TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1916-12-04
American Ostrich
HIDES ITS FACE TO THE REAL DANGERS AND
HITS AN ENGLISH-MADE PHANTOM,
Entente losing hope for victory,

States are being slowly prepar-
ed 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, the end which will open
the eyes Of the Americans who
will then see how they we're
deceived not only by England
but, above all, by their own
press organs. For more than
two years the American press
or the larger part Of it has act
ed on the orders and inspirs-
tons Of England, for two years
the pro-British press of Amer
lean has deceived the American
public in an almost impossible
and incredible manner, for two
years the American press has
abdicated its right to think for
itself, since England desired to
do that part of the American
newspaper work.
American newspaper Offices
since years have been filled with
British writers, in fact, they are
the dominant part in almost
every editorial staff of the big
ger newspapers of the United
States. They are the medium
by which England has hypnotic
ed America into the belief, that
the victory of England is a
victory for America, that Ger
many 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 newspaper Offices to
mould American public opinion
according to the wishes Of Eng
land and to her benefit. Long
before the wal started, this anti
German propaganda in the
United States had set in, and
then It was the German menace
TO the Monroe doctrine, the
holy steer" Of America, that
was used to create distrust
against Germany in America,
while England herself, in some
miraculous fashion, obtained the
control over 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 Eng
land if we Americans don't be-
have and submit to England's
orders. And we have behaved
wonderfully. Nobody can deny it,
and England has been kind
to us, for so far she has not
permitted Japan to let loose her
yellow hordes upon America,
but they are held in readiness,
and the fact, that they are, pos
sibly accounts for a great deal
of our diplomatic bungling Of
the last two years.
Unknowingly, the American
people has been pending be-
tween the great dangers Of the
East and the West, Japan and
England, and while we were
afraid Of saying the truth we
found the greatest satisfaction
in hitting at an imaginary dan.
ger, at a phantom, skilfully put
before our eyes by England and
her American press agents. That
phantom danger was Germany,
Germany with her inferior fleet
and her strength taxed to the
utmost, Germany whose only
strength lies in continental
Europe, not in territorial ex-
pansion but in the peaceful COM
mercial and industrial conquest
Of the near and far East.
In fact, there is not a corner
in the world where German and
American interests collide, in the
contrary, both, Germany and the
United States are standing for
the same principles which alone
make a peaceful competition
among the industrial and COM
mercial powers of the earth pos
sible, and these principles are
the Open Door, and the Free
dom of the Seas.
In its 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 ~insistence ana
German desire to assist the
United States in the mainten.
ance Of this policy have
utterly failed under the
ruthless exercise Of world domi-
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