The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-06-13
Spend MILLIONS
TO SPREAD LIES
Germans Circulate Whispering
Propaganda" Including At
tacks on President.
IS DIRECTED FROM SPAIN
Mexico and South America Flooded
With Book Which Likens United
States to vampire-Lies About
Rainbow Division.

Washington-The German propa
ganda was never buster in the Unite,
States than at the present time. Thi
fact has been established by agents O
the government, and energetic meth
DDS to combat this sinister peril ar,
now being carried out. Not only i.
the propaganda, which is operated
from headquarters in Spain, working
day and night to cause trouble in this
country, but 1t is also working just al
hard to discredit the government OF
the United States in Mexico and Cen
trail and South America, where there
has recently appeared for free distri
button book entitled 'El Vampire del
Continente," the vampire Of the cont.
nent referred to being this country.
| An official of the federal govern
ment, one of whose duties brings him
Into contact with German propagan-
da in all parts Of the world, said the
Germans were spending hundreds of
millions Of dollars to spread discOn-
tent, particularly among the unedu-
Gated people in all the countries Of the
allies, their activities including among
other schemes concerted and vicious
attack, wherever possible, ON Presi-
| dent Wilson, Premier Lloyd George
and other high officials Of the allied
governments.
Worked for Years on Scheme.
1--WE know that for years before the
outbreak Of war in 1914 the German
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propaganda arm. In Germany they
called into the service of the state for
this purpose the great psychologists Of
the country, the big newspaper men,
the university professors, trade ex-
perts, and even novetists and drama
lists. Agents were sent into every
country in the world to study the
people, until the government files in
Berlin contained complete data re-
garding the peculiarities and suscepti-
bilities of all people with whom Ger
many had reason to anticipate a
clash.
up to few months ago the propa-
ganda concentrated against England in
an effort to isolate that nation. Every
neutral country in the world was food
ed with false information regarding
and her purposes in the war.
"Now the attack is switching from
to the United States. Every |
possible effort to poison the minds Of |
the people in certain parts of the coun-
try is being resorted to, the effort be-
ing especially vicious in those parts Of
the country where the percentage of
iliteracy is greatest, and among the
negroes. The special story which is
)eing whispered over the country
ind we are the victims Of what is
1nown as the whispering propaganda
is that this is war of the wealthy
lasses, and that the president plunged
he country into the struggle to save
he milliOnatres' as well as to safe
uard Americas huge loans and cred
Is to the allied countries.
1--WE have even established the fact
hat the propaganda has penetrated
1to the mountain Businesses of the
aro1inas and Georgia, where the
have been led to believe
hat another Civil war Is imminent.
Lies About Rainbow Division. !
"The disaster story has also been {
'orked to finish in all parts Of the
)untry. The Rainbow division has l
cen picked out as the victim Of this
base of the propaganda, because 1t !
presents all sections Of the country, ;,
I'D disaster which overwhelmed that :
would have it's effect in all h
lrts Of the nation, and not in some
lrticular section. n
'"This is the source of all those mys- n
rious rumors to the effect that this i
that regiment in the Rainbow d. Il
sion has been annihilated. !
"South America at this moment is .
with pamphlet entitled Eel O.
umpire del Continente,' which is per- i
ps the most vicious attack on a ma ii
IN ever published, and the nation in
Is instance is the United States. pl
"Some months ago there was sent to u
nth America for circulation a little -
icially prepared document entitled ~
ny America Went to War; Instead q,
making friends for us the book lost tn
EN-, and an investigation was or Il
red. This investigation led to the
that the Germans had got sh
Id of the genuine documents, after an
ich they proceeded to substitute an LII
ton of their own. The spurious
ton was the same as the Ameri- Al
l, with the exception that the Ger
MS inserted preface. Is
The preface was cleverly written,
/ to the ordinary person read as if
had been prepared by our govern 80
Mt. But the statements in the pref 10
did not bear out the facts in the To-
OF the book and so instead of be-
ing. what we said thousands of peo-
who read the book came to the
clusion that we were lying. Proper
ps are now being taken to counter I
this work of the enemy propa- sell
da. lial
In the South American countries
Germans have bought up numer.
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