Truth AMERICA AND THE ALLIES

NZ Truth, Issue 569, 13 May 1916, Page 1

Truth

AMERICA AND THE ALLIES

PRINTED ANb PUBIJBHED AT It UKE'S-LANB, OFF MAN3STERS-ST., | WiJnjWNGTON, JiTBW ZBALAITO. | SAfWRpAY, MAY.I 3, 1916.

WHY WOODROW WILSON IS WORRIED

The Great "World tne dally newspapers ; of New Zealand, In fact of AuMralaainj, with u.nexamp-. led and unparalleled opportunities of palming off on to unsuspecting communities much information" which' i cannot stand the test of truth, andmuch more criticism > t of war matters which Indicate great ignorance on the part *: ot the writers. josbt • tcQurse^ * fact cannot be overlooked ■ that tho furistenee of a strict censorship over the matter appearing m I the daily newspapers accounts for; the paucity of genuine news of ; the ijwr m the public press, because as shown on a previ- ■ ous occasion the military authorities of aU /the belligerent countries cordially detest, and positively fear too newjjpaner repr<jseiitatives f and, , accordingly, resort .to precautionary i measures against the! war correspondents of the newspapers, who are permitted to write only on such matters! that are of absolutlkly no . j value. Consequently, the demand for I , something approximating war nows is very great, and the public; Sver hungry for news from thy front, are regaled with and are forced to be content -with, matters of practically no moment, which passeii muster as war news. Debarred from ! publishing news or information which ithe military authorities sternly forbid being made public, newspaper editors and writers make the most of a bad job, and tackle all sorts ot subjects, Erectly and m OlreoUy connected with the war, bo roach so, that If the jspecial stay-at-home war expert of fhe daily newspaper is to be bctiovela, tho Allies, to quote a common racecourse phrase, long ago should have "boon home and dried," homo In this cpnnectioo, being the capital city of the German Em- ' plr*. ■: • ■,■...■■■".■■: ;, "I;-.-!"" 1 . ' '■' •. . ■-' "■■ ' ■■#■.• i\ ■ •.■♦ '■ ■ ■ One of the most fru|tful subjects of the war, lightly . or, sclriously touched tipon by the average daily newspaper "war expert" is tho attitude of tho Unltod States of Anitorica, and the wobbling, "Bparrlnff-for-Umo" attitude of Prcaident Woodrow iWHson. At one period the President la maligned as being a .'"spineless sojrt of creature" becauoe ho has merely written a note to the Suns on their submarine policy of torpedoing unarmed liners, and involving the loss of the lives of American citizens. On other occaalonM the President is credited "^rith nrmnoss m r handling a dlfllciult problem, and hla notes of protest ar* regarded as ultimatums of tho Hun Govcnuivont, and that sooner or later j the Amorica»» H ConKTcss will doddo for wur, and that ' the United States will |hrow m its lot for weal or for woe, with the hard- , pressed Allies. Cortalnly, the attitude ot ih'o President . showin that ho has strained, and Is stralnliitfir. every norvo to avoid war, and m thtit clrcumaUuices Is the President to be commondod or to bo condemned? HlS|VacUlatinK attitude, aa U is prcspntod to us by the t (tally newHpapor wrfteni, earns for him tho contempt of evory 'jtn'aii.and woman f Ui'at Is the m<|n and women I whoao "sympatblca nre with the, AHics m thoh* great flght for Europeiui Hberty, but who has taken the pajn« to ttutly the position of tho Ifnited Sttttts, and m thus able to realise that President Woodrow WU«on.l» boing faced with a problem which fow men living, or doad for that nuittor, would enre to attempt to pqlvc. Tho I neutrality of the United Biftt«« i« | npotcen ot m a jestlngr and ttJppjwu i manner by untlilnlclnK people; tltlnking jp«6p]e hnow that PrbaWont Wilson t* going through an ordent which none but &. strong man wouiUl face. c Preiildent Wilson has endeavored to guide hiii great country through tho greatest crinlu m the history of tho world, and the pnoplct ' ot. New Zealand Should osk thomselvos ;lf Jt Ij* not a fact tlmt Awn to tho manufnoturo of muoJtiotJß by America tho Allies wero b«lped to turn tho tldo <>f rover«e fortune. If It m ho admitted, la U not tnor« charitable to »uj>po««« that imotica by Hrn ol<S to tho AlH^n. rftml* •red an aid to common civilisation. tkDd that President Wll»on \a moro

