Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1915-01-07
HOW ENGLAND SHAPES
AMERICAN OPINION.

HOW ENGLAND SHAPES
AMERICAN OPINION.
(In the issue of the German Cor
respondent of January 1st, we
printed an article from the
Irish World under the caption
"The Greatest Dissemination of
Lies" The following article
from the same paper is on the
line of q continuation of the
former article.)
We recently published a very i'm
portant article, which originally ap-
peared in the New York American.
II was written by Mr. Arthur Moore,
who shows how England makes and
. unmakes National regulations" by
her control of the agencies for the
dissemination of news throughout
the world. Since the beginning of
the present war England has utilized
her news-monopoly to disseminate
the most villainous attacks upon
Germany and Germans. Our Ger
man-American friends are enraged
by the audacious lies about the Fa-
therland emanating from English
sources. Their fellow citizens of
Irish descent have known, from long
experience, the methods England
employs to defame and malign all
who have earned her enmity. The
treatment meted out to Germany is
the same Ireland has been familiar
lied with for many and many a year.
Tho enemy of both countries has the
ear of the world as a result of a
news-monopoly, which always is
used unscrupulously when English
interests are to be served.
A distinguished German writer,
Anton Oskar Klaussman, in an article
in Der Turner, a wellknown Stutt-
gart monthly, puts the question:
Why does everybody hate Ger
many?" In answering his own query
he points out that the German is
made to appear to non-Germans as
"a rapacious, arrogant busy-body
a constant menace to the peace of
the world" We are told that this
distorted view of Germans is the
result of a slow poison persistently
distilled in the foreign press We
quote from the Der Turner article:
The misuse Of the foreign press is
part of the policy of the iron ring
England, France and Russia They
have systematically DEPRECATED us in
the eyes of the world. The have in
fiuenced tho foreign press. This
German batting has been conducted
at tho expense of reason and logic.
They have charged us with things so
senseless and foolish that one would
have thought that even half-witted
persons would have been able to see
tho fallacies.
1t is quite true that English
manufactured lies about Germany
and Germans are so clumsily put to-
gether that they should not deceive
any one. The same can be said of
the foul anti-Irish calumnies Eng
land spread broadcast generation
after generation But great is the
power Of reiteration. England knows
this. Hence her persistent poisoning
OF the press OF the world against any
country she undertakes to misrepre-
sent We see then, the need OF our
being on our guard against the Eng
lish lies that form the staple Of the
news cabled these days from London
to the American press. Tho perni-
cious effect is described by veteran
American journalist in letter
written to the New York American
in reference to the article OF Mr..
ready referred, He. writes:
Il have carefully read the true
and remarkable story by Arthur
Moore on your editorial page. on
How England Makes and Unmakcs
National Roputations.'
Having lived in England, France,
Belgium and Germany, speaking the
languages of those countries, having
been born in this city before the
Civil War, and connected with news
papers, from typesetter to publisher,
for forty years, l advice every
American to read, re-read and thor
oughly digest this article.
BY far the most potent factor in
America in forming opinion is tho
Associated Newspapers, Limited,
London first, last and all the timo
in favor Of England, as witness our
Panama Canal fizzle and other in
stances. AMERICAN"
The Importance of letting the
American people know the character
of the distorted news they are con-
stantly reading in their newspapers,
cannot be over-exag Public
opinion Is more or less shaped by the
press Now, the American press is
dependent upon English sources for
the international news it lays before
its readers, which explains the
character of the news" which at
one and the same time amazes and
enrages our German-American
friends; and which, we may add
would gain no credence if the readers
of American newspapers knew how it
was manufactured in London for the
express purpose of making them view
things through English spectacles.