Evening journal., 1917-09-28

II has been remarked at various times !
and by various persons that 1t makes /
a difference whose OK Is being gOred. !
The German language or German sup |
ported newspapers OF New York and
elsewhere could see no reason why
they should not attack American insti-
buttons, support the German cause
against the American cause, applaud
the U-b0at in its work OF murder and
destruction and shouldn't maintain a
secret organization for the boycotting
Of American manufacturers or business
men who furnished supplies OF any
Kind TO the Allies George Sylvester
Nioreik, editor Of the Fatherland, on
one OncasOn, explained bOastfully TO
a Wall Street man of the qualifications
and power Of this boycott. One large
implement concern of the West, which
was not In the munition business and
had no dealings with the Allies, but
which, by error, got on the German
boycott list, suffered a loss Of trade
and appealed 90 Vlereck TO have Us
name Withdrawn Viereck promised the
Wall Street man TO have the wrong
corrected but later repudiated his
promise.
And now comes a plant from the
German language newspapers of New
York that a boycott has been declared
on them by tho organization known as
the Vigllantes and as result they are
losing their theatrical advertising, are
being torpedoed in their cash drawers,
so to speak.
Now, IL should be understood, that
theatrical advertising is not to be
rron,od "a "a nova fho bfohacf or upar-
" the highest Of rates Aside from that
il Is Informative. A person has been
known to buy a newspaper just TO see
what shows there We're in town. II a
general newspaper does not carry the
dry goods and theatrical advertising it
may as well telephone for the sheriff.
In the leading German language
newspapers of New York on Monday
the Stats Zellung had -, the
Deulsches journal, 4 HerOld, morning
a. Herold, evening, q inches. lhats a
wretched showing.
Tho Vleilantes deny insttuting the
boycott. The theatres deny having been
approached by any organization or re-
preventative Of organization in such a
cause. They do say they received many
letters asking them TO stop supporting
UciIuuu ldItiHs
A boycott is not a pleasant thing. II
\ is. TO a large degree, a weapon OF Sc
crecy. Il is not American in principle
But the German, and particularly the
German language newspaper, has nc
license to protest If subjected to It's
punishments. The conduct Of the Ger
man language newspapers of New YORK
has been foul Some Of them were on
the road TO financial embarrassment De-
fore the war. They saw I'm the war q
godsend. an opportunity to save Them
selves TO get rich. They had been los
Wing patronage. because gradually, as
German immigrants or the children OF
immigrants became Americanized and
drifted away from reading German pa
pers. the circulation and the adverts'
ing had declined, for the later imlnl
grafton had not been I'm volume Dis
enough to make up for the losses. i
was with realization OF the profit L
them I'm pushing the German cause
| more perhaps than love of the kalse
and his Kullur, that The owners OF IN
German language newspapers Decalh
so violently prO-Germon
And now the German language news
papers, after sailing over the seas
prosperity for three happy years, thrt
happy years I'm which they appliance
murder. arson, treachery, crime
every kind so long as 1t served 10 prli
dollars or marks to them, suddenly al
cover that a shot from U-boat ltht