The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-12-23

, marked ones are injured And 1t is placed before the people now as the only view which can receive atten- tion.
 Of course it may well be that l Lansing has some facts that the peo- pie know nothing at all about. IL may well be that some secret which diplomacy has wrested from the nasty ness of diplomatic secrets is weighing upon his nerves. All the more reason why secret diplomacy should be wiped off the map. There
 is no reason why any nation should 1 have secrets at all. If trickiness and chicancry are the companions of secrecy, it is all the more rea- son for it's being avoided.
 However that is not how things are done on the civilized plane. And full wording are hushed from pub licity, until the crisis comes and the people are asked what do they l think of the kettle of fish.
 It is quite possible too that Will son is just giving friendly tip that the Allies are not so averse to peace as they have been pretending. The general belief may be that the president has been tipped off that | i a conference while it would not be welcomed from Germany would be welcomed by the Allies from him, and Lan- sing throws in those mysterious hints about intolerable neutrality l just as friendly cloak for the say ing of the Allies face, so to say.
 New York papers have hinted as much They say that it is incredible that President Wilson would have acted unless he had been advised that his action would have been welcomed. That was awful nice of Woodrow surely, but at the same time it is putting one over on the common people if Lansing sprung that one about this hateful neutrality just to conceal the fact that the Allies asked him to butt in to help them out.
 Because it is certainly a new one It gives a wrong idea. The people are not aching to throw off their neutral coats and wade into the slaughter-fest by half jugful. It is true that it may as a garment be pretty frowsy and that here and there mudstains may be noted upon it, but the other combatants have not established the "honor" that they have been scrapping for on any such elevated plane that the aver age man in America feels like going out and buying halter and doing ! likewise.
 It is a pretty evident secret, if il l is a secret, that not one of the warning powers, but is mighty sick of the war They are sick Of it in every way and sick not least in that the best and bravost and comeliest and most spirited and most ingeni- | Ous and fearless and inventive and | progressive are lying stiff and stark in nameless mounds throughout the l battles zones to point quite i'm portant moral even if the privilege of adorining a historical fable is also theirs.
 1 It is without doubt a good turn l that is being done in bringing about | peace. But peace is not to be hast ened by persuading the world that the United States and its people are just aching for a fight. Besides l and moreover Teddy is away to the Fiji islands and any talk about in tolerable neutrality seems out of place when he is absent.
 It is hard situation this standing on the fence with bullets and insults and sneers flying all about. But there's many nation in Europe today would swap with out kicking for that neutral posi- tion.
 In this war it has been a great | thing that the United States did keep it's presence of mind and let the boys in the European house have their faction fight out without jump ing in to take a hand in the melee.