I deserving of consideration arid charity than curses and allegations of cow- ! ardlcd find, poltroonery ? We, ln New ) Zealand, have our national troubles, ' and are ready to apportion blame to i pur political leaders when anything goes wrong, but what is the position of our "Rrlme Minister compared with that :bf the I*resldeht of the United = States?*. -Let, ub be , charitable, lejt us endeavor^ to realise tho difficulties which bißSetthe patii of the President. We have, to realise that the population of tli e United States is made tip of representatives of nearly every nation under the sun. The United States of America has offered a home or a sanctuary for the oppressed of every European, ln fact every Asiatic, cation. All have been welcomed, the "glad hand" has been extended to aIL The United States baa stood for all that Liberty and Democracy means. To her' hospitable shores have fled Englishmen, Irishmen, Scotsmen, Germans, Frenchmen, Russians, Danes, Norwegians arid Swedes. Never ln the history of the world, not even excluding the history of the Boman Empire has there been such a polyglot nation. Englishmen, Irishmen, Scotsmen, Germans, Frenchmen, etc., etc., have been Invited to form a great nation, to forget the miseries of the past, to make a fresh start m life. Tho American citizen of to-day Is asked to renew hia oath of allegiance to the land of hia adoption, to realise that he is an American citizen, and that the great eruption m Europe Is of foreign interest to him. That haa been tho doctrine that President Wilson has preached, that Is the policy that great American newspapers are propounding} and it must be admitted with | little success. , Tho curse of America I to-day Is the "hyponated American," that Is to say the individual who of English, Irish, Scots, German. French and Russian birth or extraction, prefers to style himself an AngloAmerican, Irish- American, or GermanAxnerican. Th© German- American and the Irish-American, are all-powerful elements m the United States to-day. The* Irish-American, with his sympathies divided between Ireland and America, and the German, ' with thoughts of his Fatherland, and his haven of safety ln America, wield enormous financial and political influence—influence which is exercised on the Congress and Senate, and from which even too President cannot hope to ©scape, ♦ • • A combination of the Irish- American and Gorman-American olomontu renders It Impossible for President Wilson to openly espouse tho cause of the Allies, m short, tho recent rebellion or uprising In Ireland Is attributed to Irish -Americans, aided by GermanAmericans. Tbe Colt and Teuton exiles In America, by tholr open espousal of tho cause of Ireland, by their 'influence, by their financial aid to the Sinn Feluors In unhappy Ireland, have rendered rebellion possible, and by this act have infringed or violated the neutrality of the United States, and President Wilson, and his administration by their refusal to Intercede for Sir Roger Caacmont (who last week we showed had openly espoused Ireland's cause In America, had enlisted tho sympathies, of irUU and German-Americans m the lllfnietl causo), by urging that tho matter waa one outside ■ the scope of iho power of tho United States Government, arc endeavoring to «tccr clear of troubled waters. Boyond repudiating Casement, and leaving him to ■ wbatovir fato will over tako this traitor to tho Britlfth Emplro, the United State* Administration cannot go. although there Is very good reason for : buUcvlnt! that It was on Information I received from lite United State* that tho British authoritlod were nnabled to capture this mad-cap tJlstorman. • • • Tho errortf* of a fow national Amerle&n novrspapors to maintain a strict or even benevolent noutrallty. combtned vrilh tho effort* of a large nutn-

