America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 93, 22 April 1915, Page 5

America

miscellaneous. United Phebb -association Washington. April 21. Reports are ceaseless as to German machinations for a premature peace. They are prepared even to admit that Germany is chastened. Tin’s is likely to impress Americans, because of the growing humanitarian disgust with the war, and the growing worry b\ thoughtful people, who are wondering where the economic drain for a long war will land civilisation. Mr Bryan has asked Rear-Admiral Peary to explain his recent speech, wherein he stated that the United States was unable to prevent her territorial expansion, and it was likely that during the next hundred years tire United States would expand over the whole American continent. This was her only alternative to obliteration. Mr Bryan, alien informed that Peary admitted the speech, issued statements regretting the utterance and assuring the public that Peary’s remarks only represented his private opinion. It was absurd to suggest that the nation must continue to expand or die. The United States had not sought territorial expansion at any nation’s expense. New York, April 21. Speaking at a banquet, President Wilson said it was clear that the world’s affairs were rapidly drawing to a climax. “At the climax our test will come. Y\ ithout speaking selfishly, our duty at present is summed up in the motto, ‘America first.’ Let us think of America before Europe, in order that America may be lit to bo Europe’s friend, and when the struggle is over we will be the mediating nation of the world.”