New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-04

Unite and Win
This Is the Eighth Message From the United States Govern
the American People. Presented Each Week in
The Independent by George Creel Chairman of Committee
Public Information, Appointed by President Wilson,

beaten disastrously the losses will not be
all on the German side. and the Allied
losses in men and material and fighting
power will have to be made up by us The
conflict will be brought just so much nearer
TO US 1t Will have to be taken just so much
more seriously by u.s. 1t will have to be me.
with proportionatelv sitter resistance and
a more competent unity.
The German sympathizcrs in America have
been taking advantage OF every class quar-
rel and religious disSensiOn and racial prob
lem and political quarrel in order to divide
and disunitc US. They are ENCOURAGING the
campaign against pTice-fAing and persuad-
ing the farmer that he has grievance in
his 500 wheat. They have thousands of
propasandlsts among the negroes, exciting
them with stories of impossible atrocities
committed against the colored people in the
South They are equally busy with attempts
TO lncltc the whites to negro lynchings.
even while they are assuring the negro that
under the Kaiser the colored race will have
social equality with the whites They are
circulating anti-Catholc literature on the
one hand. and, on the other spreading cir
cumstantial stores Of government dscrim-
NATION against Catholics in the army camps
Men like Walter W oel Ike in "The Sunset Mao
azine' of San Francisco, are exasperatino
the labor problem by attacking the working
men with charges of disloyalty and by mis-
representing conditions in the shipyards
German agents are at work melting the l.
W. w., organizing leagues of conscientious
DIRECTORS and preaching violence in the
West while other German agents are lead
ing mobs to tar and feather the victims of
TINS German propaganda Of social unrest
Every sort of lie about the government and
Its war measures is being circulated for the
purpose of weakening the faith of the peo-
pie IN the men who are conducting the war
lies about the food administration, thu
fuel admin traton, the War Department
the Navy, the Shipping Board, tie Red Cross
and all else BY such means the unity with
which we entered the conflict has been dis
ntegrated. The menace of the German
drive on the Western front should sol;difv
us.
1t is drive against US. Il has been UNI
dcrtaken now to DESTROY our allies before
our strength can reach the battlefield. If
the Germans could win. the defeat would he
our defeat and the consequences as terrible
Tor US as tor any country that is opposed to
German domination. There can no longer
be any doubt of German purpose. That
has been settled by the terms Of peace Of
fered to Russia and by the invasion of Rus
STA that has continued since the peace was
signed. 1t was "downfal or world domin
ION tor the German Empire when tho war
began. 1t is only world dominion" thu.
the imperial German government plans now
DOMINION not merely over Russia and Ro]
gum and Rumania and Serbia, but over
France and Italy and Great Britain. too. and
over America. If we cannot unite in on
position to the German drive in France as
the Italians were united By the German
drive IN the North, we cannot succeed in
defending ourselves. 1t is, so far. the most
serious hour of the war for us divide
and conquer is the maxim of the German
army and the German propaganda. Unite
and win" must be ours.