Arizona republican., 1917-06-02
Americans Want the Truth


 The receive the war is not satsfac- tory. It comes from London, where the the censor smudges, suppresses or dstorts it. Much of it is worse than al for it arouses suspicion and induces loss of confidence. the troubles of Great Britain, much of the popular dstrust there could have been arerted by telling the people the truth The British papers have pointed this out to the government but the is headstrong and persists in magnifying British successes and min mizing British dsasters-persists in a course of de- ception which no longer deceives-only blinds.
 It should be made known the British government when we have actually taken part in the war that the American people will insist upon the truth and the whole truth; that government can hold the confidence it's citizens other way and that when once popular confidence has been destroyed government will automatically drop out of the war It will longer able help the allies with either money.
 The American people not afraid of the truth They are not over-elated by good news and not cast down by bad The latter will act as a spur to their patriotism The only thing that will demoralize them will be keep them in the dark or to jolly them. l. is said that the people like to be humbugged. It a snowman who said that and he had in mind only his humorous harmless humbuggery will be a fatal day when our gov ernment engages in humbuggery in a matter so seri- as world war
 There is from London every Tuesday a statement of submarine operations for the previous week These statements give the number of vessels over certain small tonnage 1.600 sunk the previous week and the number below this tonnage If it hap that the number is less than that of the week before, much is made of it. when matter of fact it is the number of sunk that counts but the amount of the tonnage that has been lost Here is a Dalpable attempt to deceive.
 The English people and their papers not de- ceived, is anybody outside the Admiralty which attempts this deception The British papers freely discuss the tightening submarine We take from the London Times the following account of a parliamentary inquiry on May 10:
 Referring the last report of shipping sunk Lord 3eresford described it misleading than any of the previous The total number of British ships sunk in the last week given in the last statement 46 while number in the week before 51, and in the before that 55 Reading that one would regard it at first as satisfactory but 1t misleading because the really important ques- ton not the number of ships. but their tonnage and the they carried believed that difference in tonnage was almost infinitesmal be- tween the 46 ships and the 55 ships He therefore pressed for returns which misleading.
 The Earl of Meath asked whether it was true that on the night of March 22 merchant ship the Ro- tarua from New Zealand. was torpedoed in the Chan ne laden with about 100000 carcases, cheese and other food whether she had landed previously at Plymouth some 250 passengers, and not allowed disembark her cargo but ordered to proceed to another British port for this purpose whether a like fate had not overteken other ships under similar cir cumsances: and if so, whether instruction had been given that vessels should whenever possible disem- bark their cargoes of food the British port they reached.
 The reply iof Lord Lytton, of the Admiralty to Lord Beresford embraced the single unillun,- mating sentence That entire misapprehen- sion. He admitted the loss of the Rotarua and in long and cloudy statement attributed that to un- atoidable circumstances and not to the Admiralty