El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-21
Our Enemies Within
Foreign Language Papers Not Alone SeditiOus
German Propaganda IN Disguise IN Magazine

In the subjoined passage, extracted
from a review OF Cosmos's Basis OF
Durable Peace" (Which kappa" who
thus signs his review. calls a ridicu-
lousy Impossible solution Of the prob
lens Of the war;, is the boldest apo
logia for certain German offences
that L have ever seen in English or
German:
IF Cosmos had been fair. he would
have shown that the present subma-
rine campaign is provoked by Great
Britain, and Great Britain is alone
to blame for it. The con-
demnation Of the Germans for the
destruction OF the Lusitania reminds
me Of the cOndemua ton Of q Russian
Jew, who was accused Of having
caused the breaking Of a great show
window and was condemned to pay
for the window and the costs Of the
court. The fact was that some per-
but the jew evaded the stone and the
stone crashed into the window. When
the offender was taken TO court by
the owner Of the store he claimed alb
solute innocence Of having smashed
the window. because he had intended
10 hit the Jew and not the window;
so the Jew was considered guilty be-
cause he lodged the stone and caused
the smashing OF tho expensive pane,
and the court. in the truly Russian
spirit which condemns Jew under
all circumstances. made the poor Jew
pay. The explosives were not intend
ed Tor the passengers on the boat but
for the German soldiers in the
trenches, so our manufacturers are in
nocent Of the catastrOphe-but the
Germans are the guilty ones that
should be blamed and hated as Huns
the world over"
@KnOek England Is Motto.
The advertisements are not such as
are usually seen in loyal papers,
either. "Ayesha" and Odyssey OF the
Linden" for example; but almost any
one would say that as these are
cracking good adventure stories. no
harm is done in advertising them. But
what do you say to Carlyle and the
War in which II IS conclusively
proved that the immortal Thomas
would have put out manifesto con-
demnlnE Englaud's actions in the
great war; or Roland Hagin's Ger
many Misjudged"i or Eduard Meyers
England: Its Political Organization
and Development and the War
Against Germany" (note the innuendo
in the title). The motto seems TO be
anything to knock England" II not
her commercial supremacy. as I'm Al
fred Changers 'England's World En-
pire," wherein a well known Chicago
eulOgy, strips bare the infamous prof.
ect Of Great Britain; then her intel
lectual products, as in W. II. Wright's
Misinforming a Nation" which pans
the Encyclopaedia Britannica for not
being an Encyclopaedia Americana,
Gallia, Germania. Slavia. Italica.
written by jig time journalists and
German savants with an up-to-date
Freudian outlook.
II the scholar Of religions expects
that he viii find more material proper
10 his interests in the August number
after the widest OF the German Jour
nails Of this country have toned down.
he'll be disappointed after looking az
pages 458-f64- I think The Tribune
should Gull a few posies for its Ger
nan-American bouquet from the edi-
Or's article on English DiplOmacy.T
n which he would show that the sole
aim Of Lloyd George and the cabinet
s to make "rapprohement between
these two countries (America and
Germany. impossible" England.
laims Herr Carus. wants no com
nercial rivals, so she would be glad
II chance TO embrOiI her nearest
.ossible competitors
II your pro German readers are dis I
atisfied with the half hearted treason
Z the various "ZeitunE" ind He
olds" let them drop a line to 10 S. Z
1ichigan avenue. Chicago. OF course. /
md get a monthly that viii be fest |
Ind true fur Deutschland. ~ Copy ]
ight 1917. by The Tribune Associa- I
ion.)