Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-16
Sunday Morning, August l6, 1914
WAR NEWS AND VAR LORDS

Throughout the United States Germans and German sympathizers have been complaining bitterly because Of what they term the unfairness of American newspapers It need hardly be explained any person familiar with the gathering and printing of that such criticism itself unfair If the reports printed here appear be unfricndy in spirit Germany and Austria. if the facts seem to be distorted the purposes of racial national prejudice. that is neither the fault Of The Review of the great newsgatherng agency upon which it relies.
 The thine that every American newspaper pub fisher wants to get hold Of and print an times and particularly in time of war is THE TRUTH And if there any onense to German-Amercans other par tsans the presentation the it is either because the facts themselves disageeabe because the news is contaminated at its sources-over which American journalism has little control
 Nothing harder to get than real truth in war time It is especially hard when the only news access sibe under the control censorship of the involved. Since this war broke out nearly all the re- ports have come from England France or Belgium and have naturally been coloed by the nfamed patriotism Of those countries and by their hatred of Germany. The Associated Press the United Press and other agencies have tried in get the other side of the story From the first sign of hostues Germany has raised Chinese wall about her bar from the outside world all intelligence of her operations
 This may have been good military tactics but it proves 10 have been bad national policy false and exaggerated reports tending dscred the Faheriand there have been means of correction The Kaiser has placed his country in the position of defyng the worlds opinion just it is defying the armies of Eur ope Tho Kaiser himself is reported amazed at American criticism and generousAearted Germans here and everywhere have been wounded by sweeping nation.
 u must be recognized however that this hostile sem tment founded altogether on false reports. There facts thrustns through the big for concealment pererson and those make it im- possible for America whole to show any enthusiasm for Germany in this struggle The belaed attempts of the Kaiser sefjustdoaon and the Aea,ed declara- uons of Prof Muensterburg and other GemanAmercans that Germany not the aggressor are not convincing America though linked to the Fatherland by strong ties of blood nstnctye sympathy and of admiration for her intellectual and industrial leadership sorrowfuly forced recognize that Germany pr;mal:y respon sble for precpang this monstrous when she might have kept peace in Europe and that she reckessy wid ened its scope when she might have localized it.
 But in this conviction there is arraignment of the German people. American criticism is leveed at the War Lord who pretending to love peace plunged his sword into the heart of civilization. and by single au tocrauc order without the consent of the German parliament signed the death warrant of it may be- million of his subjects and another million of aliens with whom those subjects had no quarrel
 For the German race, thus lightly made a target fo the bullets of a continent and the hatred of the world Che American people today have nothing but sympathy When the Hohenzollerns have passed away with tbel and fury and the brave, generous and sane Ger man people have government that represents thei real purposes and aspirations there wu no question of the friendship collective and individual of the grea American nation for the great German nation