Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-11-20
NNTENTE LOSING HOPE FOR
VICTORY.


Tho people Of the United States
ere being slowly preparing for the
inevitable end of the war, the end
which at once will lift the secrecy
from the various happenings Of the
last two years, then end which will
open the eyes of the Americans who
will then see how they were de-
ceiyed not only by England but,
above all, by their own press organs.
For more than two years the Ameri-
can press or the larger part of it
has acted on tho orders and inspira-
tions OF England fors two years the
pro-British press of America has
deceived the American public in an
almost impossible and incredible
manner, for two years the American
press has abdicated it's right to think
for itself, since England desired to
do that part Of the American news
paper work
American newspaper Offices for
years have been filled with British
writer's, in fact, they are the domi-
nant part on almost every editorial
staff OF The bigger newspapers OF the
United States. They are the medium
by which England has hypnoti2ed
America into the belief, that the
victory OF England Is a victory for
America, that Germany must be
crushed in order TO insure the future
security OF America.
a multitude of different schemes
has been employed by Great Britain
and her agents in American nows-
paper Offices to mould American
public opinion according to the
wishes Of England and to her bene-
fit. Long before the war started.
this anti-German propaganda in the
United States has set in Before
tho war it was the German menace
to the Monroe doctrine, tie holy
steer" Of America, that was used TO
create distrust against Germany in
America, while England herself, in
some miraculous way, obtained the
control ever the Panama Canal and
thus constitutes the only and real
danger to the Monroe doctrine. if we
leave out the Japanese, the British
beadle who is always called upon
by England If we Americans don't
behave and submit to Englands
| orders. And we have behaved
wonderfully Nobody can deny 1t,
and England has been kind TO us so
far she hat not permitted Japan to
let loose her yellow hordes upon
America, but they are held in readi-
ness, and the fact that they are
possible accounts for great deal
Of our diplomatic bungling Of the
last two years.
Enknowingly, the American peo-
pie have been pending between the
| great dangers of the East and the
! West, Japan and England, and while
\ tun cF a.
we found the greatest satisfaction
in hitting at an imaginary danger, at
/ a phantom, skillfully held before our
\ eyes by England and her American
/ press agents. That phantom danger
was Germany with her inferior fleet
! and her strength taxed to the ut
most Germany whose only strength
! lies in continental Europe, not in
| territorial expansion but in the peace
| ful commercial and Industrial con
| quest of the near and far East.
In fact, there Is not corner in
the world whore German and Ameri-
can interests collide, to the con
trary, both, Germany and the United
States are standing for the same
| principles which alone make o peace
| full competition among the industrial
and commercial powers Of the earth
possible, and these principles are the
open Door" and the Freedom Of
/ the Seas"
In it's notes to Germany and, in
the past, in its relationship to China,
our Government has always insisted
on the necessity of living up to
these principles, but American i'm
sistence and German desire to assist
the United States in the maintenance
of this policy have utterly failed
under the ruthless exercise OF world
domination by the British fleet. The
! freedom Of the seas has vanished
and the policy Of the open door is a
( thing Of tho past. Our merchants
long ago have found that out. when
their vessels were driven from the
oceans and their contracts with
| Chinese and other business houses