Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-12-28
DISLOYAL CREW
HEARTENS FOE
GERMAN PRESS DILATES ON IN
FLuENcE OF coPPERHEADs
IN AMERICA.

New York, Dec 25-German news
papers which have just reached New
York emphasized editorially what
they call popular antagonism to Will
sons war; Senator LaFollette, Will
liam Randolph Hearst, the socialists.
and I. w. w. are credited with being
the chief factors in this attitude.
The Koelnische Zeitung remarks
that throughout the United States
opposition against Wilson's war Is
growing daily. The forces at work
are tremendous and the movement
has taken on such proportions as to
cause alarm and is being considered
with deep concern in Washington.
Ia TOILETTE CALLED LEADER.
"German-Americans, 1rishmen and
socialists are making common IN or
der to obstruct the war preparations
and to paralyze the future conduct OF
the war" the writer says. The leader
Of this movement is the radical Sena-
tor La Toilette Of Wisconsin, who has
gained the support of not small
number Of congressman, who do all
that is in their power 10 prevent all
measures that are under considera-
ton for an effective prosecution Of
the war
THE organs of the socialists pub
lish sharp articles ,denouncing those
that profiteer by prolongation of the
war, laying the blame for Americas
entrance into the conflict at their
door.
HAIL HEARST AS ALLY.
This view is also held by William
Randolph Hearst, who in his many
newspapers, declares frankly that the
United States is fighting Englands
battles.
So far the government does not
dare to prosecute him." the paper OBJ
serves, and adds:
at was this man and the influences
cited above that are responsible for
the election of Judge Hylan for mayor
of New York over Mitchell, the candi-
date Of the capitalists. This result
was nothing short Of moral box on
Mr. Wilson's ear"
THAT the anti-war sentiment is ever
increasing daily in the United States"
remarks the Vossische Zeitung Of Ber-
lin, SIS shown in the fact that Mr..
Roosevelt is no longer regarded as
representing the true public opinion
in America All the great metro
politan dailies to which he had con-
tributed articles have dropped him.
and he is now associated with an OBJ
scure western newspaper in Kansas
City"
SOCIALISTS HELP GERMANY.
The Deutsche Tages-Zeitung OF Ber-
lin says that Wilson's greatest and
most active opponents are the social
lists and not so much the pro-German
element which keeps comparatively
quiet" drawing this inference from
the fact that most of the socialist
papers in the United States Of Ameri-
ca have been suppressed or placed IN
der restrictions, including the New
Yorker Volks Zeitung, socialist pa
per printed in the German language
Besides the socialists and the l. W.
w. many organizations representing
the farmers and laboring classes that
are opposed to Wilson's war policy,
have come into existence since the
outbreak of the war" the Berliner
Tageblatt says in an editorial headed,
Wilson'S Fight Against the American
People" and concludes that 1T is the
ever growing anti-war feeling through
out the United States that forces men
such as Senator Stone. Hartwick and
Gronna into line with men like Hearst
and Lafollette."
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