Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-24
SERVING THE ENEMY.

q st, Paul paper, printed in German
flor violating the alien enemy prOcla
nation of the president. The paper
had been attacking General Pershing
Icriticising the draft, opposing the pol
Iicies of the national administration
and generally doing just the thing:
Germany would like it to do. 1t de-
veloped that the editor had only been
III this country few years and had
only taken out his first naturalization
papers since the war began.
Undoubtedly the ST Paul editor was
giving aid and comfort to the enemy
and he ought to be informed for the
rest of the war. But as a matter Of
fact the mischief he was doing was
less dangerous than that of the Hearst
newspapers, which are insidiously
striving to rally their readers against
the war policies of the government.
Their latest effort in this direction
is represented by manifesto from Mr.
Hearst himself, issued from Cheyenne,
Wyo., and given first page and double
measure prominence in all the Hearst
papers.
Mr.. Hearst is for peace, with the
United States proposing it. He wants
peace without annexations and indem-
mites. He wants the war called
draw; and he thinks he can best per-
suade the American people to demand
an end of the war by protesting
against the fact that we must send
millions of our splendid young men
the picked youth of our nation, to
pour out their blood, to fill the scarlet
trenches, and soak the sodden fields
of Europe, simply because Germany
wants to possess and Cypress weaker
nations, which should for the good OF
and of the world be free,
and because England wants to possess
territory which does not belong to her
ard never has belonged to her, and
would only serve to increase her do
minion over lands and seas which are
already sick of her sovereignty and
tired of her tyranny"
Up to the time the United States en-
tered the war the Hearst newspapers
and those who ape them were the
chief champions of Germany's cause
and Mr.. Hearst venomous enemy of
England because she had forbidden his
newspapers and correspondents to en-.
ten her dominions. When the United
States did enter the war, he insisted
that the allies had been beaten to a
standstill and were about to surren-
der, and that the United States alone
could save them from defeat, and even
,,ron
If this is true, then when Mr.. Hearst
urges that the United States sue for
peace his only purpose can be to
create situation which will enable
Germany to emerge victorious from
the war as the conqueror of England,
France and Russia, with her brutal and
grasping autocratic government left
intact, with democracy no longer safe
anywhere and with the United States
compelled to maintain a great stand
ing army as the only bulwark to pro-
tect her against Germany's inevitable
aggressions, unless she is decisively
defeated in this struggle.
| Mr.. Hearst has arrayed himself
against the policies of the government
and is working with all his energy and
cunning to undermine the confidence of
the people in the president and the
congress which overwhelmingly APP
proved the break with Germany as the
only possible answer to her insults to
and crimes against this country, its
citizens and its property.
The st. Paul editor was addressing q
narrow constituency and the harm he
was able to do could only be trivial.
But Mr. Hearst is able to speak to a
nationwide audience and he is capable
of rendering a far greater service to