AMERICAN LEADERSHIP.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1606, 5 September 1916, Page 4

AMERICAN LEADERSHIP.

Discussing in the Fortnightly Review American feeling in regard to the war, Mr Jas. Davenport Whelpley says : “If Roosevelt, had been President of the United States during the past two years an American army would now be in occupation of Mexico, and the United • States would now be ranged openly and officially on the side of the allies in the European war. As to the wisdom or the folly of such a course as compared with what President Wilson has done, or, rather, not

dune, controversy now rages in America. Discounting the political animus and purpose of much that is said, it is not difficult to believe (he American nation would bo better pleased with itself to-day had the Roosevelt probabilities taken place and America was now playing a part in the affairs of the world commensurate with her position and the wealth, intelligence, and .spirit of her people. It has been a. question oi! leadership, and the months of dallying along primrose paths, keeping step to the pacific utterances of President Wilson and to the music of the Teutonic lyre, has not added one cubit to the spiritual (Structure of the American nation, and those who realise? this have been growing restive. It has been im-

possible to still the groans of humanity crucified even to remote American ears, and the pleasures and profits of peace have not compensated for an uneasy conscience.”