Iditarod pioneer., 1916-03-11
WHY HE DIsACREEs WITH THE PIONEER

To the Editor of The Idiarod Pioneer
 As one American who least far American affairs are roncerned be fair minded and impartial who cld not resent or become indignant Colonel Havey editorial in the
 disagree with your editorial "Newed Through Foreign Eyes
 In the first place quite agree the official of the President the United States rebound th countyS welfare
 quite irrelevant and mmateria what may be thought of by exparated Americans by foreigners whether they such opinions shall be allowed by President to control his acts q: general rule There be and have been times when such opinions should and have been taken into conseraon for by President Wilson in urging the rereal o the canal And believe that the time IS of high mPor that Americans should stop look and listen to what other nations think of Us.
 Colonel Harveys editorial reflects of class of Englshmen but the least, far from beng unnueI tu And that may be composed of arlstocra whose comfort able being has been disturbed by war does not bets the weight opinions. No class of Engshmen has suffered and will such property losses and other class has been more lavish in willing sacrifice of their lives for their ideals. And their losses in wealth and personal welfare have been fahest from their thoughts From 1861 to 1865 the Southern army and file filled with the blood kin of these English arstocas The Southern arocr&y for five .rS Carried on hyht which they knew must end in their financial ruin or slavery done for Were their purely selfish? take it the Southern astocrat of 1861
 what the old slaves remembered the blood and the nsl arlstocat of today par when question Of inpelng force though Colonel Harveys Engshmen are and though not to be dreamed of in this con try considering their opinions Americans should remember that from their ranks are drawn majority o1 the meoers o Ae house and that of their President Wilson sad Britain the strongest the world Not only that is the direct democracy in the worId that Colonel Harvey tries persuade hS readers that these people whom he talked represented all England Quite the contrary his article tends to show that all classes felt as they did, the Tommy who told the to lock after his wounded battery commander American with the words Tke good care miss; e aint proud fight Why should Harvey tell his friends that phrase had been napPhed when they admitted it themselves?
 As for the authors notvethe visitor remarked that he had ask, questions The foTeword of the December number of the magazine that he editor WI" his editorials enbodyng in them his observations on con dition he finds them What Colonel Harvey has undertaken do nothing less than what he has seen and heard And the amazing thing about the article
 the things that he has reported The value to Americans of his observations affected by his repudaton by Wilson Rather should by Europe Amegedon "Uphold the President America First. Nor did Colonel Harvey need to his country and Great Britain Already he had served written notice in his OPen Letter to Lord Northchfe In hs
 he already had euted Rooevet falaces about Bel the United States and The Hague conferences and from his present article the inference fair that he did again in England Whether he all things with present ad minstraon does detrac from the merit of his report every reporter pusannous who does become ardent de batter when his country the administration criticized home abroad?
 So much for the interviewer and nsrviewsd Of what in feet the attitude of any Americans toward the present there had been general understanding here of what said and thought 176 by the best and most liberal of the Englshmen? Would make any difference Americans today they had been impressed with the opinions o
 majority of Englshmen in 1861 about the late unpleasant ness? How did the English feel in 1898? When stop long enough to realize that out of this war there may come another between Great Britain and the United States it Tot i'm roant that both sides of the Atlantic there should be full knowledge of each others opinions that all avoida6le nsun GerStandngs may be avoided?
 Granted Harvey people aristOCat They without their country; their class has furnished small number of the abes English statesmen who have decided the policies of their country Don't you suppose that the of of the Cecil tb about Venezuela might have been interest Bayad Phelps Gresham Oney? these people think proud to fight ought to know it. Remember if Colonel Harvey correctly in formed their opinions held and their feelings shared in by unhyphenated and eXpatriatedWhO fighting for which, Americans pure and simple they think
 well worth while risk their lives If these English ms taken they should be put right If the official words of the administration have the people in we'll shall have a chance speak for ourselves November.
 The important thing for Americans think this Has
 paid nation allow its rivals think will fight? If China had Germanys army Great Bran navy where would the exclusion be? Majuba Hill GG rightly the relative strength of the Boer repub cs and the British empire The Boer thought did The Vir- episode did not ability take Cuba from Spain Buchanan heancy vaclatcn and pusanlmlty did that the North would not fight; the South thought In the long how much would have been saved if what had be done last had been done in the first nstance "Watchu waiting and "too proud fight would have saved many American life they bad been left unsad And finally would present have started August 1914 the German gov had misuged the temper of the British people and the British empire?
 For these consider MT. Whepley's article in The Outlook for January 2 and Colonel Havey article worth read and thinking about And only wish that the latter could Potsdam. E. M STANTON.
 Mir. Stanton's letter presents view of the pres ent crisis in national affairs which we believe will not