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Show IT IS A DREADFUL THOUGHT (From the Hartford Courantl The reading public was amazed to see Admiral Sims's statement that when he sailed for Kngland, he was officially told to avoid letting the Ktuc-pull Ktuc-pull the wool over his eyes and j that we would ns lief fight Krgland a (iirniany. It is simply dreadful to think that we have had at Washington in high office, where instructions can be given to the commander of the navy, men who entertained such ideas Suppose Sup-pose that Sims had told the story when the war was on! Who can measure the trouble the announcement might have made? If it was Secretary Daniels who spoke, he should be retired at once. It is necessary that the hnglish speaking United States should show England that our professions of friendship and our general belief that the safety of civilization depends on these two kindred peoples, are sincere and not to be controverted by the cheap twaddle of somebody in office; the higher the office, the worse the twaddle and the less representative of public sentiment. Suppose that when the country was lavishing her hospitality on the Prince of Wnles it had been published that our Washington authorities had said that we would as lief fight England as Germany. What a sense of shame would have spread over the country. Sims is the man who was reprimanded reprimand-ed befor the war for having publicly said he hoped that if there was a war our navy and England's would be found fighting on the same side. The reprimand was called for by Germany Ger-many and Taft so administered the reprimand that he was thanked for it by the bluff old admiral's family. a |
