The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-02-07

received for the privilege Of working.
The writer says we amuse him. He
does not amuse Us at all. We have
seen so many men who have gotten
into the kindergarten stages of a SUBJ
ject and think they know it all that
they have ceased to be funny-Times-
Union.
We imagine the editor of the Times
Union wrote the foregoing in spirit
of sport, smile chasing his pen, as
he thought to himself how big a fool
man is who presumes to judge the
policy of any big paper by what he
reads in it for three weeks. If he had
taken his critic gently by the ear and
led him to the T.-U. file room, he could
easily have convinced the stranger
that the paper is about as pro-British
as canon de Valera.
We regret that we cannot apologize
to the T.-U. for our insinuations that
it is not pro-British. We have read
the Times-U Union not only for more
than three weeks, but for more than
three decades-probably more than We
have read any other paper. 1t has
been always-a well edited and inter
Iesting paper, and while we have crit
licised it for some things we have
lagreed with it for more than we had
space to comment on. And we can
ltell it's editor what its tone toward
Britain has been, and can confirm
what we say from the pages of his
own papes.
Up to the beginning of the great
war, the Times-Union, like most Am
erican papers, gave the British lions
tail an occasional twist, AZ popular
Isport which pleased Americans, and
hasn't for the last forty years appear
ed to worry the hon. When the war
began, the T.-U. adopted the policy of
Friendship for France, tolerance for
Germany and enmity for Britain. 1t
showed no special anger toward the
IGermans for sinking the Lusitania.
land the following submarine outrages
hut it denounced the British for their
blockade. The editor of the T.-U.
who we will bet can't navigate fer
ryboat, on the st. Johns, sneered at the
linen who handled the battleships in
1.-THE stormy waters of the North Sea;
at one time he found fault with Brit
ish soldiers for fighting with theil
hayonets, tho with soldiers and his,
torians that has always been consider,
ed an act of special bravery. Up tc
: the day that America entered the war
: The Times-Union seldom went tt
, press without some ebullition of il
: feeling toward England, and has oc
} casionally broken loose since then.
T The Times-Union editor may hon
). estly believe he has been fair TOWARD
1 Mr.. Wilson, but he must have pecu
: liar twist of mind to think so, and We
+ doubt that he will find many people
e who have read his paper since 1911
r who will agree with him.
We don't doubt the Times-Union:
f Americanism any more than our own
e but next to America we like Amer
s ica's friends, and a close study of his
e tory shows that for more than fort!
years Great Britain has been a bette
: friend to America than any other ma
= ton We have found good deal o
: fault with Woodrow Wilson's mis-
y takes, but for his great deeds, whicl
o have been many, we have always fel
: and beaten down by his own country
e men, we consider him the creates
!: man on the planet, and believe tn
n day not far when Americans vii
d unanimously admit his greatness.