The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-18
CALLS ENGLAND WORLDS BULLY
 AND GANGSTER"

Editor of The Bridgeport Farmer
 The really neutral stand of the Farmer in reporting with equal prom thence to both sides and in equal ten or, all news which comes to us from the European battle fronts, is truly conlmendable. If all of our Ameri- can press was as fair. the people of our country would be in a better position to judge the warning na- tions properly. Undoubtedly the req son for the number among us who argue the British cause is, in the first place, that our very first reports came exclusively from British sources for the reason that our German cable had been 1nysteriou ously cut; and the press, once taking the Ioath to suddenly acknowledge that it has been mistaken. A noticeable change is taking place in the sym pathies expressed in most of our newspapers however, except those of course which are practically owned in London as are some of our New York papers. It is possible also that our language gives us a point of com mon sympathy for England. It will be readily seen how easily we might misun derstand the motive of those who speak a strange tongue, more especially too when the case is first presented to us by the nation which speaks our own language.
 At this date however, it does not seem American of our press to show such very evident partisanship to the worlds bully and gangster. For what is England proving but a type of gangster? In an attempt to at tack and rob, nay to kill, his pros porous neighbor, John Bull has rounded together his cut-throat gang of Indians. blacks, laps, apaches of France and Russian anarchists. He has intrigued with his prosperous neighbours very friends to sell their honor for a price that the neighbor might be robbed. He has tried to justify his cause by an argument of a violated neutrality Ca neutrality that did not really exist), an argument as transparent as that the world owes me a living argument of our city thugs And then when his cowardly gang is beaten off. and he is himself scratched, he cries and howIs and protests that the struggle is not fair. Typical1y a gangsteri
 England has visited our own land with rapine and pIunder, our Amer ica. England has since applied the torch and steel to many another fair land,-and now she walls if her shores are attacked in a struggle of her own colIusive plotting. It has been proven concIusive1y that the neutrality of Belgium was merely a
 
 all. It has been shown that Great Britain had for some time been plan ming an offensive war in combination with the other great powers of Flu rope against Germany. And now there comes to us letters and reports from England begging for American intervention and aid. showing the whining of a whipped bully. It is surprising that any American can sympathize with such a cornbatant. Nor do our nations leaders sympa- thize with them; for while they have found no cause to protest Germanyss action to date, EngIand's action on 1 the contrary has been subject to con- 1 tinual protest from our government. I have tried to feel neutral in this over-sea war; but when consider the possibility of a victorious Eng Germany's wealth. and strengthened i by her seizure Of Germany's naval force, and when I consider the Anglo Japanese alliance. and the Anglo ! jealousy of America. shudder foI our own U. s. A. It has been argued that Germany had designs against l America A thoughtful person can readily perceive the futi1ity of any navy the size of the present German navy attacking us at such a great distance from any naval base. With l the Anglo-Japanese alliance however a direct menace to our nationa | safety presents itself This alliance lis capable of attacking both oul l shores with 3. naval force more thar three times that of the United States and many naval stations within 2 days sail of our largest cities would supply them with the wants of war In this connecticut it is we'll to re member the threatening. attitude O: I both Japan and England at variou. times during the past two years. | It is to be hoped that our really American press will at least presen | its news in neutral fashion und such time as events shall prove de cisiveIy which side it will be to Amer ica's advantage to favor.
 c. H. R..
 AUGUST BELMONT, ea TO-DAY,