FOR OR AGAINST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 12, 15 January 1915, Page 4

FOR OR AGAINST.

In the New York “Literary Digest” for November 14th appears an article headed, “American Sympathies m the War.” It states that to answer the question, “Do the majority of the American Press or the American people favour the Germans or the Allies r . statements had been obtained from 350 to 400 editors telling their own atti-j tildes and the feeling of their com/munities towards the warring na- j tions,” and the replies cover the country 1 from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Mexico to the Canadian border. From the Middle West, in which. Germans preponderate, the reply naturally is, “We are for the Germans.”, In other districts the extreme partisan-' ship of the German Americans has, it is reported, awakened a good deal of active sympathy for the Allies. The article adds, “Put no matter in what' territory we come upon downright supporters of the Allies, we are nearly always answered by our informants that ‘Not Germany or the Germans’ do! they and their readers condemn, but ‘Prussian militarism.’ The following summary shows in cold figures the complete returns to the inquiries made: —Press, 307 replies, 105 in favour of the Allies, 20 in favor of the Germans, and 242 neutral; cities, for the Allies 180; for the Germans 38, neutral or [divided 140.