The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1920. THOSE BRITISH CHESTNUTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3444, 25 March 1920, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1920. THOSE BRITISH CHESTNUTS.

With which is incorporated “The Taihape Post and Waimarino News.”

It is now generally understood that the 'American..people, through their representatives in House and Senate, did not enter the war “to make the world safe for democracy.” There is no doubt in the mind of the rest of the world that Americans went into the war to make the world safe for themselves. John BulL’s mind is quite clear about the facts, .and he is quite satisfied that his Brother Jonathan rushed into the melee with his big stick in‘ mortal funk and fearj Jonathan saw that the German bully stood a chance of getting past John Bull and his friends in «Europe, and his legs shook. with sheer fright. .With John Bull down there was only the “herring pondt’ to separate Americans from the on coming German friglrtfulness, and it was safer to cripple the German while John Bull and his friends had him very hardly pressed than to wait for a turn after John Bull had received his quietus. Who will -imagine today that Americans entered the war after looking on for three years “to make the world safe for democracy? After reading reports of debates in the American Legislature who can believe that America had anything more than a dollar-making sympathy with the cause of freedom, justice, honour and democracy? Every word in those debates is now part. of an accumulation of evidence which no longer deceives Britain or her DominZlolllS'. Great was the simiilation of Germans ,the feigning to be what they were not, but today America stands out in bold relief the selfdeclared hypocrite of the world. ‘America remained a looker-on for three years, seeing millions of human rheings slaughtered and done to death; they stood calmly viewing all Europe becoming a bloody holocaust, helping on the sanguinary ordeal of frightfulness by selling at exorbitant profits the means of desitruction, raking in dollars by millions the while Britain was beset by two enemies. 1-he German in fl'ont‘depleting her of human life, the American in the rear gathering in her wealth and so Britain became impoverished in life and fortune at the hands of the world’s two archhypocrites. America-ns posed as a nation of idealistlsl; for -three years ideals and idealism never saw daylight in America, then it was suddenly diSCoV@l‘9d by the dollar-grabbers’ scouts that danger was threatening; Hun hordes might break through, in France, to the English Channel, and take revenge of ‘America. Then was brought out the stores of ideals that had been snugly -packed away for three all too short profiteering years. Neither ideals nor dollars were safe from another thief who might break through and steal, -and Americans Cl'flVenlZ>’, deceitfully declared for war that the world might be sa.fe for democracy. To-(lay Americans see the Continent of Europe a writheing, murdering, destroying mass of humanity, a death struggle ‘between Bolsheviks, Sparticists, various brands of Anarchists, criminals of the deepest dye and mllitarists; Americans have mmpletely put out of sight their temporarily boasted ideals and they stand self-convicted of an almost inconceivable hypocrisy. instantly their yellow streaked skins were no longer in danger of the Hun mailed militarist

fist they quitted, and they can neither camouflage their mortal funk’ or (190. dourise it to deceive the least sensit§"e Of the Worldfzs olfactory proclivities. View the Peace Treaty «and the League of Nations which, while under their pannicy fear, they took a prominent, and ostentatious, part in evolving, as one will, Americans have proclaimed themselves quitters in me greatest act of quitting yet chronicled; America is the unprecedented quitter, has earned a distinction thati may yet be satirised by the erection of monuments to the greatest of all quitters -in all lands in which brave, honest people predominate. The true history of American ideals in‘ connection with the war is compiled in; America. Of so inhumanly an outrageous character‘iha.d it become that‘ an investigation committee of the} American Senate was set up to clear; the atmosphere by applying an ele-3 ment setting up a clarifying reac’r.ion. Some high American Naval Oflicial had indiscreetly disclosed file American mind by instructing an Admiral in command of the Navy that Was t 0 co-operate with the British Navy in combating submarining of merchant ships, in these precise Words: “Do not allow the British to pull wool over ,your eyes, we would as soon fight the ‘British as the»Germans, it is none of our business to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for Britain.” The Admiral {receiving this explicit admonition was dumbfounded; the Investigation Com'mittee were also dumbfounded, because they realised that America was so deeply dyed with black and yellow -that no whitewash in the category of American ideals could cover the stains from the eyes and intelligences of a curious and critical World. Admiral Sims, who received the ex[plicit admonition from Rear-Admiral Benson, is a Canadian, and that fact would account for him being dumbfounded with such revolting duplicity. We are not going into this war to pull chestnuts out of the fire for Britain; we have to protect our land from German invasion, and we may as well do it with British and other lEuropean blood rather than sacrifice our own; we can keep the war going so long as -there is money to be made out of it, and go on with the process of bleeding Britain and all Europe white, leaving America the monarch of white civilisation in the end. Crimes of -this unprecedented character seem to involve their own punishment, for, although in ‘their overwhelming obsession for dollar.praking, America is quitting and repudiatiing her obligations in maturing the [Peace Treaty and the League of Naitions, ‘Americans evidently have their ‘eyes blinded to the possibility that 'their greed is their greatest danger. ITlleir heartless, inhuman duplicity with the Allies may result in isolat,ing the United States in a War with Japan a.nd Japanese Allies in America. The great Armageddon was coldblo-odedly used by American ‘Commercialism for money-grabbing; America was not concerned about pulling any chestnuts out of the fire for Britain and her Allies, what were ‘Americans in the war for‘? The thought that civilisation cannot be saved from the sin of modern commercialism increasingly forces itself into the foreground of human reasoning, and the world has received a shock, recovery from which seems doubtful. The avarice of German militarism has wrought the destruction of -the magnificent German Empire; the avarice of Arnerican Commercialism is so advanced -that the destruction. thereby Of the Anierican Empire is forced into the world's mind as a Dossibility. u\.nlericans have ‘been so busy pulling the million—dollar chestnuts out of the fire for themselves, that they have ‘lost the sense of caution and discretion, the most careful observance and ipractice of which, only St-ands be,tween the American nation and a isimilar destruction to that which Gerimans brought upon themselves. Amelrican society and government is un->dei-mined with ramifications of revolt; ,there is the Bolshcvik peril, the Black iperil, the Anarcliist peril, the Mexican iperil, the Labour peril. and the great iovershadowing Eastern peril. When "Americans, in their great fear, deem‘ed it inadvisable to leave off dollarigrabbing from a distance, and actually fake a part in fighting, they were lindiscreet enough to say they would has 80011 figlh-t on the side of Germany ‘as 0n the Side of Britziin; “it was ‘none of their business to pull the chest-Illl‘tS Out of the fire for Britain." So obsessed were the Americans with dollal'-making that there was not room in their mind for the thought that they might stand in need of a friend 5“ Pulling their own chestnuts out of a fire in the not far off future. What is the ethicail difference between the crimes of American, conimercialism and German militarism? None, and yet British peoples encourage trading WWI Americans, while anathemafising trade with Germany. However, Britain and the rest of the nations -of the earth are having their eyes widely opened by what is hap. pening in American Government, commercialism and politics at this moment. ‘