Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-09-20

dispatch to the New York Herald OF
May 13, party of Grand Army veter-
ans protested against such action by
procuring every available copy of the
American and burning them i'll the
courthouse square, the veterans ex-
planning, through Major Louis G. Dietz,
organizer, of the local Loyal Service
League, that they did this because they
regarded the action of the New York
American as an attempt ito fool the
people Of this country by publishing
articles that are perfectly agreeable to
the Kaiser's government and to traitors
and pro-Germans that are in this coun-
try
/ have before me at the moment cop
les of the New York American editor
ials Of May IL, May 20, June 1, 1915,
by Mr.. Hearst himself, dealing with
the Lusitania question and stating that
Germany's action was right about the
Lusitania, that ''the Lusitania incident
is, OF course, no cause for a declaration
of war and that we had no just cause
for complaint in the matter saying
that we had no right to make this de-
mand that Germany suspend
her submarine warfare against the
commerce of the allies" that we had
no right to question Germany's use of
submarines in her warfare upon Brit
ish commerce." and that the Lusitania
was an English vessel and properly
subject to destruction," and that its
destruction by the German submarine
was in accordance with the authorized
and accepted rules of warfare, and that
Germany's methods of submarine war
fare were none of our business.
The Hearst papers continued to try to
make our people range themselves
against England. and therefore in ia
vor of Germany, and to appeal to the
people OF the United States to put the
safety of their dollars above the safety
of their women and children. In the
issue of the New York American of
August %, 1915, is an editorial headed,
Must the United States be a cats paw
for E ng | a nd against Germany"
There is not word in this editorial
about the German murder of our
women and children on the high seas,
not word protesting against Ger
many's taking the lives of our citizens !;
but scream against England because
she had made cotton contraband of
war. No American can read this edi-
tQrial in the Hearst papers of that date
without hanging his head in shame
that such papers should at this time be
backed by the American administra
ton.
After we went to war, on April IL,
1917, Mr.. Hearst wrote: Stripping our
country of men. money, and food is
dangerous policy. Our earnest sugges-
ton to the Congress is that it impera-
tigely refuse to permit the further
draining of our food supplies and our
military supplies to Europe This
was equivalent to demand that after
going to war we should turn around and
help Germany more than if we had con-
tinued to remain neutral On April
"A. 1917, the New York American said !:
THE painful truth is that we are being
practically used as mere reinforce
ment of England'S warfare and Eng
lands future ACKNOWLEDGMENT" This
was an effort against our ally and an
effort to pander to anti-English preju-
dice in the interest of our foes, and
nothing else. On May II, it advocated
our spending all our money on prepar-
ing our Army and Navy here at home
land SO compelling Germany if she
wants to fight to come to u.s. which
was, of course, equivalent to arguing
that we would render. no aid to defeat
Germany until she had defeated our
allies and was prepared to attack us
single-handed. On May %, the same
paper said of the effort to float the
liberty loan: IF you want our food and
wealth sent abroad to help suffering
England, buy a liberty bond, furnish
the sinews of war" In view Of Hearst's
continued effort to excite hatred be-
tween the United States and England,
the implication of this sentence can not
be mistaken. In the very next SEN
tence he subtly attempts to appeal to
al IiiclI Will d IcellllS Ol dHeCllOu lOI
Germany by intimating that whoever
purchased a liberty bond desired to see
Germany not merely defeated but dis
membered.' On July 81, the New York
American spoke of our soldiers being
sent over ito be offered up in bloody
sacrifice to the ambition of contending
nations on foreign battlefelds." On
November % it spoke of our Inter
fering in Europe's quarrels.
1t is absolutely impossible to recon
Gle the Governments action in proceed
ing against Tom Watson's paper with
its failure to proceed against Mr..
Hearst's papers on any theory that
justice was to be done alike to the
strong and to the weak.
The above quotations from Mr..
Hearst's papers and many others like
them may be found by any man who
cares to examine their. back files. The
Government had full notice about
Hearst's papers, because the allies had
barred him from the cable service, and
only through the good offices of this
Government have these proVileppS inst