Feilding Star, Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette. "SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1814. The Americans and the War.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2463, 3 October 1914, Page 2

Feilding Star, Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette. "SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1814. The Americans and the War.

We are continually asking What about the Italians? in connection with the European war. But what about the Americans ? A journal over there put the question How about it? to a large number of representative men in all parts of the States. "In everything except the actual bloodshed and loss of life the United States will suSer with the countries actually involved in the war," replied one class of people. "It will be the oppor- j tunity for the United States to take the world's lead in finance, industry, and commerce. It will make ue tho foremost power of the world at the beginning of tho twentieth century," replied the representatives of the'diametrically opposite school." It means the end of all war," answered the Socialists. "It marks the twentieth century us America's very own," replied the optimistic Yankee. Playing up to his character as a 'cute business man, Brother Jonathan is casting up the gain that is coming to him through tho war. Herbert Quick, author of that illuminating book, "On Board the Good Ship Earth," after pointing- out that on the first spaem of tho war America will be a loser, owing to a paralysis of shipping, takes the same view that we have already urged upon our farmers that they might be prepared: "But low prices on this account cannot last. While these conditions last the peoples of Europe will have to live on the limited supplies on hand, and the demand will be all the more insatiable when freight lines shall be restored. The free and neutral ships of tho world will be enlisted in the carrying of iood to the warring peoples. Let the farmers keep their heads, and hold their produce for the restoration of freight service Don't give away the foodstuffs to the speculators. Great fortunes Trill be made in grains and meats in this evenful year." Judson C. Welliver, another American writer on agricultural subjects, is wide-openly mercenary. "The chance is ours. Will we seize it? It is, at the last, up to the hundred million of us. If we don't make fools of ourselves by getting scared before we're hurt we will be just about the one nation that will get big and lasting benefits out of lie war." Turning from the country press to that of the cities, we take this item from an editorial expression in an influential New York journal : "Patrolling the Atlantic, so as to keep it a cafe, open road for neutral vessels, is a duty that devolves upon us as. the principal maritime nation not involved in the war. But it is now performed by Great Britain, because we stupidly prefer to allow our ileal- to broil uselessly on the Mexican coast. This is doubly unfair. It tacitly acknowledges the British sovereignty of the sea, against which we have been contending since the Revolution. It is a violation of our neutrality, for it deprives Great Britain of the services of her ships in the war, and thus gives direct and valuable aid.to her enemies." .us expression is not only a great tribute to the fine spirit of Britain, but it shows that America is more hesitant in doing its duty on tho high seas for the benefit of the whole world than Italy, for a saner reason, is in crossrnig_tlie__Ku]iiD«!i. - The--records" "snow that from the very outbreak of war tho British warships have been sweeping the oceans of mines, so that the slopping of all nations might pass safely over the highways; whilst L'.S.A., even though protesting against Germany's Red Indianism, will not police the Atlantic. Mcjinwhilp, Brother Jonathan is .being hit at a vulnerable point, his pocket— and presently ho will como closor yet to the war.