Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-01
Views of the vigilantes
eERMANvs FAvoRlrE LIE.
By RALPH HENRY BARBOUR
 of The Yigilanfes

l
 of The Vigilantes
 If this war could have been won by lying, the Allies would now be beaten to the knees and America in chains. If the German General Staff used arms and men half as successfully as it uses its secret agents, the Avenue de 'F0pera, Paris, would today be linden blargstrauasse. The German shells cannot reach across the Atlantic, but the German lies can and do, and ever since the war began German propa- ganda has been making breaches in our defenses. The enemy suits the lie to the occasion.
 We have endured all sorts. Some few have been captured and shot at sunrise, but most are still at large, working mischief in their own subtle secret ways. They vary in import anee, those lies. They run the gamut froD our friend The United States Has Nc Quarrel With Germany down to the little sneaking Our Boys Starving g-in -Gantonments. And every lie has it's day. There's a regular mode as to German propaganda, aud, looking back when the war is done, We shall discern that each season of the struggle was represented by it's own particular style of lies. But there is one lie, the great grandfather of them all, that has never, since dts first appearance, been off duty. It is, l think the General Stairs favorite. E-I refer to that scarred but still in- domitable old veteran. A-Wa1l- Street. War It is, perhaps, the most puerile of Germany's tirst-line lies, but oer | tainly the hardest worked. It has never had day off since it marched | to the front. and just now, it is es- | peciaHy prominent. Its duty, of course, to divide public opinion in this country and to. foster dissensien be tween capital and labor, between em- plcyer and employed. And it's every success. no matter how slight, delays the prosecution of the war.
 It never had leg to stand on. but ir some miraculous way it still endures
 A schoolboy could effectually dispose 1 of it without any trouble, but, perhaps merely because it is beneath con tempt, it has been allowed to go on it's silly, sneaking way. A.iWaiI Street
 War! Yes. if Wall Street arranged the sinking Of the lusitania, caused the rape of Beeigiuna and wrote the
 Zimmerman letter. A war begun by l Capital? Certainly, if you will credit |
 renounce the rich profits it was gar. nering.
 Germany propagandists weep croco dile tears for the laboring man. Blu the laboring man himself is far tot
 busy to- do any snifiling. Since thu l war began he has been enthroned (
 practical dictator. He receives wage! | that, in spite of increased cost Q living, affecting rich and poor alike place him in position of prosper4.
 he scarcely dreamed of before. H. sees many of his most utopian visions 1 government ownership Of railroads government control of public utilitie
 and the like, made concrete as by tn wave of the magic wand. He know that the influence of the war, on thl future of this and all other countrie i will be all in his favor.
 | This war is neither a rich man war nor a poor mans wAr neither
 war of Capital nor a war of Labor IL is war of the American peopI for liberty and all the things the,
 hold dear. And it is war that |
 being fought by rich and poor, cap italist and laboref side by side, an that will continue to be so foungh until it is ended In the only way it ca be allowed to end; and this in spite 0 4 German arms and German propa ganda. And In spite too. Of the ol
 and battered, but stiIl active, A-Wail
 Street-War lie. A jokes a joke, bu
 really someone ought to put that ou of it's misery