The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-24
.,..r,no TO Keokuk People Not to
believe or Spread the Stories
Sent Out by Huns Or
sanlzed Propaganda.
PART OF ENEMY PLANS
o.,,inate in Some German Genius for
Composing Fiction Which Travels
by it's Own Momentum
When Once Started.

"The German propaganda has seep
Al into Keokuk right, and Is act
vely at work right here in Keokuk,
aid DR.. G. Walter Barr today. He
hid something about how German
iakes may be recognized and how
there are stock ones which get over
more or less, and continued: "Those
most current here ever since the wa"
hogan are in general the regular stock
AXE stories perfectly familiar to
those interested in the German meth
ads of fighting for Germany by pois-
oning American minds.
1T is the easiest thing in the world
10 accomplish, after somebody high
nm in the German camp has invented
ing genius 1t is theatrical press
agenting in reverse. The. stories are
passed from mouth to mouth of their
own momentum, after once being
started right in some club or some
Red Cross knitting society. The man
or woman who tells such a story is
not necessarily copperhead, anG
generally is patriot, but he or she
Is innocently shooting German am
munition at American soldiers out OF
oral guns made in Germany
The Bated Breath Of the Innocents.
Just the other day / had one of
these stock stories told me with Dated
breath by man who got it from his
wife who got it at a Red Cross gath
ering from one of the best and finest
and most patriotic women in Keokuk
whom have known well for quar-
Ter of century Where this fine
woman got it. is not pertinent, but ii
came direct from that higherup who
received his orders from Bernstorff
before that delectabIe diplomat was
fired out of America. The KeokuA
woman told it. the Keokuk man re-
2eated it, others passed it along, quite
naturally-it was invented in the first
place to have the greatest carrying
distance and power possible.
That Is only one instance of many
that could be given in some detail.
There are a variety of such stories
afloat which should be killed as dead
as a scotched cOpperhead snake.
An Epic Lie Of Nastiness.
There Is the story, told with lot |
Of convincing evidence. that the Red |
Cross is profiting by selling gifts
made by it for soldiers This is one !
German lie
( There is the story, veritable !
epic OF romance and nastiness, about |
The eight hundred or seven hundred, |
ior some other hundred, Red Cross |
nurses coming back home. This Is
another stock German propaganda |
story taken right off the shelf in Ber-
lin where there are lot more stock |
stories all designed to harm thu |
American soldiers and help the kais- i
er In America.
The German Fiction Factory
keokuk people, like all other peo- |
PIE need to be awakened to the well |
established fact that Germany is
maintaining in the United States a
hellon factory, supported by Berlin, |
WITH genius for factory superintend-
sa' and that without exception every
sory told within year uncompli-- I
nentary to American soldiers, the
Aed Cross, the Y. NJ. c. A., the Lib.
sll! bonds OF any other patriotic
cause is lie.
ne government has not yet To-
saled the factory nor identified tho
but its existence and .
y ae.hods are as well known as those /
= me munitions works at Essen.
. Every man or woman hearing such !
: story should instantly inform the
sarra'or about these things-and the
!. fe definite is the evidence stated,
, n's SAFER it Is to bet that the whole
1ilhg is German lle.'