New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Who's Who Against America
Herr Hearst Publishes
Pro.German Propaganda


| in this country. Barely fortnight
before our declaration Of war . Hearst
paper editorialized to this effect;
The German-A Americans sympathiIe
with Germany because they regard an
English victory as an evil to the whole
world"
While Hearst did not openly lend
eountensnce to the hyphenate rejoicings
over the fate Of the Lusitania' ne
plsyed his Enthusiastically British
batting role In the crisis which fol-
lowed. In his view the British, not the
Germans, we're responsible for that
tragedy. He piously upbraids the Brit
,sh Admiralty for not having moro ef-
fectively protected tho liner. To Herr
Hearst the unfortunate Americans
slaughtered by the Kaiser's U-boat are
simply "foolhardy persons who voyage
in belligerent ships through sea war
zones" and who therefore, presumably
deserved their fate. AS for the real
cause of the dreadful death list, Herr
Hearst promulgated theory worthy OF
thu subtlest Teutonic intellect. 1t was
mot really the U-boat that killed all
those "tooihardy" Americans. On the
contrary: '1ncompetency OF tho Lusi-
tania Crew Responsible for tho Great
Loss OF Human Lives" according to
the Hearst headline.
Anyway, Herr Hearst, thinking along
right Teutonic lines, cannot quite see
why the excitsble Americans should DO
so stirred up about it
at is 10 be hoped that this indigna-
ton will soon be replaced by a cooler
conception Of the situation" Z.
PHILOSOPHERS Hearst's "Deutsches Jour
nal" at is of no purpose to appeal to
international law and TO prove that
the British first violated international
treaties designed TO make war more
humane"
Again we find the implication Of I'M
comprehending surprise over American
resentment in this comment upon a re-
port that the Allies sirmen had bombed
an unfortifed town:
This report is very seasonable, be-
cause the Americans are especially In
dIgnant that women and children who
happened to be aboard the Lusitania
were killed"
Apropos Of the diplomatic corre-
spopdence with Great Britain over
American rights on the high seas Herr
Hearst vents both his snglophobis and
his spite against President Wilson for
the latter's stand against the U-bost
warfare:
"The English governments answer to
the American note has finally arrived
after four months. Every American
protest has been repudiated as unjust
in this answer, with an unheard'of im-
pertinence. Mr.. Professor in the White
House has now a chance to show what
he meant when he wrote to Berlin:
The American government will con-
tinpe 10 strive for the freedom OF the
seas without compromise and by all
means"
The "Deutsches journal contributed
this. Later it demanded an American
embargo against England on the charge
that England was interfering with our
commerce.
The Sussex sinking was made the
occasion Of truly Hearstliche out
burst. But not against the German
depredators. Far from it! Against
the British, as usual, with an inferen-
tisl justification Of the U-bost policy;
eve must maintain our rights. the
safety of our ships and the freedom OF
IN, seas with the same boldness. the
same peremptoriness and the same de-
termination against any aggressor
against German submarine war
fare and against British cruiser war
fare. This is the only course open to
a self.respecting people"
Which is all very straight, sound
American doctrine 90 far. But now
Mr.. Hearst changes abruptly to Herr
Hearst:
"And, so far as we can see, that is
the only request which Germany cou-
nile. with her frank compliance with
our demands"
Further, the Kaiser's chief American
propagsndist twists the Sussex matter
70 the uses Of his own policy and Of