A SUFFERER FROM INSOMNIA.

Free Lance, Volume XV, Issue 815, 11 February 1916, Page 8

A SUFFERER FROM INSOMNIA.

A Self«=caused Disease. THE "Won't How" President declares' he really can't sleep o' nights, so apparently inextricable are the difficulties of America's international relations. Insomnia is a nasty complaint, hut one can hardly pity a Wfrerer therefrom when it is clear to all the world that the malady is the result of the patient's own_ folly. Whose fault is it, President Wilsons countrymen might well he pardoned for asking, that Uncle Sam's relations with certain European Powers have got into such a hideous muddle? * . * * * Had President Wilson told Germany point blank that the United States viewed with the. utmost abhorrence and disgust the myriad crimes of which the Huns wer& guilty in Belgium ana

Northern France, and told Count Bernstorff that unless his countrymen conducted the war with a greater regard for the rules of honourable and decent warfare, America would be obliged to break off diplomatic relations with Berlin, he would be in a far stronger position than he is to-day. Apparently, even the Wobblesome One now recognises that the Hun is a beast or savage, and must be treated as such. But he should have come to this conclusion many months ago. Instead of that he shirked and shuffled. To employ his own simile, America hid her head "ostrich-like" in the sand and refused to recognise any factor in the war savie that of the Almighty Dollar. * ■*. •* *' And now poor Mr. Wilson can't sleep well. We are not surprised at this, for on his head must lie- a very large share of responsibility for the many horrible deeds of - which the Huns have been guilty during the past few months. His peace-at-any-price policy has pleased no one. The German-Americans seem -to be just as angry with him as are the better educated, more thoughtful section of the American people, which would have warmly applauded intervention on behalf of suffering Belgium. President Wilson should be tte last to talk about the nation's "self-respect." That, in the opinion of outside nations, hag long ago been thrown on to the scrap-heap. .