The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-22
PRO-GERMAN
PROPAGANDA
By Achmed AbduIlah, of the yiriIante.


There are various sorts of German
which is antLAmerican, propaganda at
work in this country.
There is the propaganda of the pro.
1essional German.American who came
| over here twenty years ago as a steer.
age passenger and who. having made
his stake thanks 10 the gracious hos.
pitality, the fairness, and the unlimited
| possibilities of America returned as a
first-class passenger every year or so.
until the war broke out, to Germany
| There he posed as a Simon.Pure Yankee
and read the New York Herald. while
! back in America he posed as an up.
holder Of Billy the Kaisers Three-or is
| 1t Four-K's, and read the New York
Herald. He is the sort who hates Amer
lea and dislikes Germany; who tries to
straddle the fence; who wants to eat
his pudding and have it too; who would
kick at the climate of both paradise and
hell; who is neither fish nor flesh nor
good red herring His propaganda is
harmless. given the enternal American
sense Of the ridiculous
There is the intellectual propagandist
who bases his opinions on selected mis-.
quotation from Carlyle and various
books on Political economics; who
spouts fluently about a model German
town like Dusseldorf, but who has never
taken the trouble to investigate a model
American town like Spokane, or a model
British town like Bristol; who says that
it is divine Teutonic efficiency which
has done away with the Berlin slums
(which do exist, behind stucco fronts).
but who refuses to explain il It is the
same efficiency which has given to Ber-
lin its three hundred thousand officially
registered prostitutes. Such propagand.
lists frequently have good American
names. SO had Benedict Arnold.
There is the historical propagandist
who, forgetting the German Forty
Fighters who came here in search Of the
freedom clouted together by men with
names like Washington, Hamilton.
Franklin, and Lincon-hardly Teutonic
these!-declaim about what America
owes to Frederick the Great, the most
perjured and INSCRIPTIONS politician
who ever lived and who would have
made an alliance with the devil himself
If it had helped him TO gain his ends.
These gentlemen seldom mention the
German Hessians who fought for the
German King George
All these different propagandists are
comparatively harmless. After all. their
main argument consists in talking
louder than the other man.
But there is no propaganda more
clever, more insidious, more unscrupul.
GUS than that which masquerades under
the guise Of humanity Of compromise.
Of peace!
The New York American. in a recent
editorial, entitled Peace Without Vic.
tory" advocates a Worlds Congress. to
be assembled either at the Hague or at
Geneva, which would have fully three
months to carry out its discussions and
to reach its agreements undisturbed by
military operations on any front
Such a congress is a danger. II is
threat to the humanity whose cause 1t is
supposed to advocate. II is a blow in
the face Of average decency. 1t is trea.
son against the allies-and America be.
longs to the allies
Such a congress would be a compro-
mise.
Truel
But can we. decent people, people with
red blood in our veins. make a compro-
mise with indecency. with brutality,
with faithlessness. with everything that
Germany and her allies stand for? Can
We make a compromise with the peo-
pie who robbed and burned and raped
and looted and murdered wherever they
went?
Can we make compromise with
crime?
The judge on the bench. the jury,
the public prosecutor. do not make a
compromise with the criminal in the
dock.
They punish.
SO much we punish. And we must
punish hard.
The New York American asks: No
conquest, no spoliation. no dismember.
ment
Good! We will force Germany to sub.
scribe to this eminently fair and human
principle with the only weapon which
Germany observation-disclosures she
fears IL:
Soldiers and ships and guns and am.
munitions-and no compromise!
But clean.cut, crushing victory!