Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-05
BRITISH SURE TO WIN,
SAYS LORD NORTHCLIFFE
Continued from rnre one

sess one of the worlds largest armed
| forces.
Your position today Is not unlike ours
before the war You arc as eaten up with
commerclalsm and pacificlsm as we are,
by reason of the lack OF unity of the
races that now compose the United
States. on the other hand YOU offer the
| same temptation to any hungry and ag-
gressive enemy that we did You have
lots Of money. few soldiers and compara-
lively few sailors. Troops can be moved
TO your shores from hostile countries In
little more than the time It took TO move
them from New York to Boston 200 years
ago. The fact that we have been able to
transport at least a million soldiers
across the seas shows that any European
or Oriental nation could &c you were un-
prepared. as you are, ship them to you.
England. France and the other Allies
are grateful for the sympathy they have
received from large numbers of Ameri-
| cans. Some 10000 Americans, q number
| OF whom have already become officers,
| have shown their loyalty to the cause Of
! democracy freedom and indivduallsm by
| cnlisting In our army either through Can
| ada or direct. One of these officers an
extremely BILE young artillery officer,
said to me yesterday: I'VE Americans
| are not fighting with YOU for King and
country. We are lighting for the liberty
of the world ard because 1t is our duty"
DIFFERENT IDEALS.
Tho Germans have their ideal It IL
not ours; II is not that of France nor
IS It that of the United States Their |
ideal Is the subordinadon of the mass OF |
the people to discipline Just as their |
women are entirely subordinate to their |
men, so their men are subordinated dur |
ing 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 difficult TO understand why
what you call "hyphenated' Americans
who have left Germany for freedoms
sake should be siding against the United
states and with Germany 1t Is, I imag-
inc. a question of racial amour propre.
The nation of house servants" as Bis
marck so aptly described them, are
cognlzant 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 I have
with Americans, Canadians and Aus
tralians G except my own people for
obvious rea' Jns, the suggestion that the
North American, the Australasian or |
British branches of our race belong to
hc same racial grade as these so-called |
Prusslan supermen is preposterous. The
square heads with no back to them and
he outstanding ears, tho overeat!ng and
Thinking, the COarseness, the cruelty, the |
bullying of interiors and the cringing to
uperiors that make UP the Prussian.
mark him out for what he is-a man who
las to be ruled and regulated by the
military and the police. As far as Eng
and Is concerned, we have never at
empted to interfere with his system of
overnment so long as 1t was confined to
rs own country. but directly the attempt
vas made to apT'y it to Belgium and
rance we leaped into the ring and do |
ot propose to listen to any of the Ger
nan peace squealing. of which we get
n almost daily chorus, until miltarism
nd pollCeism have been taken home to I
here they belong. If they like to treat $
heir women like squaws and drudges, If @
ley prefer to elevate the policeman to 2
ne dignity of ruler, If goose stepping and {
ringing suit them, let them have these d
lngs. That is their own business. But $
ne food riots and the peace riots show '
hat there is n limit to what even a
'erllner can stand. I
L. s. MUST JUDGE ITSELF. f
You ask me what is our view of the at D
tude of America in the war. Everybody
rs his own view i'm our country on every ?
ling connected with the conflict. My J.
yn view all along has been that Amer =
as attitude is entirely n matter for the
lople Of the United States. You have "
ternal difficulties of which we know = =
)thing. Owing to our censorship, you =
low very little about our side of the v
ar Owing to the German propaganda q"
ith which your country has been del -
;ed. you are almost entirely ignorant of =
e German campaign OF woman and child "
Hing. Americans say 10 me, "Do you n
ally think that my German gardener I,
German chauffeur, my German clerk ! r
my German servant is the kind of -
an who would fight behind living ram
rts Of women and children" | do not !
ink So Comparatively few of the Ger
ans with you are Prusslans, only very n
W are from East Prussia, where the ~
)rst of the Huns come from. Hardly
~ had been debased by policeism and
litarism before they emigrated TO your
spitable shores. W
The point of view of virtually every HI
'iton l know, and one which is shared b,
? Canadians, Australians, New Zea- W
nders and South Africans, is that the Il
end Of the war is a ST
after for the British Empire, and that, r
spite our lack or preparation we do Sc
t need any help from the United States.
lother section of British thought, and K
Is also applies to almost all French as
ought, is that the intervention OF the al
lited States would be a calamity TO the NJ
lies. Unbalanced, ignorant, but we'll
Gaming people like your Mr. Ford are 81
pposed to be typical of many in the er
lited States, though / confess l have m
VS. l have made throughout your coun- pc
=. dl
. FORD AS PRO-GERMAN. OF
4 Frenchman said to me recently: "I os
1nder II Mr.. Ford had been born in, 1t ~
say, Lille instead of Detroit and his
Dther had been murdered and his sis
rs outraged, whether he would have
en- so strongly in favor of peace with
1 wonder, too. We regard he
ybody who wants TO make peace now, CO
fore the Allies are prepared, as a pro- ye
rman, and We will not print one line da
the FORD advertising In this country ST
spite the frantic efforts of his agents 10
sure publicity here. The poinl Of view +
At premature peace is pro-German does
seem to be understood in the United L
ites
Personally, I doubt that the United
ates will really prepare for any war.
ere Will be an immense amount of talk | nj
there was with us, and you will have ~
ople Ike our late Lord Roberts preach
: wisdom, but his Views viii be drowned
such melodies. II didn't raise my boy" W
)ne day the Laplanders or the Green ye
lders or some other nation (you can ba
ange the words as you choose) will m,
tiee that you are rich and paeihst an
d Will come and take what they want rs
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