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Show 1HALL CAINES PLEA $ Hall Caane the Engl sh novelist has set himself up as a mentor for the American people n oppos Hon to Pres i dent W lson The author of The Chr st an and The Manxman s persuaded that the mer can people t should not rema n neutral n th s war . and he makes an extended argument 5 to sho hv we hould s le w th the Engl sh h le h s defense of the Eng 1 h cause s sk llful and does cred t to h s patr ot sm h s argument aga nst i Amer an neutrally is far from con ' 5 v nc br In substance t s that Eng land s r ght and Germanv wrong and S therefore that the A.mer cans should s de tv th England Perhaps t has not o curred to Mr a Ca ne terta nlv we do not f nd the I f sab ect alluded to anywhere m h s ar ' t clc publ shed n The Tr bune jester da that n the Ln ted States there i & are more than lo 000 000 people of Ger man blood The dist ngrushed author mght 3nt as well ask the Germans J. to lay down their arms as to ask the $K German Amer cans to s de with Eng V land As for the rest of the American t v Z people although they have a r ght to W form an opin on as to where just ee 1 lies and no doubt will do so they have I not a right to abandon the r neutral ty They are committed to a policy of f Bt peace and aTe oppo ed utterly to the I J, European system wh ch has brought on , the war That system was stronger iJtk lan men 01 the moral law when the r , test finally came It was not German mil tarism alone t T which rnade the war inevitable There i 1 was the equaUv esent al element of entangling all ances Mr Came is eager to repudiate all the charges made r aga nst England bv.Germanv aid to JH show that England s escutcheon s ab solntely free from sta n He den es that England s n this war for the sake of Servia and n support of that rff little filthy conspiracy which led to r the assassination of the crown prince of Austria lie declares that t s y a lie that England is n the war for j. the sake of Franee or because of a g secret agreement w th France He alio denies the charge of hatred and ical ousy toward the German people and declares that England was not dfra d of Germany 3 strength nor of her com pet t on n traje E en almttng the absolute p r ty i of Turpose on tie part of the English people as a whole the Amer can ran se that EnglanJ was drawu nto the Hr g"l b tnc all nce th France That therf was no se ret ompa t ly Thvch Pug an 1 v.as t s prort rran c I n as of wa w h ( er an s pener !llv a erted rut when the me ame to dec e Englanl found that ho was a t only bo nJ n honor 0 supi o t ran as f th e ha 1 b c a gn 1 green en notnc nf,u she v ter 1 En an 1 Be ca baw Ic lares tLa tne was n lprstan ng as o b na iLd arm frog a nm s of bnf.lanl and 1 ' It was tac 1 a, el that T ance sho 11 all ph a l.reat army an 1 fngand a gT a na at n a e of wa at,a n rraD f Eng 1 th arm of Erao c an 1 ?i h na of Eng nj h u 1 for hen ood of he two at oos b o u n t wa ha whe r S an U a n o sma I 'I 1 ng n p ha h J n t ma n nc tra w t 1 Th f d Dg n J' anv at on of 1 e n t a f i elg urn a th p a L g on n no la o rn(,and t a a nt I b n y f T k m I n h ri 9 r t, n et I and p b w la I ono n b r an n ' C ga nst rmany a a ) of a g ng a -in tl (, n i n ' al an m a y j, am r A n a i who a tl t Fnt &,h a 1 o 1 nto tl a i ( ootobn nwb hr u no 1 ol moral st f a u v. n I i 1 ol w th fa r on s h 1 a i ' tranro'fn rn bun hundr I ar wo have avo lol rn tang ng a an s a 1 w hav no ret (hit nh rga) eljet" j ontnl ofthofh n 1 b all I y n n H n a 1 n ! tTm f fl 1 a ha wrong ( ran w I b n I ) ty hrr off n nn 1 I f nn a r n w Tl na wa on n u h nd nd n w r r n a h n oi ban tan w a a d F e p o d b w on a no! ooo n ho vd a 1 a w ha a a o d ou p ob t d a c ondnhw cn tbc n at f Be g m had not b en a cons dcra t o |