The Washington times., 1915-06-17
MR.. BARTHELME'S PICTURE

MR.. BARTHELME'S PICTURE
Mr., George Barthelne, Washing
ton correspondent of the Cologne
Gazette, which is easily the most
widely distinguished Of German pro-
vincial newspapers, sent to that
paper a truly remarkable descrip-
tion Of how the United States re-
ccived the news of the Lusitania's
destruction. He wrote that pande-
monium was let loose, and all kinds
of epithets were applied to the Ger
man pirates;" that "no word was
vile enough, no picture CORY enough,
no comparison sufficiently saturated
with hate, to whip the masses up
to the proper pitch ard let them
loose on the government"
Mr.. Barthelme is highly informa-
tive. We know, now, thanks to his
exclusive information, why it was
that on the day the Lusitania news
came the White House was Sur
rounded by bowling mob, the doors
broken down, the Presidential liv-
ing quarters sacked, Grape tied on
the picture of George Washington
in the Red Room, and the furnish
ings destroyed by the frenzied
masses"
Thanks, too, for the word
"masses." We have always won
dered who they were, here in
America; now we know that they
are the multitude that read the
British-gold-controlled newspapers
and then wrecked the Capitol, pulled
down the figure Of Liberty from the
dome, and chucked it into the sar.
cophagus in the basement.
1t all begins to be plain as day
But most illuminating of all, We
learn from Mr.. Barthelme's dis
patch that "the White House wa.
besieged by a bloodthirsty gang o:
scribblers, just as the justice sea
of PLATE was once assailed by ,
mob shouting Cruelty Him
seems that the rigid censorship il
this country prevented this story o
the newspaper correspondents raid
ing the Executive Offices, from be
ing printed here. That they are in
deed a bloodthirsty lot none cal
doubt; and all Of them in the pa,
of the well-known British gold; well
known at least to these affluen
ones, though mayhap the masses
are not so familiar with it! Tha
they have the Government perpetu
ally terrorized is no news here; bu
it had been earnestly hoped that tn
Government would never find it out
Now the astute and fearless Bal
thelme has given the snap dea
away.
at was" proceeds the illuminativ
Barthelme, "a disgraceful, shamef.
, spectacle =. All the commo
ground and all that we had plante
on it with fostering care were hope
lessly trampled by the huge, III
,, gainly boots Of the bowling, bawlin
= rabble." We are moved TO suspet
that those boots were made in GeI
many"
! To think Of the masses acting tn:
= way just because the vile press ha
> expressed disaffection with the sinl
' ing of the Lusitania! Yet VIII;
could be expected of lot Of mass'
wearing "huge, ungainly boots," al
= so lost to reason that they couldr
see the Lusitania affair as MAJ
nifcent display Of fervid Christis
;, spirit worthy, an hundred times, Il
= bauble of a medal that the Germs
- hxovernment has given to the su
marine commander who accor
4 plished it.
- No, Mr.. Barthelme we must pr
q test. You have done we'll, but "
place the blame in the wrong plac
; 1t Is not the corrupt newspapers tn
- are to blame, bad as they are; it
- the masses in the "huge, ungain
- boots" Germany doesn't quite U
\ derstand how much trouble III
's country has with these awf
Ia masses. They are one of our gres
;s est annoyances; and because tn
have now increased to hundr
w millions and few"in excess, they a
~ becoming a leading obstacle to t
II development and ascendency of pu
% lie opinion.
a, One Hurt When JitneV