TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1915-09-25
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pendent and historical AZ are EnR.
lands greatest institutions, they all
fefa toward London. The metropolis
has a string on them. lion aft
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Cambridge and Oxford must roW
the ruiney-M ortlakt course, and nc
other. The detachment Of tht
archbisheprics Of Canterbury and
York from the capital has been th,
essential weakness OF the Church oI
England. With these exceptions d
the clerical and medical, which hai
a very vital center at Edinburgh. al
other professions must so to Lon
I don, and the successful man man
ages to stay there. The others rad
late thence. Even such ceuters a,
| Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Glas
gov and Edinburgh draw lie iron
London. 1t is the financial center o
the world. Washington is aloof,
colony in just the same way Al
| Reno, Nevada. The inhabitants ar,
on short lease, like consuls. Nobod,
really lives there in the same sens
as he might live almost anywhere
else, and this detachment from thl
real life OF the country has insulated
it. This circumstance, more thar
any other, heaps the responsible
for the utter indifference OF tn
average American citizen to politics
and for the corruption Of the latter
France is a democracy, but tn
same Capitalization as in England !
apparent on all the more importan
sides OF life. The railway system
all converge on Paris. The Bourse
the university. the government, tn
art center, the social center, all ar
in Paris. Consequently when Pari
speaks, France acquiesces. Probabl,
] france does not care very mucl
what Paris says, but at least Their
is no independent and opposing cur
rent of thought.
It follows that in America the OBJ
server is placed at a great disadyant
age. In London the expenditure @
six pence would make him ~acquaint
ed with the whole thought OF tn
country. In America the press doe
not represent the people, OF eve
any section of the people. 1t re
presents the pull of clique in mos
cases. It exercises no influence a
all upon thought. People buy news
papers for amusement; but yelloS
journalism has achieved its grea
and glorious task of d%iscrediting 1t
self.
To take a recent example. The ef
forts of the New York daily pres:
with one definitely German paper a
an exception, have been directed t
secure sympathy for the allies. The.
have earned for them the sobrique
ALLIES. They have stopped at moth
ing in the campaign OF mendaclty
They have given prominence to tn
most ridiculous inventions; the
have suppressed the most poten
facts. They have falsifed trut
with shamelessness ~unequalled i
history, and they have even dis
credited their own war correspond
ents. And the result has been
steady flow of the tide of publ
opinion towards Germany.
1 must single out the New Yor
Times as having published the mos
infamous leader ever written. ]
advocates the complete suppressio
of the right Of free speech; any on
who disagrees with the Time
should be in jail. And this is net
tralityl This is the land OF the free
MY country, It's Of theel"
The editor is SO blinded by rag
that he does not even see that he
saving off the branch he is sittin
on. A newspaper against FIRE
speechl 1t is treason to its ow
first principle. If the governmer
suppressed the Fatherland as suG
gested, why should not some othe
government suppress the Times?
l was on the platform at y
meeting of the Friends of Peg
at Madison Square Garden. II
were many German societies
tally represented, but the feeling -
not particularly pro-German. 1t wa