New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16
"Who's Who Against America
William Randolph Hearst

can:
Enlightened Americans should IN
derstand and sympathize with the Ger
man people in their effort TO find stand
ing room on the planet for their great
and growing race. This powerful and
prolific German nation is hemmed In
on every side by densely populated
military empires. There is, therefore,
no possibility of peaceful German ex-
pansion in Europe"
That is, enlightened Americans are
adjured by Mr.. Hearst's peculiarly en-
lightened American" to sympathize
with Germany in an expansion which
could by no possibility be peaceful.
In other words, in the present war, And
again, after the American Ambassador
had been withdrawn from Berlin, 1.-THE
Journal" editorializing with uncon-
cealed dismay upon the possible sue
cess Of the Allies. said:
at means the destruction Of the
most progressive nation in Europe"
Dis,oiiing a
Gerard Moral
From Ambassador Gerard's later
warnings concerning the strength of
Germany the Hearst papers drew q
moral Enthusiastically distorted for
Hearst's purposes of pessimistic pacif-
icism:
"Ths lesson briefly is this: First,
the necessity Of realizing the serious
ness Of the military situation; and,
second, the necessity Of either nego-
tiating a prompt peace with advantage
to our allies and honor to ourselves,
or of prosecuting a protractcd war,
with preparation for the defence of
our homes and our liberties on
greater scale than the world has ever
seen. America will be called upon not
only to protect her own institutions,
but to win the war for the Allies"
Going on Record
For the Germans
Violation by Germany of the rights
of neutrals reused no resentment in
Hearst. When the question Of arming
ships against submarine warfare was
stirring the nation Hearst went or
record, as usual, for the Germans, and
demanded referendum, which, Mr..
Hearst assured his readers, would
show nine-tenths of the people to be
wholly opposed to the policy of max
ing the death Of any American who
knowingly takes such a foolhardy risk
cause OF bloody and ruinous war.
Yet, in defiance Of the well-nigh uni
versal sentiment" (any creed which
Hearst holds is well-nigh universal to
the mind of Hearst, "the President
and his bellicose and unneutral Sec
rotary Of State have twice come within
an ace of plunging us into this horrible
war"
This, if you please, in criticism OF
the same President whose "milk-and-
water" spirit in not annexing Mexico
at Hearst's behest brought down upon
his head the scorn of Americas "ablest
and most powerful editor"
When President Wilson took firm
stand against Germany he was sneered
at by Germany's chief ally in this coun-
try as "the Professor: "All Germany
indignant over the Professors note;
| Americans in Berlin condemn Will
sons unneutral stand" But when
President Wilson expressed hope for
peace, he was triumphantly hailed as
a Hearst co1ert: president Wilson
is awakening. A victory of the Hearst
press"
Hearsts Participation
In Second Peace Drive
Hearst participated in the second
German peace drive, Of May, 1916, in
double role. First, he advocated imme-
date peace negotiations; second, he
trotted out his pet project of Mexican
war (for Hearst profits, again calling
upon the President to hasten peace in
Europe Ia peace which, of course,
would have left Germany MASTER, be-
cause 1--WE must end this anarchy and
ruin in Mexico" Ii is noteworthy that
at that very time Villa, the instrument
of the anarchy and ruin" was being
financed and aided by agents Of the
nation of Mr.. Hearst's true allegiance.
The Sussex outrage inspired Hearst
not with the wrath which other Ameri-
cans felt, but only with alarm lest the
United States accept the challenge.
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