Neutrality? The crucifixion of public opinion . nd it is sad to think andto contemplate that there existself-respecting, thinking, in-telligent American men orwomen who still allow them-selves to be guided and misledby these editorial the abuse of Greece is farworse than the occupation ofBelgian territory. Salonica isnot adjacent to Great Britainor to France, neither countryhas a claim nor interest tothat section, and the GreekGovernment has never ^ intri-gued against them, as did Bel-gium against Germany. Thereis not the slightest excuse for _Fair piay N Ythe action of the stran
Neutrality? The crucifixion of public opinion . nd it is sad to think andto contemplate that there existself-respecting, thinking, in-telligent American men orwomen who still allow them-selves to be guided and misledby these editorial the abuse of Greece is farworse than the occupation ofBelgian territory. Salonica isnot adjacent to Great Britainor to France, neither countryhas a claim nor interest tothat section, and the GreekGovernment has never ^ intri-gued against them, as did Bel-gium against Germany. Thereis not the slightest excuse for _Fair piay N Ythe action of the strange alii- J0HN BULL THE and it must be con- demned as the most damnable manifestation of brutal is a disgraceful state of affairs, and proves more con-clusively than anything else the bias, prejudice and partialityof^ome of our journals when they should perform their destinedfunction of bringing news impartially and disseminating know-eldge about its meaning. It proves also again that some of our vaunted free press is. 202 NEUTBALITY no longer free, but has allowed itself to be hired. The editorsof many papers are no longer free men, but slaves. There remained in New York one or two papers which triedto preserve occasionally their normal sense of journalistic de-cency for actual facts and news. TJie Evening Post is one ofthem. Its publisher, Mr. Oswald Villard, is of German birth andwas originally called Hilgard, a very respected name and fam-ily in the Rheinish provinces. The Evening Post, of course, had its lapses, too, but never-theless it has been trying very hard, despite the false reportsfrom London, Paris and St. Petersburg, to tell the truth. Whenthe German Government published documents discovered inBrussels proving the existence of, say, at least collusion betweenBelgium and the Allies, the Evening Post editor contended thatthis was not known to the invaders when they trampled uponpoor Belgium; that, therefore, this late discovery could notbe
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