Deutscher herold. [volume] (Sioux Falls, SuÌˆd-Dakota) 1907-1918, 1916-10-05
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PLUCkINC THE EAGLES
FEATHERS.

iheFe was a time when twisting the
Lions tail was q favorite American
diversion. To-day the favorite snort
or the Allies seems to be plucking the
Eagle s feathers. This would not he
surprising, if it were not for the fact
that there are Americans who not
merely applaud the performance but
actually cooperate with Great Britain.
There was time when every American
knew that England is the only enemy
J OF our country. Instead of disproyinp
her enmity by her actions England.
assisted by her hirelings on this side.
assumed the task of falsifying Ameri-
can history. Her funkeys and her
buffers in our universities began to edit
cur textbooks. Base enough to be se-
dueed by money, or foolish enough to
be misled by flattery, they taught our
| Iemldfen that we owe what we have Ia
Great Britain, that we lost our wars
with her, or would have lost them. If.
occupied with other weightier problems.
she had not condeseended to recognize
our independence.
While these men poisoned the minds
OF our school children, Lord Northcliffe
manipulated the newspapers. In April,
1900, he admitted to J. p. O,Mahony.
editor Of the Indiana Catholic and Re-
cord, that he controlled eighteen news
papers in the United States. This
number has been steadily augmented.
Publishers may not have bartered away
their birthright for so many pieces OF
silver, but there are mysterious
gifts" of stock that puzzle the lay
mind. One publisher in New York is
said to receive his entire European
news service free. This in itself means
saving of several hundred thousand
dollars year. Another publisher in
the South was able to purchase his pa
per supply from Canadian firm fifty
thousand dollars below the market
price. Both gentlemen would indignat-
ly deny {even under oath) that they
are being subsidized by Great Britain.
Yet it is difficult to explain on any
other theory the fact that in d contro-
versy between Great Britain and the
United States they invariably side
against their own country. In order to
cover their tracks both gentlemen as-
sail the Central Powers with ever in
ereasing anry, although at present no
subject OF dispute pending between
these powers has the slightest claim
upon our attention.
1t IS only in dubious atmosphere
created by such efforts that men of tho
type of Charles w. Eliot, Robert Bacon
or George Haven Putnam can flourish.
In an atmosphere of an unadulterated
Amerjcanism they would be run out of
the country. We have always had To-
ries, but treason never dared to raise
its head SO boldly as to-day. Fortunate
iy a reaction against the pernicious
activities of British agents is setting
in. Mr.. Bacon {our former secretary
of State under Roosevelt) had the inn
pudenee to make a race for the Repu-
blican Senatorial nomination as an
avowed unneutraI. Mr.. Bacon was de-
feated. His defeat would have been
even more emphatic in spite of his
large personal following and the ampli-
tude of his campaign fund, If so many
American voters of German descent
had not failed to enroll for the pri-
maries. II the Americans Of German
descent kad been educated to do their
full duty, the Republican boss of Buf-
falo would not have been able to roll
up q majority for a candidate who
publicly iRsulted all Americans of other
,han Allied extraction. In the Bronx,
where effective work had been done by
,he American Truth Society, Represen-
,ative Bennett easily won not only the X
Republican and the Progressive nomi-
1ations, but almost carried the Demo-
ratio primaries as well. In Illinois th,a
Americans of German descent carried
he day. They voted for men, not be-
,ause they were of German extraction,
,ut because they were better men. New
Jersey confirmed Illinois.