The Leavenworth Tribune from Leavenworth, Kansas • 11

THE ATTITUDE OF AMERICA TO THE WAR, I DrunPH, it. Artrn By ALEISTER CROWLEY. fiiibctiiinu lu'i ty03clh(2ll KJnnmcycir Glcvcrdon Bros. (sflimve ntfl Store (iOcrofce et. i fiir Wrcat Si'cftcni cfcn nub I Spnrljcriic, (Jifdjriinfc, The Press And The Public.

When the sun-beetle first began to rull up this ball, he never guessed that one day there would be on its surface it political unity so disunited, at least to the superiicial observer, us tlio L'nitcd of America. Russia iiml Knghind possess territories of superior sine, but the power is concentrated in the same place iis the wealth and intellect, the F.nglishman in India, after lilty years still speaks of home, meaning litsily a certain ancient hull surrounded by a park, with a village whose church hits a lyehgatc, and, secondly, the parish of St. James. The Russian of Tobolsk or Fkatc-rinoslaw concentrates loyalty and affection on the Czar, Hut in America there is no center. Vurk is not even the capital of its own stale.

Washington is a city apart, utterly out of touch with the feeling in any one district. It is difficult to give the Jinlish mind any idea of the feeling involved, nut it is rather as if the king resided, and I'arha-incut met at Bishopstuke. Independent and historical as arc England's greatest institutions, they all tend towiird London. The metropolis has a string on them. ton and Harrow must pay cricket at J.ord's; Cambridge and Oxford must row the course, no other.

Tile detachment, of the archbishoprics tof Canterbury and ork from the 'capital has been Unessential weakness of the Church of Knglaud. With these exceptions of the clerical and medical, which 1ms a very vital center at Edinburgh, all other professions must go to London, and the sutcesslul man man American Brewery a a a 0 ifciimnntcii. Jyi'mfte imb Sdcrofce etrnfie Sc.cj'bon 3T!) Dim Loyis, Wio 3d fci Iid fed Sam Hoffman, fr 7 1U Sljimwcc Sirnjjc ages to stay there. The others rad BOHEMIAN PALE EXPORT MUENCHNER Co Bo Dr.II.A.McGnllisler lm fiir nmilienbeiinrf IttitcrfHcfuiim fro Qfclepltcm 313 420 Tclnroore etr. Scf.

2688 Sieauemuortti, 5ianfn3 iate thence. Kvcn such centers as liinningham, Liverpool, l.ceds. Glasgow and Edinburgh draw life from Loudon. It is the financial cciucr of the world. Washington is aloof, a colony in just the same way as Reno, Nevada.

The inhabitants arc on short lease, like consuls. really lives there the same sense as he might live almost anywhere else, and this detachment from the real life of the country lias insulated it. This circumstance, more than any other, leaps the respousibilty for the inter indifference of the average American citizen to politics, and for the corruption of the hitter. is a democracy, bin the same centralization its in Knghind is -apparent on all the more important sides of life. The railway systems all converge on Paris.

The lionise, the university, the government, the art center, the social center, all arc in Paris. Consequently when Paris speaks, J-'rance acquiesces. Probably France does not care very much what Paris says, but at least there is no independent ind opposing current of thought. Jt follows that in Ameiica the observer is placed at a great disadvantage. In London the expenditure of six pence would make him acquainted with the who thought ul the country.

In America the press docs not represent the people, or even any section of the people. It represents the pull of clique in most cases. Il exercises no influence at all upon thought. People buy newspapers for amusement; but yellow journalism has achieved its great and glorious task of discrediting itself. To take a recent example.

The efforts of Ihe Xew York d.iily press, with one definitely German papei as an exception, have been directed to secure sympathy for the allies. They have earned for them the sobriquet ali-lics. They have stopped at nothing in the campaign of mendacity. They have given prominence to the i i real old English blood is not hyphenated at alb Thai is the edd siylu American, whether in liostoii or Richmond, and he hates England more than the Irish themselves (for the Irishman finds it hard to hear malice). Put the real American is brought up on the Declaration of Independence.

Few Englishmen have read that remarkable document Jt is a standing insult to the ability of lltiikc, for it is the strongest possible indictment of a whole, people! There are twenty nine pai-iigraphs, differing hut slightly in tin-degree of their damnation. The rot of the Declaration of independence is but exordinuin to and corollary of this rehearsal of British aboniiua'-tions. And, as with a branding iron, all this is literally burnt into tin-blood of every American of old stock. However, in the smart set generally, especially ir New York, there is a violence of Anglophilia based on the stinging shame jI the fact that English visitors do not consider them gentlefolk. So the schools and colleges do all in their power lo turn out "English gentlemen" from such recalcitrant material as is furnished by admixtures of various bloods, principally Portuguese.

Tin-result is very satisfactory. It is these good oei pie ho arc more English than the English, and their comparative success is due to heir extravagance, of snobbery. Unfortunately, as a class, they are wealthy and idle, and the Hrilish aristocracy as mirrored by the gutter pros-is their constant model in all things. The plain Yankee is a damned good sort, ot simple Republican inaiineis, ami one can respect and like him, for all bis contempt of "effete Europe." The Southern gentleman is just a gentleman of as distinct yet recognisable a breed as the Indian, Chinese, or gentleman, lie is himself, and is not trying to be anybody else. the Anglo-American is always anxious to wear the same neckties as Lord Flip, and drink the same brands of champagne as the Earl of '-'lop.

lie wears evening dress whenever he can, and supports the Piroadway chicken upon tin- Broadway lobster. It is the most vicious and corrupt class in the country, and it thinks itself the salt of the earth in its moments of intoxication. When sober, it climbs desperately after the estate which is the birthright of the poorest country gentleman in Knghind. It is fibm this class that the noise proceeds, and the passport thereof is that it is bad form to be pro-German. What America Thinks.

