AMERICA DISGRACED.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 11, 14 January 1915, Page 5

AMERICA DISGRACED.

PRESIDENT WILSON CAUSTICALLY CRITICISED.

DOLLARS OVERRIDE

HUMANITY

DISREGARD OF SOLEMN

COVENANTS

A STORM OF PROTEST.

(•Received Jan. 13, 1.50 p..m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 12. Vigorous criticism is appearing in certain New York and Chicago Republioan papers attacking President Wilson for disgracing America's name in Europe through his supineness while Belgium was outraged and destroyed—contrary to the Hague treaties, co which the United States was a signatory—but launching into an immediate protest against Britain when a few hundred thousand dollars' worth of American commerce- was delayed by the British fleet, which apparently had good.grounds for investigating the cargoes. The 'Tribune bitterly assailed the Administration, accusing it of ignominioiisly running away when a protest might have been effective in Belgium's case, but immediately recovering courage when the copper kings' profits were endangered. Other newspapers point out. how ill Mr Bryan's peace treaties consort with the United States' own disregard of solemn covenants made at The Hague.