Mexico Missouri message., 1918-10-10

OF Paris, Is easily imposed upon with
stories of French vice. The German
prOpagandist knows that. He is plan
ming to take advantage of 1t for his
own purposes. He is making drive
upon tlIa sentiments and emotions of
American women just as he Mt first at
tackled the suscepf1bilities of the ItaI-
ian women behind the lines In prepar-
ing the way for the italian defeat.
How well he is succeeding in America
is shown by a passage in that appeal
for a protest to President Wilson
which was printed In the religious
press.
1t pointed out: Throughout this
country feeling of bitterness dan
gerous in the extreme is arising and
gazing with menacing eyes toward
France. The mothers who have reared
sons strong and clean, and who have
given them with glad, aching hearts
women who have loved France and
glorified her-are now muttering that
our boys are wanted for the profits of
their debauchery and not to take their
deaths I'm strength and cleanliness"
Such mothers are the victims of q
German falsehood. So is the writer
who thus described them and pro-
tested against the "debauchery" Of
their soldier sons. The reports of inn
moral conditions in France and the
campaigns of protest against those
conditions are equally the work of
German agents, assisted by the preju-
diced credulity of their American vic
Tins.
Mr.. Citizen, the committee on pub
lie information wishes to warn you
against these snares. There will be
more of them. In Italy anonymous
letters were sent to the soldiers from
their homes accusing their wives of in
fidelity. Our military censorship pre-
vents such tactics among our men, but
similar impostures will doubtless be
attempted. Already forged letters
to be from soldiers in
france have been found in the lobbies
of New York theaters, as If acci-
dcntally dropped there by the recipi-
ems. The letters are always In the
angular handwriting of persons accus-
toned to using German script. So far
they have contained little but alarming
falsehooGs about the alleged slaughter
Of American regiments.
Slandering the British.
In order to set us against our Brit
ish allies, several sorts Of "whisper-
Ing propaganda" are being used. !
There is the story that American sol. |
liers are reelng around the streets of
London, drunk. 1t has been disproved. |
There Is the charge that while we are
Stinting ourselves TO save grain the !
English are using II to make whisky |
although we are saving and shipping
'hieiiy wheat, which IL little used in |
and the figures from Eng.
and show that the English liquor
.rafiic has been decreased by the war
almost aS much as ours. Apd there Is |
he report that millions of British sol |
Hers are held in England while the
allies are doing their fighting for |
hcm"--a falsehood that is sufficiently |
discounted by the fact that the British |
empire has 100000 men in the field
md half million in her fleet; that
If the British troops in France 20 per
'ent are English, 8 per cent Scotch. 6 |
Yer cent Irish. and 16 per cent Cana
Hans, Australians, etc.; and that the
casualties among these troops have
'een 76 per cent English, 10 per cent
Scotch, q per cent Irish, and 8 per
'ent Canadian, Australian, etc.
The German mischief-makers who
irst supplied arms FOR the revolt in
lister against home rule. and subse-
luently shipped arms for the revolt OF
he home rUilers-these same promot-
RS of disunity are now furnishing
he Irish in America with any story,
my argument, any slander that can
Ir0use anti-English prejudice among
ls. On the Pacific coast, in s;av same
way, they are rattling the dry bones of
he yellow peril. The average organ
# publicity that was pro-German be-
ore our declaration of war, nO mat
er how pro-American it now pretends
o be, almost invariably uses the anti
British and the anti-Japanese appeals.
md just as the Zimmerman note tried
o unite Mexico and Japan against us,
20 the enemy of our unity alternates
Of the yellow peril with
appeals for a declaration of war
gainst Mexico.
Should, Be on Guard.
The German sympathizer who tells
'ou the story of how discharged
japanese servant boosted that the
upanese would soon Gown America"
Invariably couples It with lying ac-
cunt of how all Washington is saying
hat 'the next war will be with Great
Britain about the Panama canal" On
he Italian front, before the successful
ierman drive, counterfeits of Milan
newspapers were circulated, contain
ng accounts of how bread riots had
een suppressed in north Italian towns
" British soldiers imported for that