"A FRIENDLY NEUTRAL,"

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2862, 29 August 1916, Page 8

"A FRIENDLY NEUTRAL,"

The man with the most luggago who" landed from the Moeraki yesterday was Horace Goldin, the world-famous magician, who comes to New Zealand with the firm intention to deceive as many pcoplo as possible, which report says he is ■ quite able to do. He brought with him 140 great chests, each with a bulgo at one end, which means that that is the end which has always to be uppermost; an American idea tliat supplants the English device "This sido up with care" in a silent but effective way. Only one of his trunks is without that bulge. It contains a full-grown tiger, for ever pacing up and down the narrow confines of its nome, and which Mr. Goldin says has the appetite of an army corps. Having spent the first fifteen years of his life in Russia, and being of Russian parentage, Horace * Goldin's sympathies are wholly with the Allies 'iii the present great struggle. Having come from America only a few weeks I ago, it is interesting to hear what he I has to say about the attitude of that I "friendly neutral." "There's no doubt whatever about it,",he savs, "the better class American, and the man who has the time and inclination to think round the subject, is heart and soul with the Allies. For the first ypr opinion might have been more equally divided because of ' the enormous activities of the German agents, acting under Bernstorff's instructions. and the almost natural trend of feeling hold by the Germans and the hyphenated Americans, but the Imsitaiiia'incident and the sinking-011-sight policy of Germany, lieloed largely to kill sympathy with that Power. In the East,' where they are able to see more clearly and hear better, the feelinn; is one of entire sympathy with the Allies, and the fact that America has been nnurin": millions of toils of munitions into Ennland and France is undoubtedly evidence of.- well, what I should call friendly neutrality. "Of course there ore a great number of Germans, and children aiul descendants of Germans in the middle West and West, and as a rule bled is thicker than water, but even in those Rates the sympathy with Germany is not neavlv what it was at the beginning of the war.. Time is.the "reatest truthteller—you can't fool'all the people nil the time, though I try to—and the truth of things is soakinp- through to the West slowly but surely."