Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-07
PRESS LIES FAN WAR
FLAME, SAY WRITER'S
British Autocracy Blamed for
Suppression of All Peace
Movements
NOVELIST CITES LETTERS
BY EDWARD CARPENTER
rho Celebrated Ensiish Novelist

CopyriRht. 1918, ~ international News ssrvic,
In the midst OF the garbIed stun. FUN o
rccrminatlona against the enemy" whlc
we get through our public press u may b
useful 10 print portions Of letters lately re-
ceivcd from abroad
The first letter ls from Paris and ls from
a FreuchwOman who stayed during las
March In Switzerland. She gives some idea
at any rate. ~ what IA being said In Swift
zerland She writes;
saw Mons Romnln Holland. and
had long and Interesting conversation
with him Germany seems a. have
made up her mind 10 get ria " tho
Pruhslan dynsAty and tyranny, and
there In strong and scuHbis party
who wish 10 establish German cnn-
federation, where all States would have
equal rights. Germany and Austria are
clamorinE for peace and most reason.
able terms have been offered 10 tho
Allics hut England absolutely refuses
20 stop nghting one ie appalled, by
the deliberate lies of the press Cin tho
warning countrlcsJ whom comparing
newspapers ~ various countries Tho de-
aire 90 night In kept up artincially by
tho most outrageous fnlsitles Peace
tendencies are considered evil. unpa-
triotlc and trencheroua. Letters or
printed matter treating ~ this question,
oven between neutral states, are quietly
cnnnscatcd by the French censorship.
~ your friend Prof " nnid the pros.
ont regime Of tyranny In worse than
the state of things during tho Middle
Ages.
All this ls very sad, and one won
dcrH what the masses will do when
they discover how the cnpitallat poll
tlcihns have played about with their
blood and money WIN they become
Wiser and ondeavor TO send "hOnest"
people 10 Parliament II In doubt
ful There may be n revolution which
will only trouble the waters for clever
cyclists 10 nRh in n In tho true spirit
which IN lacklnR--tho spirit which
unites and heals. instead OF destroy
Ing and severinR But those who speak
OF honesty IN bualnoaa or politics are
only called idle dreams am afraid
I am rathor poBuimlstic about human
kind. which seems 10 be very far yet
from lts ngo Of discretion.
The other letter Ia from n Gorman-Epeak
Ing Swiss living In Hhalo Having always
been fond OF England and an ndmlrer OF
the English. he is much distressed at tho
rubbish which In finding It's way into print
In this country. and which In apparently
being accepted by the people. Ifo writes:
| hear no little from my English
friends now, 40 that II sometimes seems
ms n the two countries had moved
farther apart And. indeed, when
read English papers and magazines
often ind 1t hard 10 convince myself
thar the stun can have been thought
and written down and printed for pub
llcnton In dear old England, which |
had beon accustomed 10 regard nA tho
country Of good sense ana fairness and
observation-disclosures
Talking about tho fairness and broad
nlndodncss Of the general prcsa In Eng
and today. | may mention that few
weeks ago In addressing n Sheffield audi
'nce on the BubjecT or the war, read out
he paBsnges quoted above. These passages
Nero received with acalamntlon by the au-
Hence, But the chof local paper not only
lid not report them, but went 80 far as 10
any mention OF the meeting at
shlch they had been quoted,