The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-28
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lNew Yorll WorIdO

There appeared in a recent issue of the Hamburger Fremdenblat the following summary of political condi tions in the United States:
 The United States government IS now in an awkward position The policy of President Wilson has apparently not taken the English threat 70 destroy German trade as seriously as It was in' tended and has consequently offended all parties with it's measures.
 in New York city alone there said to be 800. 900 people out of work and the troubles Tn MeNeo and the China-Japanese war makes matters s1il worse The Germans and the Irish have turned against the Government because its attitude is ia vorable toward England The Americans on the other hand object that the country would be ruined if the gigantic export of weapons ammunition hores cattle clothing. wool and provisions had not saved the situation. Their attitude in the East continues to be antGerman. but in the South there is also a great anmosity to England because cot ton cannot be exported; the West is Tor the most part pro-German
 The press is no real guide to the feeling among the people The conflict between China and Japan which is of such great importance Co the United States does not affect the people at al This shows how their political instinct is to be estimated Fres dent Wilson's reelection seems to be out or the question: the whole country will feel it badly i tbev make Germany their enemy The day of reckoning will not fail to come. ard Germany will not be the loser.
 That sort of nonsense has been scattered broadcast over Germany The German people have been kept in
  pl and the reports the emanated from the subsidized German propaganda here have been accepted as state ments of fact
 That is why Germany cannot understand the uniyer sal indignation voiced by the American people over the Iusania massacre In anticipation Of the President note the Cologne Volszeitung adopts characteristic tone when it says:
 Americans are very prone to criticse without any expectation that such fighting with words will make any great impression upon those they de- nouuce.
 Nothing could be more surely fatal than for the German government to be guided by such false ana fantastic theory in dealing with the issues deIned m the Presidents There is no doubt about the ati ude of the American government or the American peo ple They are not seeking war with Germany ihey do not want war with Germany. But they VIII not "omit any word any act necessary to the maintaln ance of the full rights of the United States and its cin zens on the high seas
 The United States asks nothing of Germany that the United States would not voluntarily accord to Ger many It asks Germany to respect no rules or war tha the United States does respect Is asks Germany to observe no law that the United States does not oo serve It asks Germany to show no consideration TOT neutral rights that the United States does not show asks Germany to carry on naval warfare only in tho way United States carries on naval warfare It asks Germany to refrain from doing only these acts whcf in similar circumstances the United States would reira from doing
 Therein lies the invincibe moral strength of tho American position. When we insist that Germany shal turn from international anarchy 1t IS because we our selves never have counenanced and never will counte nance international anarchy When we insist that Ger many shall forego any temporary and fictitious military advantages that may arise from murderous dsregar' of the oldest principles of international law 1t because we have always foregone such advantages and always will forego them
 If Berlin be brought to understand this grea and vital truth that animates every word of Presiden Wilson's note there can be interruption of the friend Iy feeling that have always existed between the gov ernment of the United States and the government O Grmany.