Evening journal., 1916-01-05
Continued from First Page.

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we're unprepared (as you are). ship
them to you.
England. France and the other AL
lies are grateful for the sympathy
they have received from large num-
bers OF Americans. Some ten thou
sand Americans, number of whom
have already become officers, have
shown their loyalty to the cause OF
democracy. freedom and individualism
by enlisting in our army either
through Canada or direct. One of
these officers, an extremely able young
artillery officer, said TO me yesterday:
I've Americans are not fighting with
you for king and country. We are
fighting for the liberty Of the world
and because IL is our duty"
The Germans have their ideal. It
is not ours; il is not that OF France,
nor is IL that OF the United States. Their
ideal IS the subordinatlon OF the mass
Of the people to discipline. Just as
their women are entirely subordinate
to their men. so their men are subor-
dinated during the whole OF their
lives to either police or military laws.
A great many OF them have escaped
from Germany to your country and
our colonies to avoid this very system
of government That is why il is diff
cult to understand what you call "hy-
phenated" Americans who have left
Germany for freedoms sake should be
siding against the United States and
with Germany. Il is. imagine, a
question of racial amour propre.
"The nation OF house servants" as
Bismarck so aptly described them, are
cognizant that they are not OF the
same racial attitude as the Anglo
Saxons, and, like all interiors. are
more tOuchy than they should be. To
one who has mixed much. as | have,
with Americans, Canadians and Aus
tralians. II except my own people for
obvious reasons) the suggestions that
the North American. the Australasian
or British branches Of our race be-
long TO the same racial grade as
these so-called Prussian supermen is
prepOsterous. The square heads
with no back to them and the out
standing cars, the Oyer-eating and
drinking. the coarseness, the cruelty.
the bullying OF interiors and the
cringing 10 superiors that make up
tho Prussian, mark him out for what
he is-a man who has to. be ruled
and regulated by the military and the
police. AS far as England is con-
cerned we have never attempted to in
terfere with his system of government
so long as it was confined to his own
country, but directly the attempt was
made to apply II TO Belgium and
France we leaped into the ring and
- 90, %. r.Ft u.
German peace squealing, of which we
get an almost daily chorus, until
militarism and policeism have been
taken home to where thy belong. If
they like to treat their women like
/ squaws and drudges, II they prefer to
elevate the policeman to the dignity
of ruler. if goose stepping and cring-
ing suit them, let them have these
things. That is their own business.
But the food riots and the peace riots
/ show that there is a limit to what
even a Berliner can stand.
You ask me what is our view oi
the attitude of America in the war
Everybody has his own view in our
country on everything connected will
! the conflict My own view all alonl
has been that Americas attitude is
entirely a matter for the people of the
| United States. You have internal diff
ficulties of which we know nothing
, Owing TO our censorship you know
very little of our side of the war Ow
ing TO the German propaganda Will
which your country has been deluged
you are almost entirely ignorant OF
, the German campaign of women and
] child killing. Americans say to me
/ DO you really think that my German
gardener or German chauffeur, or Ger
man clerk or German servant. is
the kind of a man who would fight
behind living ramparts of women anc
/ children?'. I do not think so, Com
paratively few of the Germans witt
you are Prussians; only very few are
/ from East Prussia where the worst
of the Huns come from. Hardly any
had been debased by policeism anC
milltarism before they emigrated tC
your hospitable shores.
The point of view of practically
every Briton I know, and one which
is shared by Canadians, Australians
! New Zealanders and South Africans
] Is that the English speaking end oi
the war is a matter for the British
! Empire ana that. despite our lack O
preparation, We do not need any hell
from the United States. Another sec
tion of British thought and this alsC
applies TO almost all French thought
is that the Intervention of the United
States would be a calamity to the AL
lies. Unbalanced. ignorant, but well
meaning people like your Mr.. Ford ar,
supposed to be typical Of many in the