Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1917-05-02
WHAT AN UNJUST CENSORSHIP
HAS DONE FOR ENGLAND AND
WILL DO FOR THE UNITED
STATES.

After quoting recent editorials in
the New York Times, New York
World, London Times, London Daily
Mail, and London Daily Telegraph,
ir which these newspapers admit
that the German people can not be
conquered by the starvation process,
that the submarines have England
by the throat, that the British censor
has misled the public Of Great Brit
air and America in regard to the
danger that turks in the rutless sub
marine warfare, that Russia is lost
to the Allies, that Great Britain is
no longer ruling the waves, the New
York American in it's issue of Mai l.
continuing says:
Day after day, dozens upon dozens
of times, for more than year The
American has constantly told you
that revolution was sure to come in
Russia; and has steadily told you
since the revolution occurred that
Russia was in anarchy, that it has
no real government, that the soldiers
are out of hand and the peasants and
workmen resolved upon fighting no
longer-that Russia is, not will be,
lost to the allies and that to ''ignore
the possibility OF this situation is a
species of lunacy that can only ex-
pose us TO disaster and humiliation"
And while we thus anxiously and up
rightly strove to warn the nation and
to do the full duty of a loyal and use
full American newspaper the very
newspapers which now, at this be-
lated hour. take the same tone, were
ignoring" this danger we're deny
ing or deriding our statements, were
insisting that Russia was orderly
that the armies were loyal that the
pcople were determined to persist in
war. and that Russian activity would
hold the German troops in the East
that otherwise might be released to
give Hindenburg a dangerous pre-
ponderance Of force in France.
Then we have the New York Times,
the London Times, the London Daily
Mail and the London Daily Telegraph
simultaneously confossing that the
German submarine DIockade has in
creased its deadly power until Eng
land is in extreme peril-and
brought to dangerous pass in
tx elve short weeks; that the Ad-
miralty and the censorship have been
deliberately deceiving the people as
tc the frightful damage done to
shipping; that the Food Commits
sioners have issued conflicting
statements;" that the people have
been deceived by these foolish means
into widely believing that the food
situation was being painted in un-
necessarily dark colors;" and that
THE RESULT OF THIS CONCEAL
MENT, DECEPTION AND DOWN
RIGHT LYING is that England is in
deadly peril of famine and defeat
Was there ever a more striking
and complete vindication of any
newspapers policy, in all the history
Of the world, than these confessions
that The American has been abso-
lutely right in its forecasts, in its
statements and in its insistent ur-
gcncy that such folly as this ex-
hibited by the British censorship and
by the newspapers which aided It IN
its deception and falsehoods WOULD
SURELY BRING DANGER AND
DISASTER to the very cause they
had at heart? All along we have in
sisted that time would surely JUSTIFY
our course and vindicate the good
sense and sound patriotism OF our
policy-even while fools and ounces
were denouncing us as unpatriouc
because we were earnestly endeaYor-
ing to rouse the people TO the rean-
zatioh of THE FACTS AND TEE
TRUTH. And now see how short a
time has vindicated and Justihed the
sense and patriotism of that policy
and that conduct. We nave never
believed, nor do we ever mean to
try to believe that any national good
military or economic or political
4. l.-r fnlI
by q general deception of the people.
That is the most false, foolish and
mischievous policy that can possibly
be adopted by a government, either
in peace or in war Let him who
doubts that look at England, in her
distress and peril, crying to us for
helm to save her from the deadly
strangle-hold of the German sub
marines. and then remember that if
tho English and American peoples
had been told the whole truth for
months past, they could have saved
enough food and stored enough food
to have carried England through her
peril
But the inconceivable stupidity
and fatuous folly that persisted in
Gerioing the danger, in concealing
the conditions, in buoying up the
people with false reports Of victory
and Dragging prophecies of their en-
cmies imminent ruin, persisted day
after day-and day after day Eng
land went on wasting its precious
food, jeering at the careful and pro-
vident Germans, talking of its in
vincible navy's ability to destroy any
puny menace of submarine boats, de-
nonuncing wise and prudent mems
warnings as the utterances of faint
hearts and disloyal tongues until
NOW, astonished, dazed and helpless,
the English people have walked to
the terrible truth that the German
submarines have England by the
throat and will choke her into defect
unless we the despised Yankee dol
lar chasers-save her from her
doom.
THAT Is WHAT THE FATUOUS
AND IDIOTIC CENSORSHIP HAS
DONE FOR ENGLAND. That is the
disastrous result of the so-called pa
triOfier1 which dCnOunceS truth-tell-