Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-20

/ issues OF the Philadelphia Tageblatt ana
| the PHILADELPHIA Sonntagblatt In which
appeared certain treasonable captions,
| headlines articles and editorials,
TT is true that the papers are owned
| by the Philadelphia Tageblat PUBLISH
| ing Association, a Pennsylvania Cor
poration But Louis Werner and Martin
| Darkow are the men responsible for the
publication of these articlcs--Werner as
chief editor and Darkow as managing
editor.
| we will prove TO YOU. gentlemen,
| that these men are residents of this dis
trict. that they have acquired at least
| temporary residence here and have gone
| into business. They owe at least tenn
porary loyalty to the country. regardless
Of whether they have applied for citizen
| ship or not
government officers raided the Of
| fees Of the newspapers on September 10
and gathered mass Of papers from the
| files. copy for the compositors and
| books, and so forth. Previous to this
| in May OF Juue--oiticers had gone to the
| Offices Of the papers and interviewed
men In charge and others there. You
will remember, gentlemen, that the war
started on April 6, 1917. The Tagcblatt
| Publishing Association had been opcrat-
ing long before that ! believe it was
| incorporated back in the seventies
I'm the arrangement Of the work the
managing editor made up the foreign
news--that Is, he got II into shape for
the printers The editor-in-chief wrote
| the editorials.
II will state right here, gentlemen,
that headline writing is a very import
ant factor in newspaper policy, II is
quite as important as editorial writing.
The policy Of the paper is shown as
| much in the headlines as In the cdi-
tcrial While the headlines purport 10
give resume of the news in the arti.
Gle. they really give that news from
the standpoint Of the papers policy.
IN presenting our case. we will cal
men from the Offices Of the THgeh)at,
and SonntaRlatt. They are compostors
writer's and other employees of the
Tageblatt Association. As such thcu
appearance here will prove embarrassing
to them But they will come here and
testify to the facts in the case.
we will show to you captions and
headlines containing sentiments tc' the
ElcrifiCation of Germany and cncourag
ins her sympathzers.
Then there were insertions. friendly
TO Germany, made in dispatches from
abroad
"On the day war was declared. wher
the capitals OF England and France were
welcoming the United states as a com.
rade-in-arms, the Tageblatt printed a re.
port OF these things under the caption
Dreams. Froth. :.
The defeat of the Russians was hail
ed as a glorious victory. In another in.
stance we find a caption BAD SET,
BACK FOR THE GERMANS Their
again: BRILLIANT SUCCESS OF
GERMAN TROOPS
"All of these things show encourage
ment ia and argument for the enemy
and obstruction to the aims OF til,
United States.
"One of the worst instances showing
trea sonable intent was printed in tht
Tagehlatt on the day Admiral Sims ar
rived in England. We alt know tina
Admiral Sims arrived in England tC
command our sea forces abroad. II,
was welcomed in England and we nat
urally were glad he was welcomed. Th,
Tageblatt told Of these events and ther
printed an article under this caption
WE ARE READY; GERMANY GIVES
a REPLY TO ADMIRAL SlMS'S
HlGHFLOWN WORDS
Then came the sinking of the Amer.
lean steamship orleans. the frs. ship &c
he sunk after Germany had delivered
her ultima tum on sea trave' The TaCe,
blatt told of this event under the fol
lowing caption: Cot her already; the
American steamer Orleans caught by
German submarine; the first ship thai
ran the blockade after the ultimatum
another rumor of U-bost in local waters.
Two or three articles were thel