TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1916-05-30

was decided upon by the British cabinet
: months before II broke out. The inHu-
I, entail newspapers talked war from 1906,
when the military and naval CONVERSE
tons led 10 the mutual placing OF the
French and British fleets. The Admir-
atty, under Churchill, was governed by
war conditions three years before Au-
gust OF 1914. When war came, every
reason, eFeebt the right ones, were
published, to show THE PEOPLE how
they had gotten into it. Authors who
enjoyed no circulation OF repute in their
own country, were dragged out and
their books sold by the million in Eng
land, while said books we're recon-
mended to the Americans as good read
ing. The salient and actual causes of
the war are today hidden from the
British people, and will not be revealed
to them until England gets rid OF As
Quith, Grey, Churchill, and Lloyd
George. And if the English masses
don't know the causes Of the war, why
should their ~aristocracy attempt to
teach Hsl It's the English government
tai machinery that has flooded America
with lies about the war and its causes.
To shape American opinion they have
given us a part of the news, yellow
headlines flare the iniquities Of Ger
many and the endearing kindness OF
England, the Associated Press seems to
act as an organ of the British censor.
Alarmist stories tell what the British
would like to see happen. Syria is ready
to revolt against the cruel Turk, the
Turks want a separate peace, Spain is
straining at the leash to join the Allies,
Bohemians sympathizing with the Rus
slams have been shot in Prague, social
lists have been executed in Berlin. the
Hungarian Diet is about to sever rela-
tons with Vienna, the United States is
solidly lined up against Germany, the
Poles" petition the Washington gov
eminent to prevent the use OF asphyx-
iating gases by the Germans, and so on,
dd n1aScdm. Then we read the afro
cious Atroeity Stories" These are best
disposed of by quoting m editorial from
the London Herald" a labor paper:
They were at one and the same time
a stimulus TO recruiting and the graft
hcation Of that particular species Of
lustful insanity which in times of peace
takes its pleasures in other and equal
ly Infamous, forms. But when it was
discovered that these stories were not
only incapable of proof, but that the
vast majority Of them were capable of
disproof when there wal a provoking
absence of handless children, searched
the mongers ever so hard, there was a
reaction to decent silence. but not for
long. This time the stories concern
themselves with a wholesale outraging
of nuns and schoolgirls" as the Eng
lish used to do in France during their
former wars, or in India where it was
convenient. Make but your lie infa-
nous and vile enough, and it will be
believed. So much was proved up to
the hilt in the earlier series of stories /;
so much is being proved in the latter.
AS before every town and village shell
tered handles children, so Ho10 every
convent is supposed to harbor outraged
and pregnant nuns. Yet not one soli-
tary case of either infamy has been
produced that could survive the easiest
scrutiny, and not n will be produced"
1t is not the brave men at the front
who invent these stories OF malicious
viliication Soldiers always respect
the enemy in uniform. 1t is the poll
troons at home whose purses are being
depleted by the war, who, had they re-
ceived military training would have
learned TO be accurate in thought and
to tell the truth. There is not one sim
gle order issued by the German mill
tary in Belgium but what can find its
rGiSoH detye in the principles laid down
in General Orders No. 100, Adiutant
Generals Office, Washington, d. C.,
1868, and which instructions were is
sued, without modification, for the gov
eminent of the armies Of the United
States during the war with Spain in
1893. The vile examinations and mis-
representations emanating from Lon
don sources are not worthy of a noble
people; they disclose the depths of
moral ~pcrversity to which commercials
ism is capable Of descending when it is
the chief worship, aim, and authority
in a state. The epithets employed in
the English press today give a distinct
shock to an unprecedented person taught
to believe in English justice and love
OF fair play. Let one recollect that such
u%tterances are not the expression of the
nation. TheI are rather the rawlings of
the plutocrats who have that nation in
its grip, and will soon be compelled to
conscript the workman to his bench as
well as the soldier to his gun.
Some of the alarmist stories should
deal with British affairs. Why not in
innate that England does not dare to
use the European troops she has in
India for fear of a revolt in the land Of
the durbar, that English workmen are
so thoroughly discontinued with the con-
caste they would rise against it
if they could, that Welch coal miners
are almost in a state of instruction?
The unrest in the Sudan, the hatred of
all the small neutral nations for the
mistress of the seas, the historic enmi-
ty Of Ireland, the endless chickering's be-
tween the British commanding generals
the dissatisfaction the French feel with
military policy Of the British, the
Russian complaint that his screams for
help were only answered by the Ger
mans, the cause of the rise Of food
prices in Great Britain. the silent re-
cruiting going on in the United States,
be made the subjects Of interest
ing monographs, none Of them reflect
ing credit on the British cabinet.
England has for years boosted Of hav-
ing her navy as a means Of controlling
Now her people ask. why
the army?" They can't grasp the idea
IF an armada hidden away for safety. |
That army will never be recruited TO