TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1916-05-29
ON TEIE GREAT WAR
BY RUPERT BEAUNolTr, Montgomery, Ala.

II p - u" HAaME WNNNAM NFAN
war began. II the seas are clear OF DID
cnemyb ships, the ship-ownerS increase
freight-rates from one-hundrcd 10 FIVE.
hundred per cent. The workman payr
the bill. That tho war is unpopular with
a great many people In England cannot
be doubted when Il Is necessary 10 EN-.
lploy indirect compulsion and yellow ad.
vertising 10 obtain recruits, and to form
a coalition cabinet in order 70 have any
government at all.
BELGIUM.
Many Americans are under the i'm.
preston that England went to wal on
account OF the violation OF BeIgium's
neutrality, but the people in England
don't think SO. Many treaties have been
broken since 1889 without causing war
One might as Justly say Europe went to
war for the purpose OF teaching Amer
leans geography. Violation Of Neutral
ity is one OF England's most successful
stunts. Watch what she'll do to the
Netherlands il her Allies ever get to
the point where they can cross the
Rhine. Belgium was already on the
side Of the English before war was de.
clared. She was an English pawn,
pledged to admit British troops IN case
of a war with Germany. English SYM
pathy for Belgium Is about the same
as the sympathy Of the wolf for the
sheep. When England chooses she will
send her feet into the harbor OF any
neutral nation, as she did in 1901 az
Copenhagen, and in 1914 in Chilean wa
tiers. The song about Belgian neutral.
ity was sung mainly to allure American
cousins whose sentimentality is greater
than their wisdom. Under international
law as interpreted by English jurists
England is today holding up millions OF
dollars worth of Scandinavian and
American products. We cannot see.
The South may go bankrupt. We are
blind. Cotton is seized as openly as it
would be were there war between the
United States and England. We are
dumb. The administration ignores the
protests Of the m~eat-packers and the
cotton growers, Yet II this policy Of
permitting England to control our cot
ton continues, the South faces ruin. and
If meat and wheat shipped to neutral
countries by American merchants ma
be seized on the high seas. other great
industries face disaster. The normal
state Of neutral trade should not be in
tefrupted because England happens to
be at war. In the meantime, such is
the international law framed by the
English for England through the CEN
turtles, the American government is lead
ing itself openly to the support Of the
Allies by converting the New England
shops into British ~arsenals, superin-
tended by ex-United States Army Off
GERS, graduates of West Point. and uho
are in turn sabsrinfeHded BY British
army officers wh0 are sent here to see
that the output is maintained as to quail
lily and quantity.
Also, for fear of twisting the lions
tail, Americans are prevented from pur.
chasing German ships now in American
waters, which ships would be the means
of this country getting its needed South
American trade. Why Because Eng
land so wills ii. We make money by
hypoeriticaliy citing an English-made
law applicable to the sale OF munitions
by neutral money whose every dollar
drips with gore; and we cite another
English-made law to show why we cam
not purchase those idle ships with which
10 make money honestly, money whose
every dollar would work for the civil.
lization of the South America CONT
nent and the ~cementing Of ties Of friend.
between states Of the Pan-Ameri-
Union which states are very suspi-
Of us, and dislike us much. now
we must have some ~"entangling
alliances somewhere, if we are not free
to work out our own destiny. This ID
the gift OF the British a~ristocracy to
America. Is it TO be wondered at that
is trying to tic up American
in British war-loans which will
never be redeemed?
Let us not forget what England would
have done to US in 1865 If the Russian
fleets had not been stationed in New
York and San Francisco harbofs. Had
divided US yesterday, she would sub
divide us today, and rule US tomorrow.
She ruins section by ciIeapc7ing its
rotton below the cost Of production, and
iupes the other into furnishing her
with munitions to carry out her nefar.
Ious purpose, while she hanstrinas the
commerce ef forty-eight states
by preventing Americans from buying
hips where they please. Not only should
he United States bring Britannia to ac-
count, but it should be done in con.
junction with the Netherlands, Norway
Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, and
Chile, which suffer as much as we do
Tor England is the enemy Of all the
world when il comes 10 a question OF
tights on the high seas.
ITO be continued)