ber of newspapers which are distinctly favorable to the cause of the Jellies, are more than nullified. In fact rendered insignificant by the menacing attitude of Irish -American and GermanAmerican newspapers, which are aided and abetted by a large and powerful section, of the American press, the Hearst papers for example, which adopt a so-called neutral attitude, with a tendency to sympathise with the Huns, and which has a decided leaning 1 towards the cause of the Irish - American who has adopted' as his motto: "England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity." There are few m New Zealand who have realised that America is a nation of over 80,000,000 Inhabitants, and that the Irishman and the Teuton exercise an influence that is irresistible. If President Wilson, as the first citizen of America, realises' that; he would endanger peace of his own country by an open espousal of the cause of the Allies, what right have we m New Zealand to complain? What do we know of American national life? Wo know nothing or next to nothing. Years ago it was predicted that If ever Britain became involved m any European war, she wouldr have to reckon with the Irreconcilable Irish element m America. It was shown during the Boer War that a combination of the Irish and Germanic elements m America would make mischief, and w© have yet to learn how great has been the mischief caused already, while none cap venture to predict what this infamous combination is capable of doing. Germany has been credited with being at the bottom of the Sinn Fein rising, but the fact of the matter is the ~Ger-man-American hag cabined with the Irlsb-Ainerican "and struck "*' a" deadly blow a,t th« v British Empire through j Ireland. The possibility of Ireland be- j ing worse off under German rule, does not seem to have been taken into account by Irishmen.- --♦ ■ '#.■ -.■" •# The Teutonic element of America, that Is to say the rich and powerful section <>£ that element, have thrown m their lot with the irreconcilable Irish to Injure the British Empire, not for the sake of liberating Ireland, but for the purpose of using Irishmen to effect the ruin of the British Empire. We have been kept m the dark concerning the machinations not only of the Germans but of ' the Irish In America. All over the United States lists are m circulation asking for funds for the "Defence of Ireland," and the sums -.collected are enormous. The object of the fund is openly stated to be for the purpose of supplying arms to the Irish people. German sympathy has been enlisted, and true Hunnlsh methods are being adopted to aid Ireland. But. it is interesting to learn tha reason. We find It In a. memorial written by Count Ernst von Reventlow, on "Great Britain and Europe," and Ireland's position is thus set forth: AN INDEPENDENT IRISH NATION WOULD BE THE BUL- . WARK OF EUROPEAN LIBERTY. So long as Ireland remains a British colony—or, rather, a British fortresa — Britain can at any time shut oft the whole of Northern and Eastern Europe from all access to , the ocean; even as, by means of Gibraltar, Port Said and Aden, she can close the Mediterranean. Ireland Is the key to the Atlantic. Relcoao Ireland from her bondage, and tho Atlantic is at once opened up to Europe. Gorman y'o object 1» to free Ireland m order that »be can complete nor slavery. We read that "Germany's vital Intereata are bound up with Irish freodora," that "Europe has too long ignored the land that occupies towards the Atlantic the position that Gibraltar does towards the Mediterranean." Such poison, subtly instilled, cannot fall Ln Its purpose. The Teuton element In America la Intent on violating America's neutrality, m fact, has violated it, and aa England's difficulty has proved Ireland's opportunity, wo must not bo surprised at what has happened, but must be prepared for even worao. • • • Tho disclosures which have been made show that America is totally unprepared for war. Like most of the great Powers, she has been caught napping. Sho has found that her military and naval secrets have bcon stolon j by German and oven Japanese spies, j Tho national American is now loudly I crying for "Preparedness," and oven i more loudly demanding of Irishmen and Germans to drop tho hypen and realise to their full tholr national responsibilities. Woodrow Wilson has shown irreat and remarkable forbearance, and ; his forbearance hn«bcen twisted Into a i I moaning of something contemptible, but ! !ho know*, as all national Americans \ j kutiw, that It would ba a fluieldAl policy for the United. State* to enter Into the war, oillior on tho side of tho Allies or against thorn. The latter course is unthinkable, the former impossible. Let Iho people of New Zeatand learn the truth about tho United States, let them realise, tho great difficulties, th© gr«at problems which the President and HU» I administration *« called upon to overcome and aolve, and, abovo all, let ua be more charitable to a man, whose only fault Is that ho has striven, and continue* to strive, bocaunft of tho Insuperable difficulties which face him, to keep tho country of which ho is tho | mouth-pleco out of a war, which threatjena to destroy civilisation, ln cultured ( Europe,