Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-06-05
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LONDON o WORLD !.
DubS WILSON

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New York Word ind siohx city
Journal cable ,serwsegl
London, June 4.-It may Be well for
Americans 10 realize fully the atti,. ode
toys:rg them and their country that OBJ,
tains in certain sections Of British so.
ciety and public lid. 1t would he alb.
surd to pretend 10 ignore its existence
when ali the readers Of the London
World find appeali,g for AMI receiving
taeir applause such edi- ,rial comment
as this.
The whole business (of Funnel has
been another instance Of President
Wilson'S astounding lack OF ta.t. .
But the president will ride off on some
other hobby horse In his peculiar ef,,
deavor to make Americans stink iii the
@nostrils Of Europe fer hundred
i8years.'
Then as a 70 extend resnnasihility
from the shoulders of President Wilson
to ~thetmyriads CT the American pet
pie, the London world elsewhere in Its
issue OF May 10 points this iilumina-
tive exposition of a very widespread
and vigorous English state of mind:
Robbed Of yistory
no study American psyeholsgy;sa
pastime not without interest just now.
Indeed, it might not have been alto
gether aSbad thing If our statesmen
had taken a turn mt it some time ago.
Before we had been committed, and
helped to commit Europe into the
hands Of Americas president. Before
we were robbed OF victory iii war, and,
probably. cs victory in peace--all by
this CID man OF the, sea across the
sea, that has SO fatally fastened on us,
IF two years ago yesghad clenched
orr France and Italy and our smaller
allies! There is a growing belief that
we could have won through without
the help Of the e%gregious autflor of the
sgregious fourteen points. And it is a
might have been that looms before us
more maddeningl., as we learn more
Of the kind of ally we have let our
selves in for. No. not ally, associated
power or something, isn't 1t? Even
here there is an aar Of assumption Of
being mot as other men.
Fed Up. Q N Yasdks
q there is not one Of the Eu-
ropean countries that they awe over
run-and they are to be found estab-
lished in the rellotest eorners-where
the Americans as a whole have not be
come intensely unpopular. France and
Italy. are more Aian fed up with
them. And the reason I imagine, OF
one of the chief reasons is that they
are an inferior nation posing a. q
4 superior one.a
1The arrogance Of the a~ristocrat il
detestable. But the arrogance Of the
mere plutocrat is unbearable. And
after all, it is an wealth au fond thai
America depends for her influence. Al
a race the Americans are. as they
might put 1t themselves, all sorts O
Dagoes. Their kinship with US Is of thu
remotest. Not more than say .001 pei
1000 II have not the figures by me
have a drop Of British blood-though
as someone d remarked, If all the
claims to descent from the Mayf1owel
immigrants are true she must have
been a liner more monstrous thar
even the twentieth century has ever
seen. For the rest, a rgular work.
mixture is responsfble4Sweden, Nor
way, Denmark, Italy, Russia, Spain
yes, and Germany.
"A a matter of fact a great proper
ton IF so called Americans are really
4 CssA.mans. No wonder Pres dent Wilson
feels such a stirring pity and kindness
fer the hoche. I have talked to Amer
Ieans-wearing khaki too, though only
of the Red Cross-who are nothing but
prof. Germans
There have been many honest ex
pressions of Hands Across the Sea-
sentiment. But, oddly enough, 1t wa
Commodore Tatnafl, an American sea
man ST the old school, who cried '.blood
is thicker than water, and Admira,
Sims, who pledgea American assist
ance, whenever needed, 1T the lori
mayors banquet lie made famous, WIKI
have been the notable e%xponents o.
that now urwelcome bond,