The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1914. THE FEELING IN AMERICA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 33, 25 September 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SET TLER. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1914. THE FEELING IN AMERICA.

Tho suspicion engendered by .some of the cable messages from the UniteU States oi : America, that a strong proGt'imah clement was at work in pushing President Wilson into the awkward and perfectly untenable position of peacemaker at this stag? of the great European war, is confirmed by American newspapers which have now reached New Zealand. The New York .Post, a paper of great influence and standing, lias always shown an attitude of friendliness to Germany, but of late has been compelled to be somewhat outspoken regarding the universally condemned action of the Prussian war party. Powerful protest was made by German sympathisers among the paper's readers at the stand taken, i.nd one wholly German publication went so far as to request its readers to burn every copy of the Post which came into their hand.. Dealing with the censures made, the New York Post painted out that its admiration of the Gtnnany of high aspirations, noble idoals, and the professed support of artistic, scientific and commercial en-, tcrprise, had by no means diminished. On the other hand, it never had and never could condone or admire the bullying, despotic Germany, as embodied iii the Kaiser YVilhelm. To the Germany of industry, science and culture, the mad Monarch's warlike policy had dealt grievous injury, and in the words of the New York journal, the world's disaster now upon us was "'the result of the Prussian militarists' policy and of that system of government which did not allow German people to rule themselves." If there was any consolation in the whole thing it was that out of the ashes must come a new Germany, in which a pure democracy would rule, and in which no one man s-nd no group of professional mankillers should have the power to

plunge the whole world into mourning. Dealing further with the subject the paper referred to says it is profoundly significant that so many American citizens are to-day saying that "they hoped the Kaiser might be beaten and the German people win." America may be late in the day in awakening to the real position, but it is utterly impossible to keep the truth back, and the mere extravagance of the foolish fabrications fed to the people of New York by the German Ambassador have defeated the purpose for which they were concocted.