Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1914 — DISLIKE FOR WHOLE NATION [ARTICLE]

DISLIKE FOR WHOLE NATION

Foolish Feeling Which Is Founded Generally on One's Experience Wl, th Individuals. Men talk of disliking or "hating** whole nations. They "hare no use for" French or Germans or Russians or English. It is a foolish feeling. If you have had the fortune to get acquainted with persons of different nationalities you have found them fine and delightful. Occasionally you may hays come

upon a disagreeable one. Every nation, even your own, has such. But the chances are that your foreign acquaintance is sincere, honest, sympathetic and a good fellow. The man on the other side of the ocean wouldn’t be so different if you only knew him. The trouble is that you don't You lump a lot of disagreeable qualities together and label them by some national name and then denounce the nation. You may not like certain governmental policies abroad. You mar

properly object to illiberal or reactionary traits in the men in control. But It holds true today as it did in the time of Edmund Burke, that it is impossible to draw an Indictment against a whole people.—Kansas City Star.