The attitude of the real American is very concise, lie has a gift of epigram, often expressed in the most pungent slang ever invented in any country in the world. And this is the placard which hangs in thousands of business offices all over America "If you want to light, go to Europe. If you want -to talk Avar, go to hell. This place is neutral." There was never so clear and so emphatic a definition of a mental attitude, The more you think it over the more you are annoyed at its perfect literary form. It says everything, and not a word j-wasted.

What America Feels. Since, however, all men must have some sympathy, however remote, with actualities, there is undoubtedly, certain feeling even among the great silent masses of Unpeople. Taciturn and self-centered, going on their own way with bitter earnestness, they yet not without great human qualities. These are principally shrewd common and a love of fair play. There is a certain hysterical class which reads the papers and is (at least subconsciously) influenced by them; but the members of this class arc not in positions of responsibility.

who have won their way in the world have done so by energy and courage, no doubt, but they have also, nearly always, possessed a great sense of actuality. Poverty, or struggle, has taught them to look at facts. Such men were never fur an instant deceived by the lies of the press. Every one of them knew of his own knowledge what Germans were like; he did business with twenty of them every day. lie saw them steady, sober, thrifty, honest, reliable and industrious, incapable of aggression, and progressing by dint of attention to business, all the homely virtues of his own old stock.

The attempt to represent them as drunken fiends, lawless, savage and cowardly, was consequently ludicrous. When the l.usitania sank, he sawi the German side of the case instantly. lie couldn't seo why the hell the durned fools couldn't keep out of the war zone. And the hysterical shrieks of papers notorious for lying headlines, and the most infamous traffic in indecent advertisements, only moved him to scorn. C-o to war? Xot he.

He might sell munitions to the allies; that was business. The Germans, might sink the ships; all the better; it a repeat order. Hard as nails, you bet your life! The sentiment was so universal that Bryan, having carefully canvassed opinion all over the West and South, a chance to resign on a 'peace program." And the story goes that Wilson then checkmated him by beating (he sword into a ploughshare, and as gently as any sucking dove in that famous second note to Berlin. We read it with amazement; why on earth had Bryan resigned? It was as war-like as an invitation to dinner! (Well, we shall read the sequel of that stoTy in P.UO.) I personally have 'no doubt that Wilson knows the temper of the country as well as Bryan does, and has deliberately created delay upon delay, and en AND IOWA IS "DRY." Dca Moines (In.) Tribune. Over arrests in this city during (he mouth of August! Looks as if Billy Sunday could put in another six weeks here to good advantage.

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DAILKY Owl Drug Store ttiul.Wliolesiile Hnrlc'r Supply Utilise Phone 584 302l'Delaware St Leavenworth, Kansas Ot a i 0 a ridiculous inventions; tney suppressed the most potent They have falsified truth shamelessncss unequalled in most have facts, with history, and they credited their own have even ilis-war correspond- result has been a the tide of public Germany. out the Xew York published the most cuts. -And Unsteady flow of opinion towards 1 must single Times as having in famous leader advocates the complcic suppression Fred Heis I GhfllienfHinlcr I JKHr crfndjcu urn -r-m k. CAUL lIL lMML vvUntCi i ifc-aoeinuortt), 104 eiib. iiitftc etvafic 6 (giibfcite (Sljcrofcc, tuifdjen nub 4.

Strofjc KkW ChW 000 0OO a Mm0mwmmwmmmmmtmmMmmmmmmm Peter Everhardy Butcher rifctyes nut1 cjcfaljcnes leijcl? grijiiifeii, epecf, SSmft, Kovbiuefcfficfe ftiinfte unb Seneca of the right of free speech; any one who disagrees with the Times should be in jail. And ihis is neutrality! This is the laud of the free! "-My country, 'tis of thee!" The editor is so blinded by rage that lie does not even sec that he is sawing off the branch he is sitting on. A newspaper against free speech! It is treason to its own first principle. If the government suppressed the Fatherland as suggested, why should not some otluT government suppress the Times? I was on the platform at the meeting qf the "Friends of Peace" at -Madison Square Garden. There were many German societies officially represented, but the feeling was not particularly pro-German.

It was chiefly pro-American, including a love of fair play. when a speaker wanted to rouse the hundred thousand people present to an -ab--olute fury, he had only to gasp "Xew York press," and they rose and roared. Such loathing and contempt I have never seen expressed so fiercely. And it must be remembered that these people were ihe public to whom that press appeals for pennies. The siuialion is intolerably rotten.

1 am first of all the friend of Ireland in this war, and after that the friend of France; hut the method of her sympathisers makes me vomit. I should like America to insist on the integrity of frame but these English flunkeys arc an abomination unto the Lord. The Hyphenated American. Of these there arc three principal kinds; the Irish-American, the German-American and the Anglo-American. Many other races are, of course, represented, but they have no' come to the front in the same way, or kept their nationality.

The shrewdness and courage of the Irishman have won him a unique position in politics anl laws; tin-thrift, foresight and industry of the German have made him supreme in commerce and nlamifactiue. The Anglo-American is not a genuine case of surviving nationality, for the gg mm FELLER LUMBER COMPANY mm couraged Berlin in a similar course, gu ben niebrififten s4veicn 13 onolvan Transfer Company Xetcon 9io. 247 order to allow the few noisy folk who were screaming for revenge for the Lusitania to cool off. Xo; there is nothing to it. If you want to light, go to Europe.

If vou want to tall; war, go to hell. S. feller, jr. gcdjftc mtb Str This place is mitral. (ihe liiternation.il..