One hundred and twenty people (Americans) were drowned on the _Lusitania_ and we are still writing notes about it--to the damnedest pirates that ever blew up a ship.

Anybody who knows the Germans knows, of course, that they are simply playing for time, that they are not going to "come down," that Von Tirpitz is on deck, that they'd just as lief have war with us as not--perhaps had rather--because they don't want any large nation left fresh when the war ends.

They'd like to have the whole world bankrupt.

There is a fast growing feeling here, therefore, that the American Government is pusillanimous--dallies with 'em, is affected by the German propaganda, etc., etc.

Of course, such a judgment is not fair.