, her pul
rh"s"e Of Am"ri"Hn cars amounted :
, $2,p50 o23-a falling off of nearl
/, 81 """ ~"
t "Rritish Oceanic buys from tn
: TnitCI States agricultural imuleme"t
, automobiles. carriages, wagons, man,
. fa"tur"s Of CLOTH f h rnn""d salmon
( hops. manufactures of indin ruhh"
. machinery, sowing machines, typewri
. -" n'""hines MINES ard fittings. ste,
, rails, iron aud steel shoots aud nlatC
. mnuufarturos Of iron and steel wiz,
a leather. boots and shoes, naval store
turpcntine oils, Illuminating and lubr