The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-07-18
An American Business-Soldier in
the War Zone,
Part III.

Part I'LL
My friends, l think tpat any of you
who have visited that beautiful city of
Dublin would have shock if you saw it
at this moment. Very little has been
said, it seems to me, in our public press
regarding the interior condition of Ire
land. We hear about the difficulties of Ire
land in a way but little is said of the Sim
Fein rebellion and the consequences of
that most disastrous rebellion. When
YOU stop to think that the rebellion and
all that damage that occurred and the
blood that was split and the bad feeling
that was engendered was the result of
German propaganda, when you know
that the evil of that propaganda affected
Ireland to such an extent that even now,
Ireland, in this most critical hour of the
worlds history is standing aloof i'll this
great war and is divided in sentiment in
stead of fighting side by side with the
American and the Frenchman and the
Englishman as she should, you can realize
some of the fruits Of propaganda. Dub
lin in way has been blown to pieces as
badly as any of the French cities at the
front. The Postofiice building of Dublin
is mere shell. Bombs were thrown into
Dublin and in one of her great parks,
Stephan's Green, the lrishmen were in
trenched fighting machine guns located
around the Shelbourne Hotel, the hotel
where stayed, all that sort of thing has
gone on in Ireland because Germany has
meddled there with her hellish propa-
ganda that she has SO successfully used
in Russia.
We dc not realize the extent of this
propaganda, how it is carried on. saw
in London 1000 separate and distinct
pieces of German propaganda, Many of
you are familiar with an advertising
campaign in which you try to sell your
goods. Did any of you ever employ over
ten mediums at one time? | don't be-
Iieve any of you did. Twenty would be
an enormous number. Two hundred
would be almost lnthinkable and yet
Germany has used 1000 separate and
distinct methods of propaganda in order
TO sour and spoil the spirit of the world
and to poison the spirit of the world so
that it may be made ineffective in the
sighting of Germanism. Now, there is
lesson for US indeed
We hear every little while about the
Red Cross We hear about some
great scandal in the Red Cross, some
thing has happened. 1t is whispered
about, you can't tell what it is, some
great wastage of money, don't give your
money to the Red Cross. That is Ger
man propag anda. The Red Cross as |
saw it in its work of mercy across the
sea, is the finest, most benevolent insti-
tuition in this great world of ours and
your dollars that are going into the Red
Cross are going to continue to bring you
dividends of happiness and satisfaction
such as no other dividends brought you
in your life. (Applause.)
We want to be aware of the German
propaganda. 1t is going on in our midst
in the most subtle way all the time. We
want to insist in this hour in our nations
history that men who are in positions of
leadership, be real Americans to the core.
There isn't any place in America for any
other type of man at the present mo-
ment. (Applause.)
We left Dublin by way Of the Kingston
Hollyhead route and soon we stepped on
board ship to cross the English Channel.
/ didn't especially relish going aboard
ship so soon, but we had to cross the Eng
lish Channel, which is one of the most
dangerous pieces of water in the world
and we crossed the most dangerous part
of the channel. Our ship put out to sea
full steam ahead, with little scout ship
on one side and an airplane overhead and
in that way our little cruiser made the
run of two hours across the English
Channel. We reached Hollyhead with
out incident and then Travelled right to
London and got to London just in time
for an air raid.
This was the first moonlight night that
London had had in a couple of weeks,
he n q
heavens London knows she is to have an
air raid. The moon is the great revealer
of the city at night The city at night is
in darkness with the exception of a few
dimly lighted lamps at the air-shelters
and so forth, but as soon as the moon
comes out, then the river Thames shows
I'D like silver ribbon and the airplanes
from the enemy country can follow that
river down, counting the bridges as he
comes along until he has counted the re-
ouisite number that brings him right
above London.
It is most interesting to see how the
English after four years of air raids take
them. was in an English theater this
first night. The usual method of an
nouncing an air raid is for a card to be
brought out and put on the side of the
stage or if it is moving picture theater
it is thrown on the screen at the side and
usually reads something like this: San
air raid is in progress. We advise that
you keep your seats. You are as safe
here as anywhere" And the English
have grown accustomed after four years
to this sort of thing and being by nature
very phlegmatic, not being prone to show
ing their feelings, John Bull just shrugs
his shoulders and says: "Air raid7" And
the play goes on just as if nothing had
happened
Now, mind you, after four years of
civilian murder-and that is all it is. The
air-raid does nothing of military IMPORT
ance r. drons bombs on the home of