The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-09-05
WAR MAD" UNJUST WORDS

I'll. e. Tremaine, a prominent Amer
lean business man, who has just re-
turned from trip to Europe, in an
interview with New York reporter,
says that trip to England at present
is for an American an almost over
whelming experience.
"This is especially true" he said,
"if the traveller happens to have been
acquainted with England before the
war. Profound changes have taken
place in English life. For one thing,
many English business men and
others of the more successful classes
regard Americans with feeling of
the deepest contempt can define it
as being no less than this. They are
still courteous to Americans, but this
is only form that thinly DISCUSSES
their real feelings.
$50 deep seated is this feeling that
/ believe it will be several generations
before it wears away. | was made to
understand that France likewise
shares this attitude.
Gall of this is distinct shock to
the American business man, who is
under the impression that the neutral
ity of our country has at least been
friendly to the Allies.
Various things have brought about
this feeling on the part of English
men. Primarily there is the convic-
ton on their part that we are only
concerned in making money out of the
war, that we are out to gain the ut
most in profits, first, last and all the
time, and that we have not hesitated
to take the fullest advantage of Eng
lands necessities. Many, of course,
believe that in keeping out of the war
we have chosen the ignoble course,
and however strange this view may
appear to US it nevertheless is held
by considerable portion of the Eng
lish people.
"What has most angered these peo-
pie perhaps is the attitude of some of
our public officials. When President
Wilson, for instance, in one of his
speeches referred to Europe as being
swar-mad' he aroused storm of re-
sentiment in England. Every warning
nation in Europe feels that it is in
volved in task of the most solemn
and sacred character, and so when
they read of our public men referring
to them as being simply swar-mad'
they are conscious of having been
offered an affront of the most serious
nature.
"After visiting England it is hard
to understand how any public man
can so miss the viewpoint of Europe.
The terrible seriousness of the people,
their humblehearted conservation to
the needs of their country, is very far
from being a state of war madness.
To be in this atmosphere for a few
weeks and then to return to America,
where every one seems absorbed in
his own small personal affairs, where
little or no serious thought is being
given to the terrible issues involved
| in the war and the part we are to
play in the world when peace comes,
| is to make one tSemble for the future
of his country. One feels that all is
not well with our country; that at
some date not far in the future we
shall be confronted with mighty is
sues, and that we shall be poorly
equipped to meet them.
"a week or two in Europe leaves
one with the impression that every
nation in the world today needs in its
national service the strongest and
wisest men, since very soon it will be
necessary to cope with industrial and
social problems of the most difficult
description.