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


traitor to the free nations of the
world and a subseryient ally of the
German autocracy. Such action can
not fail to give aid and comfort to Ger
many.
Mr.. Brisbane in the Washington
Times ably followed Mr.. Hearst's lead.
On August s, 1917, he said: "The most
powerful and effective peace worker in
this country is William Randolph
Hearst The world wants peace. 1t is
more important than victory" On July
Is, 1917, when Russia was under Il
democratic government and still a
fighting ally of the United States
against Germany, Mr.. Brisbane's paper,
the Washington Times, said: Anarchy
rules III Russia-somebody must do
something. The natural somebody is
Germany, right next door to Russia
Europe may be very grateful to Ger
many if the war finds Germany with
enough strength left to undertake the
maintaining of order in Russia devel-
oping the resources there and making
few billion of rubbles in the process. :"
1t seems literally incredible that a pa
per making an utterancc like this could
have been left unmolested by an admin
Illustration that had proceeded against
poor Tom Watson-and this paper was
published within two blocks of the
White House On August 81, 1917,
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allies about two thousand million
~ this we lent our allies to help
in the game of murder"
| commend these facts to Mr.. Burle-
son, and also to his cabinet associate,
Mr.. Daniels, in view of their recent
kilograms of congratulations to Mr..
Brisbane, upon assuming charge of GER
tain Chicago papers, reported as being
Hearst papers. These kilograms have
been published in one of Mr.. Hearsts
New York papers, the Evening Journal.
Mr.. Burleson says of Mr.. Hearsts alter
ego that he. 'congratulates" the people
Of Chicago because they are to have the
benefit of Mr. Brisbane's liable and I'M
selfish efforts / indulge the
hope that CHS paper) will always stand
for justice and freedom and true demo-
cratic Government" And Mr.. Dan
iels goes Mr. Burleson one better in ex-
pressing the belief that Mr.. Brisbane
will preach patriotism and ''civic"
righteousness"
Messrs. Hearst and Brisbane, through
their papers, have been unceasing in
attacks upon England and Japan. The
New York American on December 20,
1917, said that 'the offensive and de-
fensive alliance then negotiated be-
tween Japan and England was aimed
at the United States" This deliberate
falsehOod was published at the very
time that England was defending us
with her fleet and her army. There
could be no meaner example Of treach-
cry to our allies and of subservience to
our enemy. 1t was thousand times
more worth the attention of Mr. Burle-
son than anything done by the small
papers against which the Postofiice De-
partment did act On September Is.
Mr.. Hearst's plea for German peace
in the New York American ran that
the best peace for all concerned is a
peace without victory, a peace without
conquest, peace without indemnities,
peace without anneXations." On
March 2, 1918, Mr.. Hearst made an en-
Uttered attack upon Japan and on
March 20 he repeated the attack He
spoke Of the military despotism of
Japan of the brutal oriental selfish
ness in Japan's present attitude and
then asked the question as to who was
going to drive her from Siberia an
swering it +: Not the allies, for they are
too much occupied with their war.
Not the United States, because we are
putting all our eggs in the allies bas-
ket. There is one combination possible
which might drive Japan out OF Siberia
and that is Russia III an active and ag
gressive alliance with the Teutonic
Empires" These sentences amount to
Indictment to Russia to become the
military ally and therefore the military
vassal of Germany, and to the effort to
persuade our people that the war is not
our war, but only the war of the allies
that it is their war" Such Ian
guage as this, used less than 2 months
before Mr. Burleson issued his chal-
lenge to me, is a thousand times more
damaging to the United States than
anything ever said by Tom Watson, or
any other of the editors of small papers.
For Mr.. Burleson to allow the paper
making such an appeal to go unchal-
lenged, and yet at the same time to per-
nit, without rebuke, the New York post
office to attack publication like the
Metropolitan is Incompatible with the
supposition that he was thinking only
Of the welfare of the country.
Mr. Hearst's paper actually stated
that it believed that our Government
made a great mistake when it did not
meet both English aggressions and
German aggressions with
armed resistance This was an
nounced during the war. Yet at this
very time England is protecting us from
Germany, and without that protection
we would be given no time in which