We mentioned the other day that Mr. William J. Bryan,
who used to be the leader of the American Peace Party, had been making speeches in favour of the war. The August number of his journal, the Commuter, which we have since received, fully confirms the report that Mr. Bryan had come into line behind the President, with whom lie had parted company over Mr. Wilson's first resolute Note to Germany. In one trenchant little article, for instance, Mr. Bryan declares that " No sympathy will be wasted upon those who have been arrested for napatriutic utterances. They affirm free speech. And this applies to attacks on the Allies an well as to attacks upon the United States. We can no more allow em• allies to be crushed than we can afford to be crushed ourselves. The defeat of cur allies would threw the whole burden of the war upon us. We must stand together and fight it tlirs..h. There are only two sides to a war— every American must be 031 the side of the United States."
Mr. Bryan knows the pulse of America nearly es well as Mr. Wilson, and his new attitude is significant of the overwhelming strength of America's determination to fight and win.
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