ITO THE Ernest or roe .firsc-rsros."] SIR, I do not
think you are right in scolding our Government, but keep right on. Our Government has a hard job in walking the chalk-line of neutrality when four-fifths of the sentiment here is for the Allies. When you scold it helps to induce the idea that we are faithful to neutrality, and so long as the resources of the country are being actively used for the Allies that idea is a good one to promote.
I am sending you a little book called The War Week by Week, which gives, I think, a fair reflection of feeling in this country, except among some of the people of German descent, of whom there may be ten millions. The book covers the first three months of the war, but I do not see any change of public sentiment since then. I do not think one American in a thousand thinks of "business" as anything more than a secondary matter in this war. But one in a thousand would be a hundred thousand Americans, and so many as that can make a good deal of noise.—I am, Sir, Ac.,
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